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by adriancr 2y ago
> That whole event was triggered by the "hanging chad" nonsense found in the poorly designed paper ballots that led to ambiguity. You say nonsense but wikipedia says: "a statewide recount would have shown that Gore receive
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by adriancr 2y ago
You are missing my point. We do not leave in an ideal world. Saying something should happen does not translate to it being done. Example, Bush vs Gore was decided by the courts, not by recount. So if that election was stolen, we will never
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by adriancr 2y ago
> This issue would have been avoided by a electronic machine producing clean paper records verified by voters and are not ambiguous in a recount What happens if paper ballot is correct but machine then changes some small percentage of vo
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by adriancr 2y ago
> They could go further by doing statistical risk limiting auditing for all elections I doubt that would help with avoiding or correcting any damage. Lets take the obvious scenario, someone does a blatant large scale steal of an election
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In that case it's poor reasoning and they can do better.
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by adriancr 2y ago
EU elections work just fine on paper. EU has 449M people vs 331M in USA. Multiple time zones as well. Each country has its own process and budget too.. So your argument is moot.
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by adriancr 2y ago
Seems like a problem with the websites and not the cache expiry. I have also experienced this, during dial up period, I agree its not pretty and most dont even consider it.
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by adriancr 2y ago
But they are not refetched if etag is used properly: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/ET... Most you have is some HEAD requests.
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by adriancr 2y ago
Tesla is bringing LFP battery production in the US. They have been manufacturing other battery types for a very long time. So you can say they're doing a lot more then competitors to onshore production. It's a shame the only compa
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by adriancr 2y ago
There's raspberry pi pico and pi zero that compete against esp32. The product in title uses a rp2040 for gpio. I for one prefer the raspberry products (nice sdk for pico and much more features for not that much more power use/cost
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by adriancr 2y ago
> and the Chinese companies aren't controlled by a manchild They're controlled by the CCP which does far worse things...
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by adriancr 2y ago
This looks better to me: https://www.tesla.com/roadster
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by adriancr 2y ago
> Either way I can get 500 miles out of an ICE and refill it in 2 minutes. EVs are great but for longer drives that convenience is hard to beat. Sure, but typically refill would be 30-40 min with a Tesla in a supercharger for long drives
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by adriancr 2y ago
> without a home charger, we couldn’t get more than a 25% charge overnight. Seems like a nasty issue with that polestar or with whatever you were using to charge overnight. With an actual charger you'd get to 100% overnight. With te
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by adriancr 2y ago
You could set up a PXE boot server on the android phone, then set up computer to boot off it.
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by adriancr 2y ago
> Well the USSR no longer exists, and so I think that specific question is a nonstarter. Russia still exists and is unchanged in behavior but much less powerful. So something went right, just not enough. > Look at any country with pow
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by adriancr 2y ago
Spain as a country was one of the most powerful and largest of that time period. So of course the whole country benefited. As for some spaniards profiting, of course, it was still feudal, aristocracy profited.
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by adriancr 2y ago
> And tolerating these different preferences, desires, views, systems, values, and so on is the only possible way we might ever achieve something resembling a more stable and desirable world order. How can one tolerate the abuses that we
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by adriancr 2y ago
> No, those 70% weren't just some privileged elite You just cherry picked one number of one country, I can do the same to reach opposite conclusion if you want to argue in bad faith. > In a 2017 survey, 75% of Estonians said the
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by adriancr 2y ago
> Perhaps for your parents, but many people who lived through such times still look with fondness at the USSR. Because for most, that was their youth, of course you're going to have nostalgia for that, even if you and everyone you k
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by adriancr 2y ago
> Don't you have the empathy to see how your comment would look to people in the overwhelming majority of the world? Oh but I do. I was born in a country behind USSR iron curtain. I am very grateful for whatever help was provided to
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by adriancr 2y ago
> For instance we could have a guarantee of free emigration: If a person, of no real criminality, wants to leave their country One should be a be able to live a fulfulling life anywhere, not be forced to emigrate just to be able to live.
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by adriancr 2y ago
> It's just funny how they like to fool themselves. They are in essence free compared to russia and china's autocracies. Do you mind detailing what you mean?
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by adriancr 2y ago
> I've not seen anything to make me think this feature is intended for surveillance as opposed to personal utility. In the future companies can have this enabled and just ask chatgpt to fire bottom 10% of staff. Or they can ask mic
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by adriancr 2y ago
> First, the drama with PlatformIO really rubbed me the wrong way. I'm taking the side of the developers who are hurt by confusion in tooling. I'm out of the loop, have been using rp2040 since launch and never used platformIO.
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by adriancr 2y ago
That's surprising... thanks...
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by adriancr 2y ago
one exists and one is imaginary? You're not going to get a tesla at that price point.
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by adriancr 2y ago
> Where? In US? US yes. Also countries like Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Phillipines, India have territorial disputes with China. If you add EU as well, what's left? > You are closing the biggest market for yourself (China) Big
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by adriancr 2y ago
You can already buy a dacia spring for around the same price as that BYD will sell (if and when it ever becomes available). So tariffs aren't going to hurt your options, you already have them.
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by adriancr 2y ago
> What? No EU companies will serve any kind of global market. That is the point of Tarifs. Thats not how tarriffs work. What will happen is Chinese exports will have to pay tarriffs to enter EU. Most China can do is impose tarriffs or na

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