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Estonian tax and customs board has reduced its size by 30% over the last ten years all the while having cost of euro collected and percentage of euros collected figures trending up to the point of being in top three globally in both terms. Smart use of tech and a rock solid identity scheme help.

Commodity hardware in the sense of “it is made but impossible to get hold of outside the place its made or Leningrad or Moscow and half what you get is wildly out if spec” as Soviet reality tended to be. Only aluminum plates were really a commodity where I grew up in the 80s.

Agat user reporting. We actually had a full classroom of these things in 89. Dreadful but interesting.

I’ve done a conference paper and had another one accepted. For me, the hardest is finding good places to publish. Conference levels fluctuate and magazines carry different weight - this is not necessarily obvious for a bystander.

I’d recommend visiting Finland. In these parts, there’s basically 3 months of optimal visibility. The rest is fog, rain, snow, sleet and road conditions that would shut down most of US. Yet people drive and do so safely. “What people can do” is a bit different from “what an average us driver can be expected to do”

I’ve fired and been fired for sub-par performance. I’m from the EU. Its not that rare at all.

Well, try to play some of the Toy Dolls tunes at their tempo. Olga is quite the master.

Afaik the way cement works is you separate carbon from stone during its production and it binds co2 from air during setting. So wheres the big impact?

Blockchain is a collection of technologies rather than a single one. Like a car. Yes, one can claim their motorboat runs on “car technology” because of the internal combustion engine. But it would be strange to do so.

This only applies, if you treat privacy as limiting information collected. If you take the view that privacy is a peocess integrity issue instead (all data is effectively personal, the goal is to make sure access to it is transparent and restricted) him asking for such law makes much more sense

SpectX is a tool that can run fast sql-like queries on top of distributed text files. It was initially built to parse logs by an infosec team. Hope it helps!

It isn’t free. Thus the profit.

But, God forbid, we issue people identifiers and keep a full tally of the citizens. You either have a proper identity management or stories like this (and identity theft and fraud and many other unpleasant things). It is the conscious choice of the society not to maintain proper records for the fear of overreach and these are the consequences.

Think of it like so: you have a robot that anybody can ask anything and that will answer any and all questions truthfully. Whose fault is it if you deliberately tell the robot non-public information?

A computer cant be bribed. Move transactions online, cut out the middleman and corruption goes down. To do this, you need a strong national identity scheme. Aashaar is a good start but would need to be augmented with derived authentication mechanisms (preferably pki) to reduce reliance on the biometrics