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I agree with you about the latter two, but the first question is a pretty direct comparison between a representative democracy and whole-process people's democracy. I'd love to see the answers for that first question specifically, they can't be too low given the combined average score is like 25, so the minimum possible average for that question is 5.

Yeah, this is pretty much my conclusion as well

TL;DR, the questions asked were:

1. ‘National leaders should be selected by the people through free and competitive elections.’
2. ‘Individual rights and freedoms should NOT be infringed upon but be protected by the government.’
3. ‘Ordinary citizens should be allowed and be able to perform their civic duties such as vote and participate in public affairs at local and national levels.’

For each question, the respondents were asked how much they agree on a scale from 1 to 10, then the answers were added up (with combined total from 3 to 30) and then they were rescaled from 0 to 1 (with 3 → 0, 30 → 1).

For pre-1990 generations, the rescaled total was 0.83, for post-1990 generations it was 0.8. So, the way I look at it, support for those three values is relatively high overall, and has declined rather insignificantly.

TBH, I think the headline is pretty bad.

I don't think there's much "shunning" going on here. But also, I don't think the questions are necessarily about a "liberal" democracy. They had nothing to do with private property on the means of production, or otherwise capitalism, but rather about the style of democracy employed ("democratic dictatorship or proletariat" vs "representative democracy"). Given that the younger generations enjoyed the rapid growth and vast improvements in living conditions, it's no surprise to me that they also support the existing system more (even if slightly) than the older generations.

Wait until you read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian

Oh, nice. I didn't know that.

There's also PipePipe, which also does SponsorBlock so that you don't have to see sponsor segments in videos

You know you can install the "chromium-like" translation thing on Firefox as well, as an extension? E.g. this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-paginas-web/

1. This is not a problem that needs solving, it's an artificial barrier to prevent you from using the device which reduces profit for the manufacturer. Being able to install and run whatever software you want (apart from actual hardware limitations) has been part of personal computers since the invention of personal computers.
2. Google is trying its best to do this as well, if you've missed the news.

I think the actual headline should be "Apple forced to remove some illegal barriers to app installation for users in Brazil".

I am annoyed by the headline giving Apple the agency to let users use their device. Screw that, if someone buys a device they should be able to use it however they please, including installing their own OS and their own apps on top, and replacing any part of the hardware. Anything preventing that should be illegal.

Ground is always there just for safety. It is supposed to be connected to any metal bits on the outside of any device, so that if a live wire touches the outside it just shorts and some fuse blows or circuit breaker trips, rather than providing an unpleasant surprise to anyone who touches it.

Most modern electronics is "double-insulated", meaning there are at least two layers of reinforced insulating material between any mains-carrying conductors and the user. This is deemed to be safe enough so that those devices don't need to be grounded, and if the case is plastic then they will almost never be. So if you're only connecting plastic-cased electronics to the socket, a ground would be superfluous in almost all cases. There might be some exceptions, like power supplies connecting one of the low-voltage pins to ground, but it is quite rare to see.

Electricity doesn’t really work in a way the host can “push” current

On a basic level this is precisely how electricity works, a power supply literally pushes electrons by creating a difference in electric field magnitude between two points; or, in other words, by applying an electromotive force to electrons; or, in other words, by creating a voltage between two points. A load then does something with those electrons that usually creates an opposing electric field, be it heating a wire, spinning a motor, or sustaining a chemical reaction within a battery. The amount of power produced by the source and released at the load is proportional to (voltage) * (number of electrons being pushed by the supply per unit of time); usually, this is the limiting factor for most power supplies. They can hold a steady voltage until they have to push too many electrons, then the voltage starts dropping.

Edit: I see what you mean now. Yeah, for a given voltage, it is the load that determines the current, so there's no safety issue with this for the load. However there could be issues with the cables. IIRC there was an issue with noise being introduced by higher current draws that meant you couldn't charge and transfer data at the same time with some cables.

Well, the original comment was about "pushing more current through than the spec", and that's pretty much what we did...