I had an idea for this you might want to consider adding: store the passwords/keys in the client, no server… but then shamir’s secret sharing to shard them along your contacts.
So when you open the app it asks you to choose five (?) friends you trust (who don’t know each other) from your contacts and it’ll ask them to install the app to help you store your secrets.
Then if you ever lose your phone or whatever when you reinstall the app you just have to remember at least three (?) of the five people you trusted and then will be able to restore your keys!
It would also ping the other contacts when open to make sure they still have your shards and redistribute them as you add/change/delete them.
That is the ideal strategy, but easier said than done. Once you’ve got that cash it’s very very hard to act like you don’t have it… especially when everybody knows you do.
Slightly off-topic, but has anybody else seen an issue with stripe's live checkout flow when you collect a phone number? People paying with Apple Pay will frequently have the first 2 or 3 digits doubled! So like 313105551212 will come through. Didn't seem to happen in the test environment.
(Oh also sometimes it defaults users (in the U.S.) to Anguilla as their country code (also +1) but then gives users an error their phone number is invalid.)
I watched it in 3D HFR and it was terrible terrible terrible to me. I felt like I was watching a play. The special effects looked weird/bad, the acting felt worse, the makeup more obvious, everything yuck yuck.
It definitely can work… it depends on the size of ubi and how creative we get. We could for example just say that banks no longer get to do 10-1 fractional reserve banking and instead all the free money gets distributed to their customers accounts. And do a cap and trade carbon system with auctions where all the revenue goes to ubi. And all the revenue from spectrum auctions. And repurposing some existing spending. And printing a little more money. And congestion pricing. Etc, etc…
> banks no longer get to do 10-1 fractional reserve banking
Fractional reserve banking is pretty much an urban myth. Banks create money when they make commercial loans. The Bank of England explains it quite nicely here:
If it were illegal to build more housing (which is unfortunately practically is in some NIMBY areas), prices might increase, yes…
But if we fix zoning issues then supply should eventually catch up to meet the increased demand and prices should more or less be stable.
I wouldn’t expect e.g. web hosting to increase in price if there were a UBI, as there’s plenty of competition and it is not in any way supply constrained.
That’s been my problem with Zelda games since maybe OoT… well, maybe not exactly my problem.
My problem is mostly that if I don’t play it for a week or two, and come back to it, I can’t remember what’s going on at all and it seems like too much of a chore to re-build my context.
They do such a good job with Mario odyssey on showing you what to do and letting you teleport between worlds… there is no grinding at all I feel like. I wish they’d adopt that paradigm for Zelda too.
Yeah this is why I never picked BOTW back up, I'd no longer remember anything. I keep meaning to, I just haven't done so, and each time I consider it, it seems like too much to take on that weekend. I did beat 3 of the 4 Divine Beasts before that. I know I never tackled the Castle or the DLC.
At least with the sequel it's kind of expected I start fresh.
So when you open the app it asks you to choose five (?) friends you trust (who don’t know each other) from your contacts and it’ll ask them to install the app to help you store your secrets.
Then if you ever lose your phone or whatever when you reinstall the app you just have to remember at least three (?) of the five people you trusted and then will be able to restore your keys!
It would also ping the other contacts when open to make sure they still have your shards and redistribute them as you add/change/delete them.