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by crispy2000 10y ago
Here's some harder news: Michigan officials say they can not reconcile vote counts in 610 of 1,680 precincts, or 59% of the precincts, in Michigan’s largest county , Wayne County, which Hillary won by a margin of 2 to 1 over Donald Tru
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by crispy2000 10y ago
> How difficult is it to hack the electronic voting system the US uses for elections? "The electronic voting system" doesn't exist. There are multiple types of machines, software, etc. throughout the US. Some of these
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by crispy2000 10y ago
Disagree. Having one or two "legacy" ports decreases the disruption when upgrading, particularly if the user has some oddball peripherals. This is why API's have deprecated functions for a while, allowing users a bit of ext
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by crispy2000 10y ago
Not sure having the government run a standards-making organization is the best idea. From the NIH storing smallpox vials, the NSA hoarding zero-day exploits, the infamous Obamacare website, to the OPM hack, the government might not be the
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by crispy2000 10y ago
Had to laugh at the thought of Austin as too conservative. And given that both Uber and Lyft have headquarters in San Francisco, they could hardly be less "tax-fleeing"!
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by crispy2000 10y ago
Didn't assume either 1, 2, nor 3. 1. Perhaps your definition of "compensated sufficiently" doesn't jibe with those of the thousands of drivers who voluntarily choose to drive for Uber and similar services. 2. SOME con
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by crispy2000 10y ago
More efficient? By what measurement? Certainly not the consumer's time nor the taxpayers' money! Billion dollar light rail trains that roll empty are not a terribly efficient use of money. Buses are more flexible, but waiting fo
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by crispy2000 10y ago
Not sure about Germany, but in Austin, Uber wanted their drivers to carry auto insurance, although the company also has its own policy to cover drivers--many personal auto insurance policies explicitly do not cover accidents while the insur
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by crispy2000 10y ago
It's a matter of risk. With AirBnB the customer is going into the "vendor's" home. With Handy, the vendor is entering the customer's home. While there have been incidents of bad AirBnB hosts, there has probably bee
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by crispy2000 10y ago
Misleading title in article. The 3D printers are being used to make card skimmers. Almost any kind of plastic blank can be used to make mag-stripe credit cards. The article says: "Unfortunately, these trends point to more credit card
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by crispy2000 11y ago
Summary: the "sharing economy" is awful because companies such as Uber and AirBnb profit from facilitating the transaction between the consumer and the provider. To quote: "The capital of the lower classes is used as a certi
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by crispy2000 11y ago
You could also look at the Bitcoin blockchain, e.g. on the blockchain.info web site. There is a new block generated every 10 minutes or so. Some useful fields in the block include the nonce (a 32-bit unsigned) or the block hash. You can se
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by crispy2000 11y ago
Being below sea level hasn't particularly bothered the Dutch. Half of Holland is at least a meter below sea level. Of course, in the 1200's when they started, they didn't have climate change conferences and carbon credits.
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by crispy2000 11y ago
The article does (quietly) mention that the sea level rise in the Marshall is due to changes in the trade winds. They also mention that they are not sure of the relationship between global warming and these trade wind changes. Over the la
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by crispy2000 11y ago
We agree it's worthy of debate, not merely a hand-waving assertion. In the 18th century, the French Academy of Science published their consensus that there were no rocks that fell from the sky because there are manifestly no rocks in t
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by crispy2000 11y ago
> The report did not examine the impact of outside money on the messages of groups that encourage activism on climate change. Farrell suggested that there were qualitative differences... It would have been (more) scientific to compare th
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by crispy2000 11y ago
> One of the best programmes on offer (...). A class of primary-aged children ‘“adopts” a real live baby for the year (I’m not joking). Every few weeks the baby visits the class with a parent and programme instructor. The kids sit aroun
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by crispy2000 11y ago
This is how it starts: "I became fascinated by fungi when I was a student, and so I decided to do a PhD in fungal genetics. By the end of my PhD I learned through watching BBC’s Planet Earth that certain fungi are able to manipulate in
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by crispy2000 11y ago
I suspect that it's not Amazon directly changing the price, but some of the other vendors, and Amazon matching. Other sizes are offered at prices up to $85 at both Amazon and other vendors.
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by crispy2000 11y ago
McCabe software has a tool that's supposed to find duplicate code within a code base (e.g. cut-n-pasted functions), using path analysis. They have been around for ages, but I've never used them since they're rather expensive
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by crispy2000 11y ago
If the assumption that the ratio of births is 50/50, then no. However, a rule requiring parents to have children until they have a boy could lead to evolutionary pressure increasing the ratio of girls born. That is, if the Smiths have
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by crispy2000 11y ago
One "hack" is the pomodoro technique. Do about 20 minutes of work, then take a five minute break. This avoids burning out trying to work for hours on end, finding that you've accomplished very little.
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Market-ticker goes dark(market-ticker.org)
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Can You Measure Workplace Sexism?(blog.dilbert.com)
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by crispy2000 12y ago
Interesting: "The country is currently home to more than 50,000 businesses that are over 100 years old. Of those, 3,886 have been around for more than 200 years. As a point of comparison, only one in every four U.S. companies founded i
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by crispy2000 12y ago
And while we're discussing it, 80% of people carrying cash are not drug smugglers, and 80% of people using Waze to watch for traffic cops are not cop-killers. Are we seeing a trend here?
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by crispy2000 12y ago
Kinda over the top, dontcha think? I had measles as a child, and it was hardly "devastating". Chart seems to be missing any indication of the percentage of people vaccinated, so that one can at least see a correlation, let alone
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by crispy2000 12y ago
Summary: Big companies use their size and power as an advantage, to the detriment of the common man. Proposed solution: more laws. Meanwhile in the real world: the reasons these companies are able to maintain their monopolies include the fa
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by crispy2000 12y ago
It's not really the "sharing economy". They are using the secondary wifi access points as a paid service to other subscribers. In their defense, though, the routers are theirs, and they do allow users to turn off the secondar
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by crispy2000 12y ago
The article seems to assume that there will be one researcher or research organization producing one AI. This makes it reasonable to propose asking it a super-special question that reduces the risk. It's more likely that armies of

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