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Comment · 7 months ago
Forbes 30 under 30 strikes again.
Comment · 2 years ago
They won't make digital ID mandatory yet; the point is to make it as inconvenient as possible not to have a digital ID. It's likely you won't be able to do your taxes online without signing up for it. Then you won't be able to receive certain government services. Businesses will be able to use it, starting with banks.[1] It's just about making it more and more inconvenient until you're forced to use it because some service you can't do without requires it.
The Netherlands has some respect for digital privacy. In Australia, it won't be hard for the Americans to access this data. The point of data privacy isn't just about not giving up information. If a particular agency needs a piece of data, you don't want every other government agency to have access to it. A digital ID makes it convenient to aggregate everything.
Australia has tried this many times. They even satirized it in the TV Show "Utopia" (Episode "Mission Creeps")
[1] https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/banks-auspost-win-early...
Comment · 2 years ago
AWS r7iz claim to be good and sped it up close to Mac M1 performance.
Comment · 2 years ago
Did he say that? I can't find the original.
The Guardian article cites an article that cites an article that never contains the word "coup".
Comment · 3 years ago
That's the definition of a "rubber stamp". They technically have the ability to reject, but they rarely do.
Comment · 3 years ago
Ownership:
NYT - billionaire Sulzberger family
WaPo - Jeff Bezos
LA Times - billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong
Disney/Comcast/Paramount represent the consolidation of an industry that used to be hundreds of independent newsrooms into a dozen or so corporations. The murdoch family's New Corp is regularly analyzed as a political force on par with individual elected leaders, if not more so.
Entertainment: Apple/Amazon/Comcast/Disney/Sony/WarnerBrosDiscovery/Paramount
The problem is that the industry has consolidated into a number of players you can count on one hand.
Comment · 3 years ago
What is the ongoing cost of the price of ink?
Comment · 3 years ago
The real story is India forcing its censorship regime on Canada by threatening employees in India.
Facebook should leave India or be forced by Canada and Europe not to cooperate with Indian demands.
Otherwise, the EU is letting India censor its own citizens.
Comment · 3 years ago
So India couldn't extradite him. There are many people North Korea would like to punish but can't extradite.
You seem to be implying that if India couldn't extradite him, they should kill him.
Comment · 3 years ago
The comparison to 'morals clauses' is apt: it was used mostly to force Christian, anti-Communist, and later pro-China stances on actors lest they harm the 'reputation' of the studio.
It's not a good thing.
Comment · 3 years ago
Where is this—the record of the old ones?
Comment · 3 years ago
Mandatory reminder that this narrative of "individual impact" was created and pushed by oil companies to shift blame from them to consumers.