This is a problem with all kinds of virtual world economies. Players accumulate so much gold that some substitute becomes more useful. Diablo II had the Stone of Jordan, for example.
I don't know Kotlin very well. Can it track the currencies involved at the type level, so that trying to combine (say) USD and EUR amounts in an error?
They never even tried. You can donate to the top-level Mozilla Foundation but not to Mozilla Corporation, which makes the browser. People said that this was because it was a for-profit corporation. I say "rubbish" - Thunderbird is maintained by a corporate entity and accepts donations!
So you admit to being an extremist then. You probably find problems with a great deal of the modern world as well.
You can't buy things online with cash. Your opinion on what people do online is therefore, colored significantly and is definitely out of touch with most people's experiences.
Declaring anyone who disagrees with you (and acts on those ideas) as an extremist is a neat trick, but the only thing it actually gives you is an ad hominem.
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Yes, except the driver will never have his child in a car seat in the front apologetically. And the passenger will pay in excess, but to the stock market and not the driver.
Don't worry, Australia's going to fix that! By making "harming public confidence in the banking system or financial markets" "serious harm" under the upcoming Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024.
And by "fix", I mean "suppress discussion about", of course.
I wanted to comment that any country has something about freedom of speech in their constitution, the problem is usually that the government doesn't respect its own law.
But when I went to compare american and russian constitutions and if you only judge the text, the us is worded better. In russian it's simply "freedom of speech is guaranteed to anyone" while in the us it's more specific about not creating new laws harming freedom of speech.
“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.”
― Forest Whitaker
So maybe it is like this. It's a funny thing to say, because in this mindset there is freedom literally to do anything. Consequences come after, minutes, hours, days, years, but after and not before, at least not until OpenAI-Google's new "PrescientCrimeCAItcher" comes online.
These "community guidelines" are quite frustrating because a major communication modality presently does not have freedom of speech, it has removal of speech it does not like. So that's an interesting loophole legalese-wise. Presently these are private sector companies running addicting entertaining boards from which they serve ads for profit. If these are instead made to be "utilities" like power or water, utilities of communication, I would imagine the calculus would change
Tests are helpful, when writing rules. US freedom of speech has been influenced by law on asymmetry of economic resources in groups vs. individuals [2010], allowing state propaganda in domestic media [2012], and gov-corp coordination of social media moderation [2024].
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