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What would happen if everyone moved there money from traditional private banks to credit unions/ coop banks
  • IDK why people are interpreting your question about the mechanics of everyone switching at the same time. It sounds to me like you're asking more about the bigger picture problems it would solve with society, not whether the sudden change would be able to be handled by the banks. Is that what you're looking for?

    Moving to a credit union is a great idea. I did a long time ago and haven't looked back.

    There are some things they don't offer, sure, but then for stuff like investments I use dedicated platforms for those which is a better experience anyway.

  • What do you do with Nazi memorabilia?
  • It wasn't clear to me from the post that it isn't genuine. I interpreted the post to mean that it wasn't famous in some way, just a standard issue dagger, but that it wasn't a reproduction.

  • A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back
  • This other side of the coin, and this is coming from a long time Linux user, is that for the vast majority of its life Linux has focused on functionality and not toward anything the majority of people care about. Only relatively recently is it a fairly good experience for the average user, but it still has some issues that will mean most users won't even consider it.

    I really wish it could become mainstream, but until it fixes that fine tuning then most people won't consider it vs a Mac or Windows.

    Remember the Zune? It has way more features and functionality than the iPod. But nobody cared. There's a reason it lost.

    A lot of us put up with Linux because of our principles or because we're developers.

  • Scientists Discover Way to Destroy Harmful “Forever Chemicals” in Water Supply
  • I get that there are lessons learned for new advances in technology and society, but companies like DuPont and 3M knew about this and hid it. Then when legislation comes out banning chemicals they use, they change basically one atom in the molecule to avoid the regulation and keep going. They aren't honest mistakes.

  • Scientists Discover Way to Destroy Harmful “Forever Chemicals” in Water Supply
  • Yeah, it absolutely astounds me that they polluted the entire world and poisoned everyone and everything within it, and then the people are footing the bill for trying to cleaning it up. And that's only our drinking water, not all the plants and animals we eat all the time that have it in them in probably huge amounts. AFAIK there is no plan for that at all so our cells will still be swimming in them.

    3M and others should be taken over by the government and turned into nonprofits where 100% of their profit goes to cleaning up the world.

  • Sender address editing
  • Sure, but we're talking about being able to select a Sender from the ProtonMail UI. It would be awesome if PM could do that, and it's a highly requested feature. That would basically be the same as having it integrated so that the PM UI could allow you to choose a reverse SL alias when sending instead of navigating to SL, creating it manually, then copying and pasting into the To field.

  • Sender address editing
  • Those are aliases, not addresses. I'm on a paid plan and also cannot edit the sender field to be these. That is only for different addresses.

    You probably want SimpleLogin. I'd check that out.

  • If your Proton password is your encryption key, why couldn't Proton theoretically use it to decrypt your data?

    AFAIK when you log in to Proton, you send them your password, they do the standard hashing and checking against the hash stored in their database, and if it matches them they let you log in by sending you a token of some sort.

    If the your password is your encryption key, and if at some point Proton needs your plaintext password in order for you to log in, then doesn't that mean they still have a way to access your data? They could take the plaintext password and decrypt everything in your account without you knowing, right?

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    Do bike tires increase pressure in summer?

    I know bike tires will lose pressure in colder seasons because the air temp causes the pressure to drop, but is the inverse true? Does bike tire pressure go up in summer due to heat?

    If so, do I need to deflate the tires a bit in summer? Do bike tires ever explode because of a temperature change?

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    I'm disappointed with Third Wave Water

    Not with their end product - the powder itself is excellent. But every little packet is plastic, and doesn't have to be. The world has such a serious problem with plastics, and for a lot of products it's kind of necessary, but this is not one of them.

    Restaurants have had the same size single serving packets for sugar, salt, and pepper for decades now and those are paper, which is much more environmentally friendly. It's even better for usability! With paper, I don't need to go find my scissors like I do for TWW's plastic packets.

    I asked TWW if they would consider using paper instead, but got a generic reply that they'll bring it up, but evidently nothing has been done about this.

    Is anyone else as disappointed as I am with their use of plastic packets? I care a lot about having clean water for my coffee, and I care just as much about not polluting the rest of the world because of it.

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    Is it really a breaking change if a method changes output after an update?

    This might seem obviously "yes" at first, but consider a method like foo.debugRepr() which outputs the string FOO and has documentation which says it is meant only to be used for logging / debugging. Then you make a new release of your library and want to update the debug representation to be **FOO**.

    Based on the semantics of debugRepr() I would argue that this is NOT a breaking change even though it is returning a different value, because it should only affect logging. However, if someone relies on this and uses it the wrong way, it will break their code.

    What do you think? Is this a breaking change or not?

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    Question about FOMO in Baldur's Gate 3

    I haven't played any Baldur's Gate games before but I've heard so much about this game that I'm going to buy it.

    However, before I start, I always wonder about this: some games allow you to unlock any weapon at some point in the game, and if you miss one in some quest you can always go back. If you accidentally sell one you can buy it back or forge a new one again, or have it respawn. If you want some other class you can switch later.

    Other games are not like that, and if you screw up or aren't aware of [full in the blank] then you can't unlock something.

    What's the story with BG3? Do I need to be careful and plan before going on missions?

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