dundarious

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1201.
by dundarious 6y ago
Yes, a weaker executive branch at the federal level.
1202.
by dundarious 6y ago
The President can do far more than veto Goliath from steamrolling David. Flipping an unfair power balance, is still an unfair power balance.
1203.
by dundarious 6y ago
I agree there can exist a tyranny of the slight majority. But we’re talking about the EC, which is used to choose the President. Given the enormous power of the executive branch (relative to most parliamentary democracies, for example), thi
1204.
by dundarious 6y ago
I think this thread is, in general, engaging in a bit too much name-calling and snark, but I think your point is important. Maybe a little under-developed, but certainly not worth flagging.
1205.
by dundarious 6y ago
What’s the implied harm in that, though? Given it violates the principle of “one person, one vote”, it needs justification beyond gesturing towards the idea of “it prevents bigger regions from bullying smaller ones”. Maybe there is a dark h
1206.
by dundarious 6y ago
Being a developer (and a user as they acknowledge), they have relatively deep experience with the system and the benefits of "native" vs. ported apps. Because of that, they have a reasonable basis of knowledge in order to dispute
1207.
by dundarious 6y ago
True, but people are still buying new Macs that start on Catalina, and the non-HN crowd is almost entirely oblivious.
1208.
by dundarious 6y ago
This is a very important caveat for ungoogled-chromium, and makes it hard to justify its use for privacy reasons.
1209.
by dundarious 6y ago
Yes
1210.
by dundarious 6y ago
My naive thought is that these could easily be auctioned off with no claim they are fit for purpose. Recycling should be a last resort.
1211.
by dundarious 6y ago
Supposedly, yes. https://medium.com/@matteocroce/why-you-should-run-a-64-bit-...
1212.
by dundarious 6y ago
I don't understand your first sentence. You were told you were allowed to date coworkers? Not allowed? You were told the manner in which you could date them?