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by javagram 6y ago
FYI, the CEO’s salary, including all bonuses, is $650k. Charity navigator says only 17% of donations to this specific charity (sesame workshop) would go to administration. https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/132655731
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by javagram 6y ago
The underlying assumption of the parent commenter is that “rule of law” means something other than 50%+1 of the House of Commons voting something into effect. For instance, if parliament passed a law allowing “The Purge” to happen yearly, w
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by javagram 6y ago
I use G Suite and regularly export all my data using google takeout in case something like this happens. Plus since I have my own domain I can move my email address to another provider. Way too many google horror stories to keep using my @g
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by javagram 6y ago
Pai did try to push companies to adopt authenticated calls voluntarily. His hand was forced by congress later on https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/ajit-pai-follows... I guess in theory at some point
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by javagram 6y ago
James Damore’s views (regardless if they are right or wrong) don’t seem to be covered by California laws: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/... > California Labor Code section 1101 pro
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by javagram 6y ago
That is not L5. That’s L3. And if the car camera is blinded by the sun, that raises questions about whether the car could safely pull over to the side of the road. I suppose with advanced simulation the car could perhaps predict glare from
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by javagram 6y ago
> How exactly is the possibility of vote dumping and vote flipping eliminated? You cannot simply add ballots to the election as the totals would then be incorrect. (There would be more votes than people recorded as voting) What is “Vote
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by javagram 6y ago
> UPDATE: I just checked the GA website, and all it gives me is voter IDs and whom they voted for. No way I can verify vote fraud did not occur from that information. No addresses or names. I would suggest that if you weren’t able to fin
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by javagram 6y ago
> The observers are not there to make sure the ballot scanners are working. They're there to audit the portion of the process which can never ever be re-audited: the provenance of secret ballots But the provenance is on camera. Thos
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by javagram 6y ago
> I know quite a few people that fully believe that voting is effectively a sham now. Unfortunately this is because they want to believe lies. If they did a small amount of Googling or simply watched a mainstream news source, they’d find
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by javagram 6y ago
Democrats have already introduced a new election integrity bill providing funds for secure voting. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1/te... - Look for “Subtitle F—Promoting Accurac
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by javagram 6y ago
The machine count of mail-in ballots is checked by a hand count audit. For instance, in Georgia every ballot was recounted by humans to confirm the accuracy of the machine count.
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by javagram 6y ago
Note that it looks like the states on that list that have “DREs without VVPAT” (electronic machines without a paper trail) are Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Texas on that list, along with some DREs without VVPAT i
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by javagram 6y ago
Trump told his voters to try to vote twice. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-vote/t... If anything it’s surprising that Pennsylvania only caught 3 Trump supporters trying to do it (see links i
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by javagram 6y ago
> Seems trivial to 'randomly' sample a select subset of the votes. And that does nothing to guard against vote dumps. Non existent voters cannot validate their votes. Incorrect. Voter rolls have information about who voted, and
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by javagram 6y ago
Why are you talking about mail-in ballots in a thread about Dominion Voting Systems? Mail-in ballots work the same way they have since 1864. You fill out a paper ballot and mail it back. > Biden only won 16% of counties. Only a few key c
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by javagram 6y ago
Any voting machine that doesn’t have printed paper ballots is questionable and should not be used. Dominion machines do, unfortunately there are a few non-swing states that have fully electronic voting still.
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by javagram 6y ago
> Instead of filing massive law suits, why doesn't Dominion attempt to prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that the machines were _not_ biased with technical evidence. Why would their code matter? Far more important than the code is
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by javagram 6y ago
> None were discussed on merits. Incorrect, read some of the cases. Quite a few were dismissed on the merits. Literally your own link says “YES” in the Decided on Merits column! Did you not read your link? Some of the later cases were no
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by javagram 6y ago
The human driver has a number of options to adjust their “cameras” (eyes) that the Tesla doesn’t. E.g., flipping down the sun shield, adjusting head position to reduce glare, or even putting on a pair of polarized sunglasses. While there ar
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by javagram 6y ago
Sounds like /r/relationship_advice on reddit or any of the many forums where people do post anonymized questions or stories. Although “tracking” for ads is far less invasive than even that, the only particularly annoying thing is
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by javagram 6y ago
FaceTime, Facebook messenger/instagram video calling, Google hangouts or whatever their new chat and video app is called, and since 2020 Zoom as well got a lot of home user adoption.
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by javagram 6y ago
> A magic wand to seal off over-60 olds? How do you feel about sealing off everyone? Worked great in New Zealand and Taiwan, and pretty dang good in Singapore, Australia, and even China. A pity we weren’t fast enough to do it here. I hav
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by javagram 6y ago
Disagree strongly. An IFR of 0.6% when considered across the entire population is indeed cause for much more alarm than one of 0.02%. It is very relevant. 0.6% of the population in the USA, for instance, would mean about 2 million people wo
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by javagram 6y ago
> For example, COVID's current "death rate" estimate is ~3x worse than flu. Versus Trump's "~5x" in your quote from Feb 2020¹. COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rate is estimated at around 0.6% whereas H1N1/0
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by javagram 6y ago
> major network and cable news told them that the government's time line for getting a vaccine was a lie. The White House and Trump repeatedly claimed, publicly, that the vaccine would be available before the election in November 20
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by javagram 6y ago
Interesting. I’ve never gotten the FluMist. Those side effects are apparently listed as normal, though it’s interesting to learn they can come on that quickly! I would have thought the immune system would take some hours to respond.
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by javagram 6y ago
> Since he got sick from the flu shot (even with the weakened virus) many years ago, he now avoids them As most/all flu shots don’t contain weakened virus (FluMist, the nasal spray, does contain weakened virus, but the shot uses ei
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by javagram 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25544687
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by javagram 6y ago
Prediction v reality. The post right above yours describes how Apple added capabilities to Safari in cooperation with Amazon’s team to enable this use case... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25544687

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