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Re:Why Every Country Should Set 16 as the Minimum Age for So... by fc417fc802 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:30PM (#46628049)
We could distribute scratch off cards to stores within a few months. It's incredibly low tech. I can't speak to elsewhere in the world but most (possibly all?) US states run lotteries.

If a given government body can't manage to stand up a web API to validate one time use codes within a few months then they clearly don't have the technical knowhow to manage smart IDs in a secure manner.

My point being that this either doesn't qualify as hypothetical, or if it does, then it indicates gross incompetence to an extent that precludes more complex solutions as a matter of course.

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Re:Why Every Country Should Set 16 as the Minimum Age for So... by eli on Thursday January 15, 2026 @12:43PM (#46636278)
A proposed solution that does not actually exist and is not proven to work is necessarily a hypothetical one. I'm not ruling out various state governments also being incompetent though.
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