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If you do it right the only sensitive information exposed to the age gated site is that your age is above their threshold. The party that actually has to at some point verify who you really are of course has your sensitive information, and
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10mo ago
You've almost got it right. You just need to modify this part: > Just as the 3rd party site could use SSO login from your identity provider, perhaps the identity provider could provide signed evidence to the 3rd party site that ass
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10mo ago
The world only has effectively infinite resources if growth slows down, because exponentials get out of hand surprisingly quickly. For example at 1% energy growth per year it would only take around 9-10k years before to reach an annual cons
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10mo ago
Context matters. For a more recent example consider the slogan "Black Lives Matter" (BLM) and the slogan "All Lives Matter" (ALM). Separately both are fine. But some people, especially in white supremacist and adjacent c
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10mo ago
That exemption is from the state code and applies to "work not specifically regulated by a municipal ordinance that is performed in or on a dwelling by a person who owns and resides in the dwelling". They said it was city code cau
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10mo ago
It is interesting to compare to V2H systems. I believe Chevy offers V2H on all 2026 Equinox EVs. Enabling this needs their V2H Enablement Kit and I believe you also need their PowerShift Charger. That would be around $38k for a 2026 Equinox
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10mo ago
The only extra information the age check adds over the normal information the site gets when you use them is that your age is not under their age limit.
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10mo ago
The ID is cryptographically bound to a hardware security device you provide. In the EU system that will initially be an iOS or Android smart phone with a secure enclave, with support for other security devices like YubiKeys or smart cards c
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10mo ago
> Same with rice and beans, unless you're buying instant packs you have to plan and cook them, and be around to eat the leftovers. You can freeze cooked rice for months with very little loss of quality, and reheating frozen rice is
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10mo ago
A few months ago in a comment here on HN I speculated about the reason an old law might have been written the way it was, instead of more generally. If it had been written without the seemingly arbitrary restrictions it included there would
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10mo ago
In the ZKP system Europe will be using and I believe in the one Google has developed when you verify your age to a site the communication is only between your device and the site. The only information the site gets that they don't get
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10mo ago
> But the entire point of age laws is to stifle free speech and ruin privacy. Thus why every age law requires uploading an ID. The age verification system currently undergoing large scale field trials in the EU does not require uploading
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10mo ago
House heating is often a big part of that. But even without that most would use more than you are using. Based on the site you link in your profile and the links there it looks like you are in Germany? If so, it should be noted that the ave
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10mo ago
From what I've read on some modern Samsung TVs if they have a settings button on the remote long pressing that is a shortcut directly to the input selection. Another option is if the remote has a mic button you can use that. This works
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10mo ago
That works out to something like $30-100 a month for most households. A bit disappointing for those hoping the savings on food would pay for the drug at the current drug prices.
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10mo ago
That's interesting. I'll need to find some Dr Pepper Zero and try it. My history of Dr Pepper and of diet sodas goes like this. 1. I only drank non-diet sodas. Pepsi was my favorite, Dr Pepper or root beer was the runner up at res
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10mo ago
EvD is a good illustration of how we were more resilient against crackpots back then. His book "Chariots of the Gods" was a best seller. I remember reading it probably in the early '70s, when I would have been somewhere in th
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10mo ago
Even getting admitted to two colleges would be financial crippling to a majority of applicants. Insurance premiums would be a significant fraction of the average tuition, which would be beyond the reach of many. The effect of the proposed s
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10mo ago
> Free market ideologues are too dumb to understand local minima …or Nash equilibriums.
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10mo ago
Germany has high gasoline cost. If what Google tells me is correct about current costs per kWh to charge at Tesla Superchargers there (0.40-0.70 Euro) and current gas prices there (1.70 Euro/liter) an EV charged at Superchargers would
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10mo ago
> “Better at preventing” \neq “can’t”. That's not really relevant. Generally with things that have both good and bad uses you can't reasonably prevent all the bad uses. You can just put in safeguards to try to reduce them.
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10mo ago
California has that. The top 9% from each high school and the top 9% statewide are guaranteed UC admission. This does not guarantee admission to any specific campus, so if you are only interested in say Berkeley or UCLA you might get admitt
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> Insurance premiums have only gone up as far as I can remember, though there's a ton of variables at play here. An interesting thing about rising health costs is that it has happened at roughly similar rates in most first world cou
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> They are going after illegal immigrants. They are also going after legal immigrants who have any crime on their record, even just a misdemeanor from decades ago. There was one a few weeks ago for example of a Canadian who has lived her
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> Well, normal people generally can’t be trusted with cars: in one country of only 3.5% of the humans we kill two jumbo jets worth of people with them every day. If you mean Indonesia (the county closest to 3.5% of the human population)
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10mo ago
30? Did they only count on one hand back then?
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China has more people than the US and EU combined.
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> Here's some things you won't find in any of the documents, including the PDFs at the bottom: community gardens, local food, farmers markets, grass fed, free range... Because agribusiness doesn't make money with those. Ar
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The negative reactions to the new SNAP restrictions are because much of it make no sense. In the states that have implemented there has been mass confusion at many stores as people can't figure out what is eligible and what is not. For
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I fail to see the significance of your link to a group that opposes animal experimentation asking RFK Jr to reduce animal experimentation. Did you paste the wrong URL For the first link?
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