nroets
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
(My email address is on my home page. It's also my username on over 100 sites that I signed up for over 20 odd years.)
There's xenophobia almost everywhere: Just look at South Africa this year.
So capital flooded to the US.
So we all have our own theories.
The real question remains "What's best for America right now ?"
Google hardware attestation idea won't give them that much data: All Google will know is which phones visited which websites and only when the website asks the phone for hardware attestation. If the website gives the phone a cookie for bypassing subsequent attestations, then Google will know only of the first visit.
Having said that, there may well be a room for a niche recaptcha-like service run by a non-profit. Perhaps one that uses a non-profit social graph or something.
Also consider this: While bot farms may be able to buy millions of Android devices, they will certainly attract a lot of scrutiny as they approach the billion mark. So bot farms will never own more Android devices than humans.
Yes, those AI startups can also buy cheap Android phones at scale, but it's a bit harder because they'll pay for stuff that their bots have no use for (a screen, a battery, a 5G radio, software, branding, distribution, customer support etc).
Corporations control only a small faction of housing supply.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301051