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by mikeash 7y ago
The rationale for the EC and every other compromise in the Constitution was simple: it’s what was required to get the states to actually sign up. There was the very real possibility that the individual states would go their own way if they
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by mikeash 7y ago
Why doesn’t this same logic also apply to, say, black people? The percentages are about the same. Why do we dedicate the entire shape of our system to ensuring that rural Americans aren’t forgotten, as opposed to any other group of that siz
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by mikeash 7y ago
Not at all the same. Most people are pushing hard for TLS, with just some fringe elements resisting it. If it was like voting machines, you’d have massive initiatives to run everything on plain HTTP and any suggestion that we should all use
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by mikeash 7y ago
It leaves a record that the somebody else cast a vote. This would be noticed rapidly if the real person then showed up to vote and was prevented because an impersonator got there first. If that doesn’t happen, you can ask them if they voted
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by mikeash 7y ago
Hack voting machines: trick or bribe an election worker to plug a USB drive into all the machines a week before the election. Hack paper ballots: bribe the multiple people, including representatives from each party who cares to send one, to
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by mikeash 7y ago
It solves a problem that doesn’t exist in practice and is impossible to exploit at scale even in theory. It would be good, but it’s not terribly important.
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by mikeash 7y ago
That chance always exists. Your choices are to minimize it or pretend it doesn’t exist, but there’s no way to actually eliminate it.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Is there any other technology in such widespread use with such universal condemnation from experts? Essentially every expert on computerized voting systems says, “don’t do this, it’s insane.” Imagine if every expert on aerospace engineering
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by mikeash 7y ago
You really should be paying off your balance in full every month so you’re not paying interest at all. Even the lowest credit card interest rates are exorbitant.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I think that’s often true, but it doesn’t seem to be the case here. The authorities saw something suspicious, they investigated, and ultimately it went nowhere. That’s exactly how it’s supposed to go.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s pretty clear which side of the balance the IRS is on at the moment. I didn’t read the statement as a universally applicable principle, but rather a description of the current situation.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s also fun to play these word games. One person’s “so rude!” can be another person’s “haha what a hilarious intentional misunderstanding.” Just another reason never to assume the worst and always ask for clarification if you don’t unders
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by mikeash 7y ago
Everything related to people is so much easier when you avoid taking anything personally. It’s almost never meant that way. When it is, you’re still better off not taking it that way. Someone was rude to you? So what? Just keep going. (Obvi
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by mikeash 7y ago
This stuff is definitely highly dependent on the local culture. In the US specifically, though, I’d take this as a genuine question. Any manager who didn’t get that is going to either learn to change their ways or will be perpetually frustr
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by mikeash 7y ago
Sure, I’d explain. But I have a vague sense of social skills. We can fault this employee for not knowing how to communicate, and that’s fair. But it’s a much bigger fault with the manager for not knowing how to deal with it. After all, of t
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by mikeash 7y ago
I imagine you need to train them, just like you have to train any other skill. Yet in most companies it seems to come down to, “Fred seems like he’d be a good manager, let’s promote him.”
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by mikeash 7y ago
Politeness is extremely culture and context dependent.
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by mikeash 7y ago
A romantic relationship is completely different. Sometimes a manager actually wants to find someone with the right combination of skill and enthusiasm to do something. I would definitely take “would you like to?” as part of that process, wi
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by mikeash 7y ago
Is “would you like to?” really a firm request? I would definitely interpret that as a genuine question meant to gauge my desire. “Would you?” and “could you?” are, of course, different.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I believe the distinction they’re making is that there is actually no guarantee that the value pointed to by x will remain constant. All this tells you is that you’re not allowed to use x to make the modification. Consider: int foo = 42
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by mikeash 7y ago
Sure, the difference is that Tesla is aggressively expanding (sales have been increasing around 100% per year for the past few years) while Jaguar has its niche and is happy to stay there. The I-PACE can sell significantly fewer units than
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by mikeash 7y ago
This one seems almost sensible to me. They probably have some ridiculous 1960s-era mainframe on the backend and it’s cheaper to keep it running than to redo it all.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Thank you for sharing an inside view!
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by mikeash 7y ago
I am well aware. But saying is a bad situation because you might get into a bad situation again is not a good strategy, and the fix for that problem is to get out of that problematic marriage too.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Having experienced the kid side of this both ways, let me say to any parents in this situation: if your marriage is shit, don’t “do it for the kids” because of some notion that two parents is better. Get that divorce! Your kids will be far
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by mikeash 7y ago
“Bank has idiotic ideas about security” is as surprising as “sun rises at predicted time.” Something about the industry seems to push paranoid incompetence in security.
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by mikeash 7y ago
For what it’s worth, my 4.5 year old Model S has lost less than 2% of its original range. You can’t compare with cheap electronic gadgets. Those push their batteries hard and do nothing to manage their temperature. Some EVs are similarly st
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by mikeash 7y ago
And the cheaper SR+ version only became available this year.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It compares to the Model Y in size but to the Model X on price. This doesn’t seem like a winning combination. Edit: that’s a bit too glib. I’m sure it’ll do just fine as a niche product for a certain group of buyers, which is what Jaguar is
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by mikeash 7y ago
Official range numbers come from a government testing cycle (EPA in the US), so you should get the listed range under more or less the same conditions with any car.

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