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by arlort 4y ago
The EC's term is 5 years, not 6
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by arlort 4y ago
So, laudable intent because some of the articles in the proposed regulation are dumb beyond measure But it doesn't help their credibility that they made an entire article debunking the wrong entity Of the three claims they "debunk
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by arlort 4y ago
> slavery is permitted again That would be a violation of the 13th amendment > Hispanics are not allowed to vote and this of the 15th amendment > overrule the government arbitrarily, we're possibly on the road to the balkaniza
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by arlort 4y ago
In romance languages (and possibly others) the order of adjectives/nouns is reversed compared to english, in those languages European Union gets abbreviated to UE (instead of EU), the comment is probably by someone who uses one such la
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by arlort 5y ago
> The whole idea of the EU is that all nations in it are subservient to the commission It really really isn't though
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by arlort 5y ago
Yes, and in other aspects having a stable leadership for long (and it's not like we're talking about eons, it's 4 elections) greatly benefited Germany People elected them and their party, their party had chosen them for the p
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by arlort 5y ago
From Wikipedia: > The 2010 and 2012 surveys for the Americas Barometer showed that 15% of surveyed voters in Latin America had been offered something of value in exchange for voting a particular way > 16% of voters [in Africa] were of
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by arlort 5y ago
And how do you avoid a scenario in which you assign 6 to candidate X but the machine secretly assigns 6 to candidate Y?
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by arlort 5y ago
> how do you protect against the corrupt actor manipulating every machine except the percent that will be checked? According to this: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/count-vvpat-slips-... India checks 5 ma
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> already completely undermined by mail in voting Which is why mail in voting is a bad idea Just because bad things are happening doesn't mean people need to like more bad things being made easier to achieve
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by arlort 5y ago
> If, at any time in counting process, an individual could successfully insert a single valid but fabricated ballot into the process This varies by jurisdiction obviously, but where I'm from the procedure for counting must be done i
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by arlort 5y ago
> then why not just use the paper system? One reason is efficiency, if you have the machines counting you get results faster and then you can audit only a random sample of machines records and get statistical guarantees of the election i
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> can directly change the results by deliberately miscounting the results This is why in liberal democracies the process of casting and counting votes is usually done in the presence of at least representatives of the candidates running
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by arlort 5y ago
India is the only country doing electronic voting well that I'm aware of Almost certainly the only one doing it well and at scale
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by arlort 5y ago
That's only viable in countries/situations where secret ballots are not a strict requirement and vote buying is not perceived to be a problem With paper ballots if you want to be sure that your vote was counted correctly you gener
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by arlort 5y ago
A more interesting metric would maybe be years of life expectancy, but that's probably too much of a hassle to calculate for a metric which is relatively speaking useless
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by arlort 5y ago
To qualify, politico.eu is pretty good for news about the EU, as in the EU institutions and EU politics I'm not sure I'd suggest it for general purpose news about EU member states. It has some stuff but it's not really their
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by arlort 5y ago
What wealthy corporation?
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by arlort 5y ago
When someone says "the UN did X" what really happened 90% of the time is that countries meeting at a convention which has been organized by the UN (and I do just mean organized, the decision to have the convention in the first pla
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by arlort 5y ago
Not just Paris, cities are built on the corpses of their past selves. Go back enough in the life of any major building in an historical city and you're likely to find someone who thought it was an abomination that should never have rep
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by arlort 5y ago
Presumably if you as a user want to use an app that interoperates with Signal, Whatsapp and Messenger then you'll be logging in with your signal, whatsapp and messenger credentials and give it permission to read your messages and relay
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by arlort 5y ago
I think in this case it's more about services allowing stuff like third party clients or providing APIs, not binding themselves to a specific standard So if I'm whatsapp I have to allow third party clients, but I can also change m
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by arlort 5y ago
Something that would be cool to do, though I'm not familiar enough with build systems and profilers to do it myself would be mark which portions of the generated binary comes from Rust/C++/C and then instrumenting the executa
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by arlort 5y ago
You could probably have a pretty light wrapper around the gateway which verifies the hash. It wouldn't be as easy as simply using a gateway but still much easier than hosting/implementing an IPFS node locally
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by arlort 5y ago
There are some significant asterisks The first is that it's not that EU laws are more important, it's that by ratifying the EU treaties the members have ceded the power to act in some areas to the EU as a whole. This applies unifo
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by arlort 5y ago
Maybe it's explained in the article but my french isn't great But how would that work to replace (?) GPS?
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by arlort 5y ago
Apologies if I misunderstood the comment and you already know what a shellcode is and just thought it should've been included A shellcode is a (as much as possible) self contained series of instructions which, if executed in a program
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You might've noticed more and more but it's always been the case It's probably related to brexit in that this outlook is very likely at least part of why Brexit happened (or rather why the UK was never a particularly good fit
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> Results fully in line with predictions, strengthening the case for ITER This is the main take away for me, JET is not a standalone project, it's part of the whole ITER project which is supposed to go like this: + JET as a scaled d
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by arlort 5y ago
They expand under the article (not the clearest visual design though, I thought it was an ad or some "related" section) The record is for energy generated. They generated the most energy, however they did not generate the most pow

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