I would like to think so

Most democracies do not use voting machines because it’s impossible to trust anyone with creating and maintaining it.

If there is a way to change the vote tallies, then clever people will use it to enrich themselves.

The only way to circumvent most cheating is by paper ballots recounted manually in front of representatives of all candidates: recounted as many times as asked; and the ballots must be kept in public view until a winner is declared.

Putting the ballots into any other device negates some or all of the above.

And I would only have to say this in American political posts. But Americans are married to voting in ways that cannot be verified, except in some states. So most likely what’s seen as common sense in most of the world is either ignored or viewed with suspicion here.

Ask any student in the uk though; and I’m just echoing what has been taught in school to young children

it’s a pretty inconclusive statement , and can be interpreted.

Post here when he and others say it’s correct

Making things very obscured is not a proof.

The guy is politely saying it’s nonsense

quietly judge people based on what they bought

This is the reason it’s worth it. No other industry, except delivery, allows nosy people to judge so many others, safety, and without comment

I’m cynically believing that this is the beginning of enforcing a copywrite use tax; when anyone generates something that is visual or audible.

The tax will be collected by the government and put into a slush fund that mostly goes to corporations and wealthy, while ostensibly supposed to go fairly to all creators

Earn social credit while pouring juice

wrong film

Second reality on your left, past the one where Santa Clause rules the world

They are too big to not be bailed out; the loss absolutely will be a millstone around the budget for over a generation. This will cause a lot of suffering and make the rich richer and the majority of us much poorer

Edit: I was predicting what would happen, not what should happen. It’s very easy to state what the corrupted government will do. I in no way support what is surly inevitable by the wicked ones

But… Betteridge’s law of headlines normally works, it caught me off guard

I guess this will break millions of search links built up over the years

From my understanding, busting monopolies, without changing the underlying structures, only creates Oligopolies which coordinate together.

It’s going to take far more than that

It cannot be taken down unless there are many changes in several countries; however it will be quite the achievement to reform or have revolution in only one or two countries in the next generation.

The only hope in all this is that technology changes, and what Google has control over will be obsolete in a decade or more.

Cold comfort.

I would like to agree that most of the original contributions on Reddit today come from people who use old Reddit.

I know this because while I have not had an account there for a while; when I was there, I networked with others to know trends of how they connected

I don’t think this preference has changed , and probably even more use old now

I imagine even if they tried to make a run with the ads, different people who were sociopathic would have still gained the monopoly.

The building of that monopoly required criminal minds

Yea, it’s nice; I’ve coded with it.

Rails just never hit the mainstream. That might be because it never had many powerful sponsors. There are some clever people and big companies that think it’s good to use. But I think the support is too scattered to attract an increase of use, so it languishes in the ecosystems.

And having hundreds of well maintained libraries will be the only way it can get popular now. And it cannot attract the new programmers in sufficient quantity to do that. And it cannot increase its sponsors until it has it.

So, it will remain a very cool thing most people won’t use

Ruby on Rails was always fringe but will always have its advocates

His foundation has invested in it per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)

It may be difficult to self host for many years without significant downtime. I have some repos over 20 years old, and have gone through several boom and bust cycles myself.

All the major companies have too many ghosts, and will do things I do not like.

I really want to support more ethical organizations