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Re:Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop imple... by dmingod666 on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:15AM (#33436142)
I don't doubt your claim, I think it's more common to have ID verification across the world.

That aside, I think at one point if people make dumb choices, they're screwed, can't do anything about it..

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Re:Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop imple... by bheadmaster on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:36AM (#33436500)
> I think at one point if people make dumb choices, they're screwed, can't do anything about it

I don't think that a single "dumb" choice should result in people being screwed. Especially if the "dumb" choice is not really a dumb choice, except for "this one particular scenario in which it's dumb", like pre-paid SIMs. Quite a convenient way to blame the party damaged by big corp's bad decisions.

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Re:Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop imple... by dmingod666 on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:22PM (#33446117)
What I meant to say was, there needs to be a cut-off point for company responsibility. Agree, there should be other alternatives to SMS incase a user get locked out.
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Re:Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop imple... by bheadmaster on Thursday November 03, 2022 @02:00PM (#33454890)
Oh, my bad. In that case, I agree with what you're saying.
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