The size of this discussion and the sheer number of different ways this can be done is mind boggling.
I'm all for having choices and I'm glad we're beyond choosing between FrontPage, Dreamweaver, and Notepad, but no wonder new people to web development are so overwhelmed.
I feel like number of comments should carry more weight than upvotes. Then upvoted comments could weigh the entire story up further too, pushing quality discussion over a simple upvote click.
Even better: if you upvote a story you should share the subsequent karma points on a pro-rata basis, i.e.: everyone who upvotes a story gets karma points equal to the total upvotes divided by the number of upvotes the story had when they upvoted it (or something like that). You'd have to balance that out by having it cost some karma points to cast an upvote. That would encourage people to seek out quality content on the new page.
This indeed sounds good at a first glance. However, it might encourage people to vote for stories that they think other people will like, which are not necessarily the quality stories.
slashdot worked (works) a bit similar, though you didn't pay with your own karma points. Instead you were granted a few voting points now and then, which made them feel scarcer, which encouraged considerate use.
What will replace phones that soon? Are you referring to smart watches and wearable tech? Wont we still use a phone as a primary device to tie it all together?
Smart spaces (public and private) and much simpler devices. People are likely to carry basic phones or devices that can serve that purpose, but we probably won't all have what we consider a smartphone today.
I absolutely love exploring all the food and coffee around Melbourne and I can't even remember the last one that didn't take PayPass. Even the market stalls and coffee carts have an MPOS or CBA tablet. Maybe a couple of super hipster places take cash only for the image, but I haven't actually found one yet.
In my experience it's rather the anti-hipster places: cheap Chinese dumplings, Vietnamese noodles etc, typically family run with minimal decor, overhead, wages, cleanliness and tax payments (much easier to underreport cash-only earnings). But often great food if you pick a busy place!
I haven't carried cash or wallet for about a year now. All I use is my phone (CommBank app, which uses PayPass network). Whether it's a coffee, snack for my kid, weekly shopping or a night out, I can barely even remember the times I've been caught out. Maybe twice in a year. Only times I take my wallet out the door is if I'm driving (I live in Melbourne and mostly walk or take trams) or going to the Doctors or something that requires ID/Medicare.
Food trucks, weekend markets, everyone has an EFTPOS/MPOS or CommBank tablet in their business now.
Out of curiosity, where do you keep your myki? It's the one thing that ties me to carrying around a thing that can hold my cards.
I don't carry cash, and quite often don't even carry my wallet, but I need somewhere to stash my myki if I'm taking the train & tram to work. Given that it may have anywhere between $100 and $1500 worth of value on it at a time, I don't really just want to throw it in a pocket.
There are a few vendors out there who sell the data they collect, and then sell search capabilities to law enforcement agencies, repo firms, bounty hunters, etc.
These camera systems are usually installed on civilian cars and those people just drive around all day on 10 hours shifts around their territory. They aren't looking for people, only collecting the data. Some of them get rights to add cameras to signs in front of shopping centers on busy streets. Some have even illegally placed them next to red light cameras that use an open wi-fi to upload the data back to their database. Its the wild west for some of these guys, but they make almost no money once you account for the cost of the cameras, cost of staff to drive around, etc.
> the actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P.
It's completely and utterly indistinguishable from a native app on my PC (Firefox 57.0.4 (64-bit) on Windows 10). First thing I noticed was how smooth and flawless it was, even when I expand the canvas and go crazy with every single tool to make a big mess, it didn't slow down once.
On my Macbook Air, with Chrome and High Sierra it managed to crash Chrome impressively and force quit and hitting restart failed to do much. I actually had to hit the power button which is kind of unusual on a Macbook.
I'm all for having choices and I'm glad we're beyond choosing between FrontPage, Dreamweaver, and Notepad, but no wonder new people to web development are so overwhelmed.