everdev

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by everdev 8y ago
Exactly. Governments shouldn't be drawing these lines but someone needs to and corporations are a good choice. If people don't like it they can vote with their dollars. If companies make the wrong move their business will suffer,
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by everdev 8y ago
Yeah, I'd be shocked if the coordinated banning at other companies doesn't trigger a lawsuit. I'm sure it's in the ToS that they can ban you anytime for any reason though. But still, where do you draw the line? Tons of h
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by everdev 8y ago
I really like the idea of a tie within a margin of error. I didn't know that Gore asked for recounts in specific counties while observers thought a state wide recount would have helped him as well. What a blunder...
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by everdev 8y ago
Digital misinformation is totally different than forging paper ballots at scale.
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by everdev 8y ago
I guess I'm not familiar with how votes are tallied. Are results visible to election officials in real time as people cast ballots or only at the end? Wouldn't it be feasible to look at a midterm election or registered voters (say
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by everdev 8y ago
Are these problems documented somewhere? I must admit I'm part of the general public that is not familiar with this.
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by everdev 8y ago
I guess I was surprised when there was a huge chorus of "no one is saying the vote was compromised" the day after the '16 election. I would have thought that the way there election went down with multiple narrow state wins ju
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by everdev 8y ago
> No voting system can accurately register the vote of an individual What do you mean by this? Do voting machines have an error rate? I would assume the county would be notified and these ballots counted by hand during a recount (which i
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by everdev 8y ago
Sure, but I think in this theoretical example of someone trying to manipulate an election, they'd pick the top X swing states, which are pretty well known. Of those, they'd pick the top X most populated cities in each swing state.
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by everdev 8y ago
Gerrymandering is a thing because politicians and those in the election-economy do have this data. I agree it's a big problem to try to rig the vote in each rural county. But, to go into a metropolitan area and boost or suppress the vo
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by everdev 8y ago
Any data / reporting on that?
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by everdev 8y ago
I don't think it even needs to be controlled by the same people. Look at TurboTax. They built a company to make an insane tax code easy and they lobby against simplifying it. Once it's big business there's a huge finical and
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by everdev 8y ago
I got laid off in '08 when the market crashed. I looked everywhere in SV for jobs and had a solid resume, experience and education but hiring was frozen. To pay the bills I was forced to start my own business which ended up being very
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by everdev 8y ago
Similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17705958
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by everdev 8y ago
With companies it's more transparent and the contractors are bound to confidentiality and other codes of conduct. If something goes wrong the issue can be traced and addressed. When an employee does it without informing the employer or
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by everdev 8y ago
As the employer, I wasn't cool with someone I didn't know delivering code to my clients or accessing their servers. It's in most standard employee contracts that employees won't disclose confidential information for reas
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by everdev 8y ago
One of my employees was contracting out his entire job. His performance was great and then fell off a cliff. Turns out he stopped paying the contractor and the contractor stopped doing his work for him. When he had to do it himself it was h
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by everdev 8y ago
> The higher cause that allegedly justified the invasion of Ukraine was the preservation of the sacred Russian nation. I'm sure there were many reasons, but the one I heard was that Russia said it was committed to defending Russian
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by everdev 8y ago
What's the best way to browse the web anonymously?
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by everdev 8y ago
Or, the ability to invest in and profit from private companies.
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by everdev 8y ago
Not that I know of, just ideas at this point.
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by everdev 8y ago
EMP blast, nets, lasers, signal jamming - there are a few ideas but nothing full proof. I've heard of multiple people just shooting then down if they trespass, so there's always guns. I can't remember the article but I saw on
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by everdev 8y ago
The article says an unknown group called "Soldiers in Tshirts" claimed responsibility and said that army snipers shot down the drones. But, the group didn't respond to interview requests and firefighters at the scene said it
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by everdev 8y ago
I wonder if there's some game theory at play where people know it's happening but if you can get by sacrificing the least while the majority sacrifices just enough to fight it then you've successfully optimized for minimal ef
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by everdev 8y ago
> People do not report their favorite sports team losing a game will be more impactful than their favorite sports team winning a game. For fans of winning teams (Warriors, Patriots, etc.) I'm not sure if this is true. They're e
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by everdev 8y ago
Support no. But if we don't respect those that disagree with us it just makes us look bad IMO. And yeah, you can influence any behavior with financial insensitive.
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by everdev 8y ago
The name calling and threats actually just makes you look bad. If someone says they're scared to vaccinate their kid, only respect and listening can possibly help you achieve your goal. I actually think vaccines are a good thing but ge
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by everdev 8y ago
The down votes on this thread are insane. Science is not perfect especially medical advice. Even though I think vaccines are safe and hugely beneficial I find the ideas that the safety of vaccines are "beyond debatable" to be the
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by everdev 8y ago
Just tons of down votes for even explaining what anti-vaxxers might think, nothing wrong with your logic. I think people feel genuinely scared about contracting serious illnesses so it's hitting a lot of buttons and the two sides don&#
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by everdev 8y ago
Totally agree. The US has a history of protecting the rights of the individual over the rights of the group perhaps more so than other nations. There are benefits and risks to that and many other countries are experimenting with other ways

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