I like the Kesar best. I am from South-Gujarat where Kesar, Alphonso(Hafus/afus) and Langda are easily available in local market. I will always choose kesar regardless the price.
I think the ultimate solution would be a policy for fair and slightly premium return value for dead battery from manufacturer upon battery exchange or sale.
It will make companies recycle their own batteries, get customer financial reason to recycle it and also a steady second supply of rare/expensive raw materials for producing new batteries which will reduce pressure on existing resources.
This seems to have worked pretty well with the "core return" system on used 12V batteries for ICE vehicles. Even with a pretty small (usually $15-20 in my experience) financial incentive, people do tend to bring them in.
Transferring the $1 vs $1000 digitally, have no technical difference and hence the commission based payment cut is something that I have a hard time to accept.
Btw I am from India. Earlier,every time I see people swipe the cards in the retail stores, I felt sorry for the shopkeepers as they had to bear the 1.5%-2% as transaction charges of the total amount paid.
It all changed after the launch of UPI payment system, now I can just pay 5-10 INR(7 cents to 13 cents) to a shopkeeper without feeling the guilt of payment charges.
It has been more than two years when I used my last VISA card payment transaction for any retail shopping. I think other countries should also develop such not-for-profit payment network system that can be used to pay efficiently digitally without making any side the victim.
Brazil's Pix[1] completely transformed the way we deal with payments day-to-day. It's available 24/7, free of fees and has really good UX. Many small merchants are giving up on credit card and accepting only Pix. And the Central Bank of Brazil keeps pushing Pix's capabilities forward. Last year they launched two features that can be translated something like Pix Withdrawals and Pix Change (Pix Saque and Pix Troco in Portugues). The two features work similarly. Essentially they turn every commercial site into an ATM. You make a Pix to, say, a supermarket and get that money in cash. Or, in the case of Pix Change, you'd pay in Pix more than the total value of the purchase and receive the change in cash.
Pix is not even 2 years old and it's already changed the way people deal with money. It's incredibly reliable and astonishingly fast.
Who would say that the biggest Brazilian fintech revolution of all times would come from the Central Bank?
(Your link is missing the final closing parenthesis.)
Sounds similar to what I used in New Zealand quite a few years ago. However their system wasn't confined to mobile apps. Is pix mobile only?
Also in that system payments reconciled that evening, it wasn't instantaneous. To be honest I preferred that. I was able to fix a payment with a mistake before it went out.
> I felt sorry for the shopkeepers as they had to bear the 1.5%-2% as transaction charges of the total amount paid
I used to feel that way. Then I discovered how much time/effort is spent counting cash. Credit cards are all electronic and so the money goes directly into your bank accounts without needing to count and recount all that cash. Companies are money ahead vs cash once they account for all the labor cash costs. That is before we get into all the costs of theft that you avoid.
The above assumes a straight 2% transaction fee. If you are paying $.25/transaction then for small purchases the transaction costs are way too high.
The transaction fees are flat 1.5%-2% for regular credit cards(may climb upto 4% for reward or amex type of premium offerings). The retail grocery business has gross margin of 8-10% which ultimately settles to net profit of 4%-5%. and paying almost half of your net profit for transaction fees is insane.
In any case, the government owned non-profit digital payment system is really a great idea. People tend to have increased digital transaction which were unaccounted in the past, which also gives the correct data to government regarding current country financial habits.
I kinda feel the same.
Choose a field where you are already good and get a job/have a business in it for living. On other side become a ruthless learner of whatever you like. Go to different gathering of industries/disciplines, go to Expos,if feel like you can also join part-time university course or become a citizen scientist.
Log your knowledge in any form of blog, journal, diary or personal knowledge-base. Hop between them when you feel like, if stuck read your past progress. It feeds my curiosity but it does not mostly create the positive cash-flow.
