This is good for consumers.

> This would predominantly affect businesses where that audience is not trying to find that business. > > Which sort of businesses are those?

Monopolies

I don't think there's a connection there. If I'm not trying to buy a GPU at the moment, the situation re: GPU vendors being unable to reach me is unchanged whether they are one or many.

I suspect it's gonna be clickbaity stuff, gambling apps, distractions and addictions... stuff we can afford to let suffer. If you're actually solving a problem that your audience has, they'll be trying to find you, you don't have to find them. There's a minimum amount of marketing necessary to be findable, but beyond that it's at best a waste of time and at worst a catalyst for other problems that we'd rather avoid.

> trying to stay relevant and acquire more customers

Is there any business that does NOT try to do this? Why wouldn't they?

Funeral service providers, for obvious reasons.

> to destroy american car manufacturing

American car manufacturing is destroying itself just fine.

How dare you accuse Gary-Marcus-5.2-2025-12-11 of being an LLM??

What are you talking about?? Meat contains no fiber. The primary fiber source is plant-based foods (e.g., vegetables). So modern populations eating lots of meat means they're getting little to no fiber.

Sorry, that was a mistype, I mean lots of meat, very little fiber.

> Young people put in effort showed up. It bought them exactly one legally rigged primary.

It is certainly wise to give up after one failed effort. Never try again. /s

Oh I agree and I vote. More people need to vote. But I understand why people feel little motivation to.

This type of election to use an app by a government agency sets the tone, and more importantly tends to redefine "best practices." Would you want to be the one private entity known to not be using best practices? Would your risk officers or lawyers be OK with that decision?

Since when does government set trends in private industry?

I’d like to know what private businesses are copying the kind of workflows and customer experience you get at the USPS or DMV.

China generates twice as much clean energy compared to US, in raw gigawatt-hours: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chinas-power-gri...

Looks like they are not far off on fossil fuels as well. And at around 5x the population.

It's pretty upfront about being a novelty project done by a self-described non-crypto expert, and I don't see any assertions of it guaranteeing any degree of sufficiency/security or claiming any such NextBigThing(TM) hype.

Just because a paper is published doesn't mean it wasn't done for fun/the hell of it.

Yeah this is bang on. I messaged my old supervisor from uni about turning CubeAuthn into a paper and she suggested I submit the paper to that conf.