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by save_ferris 6y ago
The ruling grants states the power to enforce the pledge of an elector or penalize them for casting an alternative vote, but it's up to the states to do so.
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by save_ferris 6y ago
One very important point to consider in all of this is that the states administer their own elections and election processes directly. While this makes unifying the voting system practically impossible, it prevents a singular federal author
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> I don't think it's perfect, but in principle I don't see it as a bad things that people in say Montana have a means to influence the presidency. Under the electoral college system, voters in so-called swing states have m
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Serious question for everyone out there that views an individual's ability to say whatever they want on social media as a fundamentally important right: what happens if a lie spreads so virulently online that a large enough contingent
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by save_ferris 6y ago
If the safety and consumer satisfaction data backs up the companies that have decided to ditch the screens, I expect to see others follow suit. As others in this thread have pointed out, few automakers have really seemed up to the challenge
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by save_ferris 6y ago
That trend is starting to change. Mazda and Honda are starting to phase out touchscreens in some cases[0]. Tangentially related, the US Navy is also phasing out touchscreen controls after they were determined to be a factor in the USS McCai
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by save_ferris 6y ago
We as a society can’t even agree to guarantee basic fundamentals needed to live in the US. Flint, MI still has tainted water, millions are unemployed, homelessness is rising and some are starving. We can’t take care of our people on this pl
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by save_ferris 6y ago
I think investing in space exploration improves some people's ability to face climate change on our planet. It's hard to see a scenario where everyone in the world would benefit from it, given the incredible advancement of private
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by save_ferris 6y ago
This is the nature of political strategy. The pandemic is a really hard thing for the current administration to spin, so they're probably better off talking about "hopes and dreams" types of things. They're trying as har
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by save_ferris 6y ago
It's not that great advancements have cost. The argument is that focusing on space exploration deflects from facing the realities of climate change on our planet. If people start to think that space exploration could yield a solution t
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> These inexperienced people are put in charge of designing codebases that don't scale and become spaghetti. I think this is one area where front end tooling can be painful for the average dev. The bar to writing idiomatic JS for a
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Florida Gov. DeSantis attempts to vote, discovers someone changed his address(wesh.com)
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Cryptocurrencies aren’t exempt from that, the 2018 Bitcoin boom and bust was likely caused by one whale account[0] manipulating Tether. By your argument, Bitcoin will become corrupted because we know it can be corrupted. 0: https:/&#x
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by save_ferris 6y ago
It sounds like your solution to the problem is to take away the ability to remove people from the system altogether, no? If that’s the case, then you open up a whole new set of problems. There are far easier and cheaper ways to guarantee le
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by save_ferris 6y ago
If cryptocurrencies are private enough to obfuscate transactions to the point that authorities can’t monitor illegal financial activity, how can the system also be transparent enough to effectively tax users? Isn’t taxation a centralized fi
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by save_ferris 6y ago
So organizations shouldn’t be able to remove people’s access to credit or accounts for any reason? If you take that away, you completely remove the ability to police money laundering and other kinds of financial crime (crypto is already a f
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> In the cases where that trust breaks down or shouldn't have been given in the first place, it tends to create problems that are astronomically more costly than if a trustless system was used in the first place. Is this actually tr
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by save_ferris 6y ago
I’m sure there’s a provision that protects them in the EULA you agreed to when you purchased it. Isn’t it a moot point anyway because nobody ever “buys” software, they just obtain a license to use it. Ownership is such a convoluted concept
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> there was a counterbalance between big tech and the NSA that is now gone. What?!?! Big tech was the primary facilitator of NSA surveillance through PRISM, they worked together to spy on billions of people. The idea that the general pub
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> Had Snowden simply revealed unconstitutional domestic mass surveillance programs, perhaps he could be pigeonholed as a whistleblower. Multiple former officials did this and society largely didn't believe them and didn't care.
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Blowing the whistle completely upended his life. Anyone in his shoes would've made the same decision to leave because being tried under the Espionage Act would've yielded a guaranteed life sentence. People have a right to flee tyr
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by save_ferris 6y ago
I'm not saying that everything she touched turned to gold, but I am saying that she's one of the most high-profile executives in America. Princeton undergrad, Harvard MBA, SVP at Bain, CEO at eBay, HP, primary candidate in a guber
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by save_ferris 6y ago
It is crazy that they doubled down on the mobile-only strategy instead of trying harder to iterate, the pandemic has been going on for months. You're telling me they raised all of that money and couldn't stand up a basic web clien
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by save_ferris 6y ago
I recently joined a company that builds all of its APIs this way, and I'm not looking back. It's so much easier to communicate across teams and tech stacks when we can send them a PR with a proposed endpoint contract. Plus, people
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Apiary looks like it supports OpenAPI 3.0, so you get the best of both worlds. Having your API spec living in an open standard format also gives you the ability to easily write integration tests using other tools as well.
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Tools like Postman make it really easy to write test scripts and automate other things around endpoints that are defined using OpenAPI, so you're pretty close once you have the OpenAPI spec written.
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> If I am unable/unwilling to moderate the comment section of a blog I host then maybe I should't have one. I completely agree, it’s clear that a successful business model around content moderation cannot exist in the internet’
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by save_ferris 6y ago
That report goes on to reiterate on one of the major points of the CA scandal, that executives of the company explicitly sold themselves as nefarious kingmakers willing to deploy blackmail and honeypots for a client in order to manipulate e
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> If people start to understand the way Facebook is manipulating them, then there is also an opportunity for another platform, which does not do so, or to a lesser extent. This assumes that a platform which behaves more ethically or is b
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> Will you be able to improvise after enough of this? Play songs by ear? How many Herbie Hancock's have you come across after finishing a grade 1 piano book? Of course a single exercise app or book isn't going to create the per

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