In Switzerland, it is only done in few cantons and only up to 30% of the population.[1]
I have no idea how it is intended, but I personally interpret it like this:
- It is mostly an experiment so far.
- If it fails (thinking about exploitation), Switzerland does not lose a lot and just goes back to 100% paper-voting.
- It is a free service to other countries to show what e-voting can be in best-case.
- It does not show what could happen in worst-case.
- The riskiest part of this experiment is the interpretation.
what if they removed only 33% of the stops?
so per 3 stops, one is removed and the remaining were rearranged.
it might even happen that the new bus stop is closer to your house.
i agree, for the average person, the distance to the stop increases though.
The machine smells correctly, when the same numbers (or similar when using some norm, e.g. the L2) appear for the same smell (reproducibility) and therefore a mapping (numbers -> smell) can be created. When this starts to exist (practically usable), there can be a database to store the mappings, allowing classification. E.g., the machine says "this tastes like banana". The machines/algorithms/products could itself be rated for precision.
I dont say such machines don't exist, but for my taste (pun intended) the solutions all lack something, either long term stability or having a second source supplier or being able to classify a reasonable amount of tastes or being able to distinguish between two tastes (or lacking all those things together).
Or install direnv and put your dependencies into a shell.nix, setup the bash hook according the manual, create the .envrc with the content "use nix". Then type "direnv allow".
Then you can do e.g. use other persons python scripts without modifying their shebang.
The technology is widespread, you can buy spools of wires and wind your own coils. A spool might still be in the range of 3k$+, probably due to the manufacturing costs of all those single wire strands.
However, as we already know, the superconductivity currently starts only at low temps and I think the wires are limited by a maximum current (max field density?)
If you handle the spool, NEVER lose the beginning of the wire, always fixate it, otherwise there might be a knots after some unspooling, then you might need to buy a new one.