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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
To be fair, he also had to work with a Republican Senate to get pass any laws.
Comment · 6 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_405_(California)#%2...

There's some other precedent for the word Carmageddon other than an old game that a lot people haven't heard of.

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
How is this brand dilution?
Comment · 7 years ago
What's a good word for "obtaining digital content without paying for the right to possess said digital content"?
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm sure some people do. I prefer to pay for things though.
Comment · 7 years ago
> Don't use any javascript frontends.

I'm struggling to find the connection between a Javascript front end and content that has (to quote the article posted) "the voice of individuals"

Comment · 7 years ago
Hopefully this leads to the state getting good deal in the inevitable public takeover.
Comment · 7 years ago
> You're taking it on trust that it's anonymized to the point of being impossible to make any inferences about individuals, which is a huge leap, not only in trust, but data science.

I don't doubt that someone at Mozilla could de-anonymize that data, but I have enough trust in the organization that they won't

Comment · 7 years ago
What's your favorite thing about space? (Mine is space)
Comment · 7 years ago
Is it any safer than pasting your auth tokens into a standalone application like Postman? That can just as easily send that information somewhere else, but now you can't press F12, get a network tab, and look at outgoing requests.
Comment · 7 years ago
> but on the other hand, differences in "identical circuits" are often plainly audible.

I wonder how much of that is component tolerances. If you have two identical circuits with +-1% in resistors and +-5% in caps, how different would these sound with the components in each circuit at opposite ends of the tolerance range?

Comment · 7 years ago
Seems difficult to do. You'd need to know the name and address of the voter, and be sure that that haven't voted yet, and won't try to vote after you.

I can see that happening maybe a few times, but it seems ineffective on a large scale.

Comment · 7 years ago
- As recommended by another post, The Art of Electronics is great

- Make stuff! Adafruit has some great kits and project instructions. Find something that looks interesting and make it.

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