Because, quite frankly, parts identified by hashes is not all they see.
If you're monitoring and logging the traffic then it's trivial to not only determine the filename of a bittorrent download, but also everything you need to connect to the torrent yourself and download it to verify that it's what the filename says, if that's what you wish to do.
And, personally, I'd expect someone to at least check the filename before accusing me of committing a crime. :(
> ...and it's nice to have 110% of your maximum expected needs covered rather than 80%.
That depends very much on the person. For someone with no kids and that needs to move very large cargo every once in a while, it may be the pickup truck that's the 110% and the SUV that's the 80%.
Depends on the speed you most commonly drive. For urban drivers, they spend a lot of time at slower speeds where aerodynamics is less critical. Also, even pickup trucks are designed to be much more aerodynamic and efficient then they used to be these days.
For rural drivers, they probably have other reasons to want a pickup truck besides simple cost effectiveness. They're usually the ones who actually do need the carrying capacity.
We're talking about a vehicle that's not really even relevant to the question of why different countries prefer different four-wheeled vehicles, though. People looking for a four-wheeled car or truck are generally not looking for a motorcycle, and vice versa.
> I think you're implicitly talking about a classic style 2-door pickup truck, but most consumer trucks these days seem to have four doors.
Replace the shortened bed in the back with a cover and a third row of seating, though, and you have an SUV that's still going to be even heavier and more expensive.
> Small two door pickup trucks are even more extinct, at least in the US.
Very true, and as a small pickup lover that makes me sad. :(
> It's been a long time since there was a market for those.
Indeed, which leads back to the question I posed above... why do we prefer such large vehicles?
Because the pickup truck form factor is the most efficient and inexpensive one there is. No really, hear me out! I see this asked all the time, but you're actually asking the wrong question.
I mean, think about it, what's the most minimal, lightest, cheapest form a motor vehicle could possibly take? It would have wheels, of course, some sort of frame to attach everything to, somewhere to put the engine, and somewhere to put the driver. That's it! A cab up front to house the engine and driver on a frame with wheels. Add some simple low sides to the frame to keep stuff in and that basically describes a pickup truck.
The truth is, for any particular load carrying and/or towing capacity, a pickup truck is the most efficient and least expensive common consumer option. Adding a cover over the back, additional seating, and other amenities just adds weight and cost. A tiny subcompact pickup truck version of even the smallest little hatchback can be cheaper and lighter then the hatchback can ever be simply because it's the same thing but made with less stuff.
I suspect the real question you want to ask, is this: why are such high cargo/towing capacity vehicles so popular? In other words, why do we buy such huge vehicles?
He's being downvoted because there has never been any evidence for any significant amount of voter fraud whatsoever, though many have looked carefully for it. It's not just thought not to be a problem, but KNOWN not to be a problem. The idea that large amounts of illegals are voting fraudulently is pure right-wing propaganda made up to justify minority disenfranchisement efforts.
> I found US public school education was not about learning and mastery. It's about conformity and obedience.
Bingo.
There has been much improvement in curriculum over the years, certainly, but the structure of the American school system is still basically the same one that was originally designed expressly to produce a body of conforming and obedient factory workers with a consistent and predicable level of skills.
If this technology is being made available to consumers now, that means it's existed before now, probably for years, outside of the public's awareness.
Makes you think. What's been faked in the last year or two that we didn't know could be faked?
Which is vastly superior to the alternative, which is taking on the liability myself and facing the possibility of being financially devastated by fraud and/or theft.
> People who go into the military are more conservative than liberal, on average.
In-group loyalty is paramount to conservatives. Family and community first, and all that.
> They are more patriotic on average...
Exactly, and that supports my argument. If California declares independence, then the patriots from California will either side with their homeland, their communities, the places where their families are... or be traitors to their homeland, community, and family.
What do you think is the more likely thing for a conservative to do?
> I don't see many, or any significant amount going rogue...
If it reached the point where California declared independence, it would be those who sided with the US who were the ones "going rouge".
You are completely ignoring, most importantly, the issue of family. A service member from California almost certainly has their family in California. Your suggestion is that a significant majority of service members would side against their own family. That is what siding with the federal government in the even of California declaring independence would mean. Does that really seem likely to you? That they would side against their own family and home? Especially for a group that tends towards being conservative?
SQL.
> How do their different applications talk to each other?
Proprietary APIs.
> How do they scale their systems to work for millions of users?
T H E C L O U D
> How do they keep them secure?
They just... don't.
> How do they make sure nothing goes wrong?
They just... don't.
> What are APIs, webhooks and client libraries, when you really get down to it?
Easily outsourced to India.