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Post by Sacho »

tertius wrote: post #177
Sacho wrote: post #140

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It seems like those people didn't feel the electoral college was problematic. Otherwise, voting would have exposed the vast discrepancy between popular opinion and the college. Even if Hillary had won, that demonstration could be used to spur reform of the election process.

Say the majority went up to 55%... We'd still need a lot more than that to change the electoral college. And honestly, having big states control who becomes president just because of their population, given how independent states should function, is a cornerstone of the electoral college.

If Hillary was up to 55%, a feat not reached by Obama, the discrepancy between the college and the popular vote would be huge, at minimum 10%, which would top the already few instances of a president winning without the popular vote.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by doubleunplussed »

zeveb wrote: post #328
rurban wrote: post #80

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They closed this loophole a couple of years ago, by explicitly demanding that your devices need to be powered on and have enough battery power when entring the country. So powering off your device, putting out the battery or encrypting it is all forbidden.

Do you have any source for your assertion that one is required to have a powered battery when entering the country? On the face of it, that seems absurd.

I've heard announcements to this effect during takeoff on-route to the US: "Ensure you don't use your devices too much during flight if you can't charge them—they are required to be powered on during entry to the United States".

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by Veratyr »

klausjensen wrote: post #71
bkor wrote: post #63

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Around half did want him? That's a significant of people to me, no matter if they have the majority or not.

Technically, only ~57% of eligible voters actually voted. Of those, about half voted for Trump. So only about 27% of all eligible voters actually voted for Trump. That is pretty standard for a US presidential election. Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/10/13587462/...

> Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president.

Those are the rules for American democracy, which has many flaws, an inherent two party system being one of the major ones.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by larelogio »

woof wrote: post #346
boomboomsubban wrote: post #317

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No, I can't imagine wanting either of those people to win.

But you still have to choose between those two. By voting -preferably.

Do you "have" to?

Not voting is a form of expression as valid as any other.

You really don't have to accept a very bad candidate and by doing so you signal future candidates the availability of "free" votes.

Now, I admit that voting NULL is a stronger message, but is it really an option?

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by boomboomsubban »

ashark wrote: post #349
boomboomsubban wrote: post #146

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This ignores the other parties, which can explain most of the disparity. In Michigan, other candidates got about 1% of the vote in 12 and 5% in 16. Even if it helped Trump win, labeling them "spoilers" just ensures that our terrible system will have this happen again.

Our system stabilizes at two parties. Other parties aren't viable until/unless they hit a point where they can eat one existing party, or large parts of both. This happening will in short order kill one or both existing major parties, some brief chaos will ensue, and we'll end up with two parties again. Labeling does not cause this. Fixing that would be great (most sensible solutions would probably also fix our massi…

>but is unlikely to happen any time soon.

It's guaranteed not to happen as long as you vote for the big two parties, making sure it doesn't is one of the things that gets bipartisan support.

While I agree a win for a third party likely end with the new party entrenching itself like one of the current two, that seems like the best way to get a new party devoted to fixing this to emerge.

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Post by boomboomsubban »

woof wrote: post #346
boomboomsubban wrote: post #317

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No, I can't imagine wanting either of those people to win.

But you still have to choose between those two. By voting -preferably.

No. They are the people saying I need to choose between them. Supporting either is not in my interest, they will not earn my vote by being slightly less abhorrent.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

rapind wrote: post #266
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #252

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I think you're being deliberately obtuse and argumentative. I never mentioned personal time travel. The context is an article telling people not to bring work data with them when traveling for work/professional functions. If you're traveling for work, and your company can't guarantee your safe and reasonably comfortable travel to that destination in a work capacity -- they should recommend you not go.

Agreed, they shouldn't be asking them to go in a work capacity. I misunderstood your objection as them not having a right to ask their employees to remove data before personal travel.

Sorry I'd delete and edit my comment but it's too late now.

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Post by Markoff »

microtonal wrote: post #271
Markoff wrote: post #241

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uh, Seat is very well known for being very unreliable and by far the most unreliable brand of VW concern, Skoda is decent but pretty bad value against Koreans, if you equip Skoda same way as Korean you end up for sure on higher price. Japanese in general cost slightly more, but it's worth it for better engines, high quality, low risk of stealing and decent resell value, while Seat has zero value I can't really imagin…

Sorry, but the ADAC had excellent reviews for the Skoda models that we considered and good reviews for the Seats. I'd rather take their word than hearsay. Again, these models were cheaper than similar Japanese models, that we had also looked at. Admittedly, we haven't looked much at Korean models. That's mostly because my wife (I don't have a driver's license) had no experience and consequently no opinion about them.…

skodas are decent cars, it's just they are priced too high compared to Korean or even some Japanese brands which are better in all aspects

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by Markoff »

GFischer wrote: post #278
mugsie wrote: post #99

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Well: A) - Full HD video conferencing for ~ 100 people is not cheap. At all. Bandwidth costs alone would be huge. B) - For teams that work together remotely, it is very important for them to meet in person from time to time. Communication issues drop when you can put a face and personality to a name on IRC / email. (and no, this is not achieved via video calls)

I agree with your second point, not so much with the first, I've seen very intelligent approaches to video conferencing (only full HD video for the speaker, and dynamic upscaling-downscaling based on who's speaking), not to mention bandwidth is very cheap now. Communication is still a lot better face to face, but video conferencing is getting a lot better (and I'm betting on that with my own startup attempt :) ). I'd…

maybe i was not clear, there is no need to show participants at all, they would be fine with love text chat, you only need one video stream of trainee, which would be very cheap, they could even use Youtube
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