MilaM

> Fractional reserve banking works because bank deposits are fungible legal tender

Actually bank deposits at commercial banks are not legal tender. Only banknotes, coins and deposits at the central bank are. In most (all?) countries, individuals are not able to open accounts with the central bank. Interestingly this is not a rule set in stone. Some central banks like the Swedish Riksbank [1] are investigating the possibility to issue virtual currency to individuals which would be a legal tender and an alternative to bank deposits.

[1] https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/payments--cash/e-krona/

The market cap is already much higher than that. The share count including granted options (dilluted) per the last availabe 10Q report is already at 1.1b. That translates to a market cap of 968 billion at today's share price of 880 USD.

I can ignore it no problem. But less proficient users, like my mother, will not know or remeber this advice.

What's also (in)convenient is that unrelated security updates, like the one for Safari that was released the same day as Big Sur, are well hidden UI wise. You have to click a small link below the Big Sur upgrade notification to get to those important security updates.

I don't understand why Apple makes it so difficult to ignore major OS upgrades at least for some time. Most users would be better off waiting at least a couple for a point release of Big Sur. Being responsible for a couple of Macs in my family this makes me quite angry actually.

I really want to hedge against the loss of my Gmail account and numerous Google Apss/Suite/Whatever setups. But what if my custom backup script to download all the data actually will be what triggers Google's algorithms for suspicious activity?

I don't mind if they call it "buy", as long as customers are entitled to a refund in case a work becomes unavailable.

It seems to be possible to check the integrity on the command line.

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/05/09/how-to-check-the-integri...

This looks really promising and could be a good replacement for Mailplane.

One thing I don't like though is the Big Sur requirement as early as this year. I'm also still on Mojave and will probably upgrade to Catalina in the coming weeks.

My understanding is, that it's a random and unique identifier, and therfore very high entropy. Pooling that data allows FB to identify you in different apps that use the SDK, even if they don't have any other identifying info.

Yet Epic was able to sneak in their own payment system through app review. The review process is also not magic.

Does this mean that data from actively visited sites (first-party) will be automatically deleted 45 days after the last visit?

One explenation I heard is that hospitals in Germany perform more surgeries than any other OECD country per 100k inhabitants [1]. Not sure if it actually explains difference in the number of ICU beds.

[1] https://www.gesundheitsstadt-berlin.de/oecd-studie-deutschla...

It's also part of the EMV Specification and can be read with any nfc or smart-card capable reader. You don't need a special payment terminal.

https://www.emvlab.org/emvtags/show/t5F20/

There is one store in my neigbourhod where the payment terminals show this field (my full name) on the screen during checkout. I was very surprised when I noticed this the first time.

But apparrently not all card issuers fill the field with correct data. One card, a prepaid Visa from a big fintech, has "N/A" programmed in the field.

This happened to me too, independently on two Macs with different Photos libraries. It's a very strange bug where after a library migration Photos.app will delete some pictures and videos from the Masters folder inside the library. The deleted files still show in the UI because the app uses seperate thumbnails for that. But the original files are gone. I only noticed it because some videos where not playing anymore and also exports of the files did not work.

I tried to narrow down what went wrong. Launching a previous state of the library on Mojave from a backup deleted the same files with the following output in Console:

Photos Import failed during master recovery for path: 2018/10/08/20181008-093231/28f7a73f-1737-4pb6-9275-1c35dwb8a30a.JPG, Error Domain=com.apple.photos.reddwarf.ingest Code=1 "Removed version uuid: Gvj78Pses+eRzULLoWJ83g because imported master was either removed, or chosen as the candidate master during de-dup" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Removed version uuid: Gvj78Pses+eRzULLoWJ83g because imported master was either removed, or chosen as the candidate master during de-dup}