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by pexabit 4y ago
Considerably out-of-the-money options on social media companies expiring this Friday are up very substantially, so whether the source is credible or not there is money acting as if it is.
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“Hearing chatter that the US will ban TikTok today.”(twitter.com)
8 points by pexabit 4y ago|3 comments
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by pexabit 4y ago
How much does a scantron machine cost?
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by pexabit 4y ago
Paper ballots weren’t cast and counted under general public observation in the US. And I mean a ballot stub that is separated at the time it is cast is tied to a voter.
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by pexabit 4y ago
The second paragraph is an assertion. And urban registration drives are heavily funded. Most people who do not vote do not vote because they do not want to vote.
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by pexabit 4y ago
Taiwan and France. Probably most countries: since it is how you would design an election in the obvious way. > A truly observably fair election is practically impossible if you mean to have any significant number of voters. Just broadca
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by pexabit 4y ago
Checkout Healthline today. Then do WaybackMachine of Healtine in like 2009. It is shocking
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by pexabit 4y ago
I don’t think a scantron machine not connected to the Internet would sow distrust. We have seen them in our high schools. And Adversarial observers can validate the results on test samples quite easily. Which raises the question- why do we
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by pexabit 4y ago
Well secure and rather indisputably valid elections are a solved problem, and many countries manage it. Identified electors cast ballots on paper counted under recorded and public observation. (I think a scantron would be fine, too). It i
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by pexabit 4y ago
Even putting the identity politics bit of it aside, it is just unnecessarily hostile, and comes across as such if you haven't acclimated yourself to things like this already. Plus a lot of it, as near all of it that actually matters,
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by pexabit 4y ago
He goes out of his way to mention something peculiar despite its non-relevance to the technical features of the project, and does so again on a Medium post introducing the fork. In fact the only interesting said at all is about the code. (
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by pexabit 4y ago
That is a lot of effort to complain about SQlite's Code of Conduct.
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by pexabit 4y ago
Mass advertising has a big tragedy of the commons problem. Attention is limited, and every mass ad, digital or otherwise, takes attention away from any other mass ad. (I distinguish mass ads from advertisements for cigars in Cigar Magazin
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by pexabit 4y ago
The real thing to do would be leveraging your owned home to buy stocks to bypass the limit on the mortgage interest deduction. (You have to do it this way - the IRS doesn't care that money is fungible)
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by pexabit 4y ago
You can always do "username+<servicename>@gmail.com" for this purpose. Doesn't help with privacy but tells you which service is leaking addresses.