If possible, make it opensource with AGPL license and invite few friends to send some initial contribution, viola now you are not the only one who owns all the IPs, also your employer will be most probably stay away from it due to licensing requirements of opensourcing all the changes made. Alternatively you can create a project with your friend as main owner and contribute to it with same AGPL license. You can also contribute to it as an anonymous contributor. flip side is you will have to get explicit full ownership of the code with MIT/BSD/WTFPL type license via documented way(verified Email works fine).
Yes you can, if owner(All owners with code contributions) gives you full ownership explicitly. Find contributors section on open-source projects like mysql, they only accepts pull accepts with dual licensing.
also, you can use WTFPL. You get it, you own it.
I have been able to control my weight as I want. I generally don't do much of the diet planning of the things, but I have a fixed routine and fixed diet. for example, In the morning I take a cup of a tea with snacks, for lunch I take two flat-bread, indian sabji/vegetables, and curry with rice, For dinner I have a lentil curry with two-flat breads and fried rice. I have a fixed routine time for these meals except for sunday.
Usually, I don't eat fast food, my whole diet is consist of milk and vegeterian food only.(you may check for Jain diet, but I do eat onion,potatoes and garlics)
When I feel like I am getting some extra weight and want to loose some, I will cut my carbs by cutting the portion of the food by 10-15% without affecting my energy level, it takes two-three days to adjust the feeling of hunger and then it is normal. The result mostly starts to be noticeable in 4 weeks.
When I feel like I got too skinny, I just increase my eating portion to adjust the weight in a month.
I have successfully changed my weight from 65Kg to 75Kg and vice-a-versa multiple times. My height is around 178cms, currently weight is 63Kg and feeling to increase the diet ;)
I had similar experience in past. I submitted a bug report in a small library, the author/owner just rudely talked about that I should not expect him to work for free, and closed the bug. I would have been happy if it was tagged as non priority bug and did not get resolved in near future, but the already existing open bug report accepts the validity of bug and is an invitation for any willingful contributor.
I believe submitting a bugreport itself is a contribution. I know it does not mean that the developer is liable for fixing it or improving it, but if it's a valid bug at least they should politely refuse to fix or even just ignore it and let it be open.
The author responded to a similar argument in a follow-up post:
> Your bug doesn’t bother me (or my paying users). If it did, I’d have fixed it myself. When submitting a bug report, you are not working for me, you are working for yourself and the user community. The same way I was, when making the original software available free of charge (whether or not you want to do it is entirely your choice, I’m not asking you to). Does your bug report include a patch? If yes, then the problem’s solved for you, if not, then you are expecting me to come up with a fix. That’s a work order, here’s my bill.
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I'm personally in the middle; if the bug is posted on an open bug tracker, it can be a good way to coordinate the community to find workarounds and get a patch started. Also triaging a bug is work, so it could be considered helpful to say "I've tracked the cause down to this module/function/line" even without a patch.
OTOH, a Github issues is also a great gathering place for entitled jerks. and many an issue thread has become the HN/Reddit/4Chan punching bag of the day and now the project maintainer is expected to both write a patch for free and moderate / lock and clean up an impromptu internet complaining situation, so IDK. Open source is a mess sometimes.
Yes, I agree sometimes Open Source is a mess. I also accept that I always use Open Source projects and rarely contribute. But I do file bug when I feel it is appropriate. If ever I see a person struggling with something(on reddit,forums,hn or even quora) and asking genuine/silly question, I will help them up to my knowledge, it can be small tweaking, small steps by step instruction, introducing them to how it works(you may call it mini on-boarding checklist) or even an implementation suggestion of feature if the person is a developer. I do consider it a community contribution.
Accepting/Ignoring a valid bug is just not too much of task, rather it is more work to file the reply as what you got. Just accept/ignore the bug report and forget, don't be rude.
This. Windows 7 is a sweet-spot that I cannot leave. Few sites/apps/dev-tools are dropping windows 7 support, but It is still as usable as it ever was. You can always try downgrading your OS!!
