OK, one of my clients is a payday lender in a wealthy country. I have the complete banking histories of 10s of thousands of low income people in front of me.
I insist that the distinguishment proposed in the article is BS.
There is a small subset of clients with disabilities AND absense of insurance/government pensions, whose situation is permanent for all intents and purposes. But everyone else, one-off clients as well as regulars have ups and downs, and get through defaults or manage to repay their debt at times.
Gambling and alcohol are a clear factor (drug abuse is harder to identify on someone's bank statement), but cases such as divorce from a partner with abuse problems bring relief most of the time. Children grow up or grow older and require less work or even generate income of their own.
I know it's different, when you live in a low income country and everyone around is poor and scamming people on the internet or marine piracy are the only possible access options to wealth, but that's a different topic.
Question, how hard is it going to be to add XSLT back with WASM? I have built a few stylesheets for clients to view their raw XML in browser. I even add charts for data tables with XSLT.
In theory, there is rule of law, the intention of which is to prevent government's access to your property and body without a court order and any emergency access such as use of force at crime scenes being subject to public scrutiny.
I guess that was the idea when the USA was established as a country, but people forgot what their ancestors where fighting for.
Imagine a Russia-friendly party getting elected. Doesn't have to be overtly pro-russian. Can be someone very nationalist like Marine Le Pen in France. Or socialist like Sarah Wagenknecht in Germany. Just someone with financially dependent on Russia, or simply owing them favour.
Now imagine them accidentally leaving some loophole in the system, such that Russians get read or maybe even write access to data.
If they get elected they can fuck everyone over the exact same way.
The fact that there's something akin to a unique identifier or that it has a corresponding certificate or some means for authentication will and does not stop any malicious government. Never has, has it?
Funny. I come from Poland and for us the East/West dichotomy always made sense: the West = Western Europe and US (think richer, more organized, pleasant to visit) vs the East = remains of USSR (poorer, corrupted, wild), the "proper Asian East" behind it and the most exotic "Far East" at the very end. Not very politically correct, but this was a cognitive construct most of us here had in their minds, at least until this decade.
That is just equivalent to North pointing up. Many commenters have explained why that is the most prevalent.
I mean, except that you could of course have the subterranean view of the World, with North point up, East to the left, and West to the right, if you so like... Confusion guaranteed!
I didn't know the Romans had the lathe. Thanks for the correction.
But they did not have a metal lathe, which is substantially more sophisticated. Invention of the metal lathe is credited to Henry Maudslay around 1800.
While steam engines with pistons existed before, the poor sealing because of inaccurate bores and pistons, made them not very efficient.
Even if your keyword searching trading bot is smart enough to know it's unrelated, knowing there's dumber bots out there is information you can base trades on.
I insist that the distinguishment proposed in the article is BS.
There is a small subset of clients with disabilities AND absense of insurance/government pensions, whose situation is permanent for all intents and purposes. But everyone else, one-off clients as well as regulars have ups and downs, and get through defaults or manage to repay their debt at times. Gambling and alcohol are a clear factor (drug abuse is harder to identify on someone's bank statement), but cases such as divorce from a partner with abuse problems bring relief most of the time. Children grow up or grow older and require less work or even generate income of their own.
I know it's different, when you live in a low income country and everyone around is poor and scamming people on the internet or marine piracy are the only possible access options to wealth, but that's a different topic.