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Comment Re:Governments love electronic currency (Score 1) 53

Seems like the same thing Visa and Mastercard do now. And don't that they aren't reporting everything even a little shady to the government. At least with a government entity we get some constitutional protection and don't need to pay a 4% fee on every transaction.

Comment Re:It's getting tracked either way (Score 1) 30

A federal currency where the government knows every single thing you purchase, and indeed controls what is allowed to be purchased and by who - such a system can and will be abused, no question.

Government is the worst place to try to contain such a system since government employees are protected from any consequences of misuse, and can only be removed or policy altered at best indirectly through voting in the right people, and hoping they do what they will say.

Hopefully there are enough people left in the U.S. that can see the major problems inherent in such a system that they will push back.

In the current system most purchases are going through Visa or Mastercard who track everything and sell your data to whomever is paying. Oh, and if you are doing anything suspicious they will definitely let the government know about it. If you are in a business they don't like such as cannabis sales or porn they may cut you off as well.

With the Fed doing it directly at least it's not being sold to third parties and people trying to quit smoking aren't getting cigarette coupons in the mail.

The Fed at least in theory is separated from political influence. Is it true in practice? Not entirely sure but I trust them more than I trust the corporations currently running the payment systems.

Comment It's more like (Score 1) 32

It's more like if someone built an identical bank near your bank. Maybe the teller in there is asking for your account information "for research", or maybe they're trying to steal your money. You don't even know what happens to the information that they collected. In any case I think your bank has an interest in shutting it down.

Comment Re:It wouldn't matter even if he did (Score 5, Insightful) 152

Why did he not come public and tell the world who he is?

Even Deep Throat came public, eventually.

The only reason is that it was obviously a lie. None of his claims ever made any sense what so ever, he is obviously scared of the backlash from his followers as they realize how badly he lied to them.

He could come out tomorrow and say,
"QAnon is a hoax, I made the whole thing up. Thanks for the money, suckers!"
and those followers would think it was some kind of coverup to keep them from the truth.

Comment It's not that difficult (Score 2) 433

You have two isolated systems. The first one verifies that your identity, that you are eligible to vote in the election, and that you have not already voted. It gives you a token and redirects you to the voting system where you fill out and submit your ballot. After you complete your voting, the voting system tells the authentication system that the holder of that token has finished voting and discards the token. The authentication system associates the token back to your identity and marks you as having voted.

In the end they know that you voted, but cannot associate your choices to your identity.

Comment I could have used a CS 101 course when I was a kid (Score 1) 78

I learned on my own before the Internet was a household thing and I wish I'd had a CS 101 course like I took in college.

Many of my programs were one huge main() with little thought to organization, functions, global variables, or any of the real basics in general. Just those fundamental building blocks would have helped significantly as a basis for learning other things on my own.

Comment Re:Message to WHO (Score 1) 343

Yes, masks have no proven effect but for some reason there was a "critical shortage" for healthcare workers. If they aren't effective, then why would this shortage be critical and "the thought of them not having masks is horrific" to quote Mike Ryan?
The simple answer is they knew masks were effective, but they didn't want a panic of people buying up all of the remaining inventory.

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