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by richmarr 8y ago
> Rigging a polling place is not viable because... This argument is sounds great but doesn't match reality https://i.redditmedia.com/NITi8srtcW0xIfOQXPZda6zJNrpb_jRbwg... Edit: Link to the paper: http:/&#x2F
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by richmarr 8y ago
I don't think it's a problem that happens, though. If you're going to fraudulently rig an election it's vastly cheaper to do so by rigging the polling station than it is by faking the voters. But by introducing voter I
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by richmarr 8y ago
> what properties a blockchain would need in order to provide a secure election Actually being secure is one thing, but the public need to know that it's secure. They need to be able to see it. Understand it. As soon as you star
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by richmarr 8y ago
> The types of things you mention seem perfectly legitimate. I certainly assume OP's team is well-intentioned, but I'm skeptical that hiring for uniformity of "how do you attack problems" or "how do you learn a
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by richmarr 8y ago
There's an overview of some of his opinions on this page, which doesn't have a date on it but I'd guess dates from his 2015 patent bill. He may have changed his thinking some since then. https://www.coons.senate.go
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by richmarr 8y ago
Yep... thanks, wrote that too quickly, I'll update
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by richmarr 8y ago
> Of "the rest of the developed world", only one country (the UK) has a "national healthcare system", and even that's a bit of a stretch, because England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland all have different
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by richmarr 8y ago
Not to mention the fact that companies can write off insurance contributions against tax, and individuals can recieve that benefit without paying income or payroll tax on it. In effect that's a subsidy in favour of the middle classes a
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by richmarr 8y ago
> The blame falls on me here because I put blind faith in the doctor's office and did not fully investigate everything being done and approve or deny things based on my questions. The thing you are describing is not the problem. I
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by richmarr 8y ago
> This is simply not true. Providing a wrapper around a thing is not the same as wanting to turn a thing into something else. I would argue that ORMs offer cosmetic change. Convenience, not substantive change. > Many ORMs are desig
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by richmarr 8y ago
> This is basically a big, complicated, and slow piece of software that tries to make a SQL database into something else. Just to nitpick a little, but I think it's a worthwhile distinction, ORMs don't try to make a SQL datab
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by richmarr 8y ago
Not every piece of procured hardware is a massive compromise, designed to replace many types of previous model with wildly varying purposes. It's supposed to replace the A10 as a close air support craft, at the same time as taking prim
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by richmarr 8y ago
In a trade war we all lose.
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by richmarr 8y ago
Presumably OP is satire, since parents are being separated from children by the current US administration.
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by richmarr 8y ago
A lot of comments here are using word like "promotion", starting at the "bottom", powers reserved for "higher ups", etc. following the standard framing of hierarchy as a vertical pyramid, which I think possibly
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by richmarr 8y ago
Arcology! I'm so glad we opted for the William Gibson distopian future. A Mad Max apolocalyptic hellscape would have been terrible for my skin.
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by richmarr 8y ago
So your suggestion here is that Torvalds has some monthly 'Linux success' metrics and varies the amount and style of swearing based on those. It'd certainly make a good sitcom.
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by richmarr 8y ago
> Huh? When are kernel developers in high stakes situations that require tact? Parent commenter made a comparison between Torvalds and politicians. I was exploring that comparison. > If he'd lost control the criticism would be
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by richmarr 8y ago
> It's easier to trust Linus than a tactfull politician. That should make us all think. I can kinda see where you're going with this, ie. the idea that knowing what someone is thinking means you can trust them... but I disagr
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by richmarr 8y ago
Your implication, that this aspect of Torvalds' interpersonal style is vindicated by Linux' success, is a classic Halo effect. Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
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by richmarr 8y ago
In what way? Sorry, not sure what point you're making here.
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by richmarr 8y ago
If Torvalds is trying to engender a culture by being the only one swearing then I'd be very curious where he learned that technique and how he was measuring its success over the many years he's exhibited that behaviour. Occam&#x27
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by richmarr 8y ago
Presumably your wife is dealing with complex issues where there are real conflicts that require real words, unlike this situation. This is a non-conflict that Torvalds turned into one. In this case, Torvalds is swearing at someone who agree
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by richmarr 8y ago
As another Northern European I disassociate myself from your comment. Yes, there are cultural differences between the US and Europe. No, that doesn't mean that Europe agrees with your opinion on what constitutes acceptable behaviour in
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by richmarr 8y ago
Except "strong opinions" is not what happened here. He's being verbally abusive. I think it'd be helpful to be able to talk about this behaviour without needing to suger-coat it as "opinions". There are far les
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by richmarr 8y ago
We're already heating the sea (and everything else) by running the air conditioners to cool the datacentres, and generating the electricity to power the air conditioners that cool the datacentres. This is more a lot more efficient. Per
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by richmarr 8y ago
Just to bring the inevitable pedantry, you'd want to consider the cross-sectional surface area rather than the volume, and hitting the gravity well of a planet may turn out to be indirectly fatal too. So while I agree it's still p
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by richmarr 8y ago
There seems to be a common belief that the 'modern' era is somehow different to the past. I'm open to the idea, but in the most part it seems based on so little data that it can be discounted. Maybe Wolfe has got some evidenc
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by richmarr 8y ago
While I'm a bit sympathetic with the devs here, they got paid, and this was always going to be a risky proposition. They must have known that. Adding the 3rd largest app store in the US to iOS was always going to be a seizmic shift on
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by richmarr 8y ago
Can you clarify what you found enlightening about it?

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