Well, sometimes a 15minute walk will do wonders and you are fresh and can achieve more in the following 15min.

Europe does not. Summer is June, July and August with a bit of give here and there.

Probably depends on where you are, etc., but as an European, I was taught in school two ways of splitting the year up into seasons: calendar/astrological and meteorological. Calendar split is based on solstices and equinoxes (21st March, 21st June, ...), whereas meteorological is based on month start (1st March, 1st June, ...). They use this also in weather reports, for example, where on 1st March they would add "Today starts meteorological spring" and on 21st March "Today starts calendar spring".

Moving the goalposts so soon.

Yes, mine (the history option) is turned off. Nice opt in implementation.

France just did that and even made some gains. Was in HN today as well. Germany has lost it, no farsightedness or longer plan. So frustrating how the German gov is failing on these longer term issues and are ground up in day-to-day noise. Flood the zone with shit comes to mind.

> France just did that and even made some gains.

That was purely an accounting gain (because of selling that gold and buying it back). After realising this PnL the gold is now held at a much higher cost basis.

Thanks for flagging this. I still think the headline is right, so where are the good sources and articles and outcries?

This is what I think a gov org should offer, not yet another corporate entity.

What a nice vanilla view of the world. It's way to simple as an answer and lacking links to reality.

If not before but with high school kids will need access to a computer and also the internet in many schools and countries.

I get that parents are responsible but parents have limited resources. Even the best parenthood will not keep kids from wanting to engage with peers. Even the best filter or block by parents will not cover the www and their millions of websites and services.

Hold on a minute. Australians are for kids and teens social media ban. They have not been asked if their minors are all face catalogued by pop up companies that these social media companies externalise the verification process to. Insta and others simply opened the need for such 3rd party verification services, it's a way to limit their liability and risk. For Insta and co it's not their problem if these new 3rd party services become the next identity database of minors. I hate it.

I think we will eventually see age verification become more like credit card processors where some kind of industry standard for secure processing is agreed on, where most companies do not implement it themselves, and where the providers who do implement it do it securely.

There is no requirement to store ID information to verify ages and it's actively beneficial to delete everything after the verification is done.

We might also see governments implement some kind of zero knowledge APIs where companies can check with the government API if the user is over age without knowing who the user is and without the government knowing what they are signing up for.

Yes true, but these are all technologies required for humans in space. Toilets in space, as intriguing the topic and discussion are, are only needed because we decided to go there. I think the tech is interesting but the human unification vibe is tainted at the least.