Just note i doubt Tailscale were first popular vpn manager as i remember many hobby users are Zerotier converts and also much older products like Hamachi.

Tailscale have build great product around wireguard (which is quite young) and they have great marketing and docs. But they are hardly first VPN service - they might not even be the most popular one.

Yes, I ambiguously said "started this space"... and to be honest even in the most generous interpretation that's probably incorrect, maybe ZeroTier started "this space", in that it had NAT busting mesh networking first.

As far as I understand Tailscale brought NAT busting mesh networking to wireguard + identity first access control, and reduced configuration complexity. I think they were the first to think about it from an end to end user perspective, and each feature they add definitely has this spin on it. It makes it feel effortless and transparent (in both the networking use sense and cryptography sense)... So i suppose that's what I mean by started, TS was when it first really clicked for a larger group of people, it felt right.

Might be time to learn me some Wireguard.

I think they are hoping wero would one day work in countries worldwide as competition to visa/mastercard.

EU local payments already work instantly and feeless in many countries through SEPA. Lot of these countries are already on trajectory to gradually get off visa/mastercard for domestic payments as every ecommerce store pushes SEPA as the default payment to save on fees.

There's no need for a worldwide solution, federation and interoperability between major schemes are enough.

The same way AliPay can be used in most Asian countries already, we can imagine a world where EPI, UPI, Pix and so on interoperate smoothly.

I assume Visa and MC will try to remain walled off as the US are a big and slow mover in this space, until they'll need to open up as well.

Note: payments (unlike transfers) are never really zero fees, for good reasons.

Yeah always a victim. When you can't vote because you forget the deadline… you won't be able to vote anywhere.

It's also going down as EU would prefer very easy transfers but single citizenship country.

The article you are linking to specifically says that Canada doesn't have common law marriage only that “informal cohabitation relationships are recognised for certain purposes in Canada, creating legal rights and obligations”

Yes, it's marriage light in Canada. But other jurisdictions do have it.

Residency is citizenship light if you want to take that angle

Yes. In some eastern EU countries instant SEPA payments with QR are already super popular because you don't pay fees and you don't need special terminal/gateway.

He is allowing a lot worse version. Allowing adults to create child porn with grok on X.

The metaphor doesn't work because all of the things mentioned have to be individually fabricated. But software doesn't. Copies are free. Thats the magic of software, you don't need much of it - you just need to be correct/smarter.

It's pretty surprising to see people on this site (assume mostly programmers) to think of code in terms of quantity. I always thought developers believe in less code the better.

You're unstated assumption is that machine-written code is lower quality than human-written code. That may be true for the top 5% of developers today.

But I didn't think that assumption is true for the median developer today, and it probably won't be true for the 5-percentile developer by this time next year.

This is very US centric way of looking at it. This whole hero story about Tesla might be required to push US market but would it matter to EU or China? It's very likely market would transition to EVs because of environment/economics probably even in similar pace.

In EU environment movement is very strong especially in the rich countries. BYD is company from 95. They have been leading up to this for 30 years. If you take out the theatrics... it's actually China/BYD who are pushing everyone (especially EU carmakers) to EVs. If anything Tesla is on a trajectory of remembered as a one of car industry biggest disasters and wasted potentials.

The whole story of Skoda is interesting because they were bought by Volkswagen as "budget" brand but kept their own development department. They get consistently pushed down as the cars shouldn't compete with VW but they do. It's not surprising they were able to adjust to EVs better than VW. If anything VW should learn something from their own Skoda but from what i've heard the VW deparments got very comfy and quite old (not in a good way).