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I was under the impression that Digital IDs are not a picture you bring up and hand to LE - it's a RFID token transfer that you tap to authenticate on a reader. That doesn't mean that there won't be LE officers who will bully people, or that people won't be smart enough to recognize that the picture on their phone isn't their ID, but that not how digital IDs (are supposed to) work.

Something you have, something you are, something you know. Are you willing to give up proper security for your cause?

The question I have is what can we do (in the marketplace of paying devs for indie projects) to prevent them from adding improvements and merely keep the projects compliant as new OSes swap out old libraries? Most of the really good, popular utilities have been ruined by bloat and, in the most successful cases, sale to corporations which instantly enshitify.

I'm an engineer. I use all of it. I use it whether I'm writing technically correct and accurate forensic reviews or doing math in my head (or on paper) to analyze a condition in real time or checking a complex finite element model to ensure that there are no improper assumptions or invalid boundary conditions. AI/ML is really useful for some things, and deadly for others.

Rote memorization may seem unnecessary, but a mental catalog - whether it be quotes, body parts and systems, equations of natural phenomena, or even manufactured parts and specifications - is the hallmark of someone who can work independently in a real time industry. It may not matter for some jobs, but it's make or break in others.

On the contrary, it will raise the floor of required credentials. When everyone has a HS education, an undergrad degree is needed to stand out. Now that a bachelors is the de facto education level, a masters degree is necessary. If it gets easier to get a MS degree, we'll be requiring a PhD for entry level positions.

Yet. Infrastructure on this scale moves slowly and the transparentness of pricing changes on short time lines in physical stores is hard to track. It exists in emergency economies - we call it price gouging - but that's usually quite obvious. The idea of dynamic pricing has existed forever - hotels, airline flights, movie tickets, taxi rides, even electric rates. As technology advances it offers the opportunity to use the technology to shorten the time window for pricing changes more and more. An extra two tenths of a percent profit seems like a trivial amount. Amazon and Walmart combined for more than a trillion dollars in sales last year. 0.2% is a very non-trivial $2 Billion. If it becomes available, it will be exploited.

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Fly safe, cmdr

I'm shocked that the free market healthcare isn't serving the needs of the population at large. This requires a fundamental change to the way we do things. I think we can all agree it's time to create a special non-profit category for any existing for-profit healthcare or pharma company doing business in the US. They're clearly constrained by over taxation and things like this wouldn't happen if they were unburdened.

^/s^

"live and work and build and pay in that world in an ongoing basis"

There, that's more what they're envisioning.

They'd better not be playing all my free games before I get to them.

There’s quite a lot of interest - and action- inside the industry surrounding conversions. I’m on the structural side and have probably seen 3-4 articles in trade rags over the past quarter about strategies and opportunities in conversions. IT may not be feasible everywhere it for every budding, but the industry (including suppliers and designers) are interested enough that it’s part of the discussion on a regular basis.

10% and 0.06% are ridiculously far apart, and someone is wildly wrong (or disingenuous) if the values are relative to the same metric. Google tells me (via statista) that Spain produced 261x10^6 tons of CO2 in 2022. The article says a potential savings of 300x10^3 tons from 5000 flight, which is 0.12%.