MrAlagos

The centre-left parties in Italy have been pushing for a minimum wage law since the early spring, when the biggest party (PD) finished its congress and a new direction was elected. The right wing majority has now voted to delay any kind of discussion on the law proposal for two months, and the right wing minister for external affairs has gone on record saying things like "minimum wage is a Soviet measure" and "we need a rich wage, not minimum wage".

I was very afraid that the themes would have been heavily skewed towards things like landmarks, famous people and events, which would plunge the subsequent discussions about the designs into a cesspit of nationalist in-fighting, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by the presence of a number of more sensible options. Not necessarily good, but sensible at least.

I like the "hands" theme quite a lot, but it might come out a little bad on the graphical side if not well thought out. Still, hands and their symbolism has been present for centuries in Europe to depict values and moral concepts, both religious and secular, I think it could be the best idea to represent abstract European values. I bet that people will just choose the "pretty" option though, so I expect birds, also because it can once again be tied to nationalism.

Well yes, this is about a pre-graphical design stage.

You can go to the account settings, long tap on Lemmy.world and remove that instance, or you can do the same to remove any other instance.

Yes in some documents and slides they also talk about a card option.

There is a whole website to explain that. Specifically, there is a PDF under the "Why might we need a digital euro?" section, but also this interview says similar things.

At the moment, the plan is for the digital euro to be issued/"minted" by the ECB and also all transactions will be resolved by the ECB, however the ECB won't offer any sort of digital euro account or banking service, the banks will do that instead. The ECB is planning for the digital euro to be free to use for paying for private customers, free to use for donations or exchanges of money between people and free to use for online payments as well. They also want provisions specifically for poor and underbanked people.

The ECB actually seems to be at the front of central bank digital currency development. Other have just vaguely announced their interest, the ECB has actual ongoing research and prototype development with public conferences, documents and updates.

The aim of the research on a digital euro is to have characteristics similar to cash. I suggest reading this op-ed and this interview.

Ci sarebbe stato un "problema" al server proprio subito prima che l'FBI ottenesse il mandato per il sequestro in casa della persona che casualmente amministra quel server? Io non credo a questa coincidenza, scusatemi se faccio la figura del complottista ma stiamo parlando di una delle agenzie di indagine e controllo più potenti del mondo.

Not at al honestly, I missed like half of the races and I find MotoGP a lot more interesting. Maybe some interest will come back now that MotoGP has its big break but it's not a given. There's also not much new technical or silly stuff coming out of F1 now honestly, everyone is converging extremely fast on a couple of design and we can only wait until they get there, which might be never because Red Bull has a massive advantage. I bet that by October or so interest in F1 will be significantly lowered.

Let's not misinterpret things, the Greek government willingly drowned hundreds of people. It's not just about fake condolences here.