Have you missed the part where it broke box office records for music biopic? Of course there’s still money in it. They will not just leave it because they are rich enough already.

No, they are not choosing this trajectory on purpose. They are simply not fighting against it. For example there was a big push for card payments during Covid pandemic. Banks lowered fees and using cards was encouraged. It was done because it was more sanitary and safer, not because some sinister plot. After the pandemic governments didn’t push against it. They don’t fight it because cash payments make tax avoidance easier but total reliance on cash is a huge security risk so when cash is almost gone governments step in to save it. Like Sweden did. Tiny fraction of people actually want to use cash. The move to cashless happens mostly because majority of people don’t want to use cash.

As for the cost, you’re clearly not using public car chargers. Telecom equipment has to be there because the law mandates connectivity and constant reporting of availability. Payment through app is minimal cost and that’s the default. Card payment requires terminal which are standard equipment now. That’s the second option. No one is going to offer cash payment first and then offer card payment. Cash payment has to be implemented on top of app and card payment so it’s just additional cost. On top of that it creates security risk (a lot of chargers are in the middle of nowhere and would be an easy target for thieves).

No, it’s not.

Yes, now it makes sense.

And yes, cash is disappearing for various reasons. You can’t for example charge an EV with cash. One ICE cars are gone you won’t be able to travel and pay with cash. But cash is disappearing in part because people don’t want to use it. The less people use cash the less sense does it make to add infrastructure for it. For example for a public car charger to accept cash you wold have to place cash and coin slots on them, they would have to hold cash which is a security risk and someone would have to travel to collect it which would increase the costs. It’s not all some sinister plot to track people. Governments actually understand that cash offers resilience, especially in EU where most of the cashless infrastructure still depends on US companies.

Yeah, but what about the one people actually remember?

If we start looking at past victories where do we stop? I mean, Italy is not exactly Rome…

This argument doesn’t make sense. City bus card is no cash. Phone number requirements don’t apply to cash. You’re saying that cash is under attacked because they are making cashless options inconvenient? This just sounds like shitty public transport, nothing to do with cash.

The government doesn’t just ask you to file your taxes. They can investigate what you own and ask you to prove how you got it. They can use prosecutors and police to conduct searches and investigations. The police can also inform the bureaucrat that they suspect you’re braking tax laws. And yes, if the police see someone carrying a bunch of catalytic converters they can stop them and ask to prove how they got them. You’re talking about it like police investigating ownership is something new and dangerous while in reality it’s pretty standard thing. They will investigate all sort of suspected activity and carrying large amounts of cash or often stolen items can be one of them. This “violent arm of the government” interacts with people all the time, pretending they are some kill squads that should not get close to people unless they have evidence of crime or something is silly.

So you’re ok with people proving to the government that they got things legally and you just have an issue with which government representative does the checking? It’s a valid complaint but personally I think it’s a minor issue.

Except it’s not:

https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/swedish-banks-told-to-safeguard-cash-access-despite-rise-in-digital-payments-idUSKBN1J70YX/

Most people prefer not to use cash and banks don’t like cash but governments know that cash offers resilience and try to protect access to it. Cash is not under attack, it’s simply going extinct because it’s inconvenient.

Because of taxes. It’s pretty standard practice.

Yes, the freedom to launder money and avoid taxes.

It’s not for all payments, just the ones above 10k. It’s right in the title.

Really well. Parsing code is easy and current LLMs have huge context windows and can parse projects in seconds.

The issue is it takes about 2 months to put in an implant :(

Fuck, in Spain I paid 800 euros for an implant (without insurance). Insane.

How much is it without insurance?

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Makes sense. I always suspected it’s parallel dimension gravity.

Good for them.

That’s a misleading title. AI is just the test topic. It’s like if lemmy demonstrated a proof of concept by showing “/c/privacy” and they said “it’s an aggregator of links about privacy”.

The idea is not bad actually. At small scale you can leave moderation to the community, like lemmy does. Once you get any sort of attention bots, spammers and scammers will flood in. There are many possible ways to fight it and having some sort of automated ranking is a valid idea. It’s a different concept than reddit and lemmy and I don’t think it would be a direct competitor but if done right it could be an interesting space to get news on specific topics.