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by pedrocr 8y ago
> I suppose if you are a part of a larger organization, you can post several spotters around every voting station. But that will increase the chance of them being spotted and spoofed by the police. It's easy enough to deploy spotter
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by pedrocr 8y ago
I can't see a way of that working without breaking down somehow: - If every time you vote you get a receipt for that vote that can be checked if it's still valid then you can send that receipt to the buyer and he can then check th
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> Feel free to point out where you previously discussed receipt freeness. I'm not going to go around spelunking on my old comments to prove to you that your attacks on me are unfounded. Do your own homework if you care about this fo
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> You knew it but didn’t mention it as an obvious neutralizer of your objection, in the context of a discussion about possibility (“you could”)? I doubt that. This is baseless and useless. I've discussed this online in several situa
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> Not necessarily. It is possible to have verifiability and receipt freeness I know these methods, but they were not used in OPs suggestion. They fix this issue and introduce others. > Clearly you need to do more research before makin
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Now you can demonstrate to anyone what you voted. That's how you get people selling votes. In any reasonable election system you need to be able to be sure your vote is being counted without at the same time being able to prove who you
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Because the count is done by representatives of each party together and each of them won't let the others steal for their side. The characteristics of paper elections are well understood and can be shown to be sound very easily to any
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by pedrocr 8y ago
You don't. Which is why this should definitely not be used for important votes like these. It may work fine at first but the attack surface on your election (and thus on your democracy) has just increased massively.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> Are you arguing that even now breaking up OS/Office would be a reasonable thing for the Justice department to pursue? That seems like a barely tenable position. Breaking them up today is debatable and won't happen so it'
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by pedrocr 8y ago
The tech market would be much different today if they had been broken up. That they're not still the largest tech company in the world is not the same as saying they lost their monopoly somehow. They still have the same monopoly on the
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by pedrocr 8y ago
In the middle of the process there was an election and the new executive didn't want to actually go after Microsoft. They then got off much easier than their misdeeds required. At one point an OS/Office breakup was in the cards an
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> Spain basically lives with a double summer time. Spain uses the wrong timezone. It should use UTC instead of UTC+1. The map in the article shows that pretty clearly. That's at least partially the reason people have dinner so late
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> Audi (they have an entire e-Tron line that just isn't pushed much in the US) It's not pushed anywhere. None of those have shipped yet. The only car with that branding that you can buy is a hybrid, not a BEV.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
That link only works if you are in the UK.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Debating against things people haven't actually said is not productive. I think having common platforms is an advantage, hence why the Model Y is reportedly heavily based on the 3. That's what all the manufacturers do. I was speci
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by pedrocr 8y ago
You quoted 27 different models. That's not 27 different types of car, it's all those duplications over a few model types. And when they're all in the market we'll all be happy. Until then it's just a promise.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
You're ignoring my point. Having different models is obviously great for different uses. Hence S/X/3/Y/etc. Number of models is irrelevant when it's a bunch of different versions of a VW Golf like you get with
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by pedrocr 8y ago
I don't know of a single car that you can buy that takes 350kW. In fact I don't know of a single car that you can buy that charges at higher rates than the Teslas. And you keep doubling down on charging rates as if that was the si
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Number of models is irrelevant, being able to buy the same car badged as VW/Audi/Skoda/Seat is just price discrimination and adds no value. A real-world comparison of charging speeds is still an open question. The next genera
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by pedrocr 8y ago
I've followed the announcements and reviews. There is no doubt they will launch the cars, it's your prediction of market success that remains to be tested. So far no one has come up with a drive train that rivals Tesla in power an
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by pedrocr 8y ago
This makes no sense. You can't be ahead in the market by making announcements while shipping less product. That they will in the future deliver more options at more scale is your prediction. I hope it works out but it remains to be see
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by pedrocr 8y ago
The point is that what people are willing to pay for a car is already well within the range of a Model 3. If you wanted to compare like for like the actual comparison is a BMW 3 Series or Mercedes C Class, not a Camry. But you can definitel
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by pedrocr 8y ago
So VW is ahead of Tesla because they've made a bunch of announcements of things they may ship in the future? It's all vaporware until you actually ship. They didn't "get there first" on 350kW chargers when there&#x2
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by pedrocr 8y ago
I mean of all cars. Here's an example of fresh data. 37k is the average purchase price for January 2019 and there aren't many brands/categories below 30k: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/average-
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> They'll just make EVs I wish they would, but they're lagging way behind. Developing a good EV drivetrain, and particularly a good battery is not trivial and so far no one is matching Tesla. Hyundai has some reasonable models
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> The $35k price rag is still the biggest hurdle. Once they hit the $25k mark and can produce a decent volume of them, it will finally hit the point of no return. Apparently 35k is already the average car price in the US, so the model 3
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by pedrocr 8y ago
For that specific example it's hard to be expensive but here's a loop from one of my crates that compiles down to efficient code: pub fn decode_12be(buf: &[u8], width: usize, height: usize) -> Vec<u16> { d
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by pedrocr 8y ago
I don't understand what you mean. The standards have to be defined and as demonstrated by wasm there's nothing preventing a runtime that all languages can target that isn't just compiling to JS. How that was ever considered a
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by pedrocr 8y ago
These threads always repeat themselves. There are the people painfully explaining why they would like to be able to program for the web in the languages they like. And then there are the JS advocates that take it personally and go out of th
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Aren't SIM cards the perfect way to do a PKI?

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