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Voting fraud might occur in any way, but I think it's quite obvious that from this point of view voting booths are better than mail voting.

> Only the last vote counts.

Is it always like this? I could also go at someone's place one minute before the voting closes.

Voting at the voting booth is still more secure.

In person voting at the voting booth is without any doubt more secure. For something so important like voting I would only use the most secure option.

I live in a country with only voting at the voting booth and I am perfectly happy with it!

In addition to this, the fact that you are not aware of voting fraud does not mean it does not happen. That's why it's important to care about potential voting fraud.

Looks like XMMS to me. https://www.xmms.org

The electronic ID is a great idea for everything except for voting.

I can easily go to someone's place, make sure he votes for my candidate and give him 10$. A lot of people with low interest in politics would sell their vote, I suppose.

Polling booths are still safer than all other options (mail voting, electronic voting, etc...)

There are a couple of services I would love to use, but I have a strict no-subscription policy. It just gives me bad vibes, I would rather pay 24 months upfront and have the full application/service.

Of course this does not matter, because the MBAs in charge showed in a PowerPoint presentation that the subscription model will squeeze 11.1% more money for customers, mostly from people who forget to unsubscribe.

> The new plan has some limitations. While Germany’s 9-euro ($9) passes cover all public transit except faster train services, Spain will restrict itself to regional and suburban rail services, which are not as extensive as they are in Germany. While it might be technically possible to travel across Spain using only regional trains, it would not necessarily be easy because the slower network is quite patchy.

To be honest the German situation is not so different from the Spanish one.

Going from Munich to Berlin with the 9-euro ticket requires from 3 to 6 changes, and from 10 to 15 hours.

I think there should be! And I welcome any technology enabling it!

There are fully anonymous cryptocurrencies. Also, in a public ledger, an address is not directly associated to a person.

The vast majority of human activities have a carbon footprint.

I would rather give up Facebook and all other social (which in my opinion add no value to society) rather than cryptocurrencies (which are instrumental to the right of privately transacting online, which I deem very important).

This obsession over the carbon footprint of cryptocurrencies is ideological and, ultimately, wrong.

Still very rough years for Russia. Still as tone deaf as observing that since grandma has suddenly died the ecological footprint of the family greatly improved.

Must be the most tone deaf article I read in a while. Lots of people were starving in Russia in the ‘90s, for sure malnourished or dead people emit less carbon.

Sure, sure, but I find difficult to believe that an industrial superpower such as Germany can't find a solution in a couple of months.

The the usual politicians' way of speaking. If there was the political will of having the nuclear power plants works, they would go and find the spare parts in a second. There's no political will (thank you Greens!) so they make up excuses.

> Contracts have been terminated, replacement parts with long lead times haven't been ordered, maintenance windows have been shifted in anticipation of the shutdown.

Sounds like a long list of lame excuses.

> Another ban was instituted in 1869.

That's more than 150 years ago. Matches pretty much my definition of consistency.

Even before, there might have been some doctrinal adjustments, but abortion was condemned by many Fathers of the Church, in the very early centuries.

Indeed, even though I generally support guns rights, I think they should be regulated by state law.

However, notice the difference: the 2nd Amendment is extremely clear in granting the right to bear arms, whereas the 14th Amendment needs to be twisted in an almost comical way to get out of it a right to abortion.

To be honest I am pretty fine with it. For a few reasons:

1) Abortion (in my opinion) should not be a constitutional right. I can't name a country that has abortion as a constitutional right. More generally: the constitution should care about super-general, universally-agreed values, let's leave everything else to the legislative branch!

2) Roe v. Wade was a bad decision. Before you downvote me, read the 14th Amendment: how the judges could infer from it at the time a right to abortion is beyond me! I can squint my eyes a lot, but the right is simply not there!

Edit: downvoters, go read the 14th Amendment, and tell me if you can honestly read a right to abortion in there.

> What I witnessed was no less than a 45 minute diatribe on the dangers of abortion, casting various aspersions (ad hominem) on any political leader not on board with new political agenda of the Catholic Church.

A typical Catholic Mass lasts less than one hour. Most of the Mass follows a fixed, prescribed set of prayers and readings, that have nothing to do with politics. In the middle there's a sermon, that usually lasts about 15 minutes, that might include references to news or to politics.

Either you ended up at a very atypical mass, and by very atypical I'd say borderline heretic, or you don't remember well.

> with new political agenda of the Catholic Church.

New? Like it or not, the position of the Catholic Church on abortion has been extraordinarily consistent through the centuries.

Handguns might be more common in dangerous areas. Did they account for this?

No, it's the right link. "Express my sorrow at having caused pain" is a more formal way of saying "I am sorry I have caused pain".

You are free to claim there are some subtle differences (pro tip: there are not), but further nitpicking will make you look a bit foolish, in my opinion. Your choice.

Yes, he did, on his personal blog.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/new-m...

https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/

> Brave search is a possibility, but they’re owned and managed by a homophobic douchebag.

Here we go again... He donated a few thousands dollars in 2008 and 2010 to a referendum campaign against same-sex marriage. He then repeatedly said he was sorry.

Is this being a "homophobic douchebag", considering that all politicians from both sides of the aisle held the same views at some point not so distant in time from 2008?

Just to put things in context, in 2008 Joe Biden asserted he opposed “redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage.” Also a "homophobic douchebag"?

Also the guy is a genius, he invented Javascript, his technical prowess would probably have an effect on Brave, rather than his political views.

This intolerance of even the slightest political dissent is worrying.

My feeling is that cryptocurrencies brought wealth to people considerably less political than the traditional financial elites. And I really like this.

Still, if the traditional finance is affected by the downturn in crypto is just because the first ridiculed BTC and then jumped on the bandwagon too late. They could have decided to invest in BTC in 2015, rather than laughing, or they could have decided not to take part in the game, and not to integrate traditional finance with crypto.

Still, joke's on them, people who bought crypto in 2015 are doing pretty fine, even with this "huge downturn". Looks like the "traditional finance" forgot to buy low and sell high.

Looks like someone is a little afraid. At least they updating a bit the playbook, now to bash BTC they leverage on people's fear of a possible recession. It still won't work, but at least it's fun to see new excuses.

Errors do not sum like regular numbers. You want to take the square root of the sum of the squares of the errors.

sqrt(6.4^2 + 6.9^2) ≈ 9.4

You can have a look here: http://ipl.physics.harvard.edu/wp-uploads/2013/03/PS3_Error_...

Freedom Fries was a joke, but you might be interested in McCarthyism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

which, in my opinion, has many similarities with the current anti-Russia hysteria.

Wrong comparison. A better one would be: the guy painting your fence is from the same country as another guy torturing your neighbour.

In place FS conversion looks like black magic to me! Props to the authors!!

I condemn any kind of invasion, so I agree with you on that part.

It amazes me that only some breaches of the Budapest memorandum are mentioned often, while others are somehow forgotten!

The Budapest memorandum also assured no economic coercion, and it applied to Belarus, as well.

Still the USA applied sanctions against Belarus, therefore breaching the memorandum.

That’s also something you don’t hear very much in the news!