Visa or MC could do the same, without additional parties. But no.

Most merchants have a BLIK button... you click it, enter a 6 digit code created on your banking app. Purchase complete. Takes a few seconds. No card numbers, CCV etc..

Can you elaborate? (Am new to the topic, so your perspective would be appreciated).

For example, transfers between accounts are instantaneous, not 2-5 days for ACH (Wire transfers are same-day, but expensive).

Electronic menus/payments in cafes are default for at least 3 years now (US has toasttab.com but it's far from being default).

If you have a small business account, taxes are paid in one click (app shows you tax to be paid with Confirm button).

PS: These features are available in many other countries besides Ukraine, of course. Only in government id/functions Ukraine excels (#2 in the world, after Estonia only).

And if I want to write a petition in this case, I log into the web portal, write it down, click send and blink into the app twice to Electronically sign it.

Which produces your normal CMS ( pkcs#7 ) signature on a pdf file.

It’s also not a special court app for a specific locality, but a nation wide government app.

Wr also don’t write damn cheques and never did, as it’s bullshit. You want to somebody —- you get their card number, open the bank app and tap send.

That's certainly an interesting use case. And yes, difficult to see being pulled off anywhere in the US, the way it tumbles along with such things.

Re: paper checks: they're far from bullshit -- being time-tested, perfectly easy to use, and best of all, not requiring a device of any kind. Provided, as concerns ease of use, one has spent enough time in an environment where their use is ubiquitous. So I can certainly see they might appear as a nuisance or just weird at first, for the rest of the world).

The main downside of iDeal for consumers is that it's irreversible. If you pay and then never receive the product, you can't get your money back. While PayPal and credit cards do offer that extra protection to consumers.

So iDeal is really only good for the merchants due to the very low transaction costs.

Trick with qemu works, but is veeeeery slow if you need a lot of disk access (ZFS zmirror scrub, or ZFS `send | receive` pipe or something like this).

(For example, if your idea of self-defense starts with 'I'll be following someone around in my truck...', most other countries would let you hang.)

In most EU countries you cannot use "more offensive" force than robber/raper uses. And you cannot use firearms in any case.

It is bizarre concept for me: I need to fight with bare hands better than robber, as I cannot use knife if robber doesn't have a knife. Same for knife-to-knife fight, as firearm is no-no in any case. I'm not as young and agile as typical robber, and I cannot have any "technical" advantage over him. If it is question of your personal belongings you better give everything and report to insurance company (as if any belongings could be replaced with their price!)

Again, I don't say it is in every EU country, but EU bureaucrats try to force more "liberal" countries (as Czech or Bulgaria) to adopt "common" (very strict) rules.

TLS-in-TLS (trojan) seems to be detectable too.

If we look at Chinese and Russian government DPI, we will see that now VLESS with XTLS‑Vision and XTLS‑Reality are not detectable. YET.

See this: https://www.endesa.com/en/catalog/light/one/one-luz (the "Energy Term" is the kWh price - pre tax but the tax has just been dropped to 10%, so it's even less than 14 cents now!)

I think you have to get market pricing if you have solar panels but most people don't bother especially because that market pricing makes them totally cost-ineffective. Also, I live in an apartment anyway where I can't even have them if I wanted to.

And fixed part of these 100-250 Euro (like grid maintenance, which doesn't depend on consumption) is rather large, something about 75 Euro/month, so in summer I'm paying almost only for grid :)

Plumber or electrician don't need university degree, only professional training till you design whole sewer system or power grid for city.

So, yes, bifurcate CS to science and trade. And fight requirements for Bachelor/Major degree in jobs offerings.

Oh come on, this is ridiculous.

Sure you might be able to do good programming without a college degree.

The typical student? I give them very little chance.

Here's what I think you would see:

* Students trapped in small skill-set jobs, struggling to branch out.

* Poor ability to manage complexity. The larger the system, the worse an ad-hoc job is going to be.

* Lack of awareness of how much tools can help. "Make impossible states not representable?" Write a DSL with a type system so another department stops making so many errors?

* Even more incompetence. Had to learn to recognize an O(N^2) algorithm on the job, but you didn't even know what asymptotic complexity was? People are going to end up believing ridiculous cargo cult things like "two nested loops = slow".

* Less rigorous thinking. Do you think they're even going to be able to pick up recursion? Have you watched a beginner try to understand something like mergesort or quicksort? Imagine that they never had a class where they programmed recursively. Is depth first search taught on the job? Sure, but... how deeply.

* Even less innovation. Who is going to be making the decisions about how to manage state? Would you ever see ideas like Effect?

I'm not saying that a university education is a cure-all, or that it is essential to the jobs that many of us do. I AM saying that if you look at the level of complexity of the work we do, it's obvious (to me) that there is something to study and something to gain from the study.

Later in this article authors says tat Server manage its own pool (optionally bounded) of threads to serve requests.

Like, «We require that your employees opens only links on white list, and social networks cannot be put on this list, and we require managed antivirus / firewall solution, but we are Ok that this solution has backdoor directly for 3rd party organization»?

It is crazy. All these PCI DSS and SOC2 looks like a comedy if they allow such things.