I don’t really understand the question.
Yes you “can” bring it all in cash, but what will happen is another question.
Like someone else said you’ll pay tax on it. That being the case you’re probably better off trying to deposit it at a bank and transferring it
The short answer is, NFC only provides a brief packet of data - the details you would see on a physical card then the vendor’s machine takes the money from the customers bank account. Payment with a QR code requires your phone to actually interact with your bank and transfer the money from your account.
The reason why one is more common than another in different locations is historic.
In western countries you’ve been able to pay by card at most retailers for several decades. Originally there was a magnetic strip on the card, then a chip on the card, then the card did NFC. That being the case phones could just emulate cards by doing NFC and you could pay for things with your phone. Vendors didn’t need to do or change anything.
In South East Asia (and elsewhere?) that’s not really the case with many smaller street vendors requiring cash payment until recently. Many people might have cards but they were really only used for identifying yourself at the bank or cash machine. Even in larger cities, smaller food vendors often required cash payment - at least up until covid. That being the case there was never an era where people carried and used bank cards, so QR codes are the alternative tech.
I guess thats why, in sci fi it’s only used on ring shaped objects. A ship with a ring around its mid section, or a space station, or the expanse has a barrel shaped ship.
I disagree.
Its slightly firmer science than star trek, but it still makes a lot of license IMO.
I dont think the cost of sending humans to Mars or to do asteroid mining will ever be justified. Bots, and not humanoid ones will explore the frontier of space, and collect the minerals we need.
If you think about all the stuff humans need to survive for any length of time it just doesn’t make any sense to send a human.
Not so much lost but, its an entirely new tech stack. So any solutions we might have had in the past are no longer appropriate solutions.
Thats a weird take.
Literally everything that just went to the moon and back is “new”.
Yes, we have been to the moon before but that doesn’t mean that all the cool stuff we just did is not an amazing achievement.
This flyby is a necessary precursor to landing and doing those cool things.
They need to take tiny incremental steps because the cost of a fuckup is so great.
If the public has to watch someone expire in space due to a malfunction the existing candle flame of support for these endeavours would be snuffed out.
Ay?
Do you mean only the super rich will be able to travel?
The only travel anyone will be doing in the next 100 years or more will be going to the moon to squeeze into a tiny smelly hab module to figure out how to avoid getting regolith in your ass crack.
I think space travel will be the exclusive reserve of hard core science nuts.
Even in say 500 years. Will there be a “colony” on Mars with anything more than a dozen science nerds? I doubt it.
Me to. Theres a podcast called “tech won’t save us” that i hate listening to because it reminds me how much we have lost.
Im not really sure what you mean by lying down? You’re not always lying down. Surely gravity is less relevant when you’re lying down anyway.
… I dont have a good understanding of physics but sci-fi novels suggest a few problems on small ships.
The first problem is the difference in gravity between your feet and your head. In a small command capsule like Artemis 2, your head might be near the centre at 0g while your feet are at the outside at 1g or even 2g. How hard does your heart need to pump blood? Would this create some kind of blood pressure problem?
The next problem is how it would “feel”. Is it called the Coriolis effect?
In a small ship you might experience 1g, but it would feel like you’re being spun around in a washing machine. Your ears would tell you that you’re constantly changing direction and it would 100% fuck you up. In sci-fi the spinning thing needs to be large enough that some g-force is produced without you feeling that sense of motion, or at least for ot to be small enough that you get used to it.
Another problem I just made up is that if there’s no gravity then 100% of the inner surface area can be terminals and readouts and equipment. If you create gravity then you need a floor to walk on which will use a heap of surface area.
The reality of what’s going on provides enough to legitimately complain about. Making up headlines is just cheap outrage farming and undermines any credibility.
If you feel the title is misleading then you can absolutely complain about that in the comments.
Originally I didn’t like blocking people or communities at all but I’ve realised the lemmy experience is dramatically improved by blocking idiots.
The thing is lemmy is a relatively small community. If some nutter posts and comments every day they can really shape your impression of the place.
Some users have very little life experience, and depth of understanding, and are just fixated on some single issue. I’m not here to argue with that type of user.
Yesterday I blocked a community just because the single mod didn’t understand the problems caused by editorialising titles when posting articles.
My son and daughter are citizens of the country they were born in, but could choose to acquire citizenship of their mother’s country of birth, by descent.
For my daughter, this might be a nice-to-have as it would make things easier for her if she chose to reside there for any period of time.
For my son, it’s a more complex choice as he would be required to complete military service in that country. For some teenage boys that might be the adventure of a life time, for others it would be a nightmare. I’m planning to let him decide what he wants to do.
It was, a strange and unfulfilling experience.
I smoked weed daily during that period.
I was hiking in Thailand and these guys showed up with the pipe and stuff. I paid for a pipe, nothing. Paid for another, nothing. Paid for a third and still nothing.
A friend i was with said he was feeling it. A floaty feeling. The guys with the pipe, and my friend, and me all decided that I shouldn’t keep going because it might all hit me really quick. We had to hike the next day so I didnt want to be all fucked up.
Later I smoked a little weed and it felt different, more floaty.
In summary I was expecting something more dramatic. I would describe it more like taking the regular dose of oxycontin - a bit tired but not “an experience”.
I don’t understand this part:
those realities aren’t really yours, as they don’t provide you a place for you at all.
My point is, if I go to sleep tonight and time loops back around to this morning, and I don’t remember any of today, then did today really happen? It didn’t “happen” in any meaningful way.
It doesn’t matter whether I entertained a dozen nubile virgins or toiled as a slave.
But if your brain is getting reset, then really your reality is, so its not so much of a loop as infinite new realities.
Sure. AI hasn’t really encroached on anything that makes me feel valued.
People do still pay with cash but ofc fewer and fewer people do as cards are so convenient.
That said, while I haven’t really carried cash for a decade or more im getting older and grumpier as time goes by and I’ve recently wondered about going back to cash for some purchases.
Managing your privacy is a constant trade-off with convenience, i dont think im quite ready to start carrying notes and coins again for minimal benefit.
No one has any cash though
Is being gay one of those things that people think is in the bible based on the vibe but in fact the bible doesn’t express an opinion?