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I've been using it to do this for 2 years now. And many people with me. The change you mention is one of is primarily one of Overton windows, of vibes.

I.e. half of HN?

If only the problem was that they don't have balls. Everything they've done, and not done, is intentional. Hence why most of them see the DSA as a bigger threat than the Reps, and the former is what's awakening some of them rather than 8 years of MAGA.

This may be the goal.

If the EU was trying to decouple they'd mandate at least including a hardware token option as an alternative. This is not new technology, it's existing and has been in use for decades.

They're not trying to decouple, so they haven't mandated it.

When Trump was invading Denmark, a huge % of Danes would've given a shit about sovereignty from the US. And that's the moment to pounce.

Yes, I'm sure they'll still allow for mail-in of obscure forms to access public services, which will then take 3 weeks to be processed.

If the EU actually wanted to "anticipate" this danger they'd have made it mandatory to include a physical form factor in EUDI wallets. In reality, they don't mind this danger, so it's optional, and you can bet most countries won't include one and make Google and Apple the only options.

What you said makes no sense. Vanishingly few liberals believe laws should apply equally to citizens and non-citizens. If they did, they'd be for the complete abolition of visa/residency conditions altogether, simply allowing anyone to immigrate to the country. I doubt that even in the US more than 5% of people believe this. Any European country it'll be <3%.

Any visa/residency condition is a demand not imposed on citizens. Language and cultural assimilation aren't any different from other such conditions.

I can't agree, even though we likely have the same goals. You want to filter for people who work very hard to do their best to integrate. You don't want to filter for being good at self-studying languages. Most people just suck at self-studying through not much fault of their own, they were raised that way. It can also be incredibly useful for non-language integration purposes, as it gives them hours of direct contact hours with natives which - again, for the dedicated ones, which are the ones we want to stay - often leads to social contact and further integration.

I get where you're coming from, but the tax dollars needed for such language schools are really negligible, and I've seen with my own eyes the benefits to integration that couldn't be had without it. It's just a good cheap investment. I'd still apply the same final bar as you would, FWIW.

That assumption here is wrong, because VPN companies in particular are known to be a lot dodgier than average. Maybe if we were talking bakeries, then I'd agree.

> Also also, saying that Proton’s founder is “outwardly MAGA” is really oversimplifying things. I’m not sure what your viewpoint actually is — maybe you’re just expressing someone else’s — but I’d encourage you to read: https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-tr...

One can make very similar arguments for this specific case. Saying that the party in question is far-right is simplifying things. On top of that, a co-founder making a private donation to a party (two layers: 1. private 2. party) is less directly related to the company than a founder directly tweeting an ideological point (1. public 2. direct).

Honestly, the party sounds insane, I wouldn't be caught dead supporting them and would hope that any Swede reading alone avoids them with a ten-foot pole. But the response in this comment section is absurdly exaggerated compared to what any of the Big Tech corps that get talked about daily on here, and whose

I don't believe it's organic at all. Recently there's the biggest push in history of "think of the children" online surveillance, with remote attestation and mandatory identity coupling being rolled out at scale. Mullvad is known to be one of the top privacy-preserving VPN providers in the West, with a large userbase on HN, and now you get this very disproportionately negative reaction to what is realistically a meaningless issue: "$0.01 of every $1 spent on Mullvad might end up with someone who donates to a radical party, if even that" - just like, almost certainly, every other $1 you spend elsewhere does.

Founder and CEO.

Firstly, please keep in mind I'm talking about the entire doctor population of the world here. Not sure which particularly bubble of this earth you have experience with, but note how half the word's population lives in India/China/Indonesia/Pakistan/Nigeria/Brazil/Bangladesh/Russia. Now I do believe that it holds the same for e.g. Europe and non-China East-Asia, but still.

How many patients has the world-wide average doctor seen? How long have they been a doctor?

How many have they seen with the particular condition the patient has?

How much time do they spend listening to and reasoning about a patient? The median in the world is likely under 3 minutes.

How many real-world incentives do human doctors have to deal with?

Given infinite time and resources, and zero external incentives, maybe the median human doctor would outperform the LLM at this task. But this is completely detached from the real world.

> What is special about medical imaging that makes AI/LLMs specifically bad?

LLMs: Besides lack of training data as mentioned elsewhere, they're simply not trained for high-fidelity image processing in general. It's not limited to medical imaging. It's a bit like the "How many Rs in strawberry" thing, but worse.

As for "AI" in general, medical image analysis is a very active field. These tend to be purpose-built though, not general-purpose. It seems likely at some point they'll become mainstream, but there's still a way to go.

What proves the point is that someone suggested moving to Proton, whose founder (not even co-founder AFAIK) is outwardly pro-MAGA. And comments calling that out are the ones that get downvoted. This shows people are just pretending to care.

It's not silly to boycott companies in general, but this specific case it's silly. Not because of the reason, but because boycotting only makes sense if it's very likely that an alternative is going to be better in the specific factor that instigates the boycott. In this case, it's not likely, you have no clue whether an alternative is going to have more or less $0.0x of your $1 going to people supporting far-right parties.

Especially when VPN companies are known to be some of the dodgiest tech companies in general. Mullvad is one of the most transparent ones.

So you're saying the majority of the people here who say they're leaving Mullvad, have:

1. Not heard of Bezos' funding of the Trump family, or don't use Amazon at all 2. Not heard of Zuckerberg/Meta's [insert countless despicable things here], or don't have Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp installed at all 3. Not heard of OpenAIs free pass on the Trump administration using their models for war purposes without limitations, or don't use OpenAI at all 4. And so forth?

Clearly, no. Because it has nothing to do with coming across information without obsessively staying up to date with every entity. The same people have come across much of the above information, yet continue not to act on it, despite most of them being magnitudes worse than this case.

Oh right, because if we'd start with that, most people in this thread would have to stop using the device they're currently using, and that's inconvenient. Better put the goalposts exactly so that there's no such inconvneience!

Whether $0.01 of every $1 you spend to a company goes to someone who donates to far-right views, is absolutely impossible to vet and this news changes nothing about it. Would every $1 given to ExpressVPN lead to less $ ending up with someone who promotes such views? The truth is, we have absolutely no clue, we can't know, and there are so many factors in play here that this news doesn't move the needle. Pretending otherwise is performative behavior to make one feel better about themselves.

Exactly. This blatantly obvious fact being conveniently ignored by hundreds of comments here, is not organic.

You're underestimating the large influence of paid actors/FUD here. It's no coincidence that in this very thread, normally supposedly intelligent people conveniently forget that about half the companies they buy stuff from have blatant MAGA-like CEOs. HN didn't suddenly suffer from a 20 point IQ drop.

Yes.

> does that also include reading/writing?

Yes.

> What level of language ability would be considered the minimum

C1.

What you seem to be missing is that every single € you've spent on virtually anything in the past number of years, some of it has found its way to support organisations that have extreme racist views.