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Sure, but very cheap and sometimes free tools help a complete beginner do both, without any real technical knowledge.

Visa/Mastercard requires all cardholders, cardholders' banks, merchants, and merchants' processors to follow the comprehensive set of rules for disputed transactions. That way the dispute process tends to be uniform across different banks and across different merchant/payment processors.

The network sets the rules, while the banks implement those rules on behalf of the cardholder and the processor implements those rules on behalf of the merchant.

So replacing the network will require a comprehensive replacement for the network's dispute resolution rules (assigning who is responsible for paying when certain things happens) and procedures (how a cardholder can initiate a dispute and how that gets resolved).

I liken it to a professional basketball player with a low free throw percentage. If they're still on the team and in the league despite missing 3 free throws a game, they must be really good at the other stuff.

I would think that accurate color representation would've generally required the bright lights and broad spectrum coverage of sunlight, so I imagine people just...painted during the day, by daylight.

There are lots of benefits to using base 12 for measurements.

12 is better than 10, I'll give you that. But 100 is better than 144, and 1000 is way better than 1728.

And that doesn't even get to 0.1 versus 1/12, or 0.01 versus 1/144.

So 12 might be a better standalone number, but it's a terrible base to work in.

Fahrenheit today is literally defined through Celsius

The same as pretty much every unit they use

At this point, that's basically every unit other than the seven fundamental units. Degrees Celsius is defined from the fundamental unit Kelvin.

Plus the actual definitions of those fundamental units were defined based on historical measurements tied to former definitions. Today the second is defined around the frequency of the cesium-133 atom, but it was traditionally measured as 1/(60 x 60 x 24) of the time of a single rotation of the earth, which stopped serving us when we realized the rotations had too much variation between days. The meter is currently defined around the speed of light and the second, but was previously defined in terms of what they thought the Earth's circumference was, and then a metal bar they kept in Paris, then based on the wavelength of light emitted from a transition in krypton-86. Same with the kilogram, currently kept at Planck's constant but previously based on a particular chunk of metal that was mysteriously losing mass over time, and before that defined from the density of 4°C water and the definition of the meter.

Conventions are important. The history of how we got to particular conventions can often be messy.

Or, if the app has the private key for decryption for the user to be able to see the messages, what's stopping the app from copying that decrypted text somewhere else?

The thread model isn't usually key management, it's more about the insecure treatment of the decrypted message after decryption.

JPEG Organisation?

The G in JPEG already stands for "Group."

Ok, first off, a lion…swimming in the ocean? Lions don’t even like water. If you placed it near a river, or some sort of fresh water source, that’d make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, a 20 ft wave, I’m assuming it’s off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full grown, 800 lb tuna with his 20 or 30 friends. You lose that battle. You lose that battle nine times out of ten. And guess what, you wandered into our school of tuna and we now have a taste of blood! We’ve talked to ourselves. We’ve communicated and said, “you know what? Lion tastes good. Let's go get some more lion.” We’ve developed a system, to establish a beachhead and aggressively hunt you and your family. And we will corner your, your pride, your children, your offspring…”

How ya gonna do that?

We will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. It's not going to be days at a time, an hour, hour 45. No problem. That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get more oxygen and then stalk you. You just lost at your own game. You are out gunned and outmanned.

The only solution is to train LLMs on more 4chan content, surely there will be no side effects from that.

Using space elevator technology (metal structural beams and metal guy cables) I think we can get things up to 100m geosynchronous "orbit" pretty easily.

I'm giving some reasons why turning on or off location services at the OS level doesn't appreciably change battery life.