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by sofixa 6mo ago
> I'm not American, I'm European. And I didn't say you're American, just that you're using the traditionally American bad faith argument. > I never called those companies failures You just called them "mo
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> Care to explain your accusations. I never attacked you directly, just the points you made. You twisted "national successess" to "mon and pop shop". It's a typically American argument "unless it's the
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> EU mom and pop shops Who said anything about mom and pop shops? You're arguing in extremely bad faith, as usual with this topic. Doctolib, Revolut, Adyen, Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens, and tons of others I can't be bothered to li
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> I find this attitude deeply parochial and colonial. Who are these so-called "educated people" (most of whom would be in western developed nations) to decide what sort of governance system a country should have? Do you think o
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> As someone from the "whole rest of the west", no, they're not different at all. Very minor details change, but the net outcome is the exact same and suffer from the exact same problems. Such as? There are countries such
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> our so-called "democracy" (quotes intended, read: "21st century western systems") Do not conflate the broken American political system, the semi-broken British one, and the whole rest of the "west". Each c
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> I don't understand why Americans continue believing that democracy is the only way for every population in the world It's not Americans, it's educated people who believe in personal liberties. > Why would Russians wan
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> The EU fumbled semiconductors, production went to Asia Production of state of the art semiconductors, yes. NXP, STMicro, Infineon are still there and massive in automotive, industrial, card chips, etc. > The EU fumbled the software
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> This article headline is a great example, a serious debate is difficult when you compare people who disagree with you to Nazis You know that the Nazi comparison isn't because of the disagreement, but because of what that disagreem
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> and US stopped them The Allies stopped them. The US was one of the major contributors, but they were far from alone. The Soviets, Britain, Canada, India, Poland, France, Netherlands, Kenya, etc etc all contributed to various extents. T
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> We should think of how to verify people's identities online France already has that, in multiple ways. There is the France Connect SSO, which is kind of a federated SSO. You need at least one account which is physically proven (it
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There is no such thing in France (or most countries for that matter). It's a pretty absurd system that gamifies and profits off heuristics, and results in a Kafkaesque nightmare where you can't get a job, rent a place or get a loa
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The Iranian regime still has the millions of fanatically loyal men, so they'll still retain control, probably. Just over a much poorer country.
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> I am well aware of the problem of election interference. I am also well aware of the problems of forcing everyone involved in a discussion of political topics to be identified. I think we could solve the former without the latter Again
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> Apparently you want "approved location", too. Yes, country. Generally proved enough by the ID being issued by that country, or a neighbouring one. > Forced proof of identity is damage, and the Internet should route around
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The EU already has the scaffolding for this via eIDAS - the standard for secure IDs with biometrics and NFC. Some governments already have government SSO services, and some (sometimes the same, e.g. France) already have or are working on ap
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Each user has to have a unique key. Or the keys are short lived, generated by an app reading your real physical ID.
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> And now it becomes clear that what you want is non-anonymity, rather than age. No. Proving your age anonymously is more than enough to prove you're a human and that is all that is needed.
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Few pretty good reasons. First, yes, it has been proven that there are things online children accessing is damaging to their development. From social media to porn. Second, and much more important to me, proof that you are actually a human
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by sofixa 6mo ago
You're actually reinforcing my point. Models are interchangable and easy to switch between to adjust based on needs and costs. That means that no individual model / model provider has any sort of serious moat. If tomorrow Kimi rel
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No. The app checks your physical ID you have, and provides a certificate that you give the third party you're proving yourself to. The app knows you requested proof, but not what for. The third party knows you're proven to be 18+,
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Funnily that's all utterly irrelevant. Like Vietnam showed, it doesn't matter how much better numbers than the enemy you have, because kill counts don't win wars. Iran is still the one closer to achieving its objectives (surv
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Cheaper to buy . But with double the operational costs and only 50% availability, this is a miniature part of the story.
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> $20B ARR or so reported added in Q1 doesn’t sound particularly bad Unless you compare with the reported cash burn or projected losses. > they’ll raise effective prices some more while Claude diffuses into the economy, sounds like a
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What shareholders, Anthropic is a money burning pit. Not to the same extent as OpenAI, but both will struggle hard to actually turn a profit some day, let alone make back the massive investments they've received. Not that they don&#x27
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Hence the second paragraph in my comment. The app is client side and reads the physical ID.
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Stop with the scaremongering. This is a reference app implementation that uses a detailed framework which explicitly has as a core tenet double blindness. The place you prove your age to has no idea about anything other than you being of
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We're talking about the EU here, where the standard form of ID is an ID card with very strict requirements, including multiple secure features and an NFC chip with the photo and some other information.
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> You can use 0KP to prove you have a signed certificate issued by your government that says you are an adult, but then anyone with such a certificate can use it to masquerade as however many sock puppets they like and act as a proxy for
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> In my opinion, it just means there is a single government database to hack to get copies of all IDs... That doesn't make sense, all IDs are already in a single government database. Kind of by definition in fact, for IDs to be use

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