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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> I would clean out the State election laws before applying band-aids and lotions. I don't see why the two approaches can't be run in parallel. I agree with you, though, that laws which privilege specific parties (or even part
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> ditching the ballots of those that cannot number 1 through 6 is no great loss. It's worth looking into the statistics around that. For example, one study[0] found that: "Between 2004 – 2016, 32% of electorates reported more
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Mom: We have mastodon at home. Mastodon at home: https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox5dc.com/www.fox5dc.com/co...
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> It's not about the cost of the service ... Every social media company succeeds or fails based on the network effect. So you're saying it's not about the money, it's about sending a message?
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> the user count of just mastodon users, has surpassed six million That must make the users of Gab hate them even more...
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Signal is equally (in)famous for using this lack of federation to then force advertising for its cryptocoin into all of its clients: https://www.osnews.com/story/133275/signal-embeds-shady-cryp...
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I absolutely agree that FPTP has all the same problems, only worse because they are not made explicitly and transparently part of the voting mechanics. I still think that ballot exhaustion is a real issue though (maybe an overblown one, but
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Thank you for taking the time to respond to my concerns. Your transparency is very reassuring, and I appreciate your contributions to this important area of technology. I think I am still uneasy, though, about the idea of hoping for a glob
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This is actually a really balanced article, making some very nuanced points about why some activists might oppose a system that produces more moderate candidates, and how the existing system sort of relies on low turnout to give extra power
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The plan to save America by killing the partisan primary(vox.com)
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> We use DIDs for identity but presently no blockchain DID methods. I notice that the documentation[0] says: "We introduced DID Placeholder because we weren't totally satisfied with any of the existing DID methods. ... We cheek
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^ This, particularly when viewed in terms of the square-cube law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law
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That's actually a fantastic idea, and I assume that the main barrier to implementing this isn't a technical one, but the coordination problem of getting enough instance admins to opt-in to appearing on this system, and finding som
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That assumes that every issue has only two sides, and that both sides are equally valid, and that blue and red politicians fall neatly on either side.
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Randolph Davis??
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Fair enough, thanks for the clarification. You are standing on the shoulders of a giant, then, and if your characterization is not yet correct, I'm sure it will be proven so within another 8 years.
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> EVERY state that requires ID to vote is required by law to provide free voting ID options. Every single one. I didn't dispute that. All I'm saying is that for people of reduced means or reduced mobility, getting these "
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> "you need to be properly verified (as an actual person) before being allowed to post" What method are you planning to use to determine whether a person is "actual" or not? (Also you talk about going "from blobs
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
As an example of how far the terminology has come, consider the purported line “Let me taste your wares”[0] from the nursery rhyme "Simple Simon", which possibly dates back to the 17th century.[1] [0] https://songswiths
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Another interesting example of the phenomenon you describe is that until 2003, the Secret Service was part of the Department of the Treasury, as the agency was founded in 1865 to combat the then-widespread counterfeiting of U.S. currency.
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One interesting little fact from history is that the Postal Inspection Service was one of the first bulk buyers of the Tommy Gun (Thompson submachine gun). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun#Early_...
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I think you're strawmanning his argument a little bit. He didn't say that systemd has mind control powers, or reports you to some council. All he says is that systemd is "Substance D" (so it's psychoactive if inge
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I think you're underestimating the ingenuity of the restrictions that can be put in place. By making the ID require a long journey (by car), and spending hours waiting in a line, it can cause people to miss a day of work or education
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> A federated, open online dating protocol A natural way to implement this would be to extend ActivityPub and build modules for Fediverse sites like Mastodon that add dating site features. (In fact, ActivityStreams already has support[0
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> This ceremony is likely the last with special COVID-19 mitigations in place. If circumstances permit, in 2023 we are planning for normal ceremony operations. This makes me wonder if the whole process wouldn't be "safer"
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> For the sentencing judge, the fact that the policemen only conversed in private was not so much a mitigation, but an aggravation. She claimed that, in being covert, their comments were even more damaging than if they had been made in p
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Then the question becomes: "Who controls the code on the central server?" If a voting machine contains microchips, then voters have to trust that no malicious entity has managed to gain physical access to those chips since the las
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Just as people nowadays exclaim "Stallman was right", I suspect that in the future there will be a similar sense that "Barry was right", particularly once Linux users find themselves legally mandated to run some kind of
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There is quite a bright line between "needing to spend a significant amount of money to be allowed to fly somewhere" and "needing to spend a significant amount of money to be allowed to vote". In case you hadn't not
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If homophones are the pattern to follow, then (since a large collection of legitimate stores can be thought of as a "mall") perhaps the new word should be "a maul" or "a mawl" (suggestive of being something tha

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