If there are privacy issues then they could just share a list of hashes and if someone's legal name hashes to something on the list then you deny them.
Also a hash doesn't provide privacy in itself. It just make enumerating people in the database more difficult.
1. People getting rowdy on planes recently is probably due to masking requirements
2. Airplanes have very efficient ventilation
3. Omicron is harmless to most people
4. Most people are vaccinated and protected against serious disease (Delta being the threat here, which has almost disappeared completely)
Simply remove the mask mandates and the problem will go away by itself (or at least return to normal).
They do.
What makes social score dangerous is the power imbalance when a position of authority is attempting to dictate social behavior by punishing deviation and dissent outside of democratic laws. A society that don't allow any deviation or dissent is an authoritarian society.
A credit score system has nothing to do with social behavior unless they get combined. The dangers of a credit score system occurs when social behavior becomes proxies for creditworthiness, in which case the credit score system also becomes a social score system that hands out punishment based on deviation and dissent.
These categories are collected by a US credit score:
* BASIC IDENTITY INFORMATION
* FINANCIAL INFORMATION
These categories are collected by a US background check:
* EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION
* LEGAL HISTORY
* REGULATORY AND LEGAL VIOLATIONS
These categories are unique to the Social Credit Score system:
* POLITICAL DATA
* CIVIC BEHAVIOR
* OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT RECORDS
So, about 2/3rds of the data is very similar to the data that employers gather about their employees, and 1/3rd is the overbearing Chinese state. To me, the political stuff seems to make the economic usefulness of the score weaker -- does being a member of the CPC really reduce your default risk on your credit card?
Looking at the list of infractions that reduce points, it seems that China is trying to systematize punishment for social problems by restricting access to credit. I went into this comment thinking that the US credit score system and the SCS system were similar, but I leave thinking that the Chinese one is the same as the US one, with a bolt on authoritarian layer.
also all of those last categories are monotored by US employers and used to make hiring and firing decisions (which affect your credit score)
adding a single layer of indirection at each end doesn't fundamentally change anything
It all turns into a cycle of manipulation to get ahead because that’s how our feudal trade memes work.
I don’t believe any of you are doing anything truly novel and useful; y’all are just playing the Rules of Acquisition.
Someone on HN many years ago recommended the book Learned Optimism saying that it changed their life. It did the same for me.
I can take a look and give that a read though.
I enjoy drinks too much on flights, would be better off without them.
Also it's kinda public space, occasionally with little kids - I'd prefer them not to be around alcohol.
Finally, having different areas of economy kinda solves this - half plane for young and ready to party, other half - for quiet and chill. Separate area for kids too. All of this is trivial to solve in booking software.
It took me a moment to avoid the typical criticism of “think of the children”.
This is the real world. People drink. People do drugs. People do a lot of things.
In my opinion putting blinders on your kid is bad parenting.
I really don’t care what kids see me do. Keep the drinks coming for me!
Having two drinks on the flight just means another 500cc of water, but yeah, skip rehydration after flying and you're going to have a bad time. Add booze, it will be a worse time.
I’ve only done it once but we sat on the runway for over an hour and I didn’t care at all.
The other time I was on the runway for awhile I had to take a spirit or southwest flight and that was awful.
I’m always so uncomfortable and I’m not even a big person, 5’11” and 200lbs.
The only thing that has ever made a flight decent besides first class was taking etizolam and being knocked out the whole way through the flight.
If each had a connection, it would only be 5 trips per year (4 flights each trip) for five years.
Bureaucracy, security theater, and airline/airport ineptitude has turned flying into a painful, regrettable process. Add shrinking seat space and airport and airplane booze to the mix and you've got a recipe for stress, discomfort, and short tempers.
I suspect booze is actually the primary culprit. I've flown a few hundred flights in my time and only witnessed two, rather tame, incidents that caused people to be kicked off flights or caused in-air arguments. In one case the culprit was very drunk. The other case the culprit was very hung over.