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Emission checks for EVs?

>It’s interesting to me that they continue to spawn and nix products like this despite the reputation damage it causes. I guess this means a "reputation" doesn't influence their pr…

So why is it hosted in Germany and not, say, China?

Anything related to crypto/blockchain tends to be a technically very poor way of doing decentralisation.

>Government-sponsored was not a US propaganda badge, it was a response to a serious concern about adversarial governments For most people USA is an adversarial government. You've j…

Yes. I your car catches fire when parked, you probably want to grab a fire extinguisher instead of complaining, even though it's not technically your fault.

And look how effective that was.

So, does it? xD

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s/employing/led by/. Yeah, pretty much.

So here's where we disagree: to me, any institution led by Medvedev won't be independent; funding formalities don't matter at all. Also, once again: there's a fundamental differenc…

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/where-have-russians-bee...

Oh, definitely; it could be based on literally anything, or just effectively random. But it doesn't change my view of whether the outcome is positive or not.

So if it was instead registered as a private company, with, say, Medvedev as CEO, it would be fine?

And there is a way out. And there's been for over a year now.

No, my argument is that an institution managed by past government officials cannot be unironically called independent from said government.

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Have you ever considered the possible difference between what's officially allowed and what's actually happening? Nowadays, when information is abundant, individual stories don't m…