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by Youden 4y ago
Representative democracy can be augmented by direct democracy though. Switzerland for example has elected representatives who operate in a similar manner to other countries. The difference is that when the people have an issue with somethin
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Most of the Rollladen I've encountered leak a decent amount of light, so it makes sense to have blackout curtains in front of the Rollladen.
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Keep in mind that you'll only find results from people who have issues. Few people will go online just to say their hardware works with Linux. To give a concrete recommendation for a wifi adapter, look at Intel-based hardware. Intel st
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This was the result of a 5-minute skim of the statistics to check the (unsourced) claim that Australia has more guns than it did before the ban. You're assuming dishonesty but the reality is that this was a quick internet comment, not
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I think you might be unlucky or buying low-quality models. I have a 100W Minix NEO P2 that was one of the first GaN chargers available near me and it's still going strong 2 years later. I also have a 60W Satechi travel charger that&#x2
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> Today they have far more guns now than before the ban. Technically true but per [0], the proportion of households with guns dropped from 20% to 6.2% and the number of licensed gun owners has dropped from 14.27% to 3.41%. So yes, there
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When I was younger I was in a similar position. Now, I've realised that there's a lot more to life than work and you only have so much energy to spend. Spend your energy on what makes you happy. When it comes to work, I prioritise
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Absolutely. I didn't mean to say "the charging is actually bad", just that I found it more nuanced than the headline number. I really like the colourful chart they have showing different charging speeds between different char
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Ah, good catch. So the situation in the US is pretty similar to Europe: there are plenty of fast chargers along the long-distance routes.
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I thought it was odd that you claimed those chargers are rare, turns out they are - in the US. According to [0], there are only a few 350kW chargers in the US, mostly in the Northeast. If you look at the same map in Europe, they're pre
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FWIW I own an EV6 and found the more nuanced analysis of its charging at [0] to be much more useful to me than the headline numbers. [0]: https://insideevs.com/news/537223/kia-ev6-prototype-fast-cha...
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The linked blog post seems to show off hardware but the software is all Mercedes, no? In that case automakers wouldn't be able to buy the self-driving capability from NVIDIA.
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Why is the link to a Twitter thread instead of the article? The Twitter user is one of the article authors but the article is far more detailed. Article: https://theintercept.com/2022/04/22/anomaly-six-phone-t
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You see that everywhere, even in the US. "American made" is often seen as a badge of honour but it requires excluding European suppliers. Even aside from the marketing label, there are practicalities achieved by choosing a domesti
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It's a popular opinion on HN that the EU picks on American companies but to offer an alternative theory: American companies are more often subject to EU penalties because they more frequently/severely break EU law. American compan
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I'd substitute "looks good" for "looks like a web application". Taking music players for an example, I prefer the way Amarok (Qt) looks compared to something like Amazon Music or Spotify.
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Resolve is a $295 one-time purchase and includes many of the features of the Adobe suite though, so I think in a relative sense, Adobe is expensive.
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Is it common to use the editing tool to output a delivery format? I find that their encoders are universally pretty terrible so I always output an intermediate format then transcode it with something more capable. I'm just a hobbyist w
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In that vein, I think one major bit of news is that you can finally buy a license online! For the longest time you could only buy it printed on a physical card that had to be shipped to you.
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> De jure it's not really legal anymore since they updated the law... De facto nobody cares as long as you're not making a business out of it. My claim was founded on authoritative sources, including the law itself. If you want
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Downloading is legal in Switzerland. For a nice authoritative source, here's the Swiss Federal Institute for Intellectual Property (part of the Department of Justice and Police)[0]: "Downloading copyright-protected works for priva
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Over the past 10 years, inflation in India has typically been ~5% [0] and the currency has also fallen against the USD at ~4% per year [1], so I don't think this is a good idea. [0]: https://tradingeconomics.com/india&#
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Modern SSDs can handle it: 25Gbps is ~3GB/s, which you can do with a PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD. PCI 4.0 NVMe SSDs can do 5.1GB/s, or ~41Gbps.
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I have the same internet provider and package. While 25Gbps is indeed basically unattainable to anything other than Init7's speedtest server, it's easy to exceed 1Gbps. Software and driver updates exceed 1Gbps all the time, as do
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I think it's the same root cause as many problems: the belief that there must be a "best" that is single and absolute. You see the same thing everywhere. Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux, Android vs. iOS, PC gaming vs console gaming
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I think part of it is that when you were younger, tech was a very new part of most people's everyday life. You grew up through the introduction of the smartphone, social media and digital cameras, as well as the incredible development
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If the song really does say toe-mah-to, I agree with you. However in the English-speaking world (as in the world that speaks similarly to the people in England) I've not heard it pronounced any way other than "tom-ah-toe".
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Where are you getting 7k from? Iraq Body Count [0] reports closer to 200k. Even if you use [1] to limit the death count to those caused by coalition forces, you get more than 7k just in 2003. Before you try to discredit it, the main critici
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You need to be careful about reading the subreddit rules when you do this though. In my for-locals subreddit tourists asking questions like this were a plague, even when there was a very clear and prominent rule forbidding any kind of touri
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The author seems very confused about whether they're talking about the grid or devices. "DC power is significantly more energy efficient than AC power." -> the examples go on to specify end points for electrical energy but

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