jaccarmac

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by jaccarmac 4y ago
If buildings are getting leveled for large parking lots, the approach is an essentially different one.
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
Your analysis doesn't involve sense experience of tyrants. Doing the statistics makes it sound empirical, but the choosing of the data will never be empirical.
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
"Instead what he’s actually suggesting isn’t an empirical test at all: it is a quantitative, statistical test of data none of which can be empirically verified because it all happened in the past; only the statistical analysis is subje
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
Did you read TFA? How would one "empirically verify" the tyrant example explicitly treated there?
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
I'm making my way through and haven't had any problems besides slowness (which I chose at the beginning not to treat as a problem). I did a little research before starting (for one I listened to the first season of The Cosmic Libr
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
> my current low level fantasy is something akin to Electron, only with Common Lisp. First class DOM, first class event hooks, into a CL runtime that you can deploy cross platform. Have you checked out https://github.com/
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by jaccarmac 4y ago
The headline made me think I was about to read about something like Beer's pond brain. This is somewhat less out-there cool, but still useful.
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by jaccarmac 5y ago
Did the article talk about what the 60% do about the 20% who are horrible? This is the question that tends to be avoided in discussions that take this line or similar ones. If those numbers are accurate, the majority of average cops outnumb
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
It's a thought-provoking article, but contains several serious contractions in terms. > For reasons that are complicated and that I don't fully understand, the software development community in the eighties and nineties develop
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
> Like, everyone does realize that the tech giants just found a way to make the community work for them and to make money off the backs of it right? People are starting to realize this, but to understand it it's important to disambi
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
1. Reality is neutral. 2. After it is filtered, the result is not. bachmeier agreed with 1, but not 2. The second point is my argument. I agree with 1.
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
That's because your method for constructing a "reasonably neutral source" results in something which is only reasonably neutral from your point of view. This is why pretensions to neutrality are worthless.
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
Whatever factors you use to determine "newsworthiness" will be perceived as biases.
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
What qualities do you use filter the firehose?
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
Of course there's no failsafe automated way to detect double-voting. There's no failsafe automated way to detect anything. In fact, there's no failsafe way to detect anything. But checking for duplicate envelopes is part of t
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
Well, as that link discusses, states are in charge of managing why and how voters are removed from their rolls. In 2016, upwards of 4.5m names were removed due to cross-jurisdiction change of address (p. 48). https://www.eac.gov&
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
You linked to a news story about double-voting being detected yourself. Said news story also identifies the causes behind double-voting: 1. Delays in inputting data about who had voted in real-time. 2. Poll workers overriding machines to su
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
After watching the video more closely, I have no idea what the point is. Overvoting causes the ballot to go to adjudication. At that point the person adjudicating gets to choose which results are submitted and tabulated. Is that supposed to
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
Didn't Georgia do a hand recount? The video seems to show the process of scanning the ballots, not a way that massive numbers of physical ballots could be discarded.
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
You would have gotten caught then. Signature matching doesn't appreciably increase the security of the election; It simply disenfranchises people based on a shoddy test. Besides, the ballots have long been separated from their signatur
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
Because handwriting verification is deeply silly.
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
The fact that it's quite obvious if someone votes multiple times. To sway an election, you would need to submit a significant number of fraudulent ballots. This is likely to result in an extremely high number of detected duplicates. It
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
Jill Stokke was explicitly given the option to have her mail-in vote invalidated so she could vote in person. That was in Nevada; Procedures elsewhere may be different.
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
That is correct, and is precisely what happened with Stokke. Stokke came to the polling place was told that her mail-in ballot had already been received. She was given the choice to sign an affadavit claiming that she had not voted by mail,
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
> If we don't have a meaningful signature match, than we don't have a meaningful way to prevent fraud with mail in ballots. Period. We can check for duplicate votes. Submitting fraudulent ballots in quantities necessary to chan
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
> When all the errors go in one direction, it "smells a lot like smoke", as you put it. This is true, and it's why I have consistently characterized the Russiagate investigation as overwrought with regard to direct electio
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
We do know, though. Or at least we know what he claimed. https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-suddenly-says-i...
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
So why didn't he provide any of the damning evidence that he shipped to his office? I'll give you a hint: It's far easier to get sued for defamation if you read lies on TV than if you say you have bad stuff to say about someo
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
I never disagreed that the story was exaggerated by the left-liberal media establishment. But your claims were that the NYT intentionally published disinformation. The Intercept piece does not seem to prove this, and in fact none of the ten
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
I, for one, was very interested in seeing the end of the Tucker Carlson story, and was disappointed when he dropped his chance to reveal his supposedly damaging information about the Bidens. Why do you think the story was dropped? Personall

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