As I read through the distinctions between "class" and "caste" helpfully provided by search engine AI, a sensation that formal caste systems are more honest than inexplicit "class" systems grew in my mind.
The claims are that different outcomes in income, occupation, education, marriage, etc can result in changes in a person's "class." But even in the statistically insignificant number of Horatio Alger stories, did the person's class really change? Did Eliza from Pygmalion change classes or just learn how to "code switch?"
I wonder what the cost/benefit analysis is for different addressable health outcomes. For example, under this justification could a government mandate a restricted calorie diet or enforce daily resistance training?
> the lobbyists managed to get a loophole in the law - exempting Apple & Co
But Apple batteries are already user replaceable? I've replaced my own and batteries come with kits that have all the tools and disposable glue strips and seals.
I suppose what is "reasonable" might be different for different people. I already had pentalob bits although a fresh spudger is always welcome. But these are not exotic tools. The "glue" under the battery was a bit like "command strips" commonly used to hang things from walls.
It is interesting to think about the range of physical tool usage that is within a reasonable expectation. Is owning and being able to operate an implement to open and replace a battery in a simple watch like the Casio F91W reasonable?
I do think "turn few screws" is reasonable level of replacement. As long as it is some ISO standard fastener like torx not vendor specific one. We should not require someone to stock increasing variety of screwdrivers based on manufacturers again wanting to make it more annoying
An interesting aspect to changes like this is that they demonstrate the silos and fissures between various government functions. There isn't already a standard intra-government API that for an identify returns the relationship person has to the US government (i.e. citizen, legal resident, visa like student or H1B?
What input would you use? There's no unified government ID.
You could probably look up a name and birth date and establish if a citizen exists with that information, I guess. You could check social security (which I'm not sure definitively indicates status) and see the same for that. But it's a very messy system in general.
My name is actually different in a few government databases - in one I have two middle names, in the other two last names. Just random clerical stuff like that is common.
If there's not a table somewhere maintained by the US government that associates social security number with citizenship status, that's because a choice was made by the government not to do that. It would be a simple enough thing to do.
(yes, checking against name / DOB / ssn always has some inherent messiness to it)
It's definitely a choice, because we've avoided having a real standardized identity system run by the government for so long.
But there are reasons for people to oppose it on both sides of the aisle (states rights, immigration views, anti federalism, libertarians) so it's a pretty hard task. Maybe this admin could try it as an immigration security measure and get some support that way but I have my doubts.
> You could check social security (which I'm not sure definitively indicates status) and see the same for that.
It doesn't. When I naturalized, I had to schedule an in person appointment at the Social Security offices to change my status in their systems. There was a time gap between me being American, me having a passport, me being recorded as American as far as SS was concerned and me having a SS card that didn't have caveats written across it.
The forcing function on my side was to avoid problems when changing jobs. I don't know what problems there might be claiming benefits that you are entitled to, but if you didn't have the change of status registered, that might delay things until you do. If you did change your status but didn't get a card, you can get a replacement one that won't have the text.
One of the things I was concerned for months until I got the new card is the federal government querying the social security database looking for immigrants or discrepancies with any of their other databases and not caring that the discrepancies are of their own making. Being a naturalized citizen with an accent, I keep traveling with my passport for internal trips.
I was curious if a newly naturalized citizen gets a new number when transferring from Individual Taxpayer Identification Number to a Social Security Number–apparently yes, that is the case, and it makes taxes on your year of naturalization more exciting.
The additional 165 dollars to get a passport for the first time is quite steep for a document that seems to become more and more mandatory. Papier, bitte.
Countries with national IDs charge you to replace one if it gets lost, and it usually costs less than 10 USD.
I'm also not quite sure how you get a passport without a bank account. Can you pay in cash? Even if you can, I'm guessing that's only at certain offices, which adds to the hassle and cost.
What people are arguing against is that making having a passport mandatory to participate in society is an unreasonable burden, under the current structures. If you wanted to mail a passport to every American in the mail, at no cost, no questions asked, that would be a very different proposition to what is being discussed.
You can't guarantee every citizen has a passport, so if you were running this as a bank or an employer or so on an API that only took passport information would not be super helpful. When I think of a unified ID I think of a number everyone gets at birth tied to an ID card they can show you. Social security is closest to this but the cards say they're not supposed to be used for identification and it's a cludge.
Well, there isn't a national ID system, partly because the citizens don't want to be on the wrong end of when that API says "no". I'm not sure anywhere has such a fully available live system, rather than relying on people bringing documents in to the bank.
The live update would add an extra element of terror to the system, of course.
> The live update would add an extra element of terror to the system, of course.
Yes, I think I didn't do a good job of placing the question as from the perspective of someone who is not aware of the silos and firewalls within what might otherwise appear to be a monolithic government.
The terror to the system is from the perspective of having lived within the system and not understanding how to operate in the world outside of it. It is a classic sci-fi trope; Brazil and The Minority Report come to mind. It is also a feature of classical Athens where ostracism was a particularly severe punishment.
Just because you own a supercar doesn't mean you daily drive it.
That stuff most certainly exists. It's just not for cog #897345673847456 to use in an above the table on the record capacity as part of their run of the mill daily job duties.
There's many ways the US is more federated than the EU. The US constitution heavily limits what the federal government can do, especially when a state government could do the same. The only reason there's a federal income tax of individuals is because a constitutional amendment was passed to allow it. Outside of taxes, and the Social Security program that redistributes a lot of that tax income, most individuals have no reason to interact directly with the federal government.
I'm consistently impressed by Seeed Studio's support for various levels of DIY in their products. I realize that many of the products are not totally original, but what I find interesting and original about the company is their interest in diy-accessibility and partnering with companies like Trmnl [0]. It's somewhere in between Raspberry Co, Adafruit, Pimoroni, and the like.
> Cars became a self-reinforcing driver of individualism, especially in net new geographies. The negative effects are resisted better in societies/regions that were built long before them. (For both the cultural reasons and plain physical reasons, like not having wide enough roads).
Something I recently learned about roads from Stewart Brand's new book "Maintenance" is that the first groups pushing for paved roads were cyclists:
The Good Roads Movement of the late 19th century began as a grass-roots
crusade to improve roads for bicyclists. By the 20th century, it had turned
into a national effort embraced by the automobile industry, railroad tycoons
and presidents.
> A small number of jobs for tradesmen (electricians, plumbers, etc.).
Its no car dealership but probably a reliable source of work-orders. Seems like a "gigascale" datacenter would be a large job for a tradesman to be a subcontractor within and afterward its scale means continuous upgrades/maintenance.
Is there any literature of ongoing economic impact of similar facilities?
> If I want to find duplicates, it will be impossible if the filename changes.
Depends on what is meant by a "duplicate." It would be a good idea to get a checksum of the file, which can detect exact data duplicates, but not something where metadata is removed or if the image was rescaled. Perceptual hashing is more expensive but is better distinguish matches between rescaled or cropped images.
The article is about browsers filtering EXIF metadata from image uploads and not about advising users when observable sun angle or other distinctive features may disclose the photograph's location.
Suncalc models the relationship between the date, time of day, the geographic
location of a place, and the position of the sun in the sky, together with
the length & direction of the shadows it casts. [0]
The claims are that different outcomes in income, occupation, education, marriage, etc can result in changes in a person's "class." But even in the statistically insignificant number of Horatio Alger stories, did the person's class really change? Did Eliza from Pygmalion change classes or just learn how to "code switch?"
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