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I remember signing up but there was no way for me to invite co-workers! I thought it looked amazing but getting others to use it would've required an alpha invite or something, can't remember the details.

When was this? I lived in Denver 2015-2021 and the DMV was always quick when I went.

And government in general. Populist demagogues capitalize on the misperception that one man can just make all the "easy" fixes. DOGE was a good example of that.

From my perspective, there is such a thing as "too much democracy." I don't know how to quantify the exact right amount for a given situation.

In the case of companies, a benevolent dictatorship is fine because employees, customers and investors can all exit and find other companies. It's at the nation state level where you need more structural veto points. (Arguably true for towns/counties/states too, but you still have the right to exit so...)

For give my naiveté, but who pays for the training of these models?

The spam results dominating Google, runaway popups... ugh

Wow, this brings back memories. Way back in the 2000 I worked on a concept to charge “postage“ to big senders and remit payments to receivers (hosts, not end users). I also looked at hashcash. I ultimately abandoned the project because I realized I would be spending all my time convincing big senders why they should pay and I knew I would hate that job.

Previously I was the spam cop for a big sender and saw up close all the ways our clients would try to weasel around it.

I could use this for a project I'm working on, but the Download link is 404 on GitHub

That link only works for verified YC founders, not just members of the network.

In theory yes, in practice it requires lots of different government services to get on the same page. How do you verify a state ID? Usually the DMV. Have they released an API endpoint for that? Almost certainly no. What if instead you're using a passport? Then the federal government needs to do it. What if your passport is from a country with weak government that doesn't have a lot of capacity?

And of course governments attract hackers because they tend to not be up to date on security best practices.

A single abstraction layer on blockchains allows more developers and security experts to contribute and innovate.

There are also SNRIs, which don't have the sexual side effects. I've done mostly SSRIs but in the last few years I've been on an SNRI called Pristiq and it's the best by far.

> He was told explicitly by his boss that they weren't promoting white men.

I've always had questions about this. Did he not look at the senior leadership and get a sense if that's true?

I agree with this on a subjective level, but it also makes me think of blacksmiths at country fairs. I'm sure they deeply enjoy the work, but industrialized CNC and other technology replaced them long ago. It's a craftsman's hobby now.

I've thought for a while that I could get a good sense of someone's potential if I could just read their email. I noodled on the idea of an oauth (Gmail) based AI to evaluate email but the privacy issues make it a nonstarter.