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The Arizona Election Hack Story Is an Embarrassment to Everyone Involved(medium.com)
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Transparency of pricing models does not immediately result in better outcomes for consumers. In some cases, it may actually result in worse outcomes. Consider when there are few companies within an industry, like rare metal mining. If the
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The benefit of transparent elections outweighs the costs of counting paper. If we really wanted to do elections cheaply, we'd just hire a couple of undergrads to write a Node.js script and give polling stations some desktop PC's
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by chendies 10y ago
This is very impressive. I wonder what the server costs to run a website like Reddit would be if they hadn't used Python and instead used assembly, C or C++. The benchmarks game [1] suggests that C++ can have a speedup of 10x to 100x f
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by chendies 10y ago
You can already create that. The problem is getting everyone else to configure their systems to use it.
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by chendies 10y ago
Maybe older people are better at rationalizing low errors. e.g. if there is a small error, older people can convince themselves that they were right and the world is wrong. (My reasoning was correct, but the answer was wrong by chance. Ther
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Vermeer was also suspected to have used optics to help him paint, as highlighted in the documentary Tim's Vermeer [0]. Although their evidence is circumstantial, some color artifacts are difficult to explain in other ways. For instance
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by chendies 10y ago
There are also hardly any search queries on Google trends [1], and less than 10 total tweets in Turkish between 2014-01-01 and 2016-07-16 [2]. Very strange, indeed. [1] https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2014-01
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by chendies 10y ago
The ACLU has an app that can be used to record police encounters. Fortunately, the ACLU won't be shutting it off at the police request.