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Yes, Estonia. :) Was it the voting over the Internet that gave it away? I think that we and Switzerland are only countries that do that atm.

Different country, but similar system here. Every person gets assigned a 11 digit personal id number at birth. That id-code then gets used as a identifier. If you sign up for something, you just give them that number, and it will work as a unique identifier, they will know exactly that you are THAT John Smith, not that different John Smith For something simple, like signing up for the grocery store customer card, it is enough to just say your name and number, for bigger things, like opening a bank account, you have to show your ID-card or passport. For remote authentication, you use the ID-card for secure Internet banking, signing contracts digitally, voting, etc

You wait until the 25th of May.

I think that factoid comes from that shitty graph where the suppose that the UPS driver starts working straight at the moment they turn 18 and they will have maximum pay rate that is available for the UPS driver position.

While in reality, the average wait time to become a driver from loading is 11 years. During that time you make about $13/hr part time where the schedule can be horrible and you could work less than 15 hours a week. When you do become a driver it takes another ~2 years (on avg) to get your own route until then you are a part time worker and your hours worked will fluctuate a lot over the year. The first year is paid at 17.50-18.50/hr (~$36,000/yr @ 40 hours a week) and then goes up.

Maybe, but its more likely that majority of higher ranking wizards would focus on growing their sheep herding business. :)

http://www.critical-hits.com/blog/2017/02/22/the-wizards-and...

Yeah, they do. Luxury cars are taxed heavily in Denmark. Import tax on new cars can be up to 180%. After removing the subsidy on EVs, Tesla prices became comparable to other cars and sales dropped sharply.

While it may appear that salaries are rising quickly, in reality, for the average tech employee, they have been standing still for quite a while.

In 2003, the average salary in tech was $69,400.

By 2017, the average salary had risen to $92,081.[1]

While that might seem like a pretty large payrise, after adjusting it for inflation, you come to a clear conclusion that over the last 12 years, salaries have stood basically still. You can point to people getting $120k+ as a first year employee at Google, but salaries like that are massive outliers. Average developer in america earns much less.

[1] Dice Tech Salary Survey 2017 https://marketing.dice.com/pdf/Dice_TechSalarySurvey_TechPro...

Its totally unrelated. Like most issues with prostitution, it is simply caused by poverty.

China is a very materialistic society with incredibly high inequality and it lacks any sort of welfare support network.

If you just walk around in shanghai, then the country might seem pretty close to first world levels of development. But if you go deeper inland, you will find hundreds of millions rural people who have been left behind, and still live in grinding poverty.

When you are that poor, then becoming a prostitute can be a acceptable option for you.

SHA and PIN.

For online verification(banking, contracts, taxes, voting etc) you need both physical card and PIN at the same time.

Otherwise it works just as any other normal ID.

It probably varies by country, but here you have a unique personal ID-number. First number denotes your sex, next six numbers contain your birtday, and the next four numbers are assigned (probably? not certain) in order of births during that day. Last number acts as checksum, allowing immediate check for typos.

That ID number is public and allows government & any companies/organisations you show it to immediately verify that they are dealing with a specific person, instead of having to spend time figuring out which specific person named "John Smith" they are dealing with. Having this number simply makes life more quicker and convinient. It also allows to remove any pointless duplications for cards.

For some examples: separate medical insurance card was discontinued, you can verify medical coverage by a simple number query. Same with drivers licences, they still exist in a separate physical forms for foreign trips, but but not inside the country. There is no separate libary cards, I don´t have to carry a separate card for my gym or various retailers.

I can verify myself online quickly and securely. I can digitally sign documents and contracts and email them. Honestly, I´m having hard time imagining my life without it. I´m aware that all proposals for national identification methods in the US have failed thanks to fears of "mark of the beast" and big brother, but it seems pretty silly to me. All that data already exists and can be cross referenced. Making average person waste more time and money by having such massive inefficiencies in the system seems rather silly in these times.