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by dilap 6y ago
"We are now trapped in a world of kids. Old kids. The disappearance of patrimonial transmission means that an old guy today is just a useless ruin. The thing we value most of all is youth, which means that life automatically becomes de
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by dilap 6y ago
Sorry to hear that; wishing you a speedy and full recovery.
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by dilap 6y ago
i think the only place i disagree with you is that in my mind we really have no idea about longer-term possible side effects of the vaccine. it's a totally novel, new kind of vaccine, right? i agree the flu shot is probably coinciden
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by dilap 6y ago
I'm not telling anyone I had the vaccine when I didn't. They're free to avoid me if they want. Many things we selfishly do endanger others. Ever driven a car? But honestly, in my gut, I don't feel like I'm endangeri
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by dilap 6y ago
I feel reasonably confident my overall health is good enough that if I got COVID it would be OK. The vaccine, while probably fine, seems like more of a wildcard to me. It seems like a low-probability lottery ticket to bad news, whereas COVI
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by dilap 6y ago
It's total rejection rate to total rejection, so that's apples-to-apples, right? It is interesting that the GA SoS claims rejections in 2016 due to signatures was really low. If that's true and 2020 is comparable, then we wou
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by dilap 6y ago
What's that line, the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet? Walking around SF and I definitely feel like we're pretty much at the radical inequality cyberpunk future we were promised. I walk outside and see se
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by dilap 6y ago
That's not concrete enough for me to have any confidence duplicate ballots would reliably be rejected. Perhaps there is a robust process, but I haven't heard it. We're a bit in the weeds though. To summarize top-level finding
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> Perhaps you just mean that those envelopes should be pulled aside, and the state should go and track down the person and ask them if its really their signature? Yes, in Georgia at least, that's the process that's supposed to
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For me the take away was there's no failsafe automated way to detect double-voting. Since the ballots themselves become anonymous once removed from the envelopes, I'm not really sure at all how'd you notice double-voting, unl
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by dilap 6y ago
Is that true? I've never heard of any such system; I don't think states in general communicate with each other and do automatic unregistrations like this. Googling, I found this: > Since the U.S. has a very mobile population an
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by dilap 6y ago
Is it really that hard though? Just in nursing homes alone there are way more than enough votes to cover the small margin of victory. And also, how confident can we be that the double-voting would actually be detected? E.g., https:/&#
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by dilap 6y ago
> Ballots are numbered, so if a bunch of sequential ones all are the same you can see it. Who could see it, specifically? > The process for this was all decided before the election. The Texas lawsuit is about exactly this; they allege
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by dilap 6y ago
It seems crazy to me to count ballots with signatures that don't (reasonably) match. If I had believed one or the other of the candidates were a threat on the level Hitler, I would certainly have taken the opportunities given to me to
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by dilap 6y ago
OK. Why not allow an audit of the envelope signatures?
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In that case, what protects against fraud? Anything ? I personally know of two ballots, not mine, that I could have filled and out returned, if I'd been so inclined. (People in apartment buildings I have access to who have moved out o
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by dilap 6y ago
Beats me; given the historically low rate & the allegations of fraud, it seems to be you should do the review so that everyone can be confident in the results (in the event there was not significant fraud) or so that the fraud can be ex
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by dilap 6y ago
Sure, you might be right. I wouldn't say I'm confident it would be easy or confident it would be hard.
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by dilap 6y ago
I don't think it's that hard if you harvest ballots from places unlikely to vote, e.g., nursing homes. My understanding is the following two facts are true - Georgia has a historically low mail-in ballot rejection rate - Georgia i
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by dilap 6y ago
It's even worse in SF right now, where public schools are closed and private schools are open.
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by dilap 6y ago
It's interesting to watch language evolve. Racist: bias against PoC Race-blind: no bias on the basis of race Antiracist: bias against non-PoC (perceived to be "anti"racist because it goes against historical racism against PoC
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by dilap 6y ago
I'm curious, what are the professional applications?
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by dilap 6y ago
I always found it a little hard to get into his text proper, but hearing him read it w/ a bit of musical accompaniment is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9NDxYf122I It might not grab you at first, but if you
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by dilap 6y ago
Fair question. My thinking was the system is already not designed to be failproof, just mitigitive (it turns off entirely if no internet), and that malware would be pretty limited in what it could do in just a few hundred ms. Waiting to ope
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by dilap 6y ago
Apple has said they plan to do this, and also encrypt the checking payload. Sounds good to me, though definitely a privacy failure that they didn't do this in the first place. The other thing I'd like to see is the app open immedi
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I would say to state that vote fraud allegations are "baseless" and "false" is propaganda; the more precise terms would be "unproven" and "alleged". In general, if you want people to have confidence i
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I think Apple is behaving reasonably here, at least, I don't think they're deliberately breaking older devices w/ updates, so I wouldn't apply the phrase "planned obsolescence," exactly. But I'll conceded
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Emojis are incredibly well-loved by many people and used all the time. So bloat for you, perhaps, but a critical feature for many! No kidding, it's the reason many people update their phones.
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The study claims its sample sizes were large enough to see an effect if there were one; I'm not expert enough to evaluate the math, but I assume they are telling the truth. None of your other points give me any reason to believe masks
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by dilap 6y ago
How is it a crap study? They had a bunch of people wear masks, which they did with varying levels of compliance ("46% of participants wore the mask as recommended, 47% predominantly as recommended, and 7% not as recommended"), and

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