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by trendia 10y ago
... and everyone else
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by trendia 10y ago
The Census bureau goes through every town on every road. They talk to the poor and even those without homes. Why can't we give equipment to the Census bureau to create Voter ID for those people who are unable to travel to town once eve
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by trendia 10y ago
There are two ways the disenfranchise voters: 1) not being allowed to vote, despite being qualified to do so (your vote doesn't count) 2) voting, but allowing people to vote twice. (this dilutes your vote) Many people att
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by trendia 10y ago
Of course -- through FOIA and recent subpoenas -- which is why the outrage over the release of these emails is even more hypocritical
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by trendia 10y ago
DNC is not subject to FOIA, but it makes you wonder whether they should be. They are intricately linked to the government, have immense influence over the policies of their Congresspeople, and get to pick 1 of the 2 candidates who will like
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by trendia 10y ago
The government reads Americans emails: "Deal with it." Americans read the government's emails: "This is an outrage!"
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by trendia 10y ago
You know ... you honestly believe that anyone who disagrees with you is racist. I would support sending teams of people to provide help with voter registration every 10 years the same way we do the census. This would be even more proactive
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by trendia 10y ago
That's because I'm proposing the law that was found to be legal. If Law X is legal, and I support Law X, then stop telling me Law Y is illegal -- it's irrelevant.
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by trendia 10y ago
Many, but not all, of the emails about to be released would have been subject to: 1) subpoena 2) FOIA request So Americans (either government officials or private citizens) should have had access to them anyway. Public servants in the US ma
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by trendia 10y ago
Well, I support the Crawford implementation. Doesn't disenfranchise voters, still ensures the integrity of our elections. Politics is about compromise -- deal with it.
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by trendia 10y ago
I think you mean that the Supreme Court has found that Voter ID laws, properly enforced, do not impose an excessive burden [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_v._Marion_County_Elec...
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by trendia 10y ago
And the Supreme Court found that Voter ID laws, properly enforced, do not impose any excessive burden [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_v._Marion_County_Elec...
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by trendia 10y ago
Although, you should do the same for any State, including the American gov't. You have to observer what the US does and not what they say.
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by trendia 10y ago
You have yet to prove that there are instances where Voter ID laws led to disenfranchisement, yet you require that everyone who supports Voter ID provide immense evidence that you will accept. But you will never accept any evidence, because
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by trendia 10y ago
> Prove that there is a problem .. Why is it that people who oppose Voter ID are able to provide hypotheticals without any evidence, but people who support it have huge requirements for evidence? I sense that the anti-Voter ID crowd uses
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by trendia 10y ago
Once again, in the Supreme Court case, the plaintiffs could not find a single case of voter disenfranchisement due to the ID law. You're hypotheticals are just that: hypothetical.
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by trendia 10y ago
I would like to propose the following counter-argument: not everyone who supports voter ID is doing so because they want to disenfranchise a certain class of voter; not everyone who opposes voter ID wants to commit fraud. From there, we can
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by trendia 10y ago
This is too true. While I think that ID should be free and required for voting, I am concerned that either of the two parties will exploit it for their own advantage. (I support ID in theory because another form of disenfranchisement is dil
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by trendia 10y ago
I've heard this, but Indiana's voter ID law went to the Supreme Court [0]. The plaintiffs were unable to find a single case of someone who was unable to obtain an ID as a result of the law. Further, it was possible to vote early
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by trendia 10y ago
What if you: - require an ID to vote - issue ID's for free - if someone shows up to vote and doesn't have an ID, take their photo At least with the third option, you don't require that people spend TWO days (one to get the
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by trendia 10y ago
I think Scott Adams may be overestimating his influence at this point... I can't imagine him having a credible threat against Twitter.
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by trendia 10y ago
The national outlets should team up with local newspapers to syndicate articles and provide a cut of the ad/subscription revenue. e.g. NYT would team up with SmallTown, Ohio newspaper so that a user can subscribe to both his local news
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by trendia 10y ago
Yeah. There are many trails in the US where you can hike for days without seeing another human.
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by trendia 10y ago
That is correct. Sometime in the future, consumers will have software that can turn 2D images into simulated 3D [0]. It's still in dev mode right now, though. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oie1ZXWceqM
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by trendia 10y ago
AMD has lost so much market share, there's no way they would collaborate with Intel. If AMD had tech that Intel didn't, they'd use it.
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by trendia 10y ago
> Not all prisons allow you to write. This is deeply disturbing.
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by trendia 10y ago
To give another example: If the US were to outlaw all forms of encryption, we would have less privacy AND less security: Less Privacy: all communication is now readable by a third party in the middle Less Security: all banking information i
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by trendia 10y ago
Ethical qualms about Github? Could you explain? Should I worry about hosting my code there?
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by trendia 10y ago
This is true, but that was in the 80's and 90's. In the 2000's, we were told that Saddam still had WMD's and was still using them. Today the evidence suggests these claims were false.
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by trendia 10y ago
space2vec can distinguish between multiple uses of the same word. I suspect that the current version would struggle with that sentence, but it's possible [0] spacy.io

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