They food an innovative way of having a food company being declared a terrorist organization. Switzerland also is a charitable country. Companies like Glencore help poor countries exploited for their natural resources to do a better job of it. The chemical industry once nearly caought all eel in the Rhine at once. Well they were dead in the end anyway.
I would expect because the US is a large country. In general, if you rank something in non-absolute terms, splitting a country up will tend to result in the component parts that rank above the average showing up higher. If you split the US up into states and measure each individually, you’ll probably have some that rank above the US average index score and some that rank below the US average index score.
If one scored Europe as an aggregate, it’d similarly rank below its top two highest-scoring countries.
This works for Switzerland too, not all of our cantons are the same, just like your states. Removing the less innovative ones will make us rank even higher.
That’s true. The smaller the division relative to another, the higher probability that at least some will be above or below on a ranking list relative to the other.
No, it looks like a DC-based think tank. I think that they’re aiming to talk to an American audience and to grab their attention by starting off giving an impression that US business performance isn’t competitive. The problem is that, as I point out in my top-level comment, it would be kind of unexpected if the US sat at the very top or bottom of a ranked list of smaller countries, because as long as whatever index metric he’s using can vary from country to country, you’d expect larger countries to be relatively-closer to the center of a distribution, all else held equal. So whatever policy he’s trying to promote (“more business infrastructure”?) he’s either leading with:
A mathematical error, which doesn’t really make me enthusiastic about spending time on reading through his argument.
An intentionally-dishonest argument, which makes me even less-enthusiastic.
Ok, but can I generate a new passkey with the same fingerprint? I’m pretty sure that eventually someone will find an exploit that allows them to steal your keys, so you need to make the old keys invalid by generating new ones.
The endgame sounds scary, classic enshittification scheme but deployed to authentication and security: make it flashy and smooth at start, get adoption (this time it’s different b/c it’s not the masses that need convincing, but website operators), hold the entire internet hostage by threatening to pull the plug on the mode of access to everything. Also more obvious and coming sooner: exploit your handle on the tech to disable Passkeys to someone who “violates ToS” of Google services by, idk, running adblock or logging in with Firefox.
Passkeys are not a google thing at all. And they have been around for ages. Bitwarden will likely support them next month. Passkeys will not lead to anyone holding the internet hostage. While W3C has had its issues with drm in the past, they, along with FIDO are heavily promoting this. Apple rolled it out last? year. Microsoft supports it. Yubico has been a thing for years, and has supported FIDO2 for like 5 years.
Passkeys are not enshitification. They are a better and more secure way to log in than passwords are. The Fido alliance offers open source software to implement it. FIDO2 is an open standard similar to HTML or SQL. There is no reason for fear. Nobody will take our access away.
If anyone here does start using passkeys, just please please please make sure you have backups. And test that you can restore from those backups!
I’ve read horror stories about losing or breaking a phone and being locked out of everything because the standard phone backups don’t save the passkeys private keys.
Personally I’m waiting until Bitwarden supports passkeys and I’ve made damn sure I can restore them from backup.
That’s not how passkeys work. You still have the usual Google account recovery flow.
Just make sure you have some 2FA backup codes stuffed into a sock drawer somewhere, that your email address and telephone numbers are up to date and you should be ok.
I’ve read horror stories about losing or breaking a phone and being locked out of everything because the standard phone backups don’t save the passkeys private keys.
This is no different than what we already have. Many people don’t backup their TOTP to any cloud provider, or even themselves, and if their phone breaks, they lose all of their TOTP. And most people don’t save recovery keys (if the service even provides them).
I’ve given up on remembering unique passwords years ago. My passwords are basically opaque tokens that I store in an application I trust. Passkeys are basically this concept taken to a logical conclusion.
…Taco John’s would be pledging a $40,000 donation (roughly $100 per store) to the nonprofit organization of Children of Restaurant Employees (CORE), which provides financial support to restaurant employees and their families when facing crises like serious illness, injury, or natural disaster.
Wait, what? They are supporting a charity to help people that are essentially their victims? If they paid their workers better such charities wouldn’t need to exist.
I know this isn’t the focus of the article, but I can’t believe what I’m reading! They are really donating to a charity for their own underpaid workers? Can someone clarify this for me if I’m wrong?
Yup that is the gist of it. Supermarkets have been doing it for years:
Donate blah to end child hunger at checkout?
Meanwhile, 23 percent of their employees are on food stamps.
Just like tipping culture in restaurants. Restaurants don’t want to pay their workers. So you do it. In fact, you’re a bad person if you don’t!
It’s good there are union movements going on in the states, bloodied though they are, unions are demonstrably the single most effective tool in securing fair pay.
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