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by mixmax 9y ago
and much harder to implement correctly
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by mixmax 9y ago
But that's not how vote counting works. Typically there's a member of each party represented in teh election present for the counting, and often they're open to observers from the outside. This means that you'd have to c
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by mixmax 9y ago
Tcp seems like a really bad protocol for this.
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by mixmax 9y ago
sure - choosing the right extracurricular activities if they don't cost too much, are available in Minnesota and can fit in between your 2 jobs. Sure - choosing good majors is important, if your parents can afford your school. Sure, ha
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by mixmax 9y ago
yes, it's important to choose the right country to be born in, the right affluent and wealthy parents, the right ethniticity and of course the right gender.
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by mixmax 9y ago
ah yes, voice control.... In your tesla all you might have to do is say "left driver seat window down" and the window opens. If you only want it halfway down you will have to say "stop" at the right point. Of course if y
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by mixmax 9y ago
CowboyNeal is busy waiting for DukeNukem 3D to come out
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by mixmax 9y ago
I remember a story where someone uploaded a large file known to be popular (a new torrented movie if I recall correctly) that would have a reasonably chance of already being in someone elses dropbox. The file uploaded in an instant, lending
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by mixmax 9y ago
In Denmark it was public who voted for what until around 100 years ago. In the first secret election where employers, landlords and other people in power couldn't see who their subordinates voted for the workers party got markedly more
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by mixmax 9y ago
correct. The problem with digital voting is that it needs to be anonymous who votes for what. That makes the problem much much harder.
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by mixmax 9y ago
As Tom Scott points out in the video you're just moving the problem. They may not be connected to the Internet, but surely someone has programmed them. Who? And how do you know noone has changed the software? If they've been progr
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by mixmax 9y ago
the vote-selling side effect is much larger than you'd like. In Denmark someone made a study and found out that when voting changed from public (everyone could see who voted for who) to anonymous the workers parties gained votes to the
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by mixmax 10y ago
>Do the rich really keep getting richer? Yes, that's basically the findings of Thomas Pikkety. His tome "Capital in the 21st century" goes through great lengths to find and explain the numbers behind the finding.
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by mixmax 10y ago
If I remember correctly 538 put him at around 25-30% chance of winning the election. Certainly an underdog, but with a reasonable chance of success.
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by mixmax 10y ago
>How many of these amazing software projects in C++ are web backends? Varnish cache is written in c
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by mixmax 10y ago
current voting systems actually work very well with zero-trust. - You enter into the voting booth with your ballot and cross off your preferred candidate or party. No trust needed. - You fold it together and put it into a ballot box. No tru
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by mixmax 10y ago
We (or at least I) miss your long insightful rants :-)
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Ask HN: What's the most stable linux desktop environment?
2 points by mixmax 10y ago|3 comments
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by mixmax 11y ago
15 years ago it was rather hard....
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by mixmax 11y ago
"To develop robots, you have two options: You can either simulate an environment and robot with software and hope the results are accurate enough that you can load it into a machine and watch it walk." This is much harder than you
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by mixmax 11y ago
ah yes, forgot that one. He also wrote the V8 javascript engine that powers chrome. Other notable Danes include Poul henning Kamp that among many other things wrote the varnish cache and Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen that wrote the origi
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by mixmax 11y ago
you're right of course. I thought I'd include it though since its so popular.
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by mixmax 11y ago
It's interesting how many programming languages were made by Danes. Nauer of course contributed to algol60, but did you know PHP was written by Rasmus Lerdorrf, Anders Hejlsberg developed delphi, turbo pascal and C#, Bjarne Stroustrup
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by mixmax 11y ago
It just so happens that over the last 2 winters I've been burning a scrapped wooden boat in my fire stove so I know how much fire you get out of a boat. The boat in question was a 15 meter long oak on oak boat. It lasted 2 winters for
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by mixmax 11y ago
interesting idea - and very much in the spirit of the project. It's a pretty closed off harbour so there aren't really any waves, and there's almost no tide so not much flow past the raft either. Especially since it's mo
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by mixmax 11y ago
no, but primarily from a "we already know this" point of view.
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by mixmax 11y ago
The obvious choice would be solar, except for the fact that at this time of year we only get around 6 hours of daylight in Copenhagen. Winter solstice was yesterday. Wind might work, a windmill for boats might be able to give us the power n
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by mixmax 11y ago
Thanks! No, it wasn't coommissioned, but we got a 25.000 DKKR grant for making it. We spent it all on trees, barges and electronics, so noone made any money from it. But it was a really fun project.
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by mixmax 11y ago
Next year maybe... :-)
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Show HN: A high-tech floating Christmas tree with more than 2000 RGB LED's(maximise.dk)
94 points by mixmax 11y ago|19 comments

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