Company legal departments should absolutely review requests and make sure they're legal before handing over data.
If they suspect the request isn't legal, they can refuse it, and then it can be escalated to a judge.
Are you suggesting that every request should go through a judge before it gets sent to a company? That would be great, but even then, different judges interpret laws differently, so a company will still do a legal review before deciding whether or not to comply.
It's my personal view that Elon has already shown how little he cares for protecting data of individuals based on how he ran DOGE.
If his teams will handle the data of US citizens with such disregard, he'll almost certainly treat his customers (many of whom are those same US citizens) the same.
> El (an israelite deity that eventually merges with some others into the monotheistic god)
It's my understanding that both Baal and El were Canaanite deities and that the Israelite cults brought their storm god Yahweh with them to Canaan and eventually he absorbed features of the Canaanite gods.
We don't really know much about these entities. There are fragments of inscriptions that could be read as 'lord of the city' for example just as easily as naming some deity.
Israel means roughly 'lords' struggle': Isra El.
Like I mentioned elsewhere, we know very little and what evidence we have is fragmentary. Thinking about possible interpretations of and links among what evidence we have is fascinating and every so often we might see a constellation of data points shedding light on events of 2500 years ago or so, but it's important to realize that the gaps in our knowledge of what happened in the iron age are much, much bigger than what we actually know.
Thanks for the feedback! That is a very accurate observation.
With the rise of Proof of Stake and other energy-efficient mechanisms, I agree that Proof of Work is no longer the sole "standard."
When I used the word "standard" in my project, it was primarily to contrast Btfy with the mechanism of competing computational resources seen in Bitcoin, which first defined the concept of blockchain unpredictability.
Even compared to modern alternatives like Proof of Stake, which rely on economic incentives, Btfy explores a different philosophical and technical path.
I'm almost 40 and never wanted kids. As a kid, everyone would say things in the context of "when you have kids of your own..." and I always knew that I didn't want them.
If I lived in a world without reliable birth control, I may have ended up with kids I didn't want, but I'm lucky that I have other options.
Kids shouldn't be raised by people who don't want them, and not everyone is born with the biological drive to reproduce.
Your view that [most] people are born wanting kids may be biased from societal pressure and a historical lack of options.
> Stop sharing your opinions. You will literally be extinct soon. Your existence doesn't matter.
What an insane take. You have no idea what that person's contributions are to this world, or how long those contributions will be relevant after they pass.
You can have chargebacks in crypto if the payment is scripted to allow chargebacks. It would be up to the merchant and the buyer on whether or not to allow that, and who would mediate the dispute.
And unlike in trad fi, you can have the dispute mediator / escrow manager / trustee be physically limited in what they can do with the money.
Visa can run away with your unclaimed payouts (if forced to do so by law enforcement for example). This doesn't have to be true in crypto; you can set things up so that the third party can either release the money to the payee or send it back to the payer, without giving them the capability to send it to some arbitrary address of their choosing.
One of the options: money go to a 2/3 multisig address, 1 key is controlled by the customer, 1 key is controlled by the service provider, 1 key is controlled by an escrow service.
If they suspect the request isn't legal, they can refuse it, and then it can be escalated to a judge.
Are you suggesting that every request should go through a judge before it gets sent to a company? That would be great, but even then, different judges interpret laws differently, so a company will still do a legal review before deciding whether or not to comply.