progressive_dad

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by progressive_dad 10y ago
You can mail your registration. That's why 2.5 million newly registered voters via voteforchange.org suddenly appeared swinging North Carolina single handedly in 2008. An electronic registration/ballot can be accessed 24/7 do
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
I can't believe I'm saying this, but hacker news needs to take a lesson from what reddit is doing about this.
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
#3 is how I've gotten every job I've ever held, except 1 where I signed up for the mailing list of the company in question and the signup process had an "Occupation" box. I filled in my current job title and two days lat
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
Purchasing power is going down even faster than inflation for housing, child care, and education. Even if minimum wage was keeping pace with inflation, the very things low income earners need most are outpacing inflation.
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
Opt out (with opt outs and straw polls used to determine if an audit is necessary). I hear this again and again and again and its utter bullshit. You don't need to solve auditing to solve online voting. They are two separate issues and
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
How about make it private + opt-out (where opt out is used in conjunction with straw polls to determine whether an audit is necessary?)
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
No one wants online voting to happen, but that's the big secret: No one is actually afraid it will be rigged. Its rigged NOW and that's the way Democrat and Republican leaders LIKE it. They're terrified of massive demographic
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
There is an old adage about excrement and elevation that applies here but I will instead answer your question in the form of an entry from the OSHA compiled list of workplace related deaths... FY 2010,10/02/09,09/25/09,&
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
There was a definitive study done that showed you can reduce malpractice mistakes by some insanely HUGE amount by changing 1 variable: Leave nurses alone while they're administering medicine. In the study they gave nurses "Do Not
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
I've often thought it would be an interesting experiment to drop cheap GPS units into the bags of the homeless and create an online tracking system.
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
Its more like a West Virginia senator on the climate control committee introducing a carbon tax. She's negotiating between a regulatory body and her constituents and coming down firmly on the side of the regulatory body. There will be
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
Think about captcha and why you might use an image of a cyphertext to defeat automated tools. Could be combined with barcodes as well.
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
That page requires an Oxford University username and password. I'd be interested to read this.
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
You too? That's #2 on my retirement list after releasing a library of open source epistemology enhancements for common game engines with demo UI. Maybe, together, we can finally kill the dialogue tree.
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
I wouldn't go that far. Maybe, "witty", but I wouldn't call it Shakespeare.
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
Let me know when humans invent something not governed by the rules the universe was programmed with ;-)
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
Two thirds of Americans are overweight, but the president and his wife somehow managed to muster up the courage to denounce that fact and take action.
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
I would say this is more of a steganography challenge than a cryptography challenge per-se. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-hide-one-image-in-ano.
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
Let's throw schools in there... no use taking a 20k raise to move to Chicago if you have a child for instance. You'll pay more than that for the cheapest private school. If you want to use neighborhood schools you can move to Oak
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
So what is a tonne in British pounds?
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
Its worse in Europe and no one is talking about because "hurr de hurr socialism" while wages are stagnating.
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
There's two things wrong with your argument. 1) Minneapolis, Minnesota 2) Immigrants to Europe You don't have to be some slick banker type moving to London to want your salary to keep pace with the cost of living. Lack of options
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
Only if gas stations can charge ludicrously higher rates to your provider but lower it to something reasonable for uninsured drivers.
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by progressive_dad 10y ago
I was talking about her job performance not her sex life you complete walnut.
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
Imagine the police response time to a black neighborhood where gun violence has just been reported. Now imagine the police don't have guns, cars, or any knowledge of the law because there is no black and white law. Now imagine you live
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
Yeah, but does he get to dock it perfectly every time himself? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qHdPhkSSNQ
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
#3 is the most problematic in my mind. Personal security is absolutely essential and it is the personal responsibility of everyone. This one most clearly shows his utter lack of empathy, nuance, understanding what a leadership role means, d
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
Working on a high profile tech team and project. We had the most brilliant and insufferable devops engineer I've ever met. I don't mean just your standard grump overworked sys admin. This guy was a treasure. 1) Previously all engi
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
So now we just need a robot that can experience a millenia of evolution in order to attain "curiosity" I'd say we're 15-30 years away...

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