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HubertManne, in Brazil and Argentina turn to blockchain for citizen ID rollouts
@HubertManne@kbin.social avatar

I hate when an article about a possible good use of blockchain like in a national id shoves in mention of bitcoin one of the worst usese of blockchain.

NotAnonymousAtAll,

Can you explain why a national ID is a good possible use of blockchain from your point of view?

A national ID is inherently bound to a central authority, the nations government. What are the advantages of a blockchain in this scenario compared to a traditional central database?

StarServal,
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The only aspect of blockchain I can think of where National IDs would benefit is forgery resistance.

HubertManne,
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It is not necessarily the best way but keep in mind that blockchain does not mean peer to peer. The government systems can retain the ability to be authoritative.

NotAnonymousAtAll,

That does not answer the original question: What are the advantages of a blockchain in this scenario compared to a traditional central database?

HubertManne,
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Yeah I don't have an answer. I could look it up but my comment was not blockchain is the best thing to use for this scenario but that this was a better use of blockchain than crypto (the real but is I dont' feel like it atm).

RootBeerGuy, in Pictured: Hero schoolgirl, 15, stabbed to death in Croydon 'when she stepped in to protect her friend'
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Her name was Elianne Andam.

Bloodwoodsrisen,
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It always enrages and bewilders me when they keep the person anonymous in headlines instead of saying their name

stopthatgirl7,
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There was some confusion about her first name at first, though, so I can kind of see why they did here.

RootBeerGuy,
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Yeah but the link to the article included the name, so I am not sure that is a good excuse. They seemed to have the name when creating the article, otherwise how could it show up in the URL?

stopthatgirl7,
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The name in the URL is the wrong one, though - her first name is misspelled.

HeartyBeast,

It's simply because a headline like this is much more useful for people coming to the story for the first time, or who aren't deeply familiar with the story. It's not a sleight on her. Also at the time of publication, I think her name had only recently been released by the police.

I agree that the BBC's style of headline is better, though https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66942594

PugJesus, in On N.Y.'s Staten Island, anti-immigration protests intensify as migrants stream in
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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

It makes me upset when people forget what it means to be an American.

8bitguy,

The New Colossus
-Emma Lazarus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus

paysrenttobirds, in Hospitals are dropping Medicare Advantage left and right

This deny everything and wait for appeal practice has to be called out. It has spread to SSA and other benefits agencies, saving them money I guess, while making the programs look worthless. The government is quiet quitting on us.

btaf45,

It doesn't happen with real Medicare. Only with Medicare Disadvantage plans.

btaf45, in Hospitals are dropping Medicare Advantage left and right

It doesn't happen with real Medicare. Only with Medicare Disadvantage plans.

entropicshart, in 'Power to communities': Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address 'food deserts' after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter stores

Considering most stores shut down due to excessive theft (and inaction of authorities), would this be any different than just opening another food bank?

stopthatgirl7,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

Yeah, about that “most stores shut down door to excessive theft” thing…

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/business/retail-shoplifting-shrink-walgreens/index.html

cozz33,

The article you linked says there’s been a 25.6% increase in retail theft just within a years time. That’s bound to hurt a lot of businesses.

deur,

Keep in mind that is relative to another number.

cozz33,

I found the article to be written in an unnecessarily complicated way. Are you talking about the shrink number? I think most of us couldn’t care less about giant retailers losing profit, it’s the small businesses I’m concerned about.

BasicTraveler,

Hopefully being a community thing and not a corporate thing will help. I think people will be less likely to steal, and more likely to rat someone out for stealing.

VegaLyrae,

Before 1916 theft wasn't an issue at the grocery, because the customer was not expected to fetch their own items.

You told the person what you needed and they went and got it for you.

If theft was the real reason, stores could simply return to this style of operation.

Kidplayer_666, in Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory

God dammit, why are our models right.

JelloBrains, in Almost half of US adults plan to get new COVID-19 vaccine, survey finds
@JelloBrains@kbin.social avatar

Now that's not exactly what the polling data says, it says 23% plan to get the shot, while another 23% might get the shot. I'd like to think those who say they might get it will definitely get it but we know a lot of them won't be getting the shot.

Anticorp,

“I think the vaccine is brain control serum, but I don’t want to tell a survey worker that, so ‘i might get it’”

23% of people

NotBadAndYou, in Almost half of US adults plan to get new COVID-19 vaccine, survey finds

In other news, more than half of US adults do not plan to get the newly recommended COVID-19 vaccine.

digitalgadget,

It could be that a lot of folks are on the fence. But yeah I'm generally feeling pretty pessimistic about humanity after watching half my country deny science up to the point they're gasping for air.

HeartyBeast, in Almost half of US adults plan to get new COVID-19 vaccine, survey finds

Good stuff in the UK the NHS is only offering Covid boosters to those in front-line medicine/caring and the over 65s. In that context 50% of the US population planning to get jabbed sounds (literally) quite healthy

EvilMonkeySlayer, in X/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information

I guarantee at some point Musk and x/twitter are going to get bent over by Europe at some point.

skellener, in Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers while building real estate empire
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A criminal, just as we all knew (except MAGA, he’s lord and savior).

Heresy_generator, in On N.Y.'s Staten Island, anti-immigration protests intensify as migrants stream in
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In case anyone didn't know, Staten Island is where the fascists like to live in New York; Trump won it almost 2-1 in 2020.

[Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella said] "I know there are folks out there who think, 'Well, New York City voted for a right to shelter.' Staten Island is different. Staten Island doesn't support these concepts."

At a panini shop a few blocks from the shelter, Peter Monte agrees. He says the new shelter worries him because it's "right behind the school and it shouldn't be behind the all-girls school."

Actually, according to police statistics, the rate of sex crimes in the area is unchanged in the month since the shelter opened. But Monte says he feels uncomfortable.

"You've got girls walking around, you know, in school. It's not right."

[We can't have these brown immigrants around our girls!]

Just a collection of horrible, racist people (well, about two thirds of them).

skellener, in X/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information
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He doesn’t want people reporting his misleading posts.

kubica, in X/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information
@kubica@kbin.social avatar

Oh, come on, he's begging the governments for a ban.

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