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The only reasonable explanation is the poll is done on a very private or paranoid group
Higher reliability and the pandemic definitely have something to do with it. But so does the long slow recovery of the used car market after something like a million perfectly good cars were destroyed.
Less new vehicles are being purchased because there's ample supply of serviceable post-clunkers used ones
I keep seeing this stuff being pushed by anti vaxxers on Facebook as an alternative to getting vaccinated.
Do we see drugs being pushed for smallpox or measles? No. Because the vaccine is cheap and more effective.
Get vaccinated.
We should focus on reducing browser feature creep. There's hundreds of features and most of them are barely used or legacy
The reason is this: Reed Solomon corrects entire symbols, but can only correct so many symbols per block. LDPC and Turbo correct single bit errors. If you have a lot of single bit errors, mixed with completely corrupt blocks, it's best to use both.
Interleaving usually mixes the bits around too, to spread long chains of errors out between symbols.
This setup is used in digital radio, 3G, CD and DVD, DSL, etc
Look at how quickly Biden's minimum wage increase got smashed. More interesting, look at how some populists on the right are also calling for it. And look at how populists and progressives on both sides are asking for regulations on big tech.
The progressive wing is split. Trump picked up a ton of voters that were mad Obama didn't help them. These voters otherwise align more with Bernie Sanders and AOC. You'll notice some MAGA voters have a begrudging respect for those two. It's because they honestly want to help people, reputation be damned.
The US is on a path towards oligarchy unless the voters can shake our parties free from their corporate overlords.
The right has elements of populism but serves the owner class. The left has a progressive wing that's basically powerless. In most other democracies these elements would be aligned in a progressive green party. But split as they are in the US, they're powerless.
Under Obama, Democrats had a veto proof majority for 2 years and didn't do much to help income inequality. Trump talked a lot about helping blue collar workers but similarly did nothing. I'm afraid both parties are too corrupted by big business
The 90's was when the first generation not exposed to tetraethyl lead reached their teens
Labor unions were very effective at increasing wages for blue collar jobs. Particularly ones not easily outsourced, like construction. Businesses have lobbied to systematically attack organized labor for around 100 years. The few unions left are relics from an earlier time. Businesses have made it neigh impossible to form new ones.
The "gig economy" is a new form of exploitation. Technology has enabled a new breed of job that barely skirts employee regulations. This has undone decades of worker protections.
Importation of foreign workers has been good for foreign workers, but in the US is mostly a tool to suppress wages. You can get away with more law breaking when your employees are wholly dependant on you. Job Visas are indentured servitude.
The US has regressed in every income inequality metric over the last 50 years. To out it simply, the ultra rich own half the country. You don't see this same wealth concentration happening in Europe.
If wages kept pace with worker productivity, the average worker would make something like $150,000 a year. The productivity gains are real, but all this money has gone to the people at the top. Tax law is just a small part of why the median American is getting poorer while the average American gets richer
also dont need expensive current meter when you already have shunt. you can get $20 solar power meters that work with the shunt.
I like the idea of using a dolly.