Why not build this 4000 acre manufacturing site in Detroit ?  Ecologically safe ( rivers already polluted ) &  lots of open land and unemployed workers. Oh wait ...

Just because Oman does not legally close its shipping lanes does not mean the Strait is open. The whole Strait of Hormuz is just 3 sea miles wide, and can easily be targeted from Iran. And Iran has attacked targets in Oman in this war already.

Basically you are saying "We have removed the warning signs. The road is now safe."

Autarky for the extreme necessities (fuel/fertiliser to keep farming and distribution going, steel, concrete, etc), sphere of influence trading for when that's not practical, global trade for luxuries only.

Of course to have a proper sphere of influence, you need to be a proper independent superpower.

The only thing the EU could do to mitigate it at this point is full military deployment ... to protect Iran.

It's not lack of ships and bombs for the US which makes it hard to finish this fast, so supporting Trump more does little except make Trump happier.

If Iran's Fajr-5 mine deploying missile system actually works (could just have been propaganda) they could shut down not just the strait, but also the Suez canal on their way down, for long enough to create the biggest clusterfuck since WW2.

Peanuts. Europe would have rebuild regardless, but they were tired and got suckered into a failed path of dependence ... by the US.

Before Trump, the US had been preaching globalism for a long time. Even though Trump destroyed the WTO, it was US which forced through the creation of GATT which became the WTO. Much as the EU in fact.

EU practises what the US preached ... they were indeed dumbfucks. Should have chased autarky from the start, which should have obviously included rejecting NATO from the very start. NATO was the original sin, defence dependence segued into energy dependence.

They do. Because 40 bit addresses waste 24 bits, because a 32 bit architecture works as easy with 40 bits than with 64. 128 bits was just being on the safe side. While it does not allow to address each elementary particle in the universe (which would need about 200 bit), it will be sufficient for all atoms we can reach and come back until our Sun burns out before the invention of faster-than-light travel.

If you can get root there are no secrets for long, you can just midm the PIN entry too. If you can't get root you can't get to app specific storage.

I'm sure some governments will do a verifiable build, so for those you can just check the source code. The white label source code is available if you want a headstart.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Feu-digital-...

You can just lie. They can't verify your identity through the app, only that you have an official ID with a NFC chip of someone with a certain age.

No, it's for locked down systems which allow integrity verification for hardware&os&app. So official Android or iOS devices only. In theory Windows, ChromeOs and MacOS have integrity mechanisms too, but those are easier to hack and we all have phones.

If the physical ID chips had been designed from the start for pseudonomous age verification, the remote service could just E2EE communicate with the ID through untrusted gateways, but they were not. So they need to build a new trusted system around the ID.

Believe what?

- That the open source app does what the specs say it does? Likely yes.
- That the functionality of signed store versions corresponds to the open source version? Likely yes.
- Believe in god? No.

Please be more specific.

When I visited the UK last year, I went through customs. It took one of those facial recognition scans. There was no opt-out, there was no agent at the booth, I got no stamp in my passport.

Whatever system they're using already needs to be so pervasive that their solution to "papers, please" is to take the "paper" part out of it. This doesn't surprise me at all...but it would be somewhat fun to attempt using this app on a rooted phone.

Problem is: It does not get hot in the UK in the summer. The UK is very far to the north, compared with the continuous U.S.. The southernmost point of the U.K. (if we ignore the Channel Islands and oversea territories like the Falkland Islands) is on the 49 meridian, which is the same latitude than the northern border to Canada with the exception to the northern part of Maine. The Shetland Islands in turn are on the same latitude than Anchorage, AK.

If you want to imagine U.K. climate, think of the Pacific coast between Vancouver Island and Anchorage, just with warmer winters thanks to the Gulf stream.