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In the EU, eIDAS allows companies to use government-issued identification: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eidas-regu...


Non-paywalled version: https://archive.is/ZtfNh


Also: training neural networks by turning connections on and off, or by just flipping the sign of the weights: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16627


> If you want to lose weight and you plan to also exercise, going low carb will hamstring you. The difference between running in the morning fasted and running after eating a single banana is the difference between feeling like you are being tortured and being able bounce around like a bunny.

A low carb diet may still contain enough carbs to inhibit the ketone generation mechanism. Was your ketogenesis active at the time? My experience of exercising under ketogenesis was OK.


Same. First time I went low carb I couldn't get through a full workout for close to a month. Adapting to keto can take longer especially if you're metabolically unhealthy to begin with.


In principle, the advertisers could buy Google shares and influence the company's policy towards an equilibrium that is more favourable to advertisers. If a natural monopoly is a public company, the entities that depend on this company could buy shares and bend the company's actions towards their interests. Is this happening? If not, why not?


Google is a trillion dollar company. You'd need to have billions of dollars in Google stock before you opinion even mattered around the board room. The majority of the companies advertising on Google couldn't even dream of that and for those that could it's not exactly clear that this would be a wise investment.


Google also has dual-class shares. If you aren't Larry or Sergei, your opinion won't matter much even if you own several hundred billion of the stock.


So... a dollar, a vote?

That doesn't make for a great democratic rule.


Isn't Vimeo On Demand (https://vimeo.com/ondemand) the indie film equivalent of Bandcamp?


Yeah.. It's a step in the right direction but a little too close to the existing model for my tastes. Exposing independent films is great, but it's still shit if you aren't going to make an effort to move away from the "Hollywood model".

There are regional restrictions, just like every other streaming service. If you are already in a "blessed region", you already have access to all the other services.

There is still the concept of renting, which is just another way of saying "DRM". You can "rent", but by doing so you are limited to viewing it in the way they dictate and for only a limited time. What's worse, some films only give you this option.

For me, that's sort of missing the entire point.


This is typical for many developing countries. I still wonder why, while we have Facebook, Twitter, Kickstarter and so on, we do not have successful online systems that would allow societies to organize and fight corruption and kleptocracy through participative democracy, crowdsourcing legislation, crowdsourcing social innovation, and so on.


It is mind blowing to me that in a world where the internet makes it so easy to aggregate democratically the wishes of the masses, corrupt politicians that neglect the people they represent still thrive. If everybody would spent 10% of the time they spend on Facebook in order to express on a website the problems that they would like to be solved by the state and the solution to these problems that they support, the world we live in would be a much better one. I would guess that the value corruption takes away from the global economy is much higher than the value created by all of the startups that pretend to disrupt economies. Do you want to solve a global problem? Please solve corruption.


Please solve corruption. Corruption is a social issue that could be mitigated by using online media to catalyze critical mass for acting against corruption.


If humanity could solve this one problem, many others would be solved automatically.


Nice to see this story. I really like having a simple phone that lasts a week before having to be recharged. I do not understand why there is no major cell phone producer having a line of simple, dumb phones that are not low end, but having a decent design, e.g. metal casing as Nokia 6300 or 6303i. I would really like to buy a simple phone having just the basic functions of voice calls and texts, alarms, a battery lasting a week, no camera or other bells and whistles, but a nice design, for around $50. Why nobody produces this? Current Nokia low end products are too plasticky, with no particular care for the design. Maybe someone can start a business for catering to this need.


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