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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Like I say, my proposal allows the electorate to keep the same ballot papers, the same counting process, and the same number of seats in the legislature. You're right, though, that if voters were prepared to sacrifice some of that fami
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Yes, this is effectively the solution that Mixed-Member Proportional Representation (MMP) offers. The normal complaint with this is that it typically involves having closed lists of candidates who get a free ticket into parliament without a
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
This article nicely explains the problem, but is a bit defeatist about the possibility of reforms that could mitigate it. To offer one reform, allow me to present the following: Suppose in the hypothetical country, the total number of vote
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Of course what we'll actually get is networks which require[0] your OS to attest that you are running in Secure Boot mode, so the network can ensure you are running an "approved" OS that prevents you from running VPNs or Tor
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I meant that the system for electing MEPs (using the D'Hondt and STV methods) was more proportional than FPTP as used in UK general elections. Thus a UK vote in a European election was better reflected in the composition of MEPs elect
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I can't help being reminded of the "Choice" PSA from The Stanley Parable: "If you find yourself speaking with a person who does not make sense, in all likelihood, that person is not real. Allow the person to finish thei
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> I'm not sure what you're taking "so that her children come out" to mean I took it to mean that the children are born prematurely. In any case, it doesn't say "so that the bundles of cells come out".
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Thank you for your honest answers. For what it's worth, I don't think you're a bad person for voting the way you did. > the EU didn't embody the principles it claimed to stand for (and of which I approved). But is i
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
We're not just talking about words here, though. You have to ask yourself: * Who do I trust to look at the pictures in the government database? * Who does the government trust to look at these pictures? * Who would even be willing t
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
When citizens start working around the law (if it passes), the forces who pushed for the law will start going after "unregulated" app stores and even websites that implement unfiltered chat / picture sending services. Perhaps
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> In the opposite end Although it might be convenient to treat life as being somehow legally symmetrical, I think that is still a position that needs to be justified. To give a strange analogy, if someone gathers all the materials needed
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Do you mean Exodus 21:22-24? That's not what it says at all: "When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husba
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> and a bunch of other rules, and not get kicked out, or even sanctioned. So you're saying you voted for Brexit because the EU didn't have enough power to punish member states? Do you think that these new entrants were the onl
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Improve the account recovery process, including more secure forms of identity verification I wonder how long it will be before you need to show a government-issued ID to publish any software online? Right now, if a government wanted OS
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
LavaMoat is a fantastic and vital addition to the JavaScript ecosystem, and it's part of a collection of related technologies: > Endo uses LavaMoat to automatically generate reviewable policies that determine what capabilities will
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> What process does npm use to make sure my new key is valid? Can a person with control over my email address fake that process? It seems there should be some multi-factor process. Developers need to register a password, an email address
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That seems like a reasonable title, thank you. In fact, this issue was reported more generally at least a couple of months ago, with 2,818 accounts potentially affected[0]. The intended solution for this is to require 2FA for developers, w
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Ah yes, the communist radical left who famously want large private corporations to enable the people with the most resources to dominate public discourse. Please stop and think of a testable hypothesis, or actually talk to some of these sup
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That's an important observation. We're going to go from "Log in with your Apple, Google, or Microsoft account" to "Log in with your Apple, Google, or Microsoft hardware ".
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> something/someone violating this freedom (in this case the foetus). Thank you for explaining your position, but I think it's an odd framing to say that a foetus is "violating the freedom" of the woman bearing it. I
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> you don’t deserve the right to defend in a way that would harm them? If that's your strawman interpretation of what I said, then let me turn it around and infer your position: People's rights should be based on their ability
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That's a good point, at least for the immediate problems, but I suspect that in the longer term, governments will make their apps check for genuine Windows/macOS installs using remote attestation, like some online games are alread
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> “It takes a lot of physical infrastructure, checkpoint systems, all those sorts of things. You’d have to hire an army of low-level police to scan people. Even elsewhere in China, I think it would be difficult to implement the system a
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> In the mean time there was also a desktop application available to read out the NFC chip of an identity card. This app is only available through the Windows 10 app store. With all my computers running Debian or Ubuntu, that was no opti
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Here is the abstract of a paper from 2000 titled "The Three-Dimensional Bin Packing Problem"[0]: "The problem addressed in this paper is that of orthogonally packing a given set of rectangular-shaped items into the minimum nu
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Kang : Hmm... Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> You cannot solve social problems ("how do i know I can trust X") with technology. ... Indeed, you trust in your computer to display the right hash, and to compare them correctly. Are you saying "No one should ever use a
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> I'd welcome very much if we could agree that we have a problem there, and shift focus from criticizing new ideas to improving them. I'm happy to think more about this problem and see if we can find some common ground (which i
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> I believe that simplicity is a must for any system that invites participation from all of society and just voting against someone is a lot simpler than ranking, or quadratic votes or whatever. It's a pity there isn't an examp
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> What would prevent Twitter from sending a specific party a special version of their JS that sends an obfuscated unencrypted copy of your messages to the mothership? I'm glad you asked. This is exactly the same problem that WhatsAp

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