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donaltroddyn

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About donaltroddyn

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    Comment #49072199

    > I suspect they are, and the choice of leaving things misconfigured is deliberate. That honestly doesn't fit our data or my experience. In our scanning, about 60% of the misconfig…

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    Comment #49062431

    I think you're right that many (most?) CMPs are broken, though usually not deliberately. Most try to gate analytics and ad tracking on consent, just often misconfigured. The common…

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    Comment #47951263

    They can become a lot more expensive than $100, but the difference between a Littman Cardiology and the $15 EMT student stethoscope is night and day. > Currently, the stethoscope r…

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    Comment #25238679

    Part of it is that webcams are nearly impossible to buy since the pandemic arose, but apart from that, webcam image quality is terrible - even expensive webcams in the price range …

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    Comment #25172696

    It also is in Ireland, but there are valid reasons, such as as replacing an ECU or dash cluster. Unless auto manufacturers are required to fit much more secure odometers, I can't s…

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    Comment #25172027

    I was being slightly facetious in referencing tyre size, although people regularly have to adjust speedo/odometers by 10% or more when fitting large tyres on off-roaders. Odometers…

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    Comment #25171788

    I don't think Odometers are reliable enough, especially as the basis for a tax. You'd certainly see an increase in average tyre size!

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    Comment #25171709

    How do you track the number of Kms driven? Is it possible to do so while maintaining the privacy of individuals?

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    Comment #25106371

    Only five US States don't have Sales Tax, and most counties and cities have their own, too.

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    Comment #25100852

    Similarly, in Ireland where we run 230VAC single phase, three phase 400VAC allows up to 22kW to be delivered, which is about to become extremely useful as we migrate to electric tr…

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    Comment #25100653

    And more safely, as there is no possibility of superheating the water.

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    Comment #25092016

    And the famine was the big hunger (an Gorta Mór).

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    Comment #25092004

    Interesting. In Ireland, they're referred to as RTCs (collisions), although still referred to as accidents in law. Never come across RTI before.

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    Comment #24672804

    The GDPR does not allow the processing of personal data at all without out a legal basis, and the prevention of unlawful data processing does not require that you submit any identi…

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    Comment #24340291

    The OP is the founder of BetaList.

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    Comment #24239759

    Have you found a way to donate? All the links on that page are dead for me.

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    Comment #24180921

    > I just think the above argument was made from a fundamental misunderstanding of blockchain technology. Which misunderstanding of blockchains/merkle trees do you believe has cause…

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    Comment #24176475

    It's certainly not a ridiculous argument. Anonymity is a cornerstone of fair voting systems, and any system that allows votes to be deanonymised increases the risk of coercion. The…

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    Comment #24071207

    Just a note: at sea, when the ratio of wave height to wave length exceeds 0.17, the wave will break, so a 1m by 1m is impossibly steep.

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    Comment #23901182

    Thanks for working on this.

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    Comment #23899185

    The 7-colour version doesn't support partial refresh and has a 15s refresh time (~0.067Hz refresh rate), so you'd want to be a really confident touch typist.