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Is cash dead in Australia?

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That doesn’t sound like it’s good news. That’s the way we do it in Canada and it just means that people paying cash are subsidizing the people using cards. Now everyone needs to use cards so you don’t miss out on “points” and costs go up even more.

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Is cash dead in Australia?

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Ya, but it’s just a hidden surcharge (per my understanding). That sounds worse.

Edit: not disagreeing. I think publicly owned payment systems that don’t charge more than operating costs are absolutely necessary (in Canada too).

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Canadian premier says Trump is a ‘bad person’ as Canada weighs concessions for trade deal

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It is within provincial jurisdiction - https://www.canada.ca/en/intergovernmental-affairs/services/internal-trade/canadian-free-trade-agreement.html

The CFTA aligns provinces with things like USMCA, but per my point, it’s being violated by Trump and some provinces are retaliating in ways that are still compatible with those agreements and are speaking up about it. As is their right.

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Supply chain attack on arrayref

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Gradle and Maven create static build artifacts, they do not dynamically run 3rd party build scripts. And it is uncommon (though not impossible) to use dynamic version targets.

I’m it not saying it’s an impossible attack vector Java, but I haven't seen it yet and I’ve seen it a couple times with Rust and countless times with Javascript. The Javascript ones now use your credentials to publish even more malicious build scripts, so it spreads like a virus.