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by staunch 6y ago
You can only observe a single ballot counting location, while there are hundreds or thousands to observe. Someone could be bribing people in dozens or hundreds of locations and there are lots of tricks to pull. You're not really verify
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by staunch 6y ago
> ...you'd rather trust a few tens of people to write the software and audit it? Of course not. All of the software should be open source, with multiple independent implementations, test suites, etc. And the data should be open to
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by staunch 6y ago
This system relies on tens of millions of people trusting a few thousand people not to have been bribed. Seems entirely corruptible and you have no idea whether it has been corrupted or not. You're just left hoping it hasn't bee
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by staunch 6y ago
The principle is pretty simple: any person that has evidence that the U.S. government is violating the U.S. Constitution should report it to the American people. If there is an official channel for reporting it, they should try that first (
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by staunch 6y ago
I don't think it's that easy to game LinkedIn accounts. Faking the account age and number of connections is non-trivial, for example. I don't think it would limit the high quality participation, at least not by very much, and
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by staunch 6y ago
Bill Gates and Elon Musk are two of the best examples of effective social entrepreneurship. Bill Gates made the money and then spent it socially on vaccine research, reducing disease, improving education, etc. Elon Musk's efforts are m
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by staunch 6y ago
I get the impulse. But think it through. There is no real possibility that the claim I made is actually false. Of course not every Google employee upvotes Google submissions and not every upvote is from a Google employee. But the influence
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by staunch 6y ago
Nah, I didn't call you stupid. I just meant that those kinds of "technically..." comments are lame and so often wrong. And they create boring threads like the one we're in here :-) Anyway, I think you get my point and ho
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by staunch 6y ago
It is simply not true that many have tried. HN has certainly not tried to solve this problem. They seem to be focused on much smaller problems, like preventing handfuls of friends from upvoting a GitHub project at the same time or Viagra sp
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by staunch 6y ago
> "...only the most popular, most used dictionary definitions shall count..." No, I just understand that words can have multiple definitions and any of them is perfectly valid to use. You were simply wrong to "correct&qu
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by staunch 6y ago
HN's great flaw is that it has been allowed to be overrun by huge numbers of people from large organizations. There are tens of thousands of people from FAANG/YC acting as self-interested agents of their organizations without any
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by staunch 6y ago
These people must also have no idea what Tim Sweeney (Epic founder) is like as a person. This guy is a genius programmer that never sought great wealth for its own sake but happened upon it through creating huge amounts of value and happine
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by staunch 6y ago
Soon we will be told that a century cannot refer to a 100 year period but only a unit of Roman soldiers. The list of words that no longer mean what they once did is very long and it's lame (and wrong) to "correct" people like
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by staunch 6y ago
You've got two "aCkShuAlly" comments in this thread and they're both wrong. 1. The historical origin of "decimate" does not define the English word. Many words have historical origins that differ with their cur
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Ask HN: Educational PC and Nintendo Switch Games for 6-8 year olds?
1 points by staunch 7y ago|1 comments
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A Project Dedicated to Detecting UFOs Off the California Coast(vice.com)
2 points by staunch 7y ago|0 comments
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by staunch 7y ago
All the companies doing this seem to be small/unsuccessful/brand new. Maybe there's some fundamental problem with the business or maybe no one has nailed it yet?
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by staunch 7y ago
The fact that there are many players may indicate that none are good enough to be dominant. I added the "high quality" qualifier because I kind of assumed existing kits are not great, based on some previous searching. What's
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by staunch 7y ago
It seems like the biggest innovation here would be bringing down the price of building a standalone studio apartment. These units probably cost cost $120k+ to build/install? It would be neat if there was a (high quality) $50k kit homeo
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by staunch 7y ago
The average Joe is the descendant of millions/billions of years of evolution. He is designed specifically to navigate this planet. The fact that humans will be teaching computers to do the same kinds of navigation, with just a few deca
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by staunch 7y ago
Thank you Go developers! Please keep the language minimal, opinionated, and never subject to the bikeshedding mobs! It wouldn't have been the end of the world but I'm glad to see Go still has alive the spirit that made it so popul
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by staunch 7y ago
Sincere question: what's the point of GitLab or Mattermost being open source when they clearly want to control/restrict/monopolize use of their applications? IIRC GitLab is "open core" which just means it's not
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by staunch 7y ago
I'm glad this post (and others) are sounding the alarm. Go's greatness could very easily be destroyed by a small number of missteps like this one. I'm wishing for the absolute rule of the curmudgeony quadrumvirate like the on
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by staunch 7y ago
Ah, okay. I keep meaning to test this out myself. It's unfortunate that Gmail doesn't mask opens entirely.
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by staunch 7y ago
I thought Gmail's solution to this was to always download every image in your email and then proxy the image from their own servers when you view it. This results in a meaningless 100% "open rate" for Gmail and does not revea
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Ask HN: What new startups are creating products that are changing the world?
2 points by staunch 7y ago|2 comments
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by staunch 7y ago
Yes, but there are other infectious diseases spread by ticks. And most importantly, I really don't want to be one of the unlucky few! https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/datasurveillance/index.html
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by staunch 7y ago
I was bitten by little nymph/larval (not sure which) ticks on Bay Trail in Mountain View, CA. Had to stop riding my bicycle there (which I absolutely loved) because I just can't afford to be debilitated by Lyme's disease. I&#
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by staunch 7y ago
Seems like we're missing a "StocList" for buying/selling shares in private companies. There are some "secondary market" services. But (IIRC) they all take a hefty cut from both parties, have zero transparency,
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by staunch 7y ago
Thanks for the reply. I agree that Boeing clearly made a huge mistake by rushing the process, and in doing so, did a bad job. I'm still not yet aware of any reason that they won't be able to eventually make the MAX design safe and

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