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by lukev 6y ago
Yes, and the even broader context: the Democratic victory was 4-6% _less_ than that indicated by diverse pre-election polling. To allege fraud here is to assert that not only did Democrats rig the election, they rigged almost every poll goi
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by lukev 6y ago
You're describing exactly what happens in (most) of the US. The "fraud" alleged by Trump in this case consists mostly of his observers being asked to stand 6 feet back so the election officials could actually work. And the of
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by lukev 6y ago
You seem to be starting from the prior position that existing voting systems are fraudulent. This is not the case (at least for paper ones, I too am skeptical of purely electronic voting systems.) Both initial counting, recounting and audit
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by lukev 6y ago
This is a terrible, terrible idea. 98% of the voting population has no clue how blockchains even work. And as we're seeing in realtime, if uninformed people don't like the result and don't understand the process, they will im
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by lukev 6y ago
Please stop spreading partisan disinformation. All the instances you cite in your post are hearsay and are being rapidly being dismissed as such by the courts. I believe the figure is somewhere around 11-12 dismissed lawsuits to date. Howev
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by lukev 6y ago
As someone who mined a bunch of Bitcoin back in the early days, I can state that this is a completely ahistorical viewpoint. Bitcoin was _absolutely_ touted as "digital cash" early on. The earliest transactions of Bitcoins were ea
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by lukev 6y ago
Choosing which talks have the tone and content you want for your conference is an integral part of organizing an event. I'm not sure what you're actually advocating here.
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by lukev 6y ago
Ok, but seriously, what's the alternative? Should literally _everything_ be an fully transparent democratic process (and good luck keeping it fair when bad actors show up en masse)? Having a CoC is at least an improvement on the previo
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by lukev 6y ago
Water (pumped hydro) storage is really great, but only works well at scale where the geographic features support it.
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by lukev 6y ago
This is built in to wholesale energy markets and well understood. Energy prices go negative with some degree of regularity and it is built into the system. If you already have a grid interconnection and a handy energy sink, you can definite
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by lukev 6y ago
I agree with this. The whole "value" proposition of cryptocurrency is that there is no governing authority, no undo, no takebacks, the code is the only law. If that's _not_ what you want, you should 100% be using a bank inste
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by lukev 6y ago
I was perturbed by the offhand way he linked to a climate-change denialist website (as part of his assertion that "before 10k temperatures changed a lot more"). I don't think you get to call yourself a rationalist if you ign
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by lukev 6y ago
This is either something written by GPT-3, or the human equivalent. Zero substantive content, pure regurgitation.
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by lukev 6y ago
How is "converting the entire mass of the solar system into dollar bills" conceptually different from "converting the habitability of Earth into dollar bills" or "converting the health problems of human beings into
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by lukev 6y ago
The police almost never prosecute rape, as a crime. When they do, it is an incredible ordeal for the victim, who is forced to replay the incident multiple times to convince the appropriate authorities it actually happened. If you believe &q
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by lukev 6y ago
Ok, so the HN consensus is that mob justice is bad. Great, excellent affirmation of a nearly tautological statement. Mob justice can never actually be just, except by accident. What's more interesting to me, and a problem more befittin
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by lukev 6y ago
Interesting article, but it feels like it's grinding some weird axes. Like the way it harps on his lack of a degree, and awkwardly mentions the political alignment of people Tankus learned from (like "[he read a book] by the liber
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by lukev 6y ago
And yet the history of the 20th century, there are plenty of cases where a society has _regressed_ along this axis. Sometimes quite suddenly. European fascism is the obvious example, but it's also really interesting to look at the traj
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by lukev 6y ago
There is some correlation, but less than you'd think. Many of the most fiery defenses of individual liberty were written by people who simultaneously enslaved others. Understanding how and why that can happen is important for historica
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by lukev 6y ago
This is, of course, an eloquent expression of a vital philosophy. We should be seriously grateful that it gained serious uptake through the 18th and 19th centuries, giving us(1) the democracy and freedom we enjoy today. Everyone should read
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by lukev 6y ago
If you wait to do anything about systemic racism until it's fully quantified, it will be a long time until we can make any progress. Meanwhile, a central point of the book is one that should be self evident. Talking about racism makes
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by lukev 6y ago
It is precisely because cops are human beings that we cannot allow them to operate in an effectively consequences-free environment. Also; the idea that any cop would have "saved 100 lives in his career" is ludicrous. But even if i
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by lukev 7y ago
The author of course is correct that communicating a model does not necessarily communicate expertise, and that many important elements of expertise are non-communicable (at least not easily) tacit knowledge. But what is not addressed is th
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by lukev 7y ago
I really hoped this is what EC2 spot instances would be, but it doesn't seem to work that way. My spot instances usually get terminated due to "no available capacity" without any major price movement. It would also be pretty
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by lukev 7y ago
I don't understand why people feel the need to say stuff like this. It's dangerous and wrong. Yes, sure, masks are ineffective if you define "effective" as "a complete barrier to infection". Congratulations, yo
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by lukev 7y ago
I don't know if it will help others, but a few viewpoints that have (perhaps strangely) helped me: 1. Strictly limiting my social media consumption. Lots of people are stress posting as their own coping mechanism and if you consume it
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by lukev 7y ago
Trump implied during his speech that the site would be available nationwide by Sunday or Monday. Also, people were pedantic with Obama all the time. Tan suit, anyone?
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Contrary to Trump’s claim, Google is not building a Covid-19 website(theverge.com)
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by lukev 7y ago
Sounds like you are mistaking gallows humor for sincere intent. I've heard the same jokes but I'm 100% sure none of the people making them actually intend to spread disease.
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by lukev 7y ago
In this case it was shiny object syndrome on the part of a few early architects. The whole project could have been a Rails app. The lesson is less about event sourcing, and more about picking architectures in light of business needs rather

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