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megadal
2y ago
Yeah but this is using 3 different backend services just to automate self hosted forms. Pretty sure you can do this without 3 different services.
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megadal
2y ago
> Not the point. No that's exactly the point. The point is what is a legitimate use case for crypto, this use case is getting around pointless bureaucracy. You don't get around regulations, the responsibility of adhering to the
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2y ago
I wish clickbait got flagged here. Also I read the article just to see if that poor grammar was directly copied and pasted from it, and to save anyone else the time, it was. The article wasn't proofread. Just made as clickbaity as poss
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2y ago
I would much rather buy a new phone than stand in the DMV if I lost my driver's license. I thought I lost mine days ago and was ready to hop on TaskRabbit to employ a line stander. Also, biometrics to verify ID? Hard pass. Would rather
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2y ago
Again, you're conflating DID with VC improperly. VC is an extension built on top of DID. It's not decentralized Verifiable Credentials, it's just Verifiable Credentials. The entire article is about VC, and refers to VC as DID
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megadal
2y ago
Have you seen the queries an ORM generates? Pretty sure they have data engineers beat in query volume, and there's more web developers using ORMs than data engineers.
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2y ago
Half of the article is just ragging on a specific subset of poorly designed SPAs (those that don't use HTML 5 history mode with proper server side routing set up), which the author acknowledges before finally moving onto other points.
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2y ago
> Most of the criticisms against Web 3.0 still apply to DID. It can be impossible to revoke, as the article stated. Which means if grandma’s wallet is hacked, she can be impersonated forever by the hacker, and not even the government can
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2y ago
Also, the other points made aren't the reason VC was conceived. > And just like the existing system, it continues to exclude millions of people who can’t get government ID VC is a technology for convenience, not solving social probl
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2y ago
This entire article is just wrongly conflating Verifiable Credentials (VCs) with DIDs and then citing those false conflations as weaknesses of DID. > If decentralized ID is just an extension of the existing government ID system, it provi