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by lordvon 6y ago
Hmm. It is a rather arbitrary condition that we should be able to prove that voter fraud swung an election before we should be worried about it. There are a lot of recent convictions, which should not happen at all. And I don’t see how a ‘s
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by lordvon 6y ago
Well, take a look at the following examples of convictions made for ‘fraudulent use of absentee ballots’ (and other forms of voter fraud): https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/p...
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by lordvon 6y ago
As a US citizen, I would prefer to have 0 such convictions. I would not belittle these results, as these may not be all convictions, and these are just the ones that got caught. And of course even if the sheer number of votes is not on the
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by lordvon 6y ago
Hmm. I don’t think that is evidence. He is not admitting to trying to unfairly influence The 2020 election, but stating a symptom of his belief (incorrect or not) that fraudulent votes tend to be for the party opposing his, which is a legit
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by lordvon 6y ago
It seems like most people here believe there is no evidence of mail-in voter fraud (for some reason...). Here’s a huge list of convictions for ‘fraudulent use of absentee ballots’: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/white
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by lordvon 6y ago
Is Trump lying though? Here’s a list of tons of convictions on fraudulent use of absentee ballots (and other forms of voter fraud): https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/p...
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by lordvon 6y ago
I think news organizations are unfortunately choosing to do non-news for ratings, though. And how is Trump interfering with the election? In principle, there are real risks with unjustified mail-in voting, and I think restrictions would pro
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by lordvon 6y ago
This ‘fact check’ makes unfair biases way too easy. It is not a soulless algorithm or natural law that chooses the target and contents of these ‘fact checks’, but unaccountable individuals. Like communism, good in theory, but hard to implem
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by lordvon 7y ago
I am saddened by seeing such a flippant characterization. Patent troll is literally defined to be "a company that obtains the rights to one or more patents in order to profit by means of licensing or litigation, rather than by producin
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EVTOL Aircraft Directory(evtol.news)
2 points by lordvon 8y ago|0 comments
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Airfoil drag prediction in potential flow [pdf](github.com)
1 points by lordvon 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Critique my potential flow drag prediction model [pdf](github.com)
1 points by lordvon 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why haven't ultralight aircraft improved over the past several decades?
3 points by lordvon 8y ago|1 comments
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by lordvon 8y ago
Potential flow simulations are not very practical these days (maybe for quick back-of-the-envelope), and I highly doubt Formula One would be interested at all. But my theory touches on what is taught to every aerospace engineer, and I think
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by lordvon 8y ago
I took a look at registering for arXiv, and since I am not currently affiliated with a University it seems like I wasn't able to proceed. And then there is the question of whether it is beneficial for me, like you said. I would love to
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by lordvon 8y ago
Thanks for the great advice! My first thought was reaching out to former professors by email (can't visit in person), but I wanted to see if there was a more appropriate way, like an online pre-print vetting community or something. I w
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by lordvon 8y ago
I am not sure what you are trying to say. Thin Airfoil Theory and Vortex Panel Methods all predict zero drag. XFOIL predicts drag by tacking on a wake momentum thickness method.
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by lordvon 8y ago
It's actually a pretty simple idea that could be significant because it touches on what every aerospace engineer is taught about airfoils in incompressible and inviscid flow, and I think it would contribute to fundamental understanding
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by lordvon 8y ago
Thanks for the long post! I want at the very least to just get my derivation and results reviewed. I hope to avoid minutia of academic formatting, diction, etc. before getting any reviews... Honestly, it's a really simple idea with sig
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Ask HN: Best way to submit a scientific article for review as a non-academic?
19 points by lordvon 8y ago|16 comments
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Drag prediction in incompressible and inviscid flow?
2 points by lordvon 8y ago|0 comments
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by lordvon 9y ago
Do you have any experience with InteractiveBrokers?
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by lordvon 9y ago
I don't know about setting up VPS, but the standard way to use IB is to run their main client (either the GUI-based "TWS" or the GUI-less "IB Gateway"), then connect to the main client. Your binary is totally separa
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by lordvon 9y ago
I have only tried one algo trading platform, Interactive Brokers. API documentation: http://interactivebrokers.github.io/tws-api/index.html#gsc.t... Their live market data is gated at 250 ms, so definitely not for HFT.
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Ask HN: Gerrit-style commenting platform for Volatility output?
1 points by lordvon 9y ago|0 comments
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by lordvon 9y ago
I think cybersecurity in general is hugely lacking. I have had personal devices compromised by an individualized targeted attack and found that there are no tools to easily and reliably diagnose which of your devices are compromised (at lea
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by lordvon 9y ago
How do you account for charging at home?
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by lordvon 9y ago
Where do you live? That is awesome!
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by lordvon 9y ago
Why do you think that is?
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by lordvon 9y ago
I was not implying they were not looking for funding, I explicitly stated so. They were principally interested in selling units, or, as in your cited text, the means to build them. Again this is clearly not funding for development. The qual

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