tiramichu

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tiramichu ,

If you cover up the bottom part of the jaw, the face looks like a long-nosed rodent with a toothy overbite, just being very chill looking out the window.

Kinda cute actually.

But nice yawn too XD

tiramichu ,

There are lots of reasons why governments might desire to get rid of physical currency.

  1. Crime - Physical money is the option of choice for criminals as it allows them to make off-record transactions so their activities are hard to trace

  2. Tax - When otherwise legal business is conducted in cash, it's possible for business income or employee pay to be undeclared or underreported, meaning the government is losing out on tax revenue. This is huge, and the gov really wants their slice of that cash.

  3. Manufacturing and distribution - A minor point, but it is expensive to make physical currency, as well as to keep improving it to prevent forgeries and such. Getting rid of physical currency removes this problem.

I'm sure there are other reasons but those are what came to mind.

Despite these factors, any move to a fully cashless society is controversial, because not everyone is in a position where being fully digital is feasible. It has the worst effects on those who are already marginalised and disadvantaged in society, like the homeless, who may not even be able to open a bank account.

So I think it will be quite a long time until it might happen.

tiramichu ,

I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the program at all =)

Modern webapp deployment approach is typically to have an automated continuous build and deployment pipeline triggered from source control, which deploys into a staging environment for testing, and then promotes the same precise tested artifacts to production. Probably all in the cloud too.

Compared to that, manually FTPing the files up to the server seems ridiculously antiquated, to the extent that newbies in the biz can't even believe we ever did it that way. But it's genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago.

tiramichu ,

I see the sculptor was flattering, and portayed him as in his younger and less chubby days.

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