What you’ve described is often referred to as a rainbow table and is generally not considered to be GDPR compliant:

https://skymonitor.com/why-hash-dont-anonimize-an-ip-address-and-what-this-affects-gdpr/

https://www.ndtv.com/feature/man-fired-from-microsoft-after-22-years-becomes-goose-farmer-see-viral-linkedin-profile-5586211

I view the patent process as furthering the ability of others to benefit from the results: without patents, the only way to keep clones of your product from immediately appearing on the market is obfuscation and trade secrets. Patents grant a limited monopoly, but at the price of full disclosure. That full disclosure serves a useful social benefit as others can learn and innovate on what was done before. The limited monopoly encourages innovation because it helps people get exclusive rights to sell their work.

There’s a lot of bad patent behavior with patent trolls, etc. The duration of the patents should be relatively short and not extensible. But I think the disclosure aspect of the patent process does further overall innovation.

I’d like to get back to ‘for limited time’. Patents 10 years, no extensions. Copyright, 10 years, no extensions. Trademarks indefinite as long as the owner still has a meaningful business still operating and using the trademark ( this one is tricky to define well).

Why can’t they deport you? Does the jail in El Salvador care what the nationality is of the people the US is paying to hold and torture?

Deep blue Washington state has the advantage of giant amounts of hydroelectric generation combined with a relatively small population to consume it.

And if you go to a locally owned restaurant, pay with cash. Fuck visa/mc/banks and their merchant fees.

People have to work to live. They’re working to make money to buy food at the grocery, or at the other end of the spectrum, they’re working by hunting and gathering food.

I’m excluding people with enough wealth to buy their food indefinitely from this discussion. At global scale, not many people are in that category.

You’re right, but neither would we.

The money has to come from somewhere.

That’s why elons team took over the treasury payments system.

Rob Reiner’s dad Carl was best friends with Mel Brooks for almost all of Carl’s adult life.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/06/carl-reiner-mel-brooks-friendship