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Going Cashless Isn't Straightforward. Ask Sweden, or Zimbabwe

4.10.2020
Chris Vasantkumar, Lecturer in Anthropology, Macquarie University. ____ “No Cash Accepted” signs are increasingly common in Australian shops, thanks to COVID-19. Even before the pandemic struck, though, we were well along the cashless path, with demand for coins halving between 2013...

Why Do Bankers Behave So Badly? They Make Too Much Money To Ask Questions

27.9.2020
Mark Crosby, Associate Professor, Director of Bachelor of International Business Program at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Over the past 16 months journalists have been scouring through more than 2,000 Suspicious Activity Reports originally sent by banks to the United States...

Web Technologies and Syntax

24.9.2020
JavaScript has a (newish) feature called optional chaining. Say I have code like: const name = Data.person.name; If person happens to not exist on Data, I’m going to get a hard, show-stopping error. With optional chaining, I can write: const name = Data.person?.name; Now if person...

India Proposes Amnesty for Citizens Holding Unreported Gold

2.8.2020
The Indian Ministry of Finance has reportedly proposed an amnesty program for citizens holding unreported gold. The government plans to ask people to declare all their gold stashes to tax authorities and pay levies. The proposition has been made to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. New Gold Amnesty...

John Perry Barlow: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

4.7.2020
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government,...

Advice for Complex CSS Illustrations

17.6.2020
If you were to ask me what question I hear most about front-end development, I’d say it’s“How do I get better at CSS?” And that question usually comes up to some CSS illustration I made, which is something I love to do over on CodePen. To many, CSS is this mythical beast that can’t...

Bitcoiners Ask: ‘WTF Happened In 1971?’ The Answer Might Shape The 2020s

13.6.2020
In 1971, the United States left the gold standard. Now, some people – particularly Bitcoiners – believe that the US and wider global population has largely suffered as a result. The government can print USD at will, in the process causing the kind of inflation that reduces the general population’s...

Carl Watner: The Tragedy of Political Government

6.6.2020
“What is tragic about political government?” you might ask. Let us return to that question once we have examined the nature of political government and the State. In order to distinguish between government and other institutions in society we must look at the ways human behavior can...

First Steps into a Possible CSS Masonry Layout

18.5.2020
It’s not at the level of demand as, say, container queries, but being able to make “masonry” layouts in CSS has been a big ask for CSS developers for a long time. Masonry being that kind of layout where unevenly-sized elements are layed out in ragged rows. Sorta like a typical...

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