Yes, the AI was wrong and output was blindly accepted. There's no evidence migration background was a good predictor of fraud. The government was warned multiple times what they were doing was both illigal and ineffective. And even if it was a predictor, 26000 people were wrongly labeled as fraudsters, causing personal bankruptcy (which is very bad in the Netherlands), evictions, divorces, children wrongfully being taken away from the families (1100!) and suicides.
All while systematically denying the issue, government officials that knowingly lied during public hearings and a complete inability to compensate those that were affected.
Don't drag "wokeness" into this discussion, it has nothing to do with it.
No, the law allows for technological innovation if the usb group proposes a new connector, or if the industry wants to move to another connector. It will require some lobbying though, but the big tech companies are well skilled in that.
Plenty cheap boards out there with Cherry MX mechanical switches. A first board doesn't have to cost more than $100, maybe even towards $70 dollar range. Buy secondhand and you can go even lower.
Go for Cherry MX Switches. Want clicky (and loud) take blue. Want tactile go brown. Want no bump at all when typing go red.
I would find a cheap second hand board and see if you can appreciate the experience. It probably will not have lubed switches or may have a scratchy bump or hollow sound or whatever the hobbyist tell themselves to justify a new board. You probably will already be amazed by the quality improvement and won't care.
Because at the end of the day PayPal is better for the average consumer than a solution where somebody needs to handle a private key.
A lot of tech savvy people lost money due to losing their keys. Now imagine the disaster if your mother needs to handle them.
Payment solutions are also heavily regulated, often also in favour of the consumer. If my bank goes bankrupt or gets hacked I have much better garuantees of getting my money back compared to when I lose my private key.
The final reason (in my opinion) that "private key solutions" are not adding much is that to legally use it you need to comply with the regulations for traditional finance. Hosting an exchange without KYC can be considered illigal in many western countries.
Want to advocate for less regulations in finance? Sure, that's a valid political opinion. But you need to go into political solutions for that, not technological ones.
I am very against the idea that somebody with a PhD is the only one that can do a certain kind of work. But I am ofcourse biased given that you call me out.
Creative and critical thinking is not exclusive to people with a PhD. The ability to understand ones strengths and weaknesses is not exclusive to a PhD.
I would never attempt to write or publish a paper without help of somebody with stronger mathematical or statistical knowledge. On the other hand they should not write source code for a paper without consulting somebody with a strong background in sw engineering. You complement each other. Power is in recognizing that.
You would be surprised how many software bugs I have found that invalidated entire (draft) papers. A PhD in ML doesn't save you from that.
It highly depends. I was hired for a small research group that didn't have a product in production. Got hired for programming, was on the table discussing and contributing to research within a couple months without any background in ML.
All while systematically denying the issue, government officials that knowingly lied during public hearings and a complete inability to compensate those that were affected.
Don't drag "wokeness" into this discussion, it has nothing to do with it.