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by belZaah 2y ago
I had headaches diagnosed as migraines since I was a kid, for 40+ years. It got to a point where I had scale 9 headaches for most days of some weeks and it was a tough going. Lots of doctors, some pain relief, but ultimately, no help. Then,
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by belZaah 2y ago
> There is more money to be made by stakeholders treating health problems than there is in preventing them This is not in line with economic theory. According to it, actors would simply price the treatment and an npv of the potential fut
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by belZaah 2y ago
That’s the thing with old punks. They do not care and have nor cared for decades. Which means they are not necessarily the nicest people around.
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by belZaah 2y ago
Welcome to the wonderful world of system architecture! This is what it feels like to design complex sociotechnical systems. You know, how it should be done by theory and practice. You tell good people and they understand and agree. But then
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by belZaah 3y ago
The sad thing is, it does not have to be this way. Estonia has biometry-based identity, information sharing between agencies etc. and, I assure you, is not a dystopian hellhole because the way these things have been set up. You biometry, fo
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by belZaah 3y ago
To me, this sounds like a good old Conway's law. The EV fundamentally changes the architecture of the car: what it's made of, what's the role of each component is and how these are interlinked. In particular, there's a s
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by belZaah 5y ago
> "Complexity economics", in form of dynamic systems and chaos theory (for example) had its time in the sun, since the 70's actually, without leading to convincing new insights This is really interesting. The system dynami
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by belZaah 11y ago
That guarantee of no gun is there in Estonian case. If somebody has a gun to your head you can go to a physical polling station and vote there overriding your forced vote.
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by belZaah 11y ago
How so? The electronic voting is modelled exactly based on mail-based voting that is widely used globally. You put your ballot into an envelope, add another one and off it goes. To a public mailbox. Transported, sorted and delivered along w
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by belZaah 11y ago
Yup, one big city: http://blog.moment.ee/2015/06/pruunkaru-brown-bear-ursus-arc... http://www.zacekfoto.ee/?pid=3339
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by belZaah 11y ago
Hey, Skyper, greetings from another one! Skype Tallinn Engineering, as you well know, grew from the small all-Estonian core team to a ~500 people org by the time I left. The team was very international and many good programmers were from el
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by belZaah 11y ago
Which part of it would you consider a black box? The protocols are open (you can write your own voting application), the source code is largely open, there are numerous reports on it, you are most welcome to become an observer (and many do)
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by belZaah 12y ago
For starters, it is worth understanding our size. 1.4 million people make it much easier to pull something like this off than, say, 320 million. The challenges are still considerable. The thing is that this basically means our key informati
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by belZaah 12y ago
Uh, Greece has been running a budget deficit since at least 1995. Of course you borrowed the money.