Try paying 600€ worth of taxes in Portugal with cash and all you'll get is a fine because its banned.
Try to buy a macbook? You better have a bank account because its illegal to buy it using cash.
You owe 3000€ to a friend who lent it to you? Can't just give him the money 100€ bill at a time because that's illegal too.
Anyone who says "you're not forced to use banks" or "cash has value because you must pay your taxes with it" is either ignorant or intentionally misleading.
Actually...I doubt that. At least in US, for the company I worked for, I don't think there is an option for me to be paid in cash in the first place. Even in reality people use check though, that still requires a bank account.
I've recently had to cash checks without having my own bank account for a couple of months. The experience left me hating the banking industry. Certain banks won't even cash their own checks anymore! Other banks will cash their checks but want to take a $10(+-) fee for the privilege.
I ended up using Walmart to cash a check (the ones which weren't hand-written because Walmart won't do that) and using their moneycard as my debit/credit card for payments. This system worked reasonably well, but I do not want to go back to it.
Well, Brazil had to sell those soybeans somewhere. Their economy is half bankrupt already anyway. If not China, where are going to send all the natural resources to, with its current price? Presumably not US, who is also desperate trying to sell its own gases/agricultural products to the world. They are competitors, not friends.
In worst case, China can just reduce the consumption of livestock, after all that is what soybeans had been used for, while finding replacements somewhere else. As long as they have enough rice, China will be fine.
That is the official account of the Chinese history by the succeeding dynasty to record the important personals, their lives and big events from the previous dynasty.
That is a very unique tradition though. The fact that the ancient Chinese does recognize a chain of dynasties and heritage and succession therefore, is unique to China, not by other Western countries.
I am curious about what exactly do you think culture revolution had broken.
Looking at other ethnic Chinese dominant areas, Hong Kong/Taiwan, which are supposedly unaffected by cultural revolution, I don't think the mainlanders are any way 'less' Chinesey than they are. The young people I met from HK/TW, their lack of understanding/knowledge of ancient Chinese history/literature is really embarrassing, yet they are pretty proud of such.
Not to mention that before KMT takes over, Taiwan had been colonized by Japan for 50 years, and Hong Kong by British for 100 years. If they can retrain/recover their Chineseness shortly after WW2, and being hailed as epitome of Chinese culture, I can't see how mainland China can't sustain its own culture from a 10 year madness.
Only thing I felt is probably I am personally less superstitious, thanks to the on paper atheism from the CCP.
Not to mention that the API is very intuitive and programmer friendly. For me, using Mobx doesn't force me to write things its own way, but instead enables me to write things MY way, but just hook it up with Mobx when needed. It is a more of a library than a framework, a guest not a intruder.
While with Redux, not that I am bitching about it, it first states that I need to accept several principles before I can better appreciate it. Then here comes all the middlewares, like redux-saga/redux-thunk and the list goes on. As a causal, meaning I am not writing js fulltime but do use it in some non-trivial situtation when needed, I feel it quite heavy and burdensome, making hesitant to adopt it unless being asked to.
Exactly. I think MS is a doing a gesture job to showcase their code, but they are not open sourcing the roadmap to the community, which is fine by me actually.
Went over your head didnt it? Nobody is talking about banning software. Here we are talking about developing software that is specifically designed for governments for hacking phones and spying on citizens.
Who would know it is deployed on another countries' citizens? If anything it is the Saudi who chose to use it, why shift the blame to the original developer? Hope you understand the point now.
Well. Technology is technology, how would the developer predict how their code is being used? Also the developer owns NO rights of their written code, the right to license it to the Saudis here is from Israel government.
It's a private company who explicitly exist to develop and deploy exploits against private citizens priced at rates that are only affordable to Nation States... I'm pretty sure that the ex-IDF developers know exactly what they're doing.
Seems like an experimental attempt to create a "Moon Surface Micro Ecosystem". Not sure how legit it is though.