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by coolgeek 6y ago
My second link cited 20 studies, 4 court cases and 8 state-wide or federal investigations. > Also 99.9% of people already have IDs Citation needed. https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-... ht
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So, 1,071 proven instances over what period of time? Over what overall count of cast ballots? Here are some other reviews: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-com... http
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> gerrymandering, polling center availability and security, chain of custody, paper processing, electronic machine hacks, suspect company backgrounds These are all important concerns, but they have absolutely nothing to do with vote frau
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So here's the thing - thousands of Republicans and conservatives have made claims of widespread vote/voter fraud. I'm not aware of a single claim that withstood scrutiny or that was even attempted to prosecute, let alone done
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Ah, okay, that makes sense now. We call it bird shot here. Birds are also known to perch upon wires, which is another factor that I hadn't considered before. (Actually, I wasn't even thinking about birds at all... I was only con
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The user you're replying to presumably understands a bit about the cited inconveniences, as well as SQL, in general > user: petergeoghegan > about: PostgreSQL major contributor, committer.
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It's not just the history. It's the same thing with any collectables - first edition books, baseball cards, Star Wars toys... Some person (or group of persons) crafted this thing. Some small subset of the original purchasers valu
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> hunter's stray bullets often severed the cables Wait, what? If stray bullets are randomly severing cables - and doing so "often" - they should often be randomly hitting other things, in a frequency corresponding to the
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Thanks, but that could use some documentation. Directory names like "1CO" are completely opaque to me, and almost certainly others
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Don't be so quick to dismiss all of this as "racism+orientalism". There is, indeed, a fair degree of that. But there are parallels to the situation with Japan in the late 80s to early 90s when everybody thought that Japan wa
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Not all databases are relational. Not all relational databases are built on b-trees. From the summary: > Many people are building queue managers on file systems as a transactional resource manager and a TP-lite monitor. An alternative
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Dude (or dudette), you missed the Boombox era. It. Was. Awesome. But the portability was hit or miss. And the boom part could be a problem in certain situations. Thus the need for a much smaller (more portable), and more personal (headphon
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> but the fact that a crude general-purpose model like ANN works as well as it does is certainly evidence that humans can learn language statistically Humans learn language intuitively (subconsciously), as well as formally (through acade
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That article was from four years ago. More importantly, prior to clicking on the article, I would have bet a lot of money that Saul Pwanson was Paul Swanson's Twitter handle.
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> Better late than never! Same here, with the reply! As it happens, I had that link saved before, but have not had a chance to really dig in to it. But the high quality nature of its contents is immediately apparent, so it's near th
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Author alert: "The The lake houses..."
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This seems to be a challenging subject to search for. Can you point to any sources to learn more about this phenomenon?
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This is code from the 60s/70s running on IBM mainframes. It should not be surprising that it is written in Assembler, given those factors and the performance advantages over the alternatives. I was writing new 370 Assembler in the 90s
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I'd like to hear more about this. My understanding is that these things are not Turing complete, and don't resemble Von Neumann machines (or any other architecture we use for computers). But the processes themselves can be unders
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That was linked 19 days ago, 479 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23236599 This is new/different
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Contact tracing, in the epidemiological sense, is a process of interviewing and mapping out contact graphs. What is presumably going on here is tracing through devices and accounts. Those are very different processes.
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Broadcastify took down all Philly LE feeds early this afternoon > Status: FEED OFFLINE DUE TO RIOTERS USING FEED AGAINST POLICE. https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/ctid/2291 I can't see many impacted citi
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The Republicans on HPSCI found what they wanted to find, and avoided finding what they didn't want to find. See the HPSCI minority report for the specific details on this. Much of the HPSCI majority report is also contradicted by:
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Here are some actual facts, rather than assertions or WSJ editorials (as opposed to reported articles) https://www.justsecurity.org/63838/guide-to-the-mueller-repo... It's almost surreal that users named Overtonwi
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Fair point. Please now explain how reopening the schools will reduce the replication factor.
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While we're clarifying, the decision was opt-out - everybody was included unless they took action to be excluded. Opt-in means that you're not included unless you take action to be included.
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Inconsistent json data is exactly why you use a json data type or database. I know that you , dear developer, would never produce inconsistent data. But lots of other developers do. It is often the case that you will need to query t
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Bletchley Park codebreaker who helped change course of World War II dies aged 97(scotsman.com)
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I already spend more time than I should in considering how to prove that math exists. So if you're talking about physical things in your first paragraph, that's one of those things that I have to prohibit myself from contemplatin
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So, first off, Model Theory teaches us that there are an infinite number of ways to represent calculus (or any other branch of mathematics). So there is no 'true' way. There are only ways that we have discovered and used. Second

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