What is something that should have died out a long time ago?
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I thought phone numbers and traditional telephone service would be dead by now. Instead, purely internet-based communication services often use them as an identifier.
wrote last edited by [email protected]telephony only uses a subset of internet things so building just telephone lines is cheaper, which matters especially in the global south -
Religion
I kinda get it. Everyone needs something to look forwards too. Sadly, for some, there's only the idea of afterlife for that.
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The oldest two mechanisms of authenticating on credit cards.
From oldest to newest, they are:
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Printed data on card.
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Magstrip (which basically has the same data in machine-readable form).
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Smartcard chip with contacts.
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Wireless.
The first two mechanisms hand over all the data required to impersonate the cardholder whenever used, which isn't very secure. Yes, there's value to keeping a mechanism around for a while to permit transition time, but we should have had tap-to-pay hardware on PCs and phones and the like a long time ago.
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Child labor.
Despite progress, child labour still affects nearly 138 million children worldwide
https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-labour/>
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the republican party in the us.
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Gender essentialism and tuberculosis
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Chat control and any similar legeslations
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Religion
Religion isn't necessarily the problem, people (as usual) are.
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Young earth creationism and flat earth
Young earth creationism
What I hate so much about that, is all the "evidence" just points to some near extinction level event that humans worldwide suffered.
And obviously for that to have happened, it means there had to be a lot more people.
Like, entire cities/tribes/whatever were wiped out everywhere, but some had individuals survive. Which explains how "the last two people" could have kids who just happen to later have spouses and kids of their own without any explanation for where the new people came from.
They were just outside of walking distance.
Over the 300,000 plus years anatomically modern humans have been on Earth, that's probably happened a bunch. Hell, we've had 2-3 actual ice ages over that span.
We don't know shit about 250k of those years.
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Child labor.
Despite progress, child labour still affects nearly 138 million children worldwide
https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-labour/>
wrote last edited by [email protected]Affects is such a strange way to put it. Like, "they caught a case of child labor."
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The oldest two mechanisms of authenticating on credit cards.
From oldest to newest, they are:
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Printed data on card.
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Magstrip (which basically has the same data in machine-readable form).
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Smartcard chip with contacts.
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Wireless.
The first two mechanisms hand over all the data required to impersonate the cardholder whenever used, which isn't very secure. Yes, there's value to keeping a mechanism around for a while to permit transition time, but we should have had tap-to-pay hardware on PCs and phones and the like a long time ago.
I disagree that we should have a card reader on our computers for payments.
That is just a way too big of a security concern.
I prefer something like the Swedish system Swish, you have a separate app on your phone where you can send money to friends and family as well as pay for stuff online.
Sadly, while Klarna supports Swish, they require the use of a Klarna account to use it, and since most internet shops in Sweden uses Klarna it limits the ability to use it as I want to.
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In the USA: complicated tax returns that require tax software and/or professional help. It's a rent-seeking scam.
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Private health insurance.
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Religion isn't necessarily the problem, people (as usual) are.
All religion is baseless bullshit, so yes, it is problematic in itself.
It is divisive by nature/design.
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Religion isn't necessarily the problem, people (as usual) are.
at best its a waste of human energy and maybe good for those that require that emotional crutch
your argument is the same for guns, which we as a species should also mature out of
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Coal power plants.
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I disagree that we should have a card reader on our computers for payments.
That is just a way too big of a security concern.
I prefer something like the Swedish system Swish, you have a separate app on your phone where you can send money to friends and family as well as pay for stuff online.
Sadly, while Klarna supports Swish, they require the use of a Klarna account to use it, and since most internet shops in Sweden uses Klarna it limits the ability to use it as I want to.
wrote last edited by [email protected]and with that you need a smartphone, with a google-approved operating system and with it half of the factory bloatware, or otherwise you are barred from paying online, right? that sounds such a good idea.
no.
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I'm no expert on the subject, but it's my understanding that mobile networks are being deployed much more widely in the global south than wired telephone lines, and they're usually internet-capable.
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Young earth creationism
What I hate so much about that, is all the "evidence" just points to some near extinction level event that humans worldwide suffered.
And obviously for that to have happened, it means there had to be a lot more people.
Like, entire cities/tribes/whatever were wiped out everywhere, but some had individuals survive. Which explains how "the last two people" could have kids who just happen to later have spouses and kids of their own without any explanation for where the new people came from.
They were just outside of walking distance.
Over the 300,000 plus years anatomically modern humans have been on Earth, that's probably happened a bunch. Hell, we've had 2-3 actual ice ages over that span.
We don't know shit about 250k of those years.
I always thought 2 Peter 3:8 basically addressed this issue.
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In the USA: complicated tax returns that require tax software and/or professional help. It's a rent-seeking scam.
The complication is mostly determining what actually counts as income and the insane amount of deductions and credits you might be eligible for.
For most people a simple standard deduction is very easy to file, and can be done on paper in 15-30 minutes. But I agree that this is still too complicated.
