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by elicash 7y ago
Most people consider the illegal hacking and distribution of emails as "meddling" with the election and believe it had a greater impact on how people voted than the ad buys did. If you're just arguing that it's irrelevan
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by elicash 7y ago
If Pete ends up winning (a significant "if" but possible), then he's the one who is most HURT by the delay in reporting. It's not clear he'll win, I'd maybe even bet on a narrow-loss though we'll know for
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by elicash 7y ago
These aren't voting machines. "Involved in voting" is quite misleading. The app doesn't actually help with the voting part. They help in the calculation of delegates and the transmission. The votes are recorded on paper.
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by elicash 7y ago
The bigger problem wasn't that the app used by precinct campaigns to report back to the Dem Party, it was the convoluted rounds of voting that didn't add up in some precincts and caused the party to have to review all of the paper
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by elicash 7y ago
Every state has a very different process. Even within the same state, Iowa Dems and Republicans have a different process. The work this company did in Nevada for their caucus (which now reportedly will not be used, for obvious reasons) ha
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by elicash 7y ago
This isn't electronic voting. This isn't even paper voting (though they also use paper backups). This vote is primarily done by people standing in a particular corner. This is related to the TRANSMISSION of the vote count to the I
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by elicash 7y ago
Obviously Dem vendors will have worked with Dem candidates. I'm working with a vendor right now that works with Bloomberg, even though my org hasn't endorsed yet. (We wall that Bloomberg consultant off from our work. If we couldn&
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by elicash 7y ago
They're hiring! https://shadowinc.io/jobs
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by elicash 7y ago
In the same way all the campaigns pay Google for advertising services, a bunch of the Democratic campaigns pay this small company for a different set of services. The bug was clear long before we had any sense what results were going to be.
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by elicash 7y ago
If something benefits McDonalds AND the fine dining places I enjoy, that's fine with me. I don't have a problem with bad content out there, so long as there's a ton of really good content. For the great publications I read, I
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by elicash 7y ago
I don't think anybody read the headline and assumed that no other technology would ever be used at Shopify.
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by elicash 7y ago
As an advertiser, I can tell you that clickbait is the worst place for my ad to live because people click away immediately.
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by elicash 7y ago
My issue isn't that I don't want to pay the paywall -- it's that because people broadly don't prefer paywalls that relying on them rather than a thriving online ad business means they can't hire more reporters, vide
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by elicash 7y ago
My particular issues are different from most people here. The biggest impact, for me, is that the dominance of Google and Facebook based on having access to this data for the general population has led to worse advertising revenue for the n
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by elicash 7y ago
Isn't it possible he used it but the person he was speaking with didn't? At least from a U.S. perspective, it seems more likely that law enforcement would try to get a court order to get into the hacker's conversations than
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by elicash 7y ago
Are folks actually questioning the "just" nature of a law, really? If so, which law? Or are folks questioning whether that law is being falsely applied in this instance? I think it's the latter. Folks are saying, essentiall
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by elicash 7y ago
A more honest way to say "ideas are worthless" would be to claim that there's no such thing as a first mover advantage. Here's a take that looks into that question fairly: https://hbr.org/2005/04&#x2
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by elicash 7y ago
> if I need a new anything I want to know exactly which is the latest If so, then month/year would be better than a number. (There are flaws to both approaches, though.) 2021-01 Wi-Fi.
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by elicash 7y ago
What a condescending response. Yes, this person is a student. No reason to act like this.
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by elicash 7y ago
> I'm not convinced that's much of an advantage. Their competitors certainly claim it gives the USPS a significant advantage, if you check the info I provided. They also give reasons for their view. Are there any particular rea
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by elicash 7y ago
I'm very pro-USPS and anti-privatization, but in fairness, sole use of even private mailboxes is monopolistic. https://about.usps.com/universal-postal-service/ilo-report.p... (PDF)
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by elicash 7y ago
I think your response is a fair one, but the counter-argument I'd make to you is that Google is so powerful that if the employees were able to make a change that the ripple effects throughout the industry would be tremendous. As an i
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by elicash 7y ago
Not sure if you read the thread, but this person's agreement allowed them to own their side projects. Some issues are a problem across the industry. But also, more importantly, some people like to solve problems in their workplaces and
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by elicash 7y ago
It's based on employee ratings, so I do think there's still value if you use this the right way. So, if one way you support what companies to give your business to is based on how well they treat their employees, then sure, ma
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by elicash 7y ago
Students and part time workers are in fact people and should be counted as such for their work. If you were just asking for additional context in the article, that's one thing, but this is certainly not "misleading."
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by elicash 7y ago
Your comment is an interesting one, so not trying to disagree, but... Modern conservatism is not so well-defined. I'd say "conservatism" is best defined by the values of people who call themselves conservative, not by politic
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by elicash 7y ago
From the union discussion the other day, one thing that always struck me was how weird it was that more conservatives don't encourage labor unions in the private sector. I'd have thought, since fundamentally union membership is ab
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by elicash 7y ago
If you desperately want to learn to code, how can you possibly be upset by having no work responsibilities? This is the opportunity of a lifetime to learn it. If not now, when?
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by elicash 7y ago
Since I'd imagine, then, that 99% or more aren't encrypted, what has been the biggest issue that has resulted from this? We could then judge that against the negative outcomes of law enforcement not having access to, say, WhatsApp
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by elicash 7y ago
I do too. However, one thing I'd be curious to learn more about from this community... Facebook Messenger isn't encrypted now. What are the biggest examples where that has hurt users. I'm sure it happens, maybe frequently, bu

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