Well if they are you're probably getting a greater amount of other selfish, unpatriotic people to replace them so idk if it's a net gain from your pov.
Depends on why they are there. Refugees tend to care about the country they came from more and the one they landed in they view as a temporary shelter.
I tried using faces on print material and on screen — the verification rejected both. I think the only thing you could do would be to go up to a stranger and use their face, but that behaviour is even more scummy than the behaviour that got us here!
The work of processing a credit card transaction is 1/100000th the work of a blockchain transaction via proof of work. Credit card transactions can get enormously impractical and it will still be more practical than a purposefully-inefficient distributed database.
Having one payment option is better than none. There are three alternatives:
1. Regulate the payment processors. This would need widespread agreement and some kind of global initiative—possible, but sounds like a LOONG process.
2. Invent an open payment technology that isn't crypto. Probably the most desirable outcome, but another LOONG process.
3. Bow down to the payment processor mafia. Sadly, this is where we exist; I think it's the worst possible option. Imagine what else we may be prevented from buying in future. Cash is becoming harder and harder to spend in the real world. First, they came for our porn; why wouldn't they come for our food, eventually?
I don't think this person is a programmer. They've fallen for replit's "anyone can code with an AI" sales pitch, and an empty production database is the result.
I agree. This is like asking a carpenter "do you like sawing a plank of wood or do you like designing and creating a finished piece of work?" The answer is "both"—the low-level details may look tedious to those who don't have a true love for the work, but it's just a context switch to another deeply enjoyable aspect of the work as a whole.
Most of the time, yes. Since you refer to this as chatbot, I'm guessing you don't have much experience with things like cursor completion - give it a go before you're too negative.
This is totally untrue. As long as it's selfish, unpatriotic people leaving, I couldn't care less what their skin color or sexual orientation is.