YokoZar

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by YokoZar 7y ago
Do you do code reviews on your phone too?
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by YokoZar 7y ago
Why not take this reasoning one step further and have Hacker news impose an 80 character line wrap limit? If you've ever had to deal with this in an email client, you can quickly see that 80 is undershooting it in the modern era.
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by YokoZar 7y ago
I was actually surprised when I learned this. The biggest complaint about Amazon had been a lack of curation and all that entails -- foot long brooms that photograph well, brands you've never heard of, cheap things that break quickly,
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by YokoZar 7y ago
An episode of Marketplace this week highlighted a recent survey showing a strong majority of people preferring 4x10 rather than 5x8. It's unclear why it isn't more common.
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by YokoZar 7y ago
Millenials are distribued evenly throughout every electoral district. Without proportional representation, it's a perfect gerrymander.
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by YokoZar 7y ago
The rich countries drained their swamps to end malaria starting in the 19th century. It was one of the first major public works projects.
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by YokoZar 7y ago
When you combine consumption taxes with basic income you get a net progressive system. You also get the benefit of discouraging consumption rather than discouraging earning income.
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Didn't they buy a company with an already working platform?
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At least your friends don't need a whole lot of instruction to join. Inserting pictures is pretty easy. And it's mobile.
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by YokoZar 7y ago
Would it really cost about 400 thousand dollars per homeless person? That's what 50 bil / 130,000 gets you.
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by YokoZar 7y ago
The link you included says the opposite of what you're implying. > under the circumstances the captain's decision to ditch into the Hudson River was the better choice, documents released Tuesday by a federal safety panel said &
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by YokoZar 7y ago
Perhaps today's Senators have learned not to completely wing it - we're a long way from the "series of tubes" era.
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by YokoZar 7y ago
Most states already have a refundable deposit on recyclable containers. In practice, it functions as a tax on recyclable containers: most individuals don't reclaim the deposit unless they're harvesting cans in bulk.
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by YokoZar 7y ago
The shortage is for beach sand. I believe glass is made from different sort of sand.
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Right but for the scam to work at some point they have to connect you to a human who asks for payment. So while the Caller ID may be spoofed the number embedded in the message wouldn't be.
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> Microsoft will not charge for using ElectionGuard and will not profit from partnering with election technology suppliers that incorporate it into their products. I'm not sure how much stronger of a statement they can make than tha
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The system for verifiable receipts in the article does not require electronic voting in either the vote-casting or vote-counting process. It's an explicitly paper system.
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>The numbers match, there is no reason for a hand count. The whole point of this scheme is to provide strong evidence for when the numbers won't match. This is an advantage over existing optical scan systems, where a recount requir
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by YokoZar 7y ago
This isn't an electronic voting system. It's a system for verifiable receipts that attach to paper systems. > ElectionGuard provides a complete implementation of end-to-end verifiable elections. It is designed to work with sys
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by YokoZar 7y ago
How is this relevant? This isn't an electronic voting system. It's a system for verifiable receipts that attach to paper systems. > ElectionGuard provides a complete implementation of end-to-end verifiable elections. It is de
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by YokoZar 7y ago
This isn't an electronic voting system. > ElectionGuard provides a complete implementation of end-to-end verifiable elections. It is designed to work with systems that use paper ballots, supplementing today’s tabulation process by p
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by YokoZar 7y ago
Right - the way you verify that is by asking for 100 sealed Alice envelopes, and opening 99 of them at random. If the machine was trying to trick you, you have a strong chance of catching it. You still walk out with a sealed envelope, and
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by YokoZar 7y ago
While I appreciate the cynicism, I'm not seeing how an open schema for tamper-evident verifiable voting machines could be anything other than positive. It's worth noting that Microsoft has discouraged the use of embedded Windows o
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by YokoZar 7y ago
Imagine I ask the voting machine to give me 100 sealed envelopes with "Alice" written in them and 100 sealed envelopes with "Bob" written in them. I open and destroy 199 of them, verify that Alice votes are Alice votes
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by YokoZar 7y ago
The mechanism for voter verification is based on homomorphic encryption. Numberphile made a video on this topic recently, with a few basic explainers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRTvoZ3Rho
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by YokoZar 7y ago
Whether or not a person voted in a given election is already public knowledge. How does this scheme give an attacker any more information than that? If you're willing to assume the attacker is into the voting booth, you're no wor
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by YokoZar 7y ago
This isn't an electronic voting system. > ElectionGuard provides a complete implementation of end-to-end verifiable elections. It is designed to work with systems that use paper ballots, supplementing today’s tabulation process by p
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Google is an Irish company.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Or you could hire a property manager. What's the typical rate they charge?
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by YokoZar 8y ago
I worry about the phrase "possible" in there. If you're in a place with no opportunity, you may genuinely believe that the best possible life for you isn't a very good one, and thus rate yourself near the top even tho

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