> Being able to limit the influence of external bad actors is the main goal of ID verification. Age verification is a useful side effect that makes it easier to sell to the general public.
How? People already sell their accounts to spammers. Why would that change?
Depending on the implementation, I could see that having rate limiting effects. There're only finitely many IDs so scaling sockpuppeting will saturate these IDs quickly but it's quite easy to spin up a new anonymous account. For example, I think the EU ID system has an upcoming way to create pseudo anonymous identifiers that can identify a user per website.
This presents the problem of governments being able to gatekeep speech which I am quite uncomfortable with but maybe there's some safeguard within the eIDAS proposal that makes this idea incorrect?
When I buy liquor (well, I don't drink anymore, so THC seltzers), the liquor company isn't saving my ID to my profile and then following me around everywhere I go for the rest of my life shouting "This is MALFIST, he's 42! He buys alcohol! He also visited X Y and Z last week and had interests in A, B and C. He's annual income is six figures and buys expensive bourbon."
Not yet anyway. But there's nothing much stopping Google to offer a "verification" service to "help combat fake IDs" using a web connected camera at the till.
The incentives aren't aligned yet. Not enough people browse the internet with ID verification yet. So knowing Malfist bought liquor isn't enough, you have to know which browser is Malfist.
Likewise, incentives aren't there for liquor stores. They make money by allowing fake ids to work.
They almost certainly already do. If you just look into Axon you'll see they have tons of cloud-based and AI products. Axon is the major player in police body cameras in the US.
No experience w/ Axon, but I work adjacent their major competitor. I don't know about the whole "training AI" angle, but Motorola Watchguard body and in-car cameras absolutely upload to a hosted service.
Uploading to a hosted service is not even remotely the same thing. In one of the jurisdictions I'm familiar with the Axon cams don't record until manually activated and the footage is treated as secured evidence. Other than being subject to FOIA or analyzed for a case it isn't generally accessible.
That said I'm not sure how much of that is merely department policy versus local law.
Do you have any evidence for that? From what I understand, the corn to ethanol pipeline was created to keep corn prices from dropping below what the farm bill would pay for.
PLA does break down naturally, it is a good source of carbon for many types of bacteria. It takes a long time, and happens more quickly in industrial composters where it's shredded to microplastics first but it does happen.
Take a look at something people have been using for eons with saltwater aquariums: bio-pellets. These are tiny beads of PLA that are fluidized to allow high turnover of water through the PLA, this encourages bacteria to colonize and digest the PLA, then break off and move into the water column (the bacteria) and be removed by the protein skimmer. Because of the red field ratio, each 106 mols of carbon from PLA removed this way also removes 16 mols of nitrate, which is a major pollutant in aquariums. It also removes 1 mol of phosphate, a major pollutant as well, but that's not significant. Phosphate is best done by fluidized reactors with ferric oxide
There are a decent amount of plant parts that don't break down much at all in 3 months - doesn't mean they aren't biodegradable ultimately, although hoping for biodegradation as a way to eliminate litter is a nonstarter with this approach.
3 months? Most organics will not break down in that time. 6-12 months is recommended, and even then, not everything is broken down. I've had egg shells last 2 years or more in my compost bin.
I made no claims about the speed at which PLA breaks down, only that it does. Biopellets in reactors tend to last years.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted but yes, this is true.
I don't want or need to talk to everyone, and I generally don't appreciate people I don't know or won't know in five minutes to engage me in idle chatter. Just leave me be.
I'm not a grouch, I'm not a grump, I'll be friendly but why do you have to harass me?
I'm perfectly comfortable in my own skin, doing my own thing, by myself. I don't have social anxiety, I'm not a misanthrope. Just let me be.
Introverts aren't broken. You don't have to impose yourself on everyone else.
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