Readit NewsIntel's death would be very embarassing to that whole effort. So Intel has incentives (survival) and the administration has incentives (jobs in the US). The method is "whatever can be claimed as a win".
No US party seems particularly capable or keen to hold an ideological line but especially not the GOP from what I've seen. Not saying other countries have particularly impressive parties either. I'm less than thrilled with ours over here.
All of reality is probabilistic. Expecting that to map deterministically to solving open ended complex problems is absurd. It's vectors all the way down.
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You want to delete data? Toss the keys. You want to confidentially process data? Make the keys available to a TEE or such. You want to prevent yourself from having constant access to the data? Let the client provide the keys. And of course, you want to protect the keys? Use an HSM.
My criticism isn’t about right or wrong. It’s about priorities and weaponizing the corporations and business practices the EFF should work against.
It used to be that if you hired an employee and found out they aren’t good at their job you could fire them. Today it is complicated and can backfire if the employee believes they were fired because of any reason other than their skills, or were not provided with ample opportunity and support to succeed.
The solution is a lengthier process based on the assumption that once hired, the company is stuck with the employee unless they decide to leave.
It takes a certain and increasing amount of energy to generate 1 coin, which binds the value of the coin to physics. This is actually a very good thing, especially given it does not care where the energy comes from. If nuclear, solar, window, hydro, and thermal were our dominant energy sources, it would work in that just as well and without bias. Indeed, it actually has active market incentives to utilize clean and renewable energy sources — something the previous financial mechanisms grossly lack.
Existing banking institutions consume more energy in unmeasurable ways, and they DO care where the energy comes from: oil. They want oil. It’s called the petrodollar for a reason.
... google is a 27 year old company
... google is one of the most valuable and influential companies currently operating
i don't think the phrase "scaling up" makes much sense in this category