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zero knowledge cryptography solves this


Only in theory, and only if you blindly trust a third party. The implementations in practice are still massive privacy violations.


what third party do you need? The program can be opensource. The verification can be done onchain

Is there any production ready implementation out there?


ZKP is integrated in Google Wallet and has been running in production for a few months. We (Google) released the ZKP library as open source last year (this is the library used in production).

Announcement: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-secu...

Library: https://github.com/google/longfellow-zk

Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/2010

Afterwards, folks from ISRG produced an independent implementation https://github.com/abetterinternet/zk-cred-longfellow with our blessing and occasional help. I don't know if the authors would call it "production ready" yet, but it is at least code complete, fast enough, and interoperable with ours.


Thanks. I'll have a look.


Should be mandatory training to obtain the ESTA permit to enter USA (even if just for transfers)


Just writing here a line in defense of Rothko. His paintings are far harder to paint than it looks like. There were hundreds of layers, thinly applied, and carefully thought and with a developed technique. Try to paint that by yourself and you'll see.


Actually Rothko is way harder to paint than it looks.


Very cool! I'm gonna give it a chance for sometime as a default instead of DuckDuckGo


I trust the billionaires more than I trust governments. Which doesn't mean that I trust billionaires.


For a split second I thought a composer from the English Renaissance era wrote a book about logic.


I hope this fixes my issues with bluetooth on Linux. When I'm on battery the audio breaks all the time. I've tried all sorts of obscure config tweaks with Pulseaudio.


This looks that you're using very aggressive power settings in the kernel (powertop, tlp?), and doesn't seem related to PulseAudio at all.


This just made me install Element right away and finally get away from Signal (and of course Whatssap) and bring as many people with me as possible


So true. As a spaniard I do it all the time. Love/hate my country.


We are quite hard on us. This is a nasty cultural trait of Spain, because this hinders our work. I work in science and I think we would do much better if we didn't have this inferiority complex.


I think, it also hinders you from holding your government (on all levels) accountable. Cases of corruption or incompetence don't seem to me quite as reflected in elections as it should. The excuse always seems to me, that people claim the other side is just as bad. Not denying that, but with that level of expectation there is no need to clean up your act.


Exactly, seriously why is everyone in Spain like this? Spain is a wonderful and advanced country in most ways. Although I think having an inferiority complex is probably good for the country because it's the only way to improve.


National identity is a social construct. Spain has always been the sum of several national identities. This has of course created frictions, but there wasn't the push that order countries had to eradicate those identities when the birth of most modern states happened.

Franco tried to change that (as well as eliminating a sizeable part of Spain that didn't fit with his values). To this day, many spaniards identify the spanish national identity with those Franco's values (despite being fairliy minoritary and Spain a very socially progressive country).

After the transition to democracy, regional governments had a lot of incentives to create or reinforce their own identities to gain economic leverage against the central government. This has always been extremely transparent and it's no coincidence that the two richest regions have the strongest independentist movement.

So yeah, there is a lot of self-hatred or internalised inferiority complex... But also dishonesty. Many of the comments you will read online are self-interested (catalonian independentists) or even straight propaganda from the catalonian government. Not that it would be hard to find any other spaniard to rage about how Spain is, actually, a 3rd world country.


> why is everyone in Spain like this?

Nah, not everyone. You will see all this people singing proud "I'm spanish!, spanish!, spanish!..." in the next UEFA champions league. I assume that we are just a little drama queens sometimes, but in the end we all are very similar to you. You will find exactly the same frolicking behavior in any basketball league.

Being young adults and trying to thrive in a big city is not easy of course, but this is not a problem exclusive from Spain


Until it's a foreigner doing it, then we all team up against.


I have said it many times, no one has united the Spanish so much as Jamie Oliver cooking "paella".


As a latin-american, I never understood why spain could not capitalize on their relationship and cultural ties with Latin America, like England did with the commonwealth. We speak the exact language across a really vast territory across two continents, some potential there must have been!

It is really austonding that there only a loose integration between spanish-speaking countries, despite sharing very similar (good and not so good) cultural values.


Spain spends too much energy dealing with internal problems.


> We are quite hard on us.

There is no "us" in Spain. There's castillian imperialists and people living in occupied territories. The only possible "us" right now for many Spanish passport-holders is Europe.


> There's castillian imperialists and people living in occupied territories

Sorry but the constitution grants to every citizen the right to work and live peacefully anywhere they wish inside the country boundaries.

I'm pleased to inform you that this includes the grant for YOU to live in MY place without being tagged as "invasive imperialist" or harassed by me to quit the area. That would be simply illegal (the words idiotic and ludicrous would be also good adjectives); but don't worry, we never would do that to your family.

in short, haters gonna hate... Anybody can go and create their own Cat-anon and rewrite the history to fit into their delusions if they want (Is a free country after all), but they only lie to themselves and the reality will hit like a ton of bricks eventually


Seriously? Occupied territories?

It’s very frustrating that people are so vocal with extreme opinions such as this one. Whenever the topic of Spain comes up, someone will try to make it as if they have been conquered 10 years ago, trying hard to distort history that’s quite similar to most of the other countries.


I empathize with your frustration, although I don't think that these opinions are extreme at all.

You know what is frustrating, also? To have a foreign army occupying your country.


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