Yes, I agree, I was going to write the same. But to be honest, I like cash. The feeling of the cash flowing out of your hand is much more palpable than when you use a card :)
In Switzerland there is a national app for sending cash to friends that is really handy and popular (TWINT)
> The feeling of the cash flowing out of your hand is much more palpable than when you use a card :)
I prefer using credit card, as it's easy to lose track of how much I'm spending with cash. With card, I have a statement at the end of the month so I can see what I have spent.
Yes, I meant money. Sorry, english is not my first language...
It uses the phone number and is linked to your bank account. So it is an automated and instantaneous way of sending money to another swiss bank account. You can also ask someone for money and they can agree to transfer the sum.
Not a problem, I feel bad now for having asked. My confusion was actually more from that being fairly common app now in America (CashApp, VenMo, PayPal, etc.) and so wasn't sure if you were describing something unusual from my perspective or simply weren't aware or...
In any case, it's mostly fine to use "cash" to mean "any form of cash", although I guess this case in particular was just barely ambiguous enough for me to be confused.
That is a bit of an exaggeration. We use English word in German and French and barely notice anymore. Maybe the difference is that everybody speaks English, so we are more aware, that they are imported words…
Maybe? I really don't know. I dual-boot a Linux & Windows workstation and have a macOS laptop, so I haven't looked too deeply into platform-specific solutions. For now, I stick with Yubikeys. Complicating things further is for some accounts I'd like to give my wife access and she has her own keys and own devices. I've hit the key registration limit on some sites.
Maybe it is a good safety measure, but there is nothing more annoying than asking users to renew passwords and blocking access to windows components... I wonder if the benifits justify the drawbacks...
That is not how the system works. If you have extra production in case of high energy prices, you can make a profit by selling it to the eu. If prices increase domestically, it must mean, that the domestic production is not sufficient and energy is bought from the eu, or your domestic production plants use the opportunity to increase profits.
The connected network is and always will be a good idea, just like the open internet :)
Right, so here is one example of what happens in southern Sweden and why prices are pushed up. This is an example to show how the mechanics work.
Sweden is divided into four price regions for electricity, SE1..4 from north to south.
Demand for power in SE4 (most south) comes from domestic use, and from export from SE4 to Denmark, Germany, Poland (typically, flows can also reverse).
The most expensive supplier sets the current price. Let's say domestic supply is 2 GW. Domestic demand is 1.7 GW and export demand (Denmark, Germany, Poland) is 0.7 GW.
The missing supply is solved by importing from Lithuania to SE4 (1.7 + 0.7 - 2 = importing 0.4 GW); this becomes the most expensive power supplied at this instant and sets the current electricity price in SE4 for domestic users and for those that receive the export. (So we have cheap Swedish electricity for the most part, but the expensive Lithuanian production sets the price in this example.)
In this way, SE4 has enough domestic supply to cover domestic demand. Imports are smaller than exports, but the imports still push up the price for everyone.
Note that import/exports are both on the synchronous grids where applicable as well as using HVDC connections.
It’s not as simple as that. There isn’t be enough energy in Central Europe (especially Germany and Italy) to meet demand as long as gas imports from Russia are cut off. Building enough new alternative production will take years.
In practice the loss of cheap gas from Russia results in higher demand (and price) for alternative sources of energy, including electricity, in those countries that relied on Russian gas. And since they are connected to the Nordics via the grid, it also spikes electricity prices in the Nordics. For energy producers this is great, but for consumers in the Nordics it is not good at all.
The analogue to the internet fails in the sense that you don’t have constraints with domestic production with internet data like you have with energy.
If country A has plentiful production but country B hasn't, the companies of country A are better off exporting to country B, but this will make prices go up in country A.
Definitely not a good thing for the average citizen of country A, which would be better off with a disconnected grid.
I have a dual sim iPhone 11. Everytime I switch off the main sim and use the other on abroad, imessage breaks and I have to use WhatsApp. Never manages to link two phone numbers, less so to use it without the correct sim...
