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by bleepblorp 6y ago
While a gasoline ban makes sense in urban areas, a blanket province-wide ban on gasoline vehicles does not seem practical or reasonable given Quebec's geography and climate. EV technology currently isn't good enough to be workable
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The modest answer for open source developers is to host projects that are at risk of being Americanized either on .onion sites or in jurisdictions (such as Israel or China) that don't have a huge fondness for American copyright law. Ex
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I'm not going to post a detailed recap of the past 30 years of American political history in a HN comment. All of your questions can be answered in a few minutes with sufficiently well crafted DDG/Google/Bing searches. If you
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The other way of looking at things is that, prior to neoliberalism, one full-time middle class income could pay for a house and support a family of four. After neoliberalism, getting a house and two kids takes two working adults, and often
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
2020 is far, far worse than 1992 was. 1992 didn't have former White House officials calling for current officials to be beheaded for disloyalty. Unlike the ACA under Obama, the Republican response to Clinton's dead-on-arrival heal
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Direct link for the curious: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-his... I don't agree with Turchin's thesis that the US is in trouble because it's producing too many e
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I think of what happened to much of the anglosphere (including the US) after 1970s as a reversion to the historical mean. The economic and social investment that went into the WWII war-effort and the postwar period created a bubble of prosp
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I've noticed that contemporary tech people (or at least the richer ones) have a cultural tick that leads them to deny or minimize the importance of real problems that don't involve shiny new technology. By way of examples: Microso
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Frankly, I think open source needs to embrace the idea of 'no commercial use' as a viable license choice. I'm not keen on the idea of a million/billion/billion+ dollar company taking code I've written for my ow
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
> Though long-term I think this is a bit silly in the first place considering approximately everyone is walking around with computers in their pockets that would be perfectly capable of letting you confirm transaction amounts on a displa
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I realize this will sound snarky and/or overly aggressive. However, I'm being entirely serious and can't quickly come up with a better way to phrase this: How do people with functioning moral compasses come together with the
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
> Could this be a situation where politicians have faulty data and use that to guide how they act? I'm not aware of any data on this specifically with regard to drug control policy, but there is research from 2013 which reveals that
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
It's amazing how many people came out to dispute this point -- often in the most 'I am very smrt' way possible. Ammonia concentrated for use as fuel (or other industrial processes) is not the same thing as window cleaner, jus
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Do you have any substantive criticisms of my premise that the US is beset by irreconcilable differences of in moral worldviews? Further, not that I watch CNN, but why should anyone who chooses to consume cable news choose not to get their n
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I've seen conflicting reports about this but I'm not going to argue the point. I can certainly see why 20ft would be a problem. It seems to me the counting authority should have set up some 4K CCTV gear, and/or 4K webcams on
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
> Russian election interference was investigated by Trump's own Justice Department. They didn't find any. The DoJ very much found signs of Russian election interference. They just couldn't prove that the Trump campaign act
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The Republican party was under a consent decree to prohibit it from attempting to prevent minorities from voting, but once enough Republican justices were installed on the supreme court the consent decree was terminated. The court also void
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
At least read the Wikpiedia summary of the Mueller Report[0] if you don't have the time to read the whole document. The 'Russia hoax' produced multiple criminal charges, both of Russians for interfering in the 2016 election,
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
> Philadelphia successfully removed GOP observers from the tabulations rooms Don't repeat disinformation. This never happened. Poll watchers were required to stand 10 feet away to protect workers from COVID-19. The court ruling requ
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Faith is eroding in the American electoral process because the Republican party has been working very hard both to undermine the process and to spread propaganda to the effect that the process is untrustworthy. People could have more faith
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Quoting Martin Gurri as quoted in the parent post, NOT the words of wahern in parent post itself : > Today the big issue is… what? Wearing MAGA hats? Racism certainly isn’t a divisive issue. Everybody’s against it. In light of the pas
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The overwhelming majority of Americans who experience medical bankruptcy have health insurance.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The issue US left-leaning people have with voter ID laws is threefold: there's no documented problem with voter fraud that needs to be fixed through ID requirements, two, ID requirements are often imposed with the explicit intention of
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
This would never work in America because Republican supporters would do their absolute best to disrupt the count by intimidating poll workers. It happened in 2000[0] and it's happening again now[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Much of American physical and civic infrastructure is like that of a 3rd world country. Most of the cases of extremely disrupted voting (such as 12 hour lines, mysteriously 'broken' voting machines in urban areas, or the 300,000 m
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Last-minute voting machine software update disrupted voting in parts of Georgia(politico.com)
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Extensive ID requirements and indelible dyes are measures to minimize voter fraud, such as voting by ineligible persons or eligible persons voting more than once. Voter fraud is nearly non-existent in the United States.[0] The overwhelming
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The importance of representative sampling is taught in undergraduate statistics courses. Do you have any reason to believe that pollsters and other statisticians are so ignorant of their own field not to understand this?
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Yes, most other democratic countries do. American-style slow results have more in common with the kinds of places that need time to "massage" the results than with the electoral processes in most democracies.
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There are two possible explanations for why US polling stopped tracking US election results in 2004 and now underestimates conservative vote margins. Either conservatives have started lying to pollsters about their voting intentions or cons

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