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Comment · 17 days ago
Oh, you absolutely can and it worked in your state. There were problems with the process and you had to repeat the election for people to be confident. People can understand all problems of the above.

With some abstract math and computers? Any real or imaginary issues are incomprehensible to most of the voters and concerns can be easily shooed away.

Comment · 17 days ago
Full hand count is a feature not a cost. The more people involved and see democracy happen and have actual agency in making it happen the better.

Automating any of the process is (imho) harmful to above.

Comment · 17 days ago
> glorious in its stupid inefficiency, because it spreads the trust

What is the goal? Having fancy crypto or people being confident about elections?

If spreading the trust is the goal what makes you say "inefficient". It is orders of magnitude better then any crypto system.

Comment · 1 month ago
Stamp only proves you did the photo and probably some metadata like when where etc.

It helps but doesn't solve credibility issue.

Comment · 1 month ago
State actors, professional criminals will have same or better capabilities and do not hesitate to use them. On defense end we'll have only "pay bigcorp" option.

OSS models can help to fix infra especially for folks who would never do it themselves. We do not know yet what final effect would be and it doesn't seem sky is falling now or in near future.

"people dying and furry fanfics" is a scarecrow and distractor respectively, it would be awesome if more specific examples would be used in place.

Comment · 2 months ago
It seems you're right. Would nice to see breakdown for this plane how it actually maps to real world prototype.
Comment · 2 months ago
Check jet engine weight and include in the calculation. One weights 2200-3700 lbs according to same source that quotes 45.9 seat miles per gallon. Vs 125 pounds for electric engine.
Comment · 2 months ago
Game cartridges but with TPM inside? What is not to like?
Comment · 4 months ago
You mean targeting with ads, sucking into feeds, making kids harm themselves and making money on this with lip service about corporate responsibility?

Sounds about right.

Comment · 4 months ago
Policy of subsidizing various modes of transportation modes shapes consumer choices. Best example is high speed rail vs air on shorter routes.
Comment · 4 months ago
Would author be able to do it otherwise? Is particular tool choice making result worse?

Bit identical/pixel-faithful reproductions are easy to verify…

Comment · 7 months ago
Can you share examples of this happening in modern history at scale?
Comment · 10 months ago
It is perfectly usable for essential use cases. This thing also has very fast swap and is good at it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Government maybe rather than legislating big companies stores could not back up smaller open HW/SW vendors? It seems we gave up increasing competition on HW and what is left is app store level...
Comment · 1 year ago

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