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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Win2K was marketed to businesses as the last version of NT before consumer-pro unification. WinXP picked up consumers from Win98 who skipped WinME.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Seeing tons of these at the moment: RT @MichelleObama: RT if youve already voted for President Obama today! #VoteObama
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Millions of dollars is cheap for a properly conducted vote.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
US does not have federal elections. US has state elections for Senate, Congress, and the Electoral College.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Really, intentionally disregarding a broken machine is felony election tampering. We shouldn't have bored old ladies running precincts, we should cough up for paid, trained professionals.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Solved problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchscan
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
What does it matter what the voter takes a photo of? That has no proven relationship to what bit is stored in the machine's memory.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
"We all" never wanted electronic voting. "We" wanted electronically-counted paper voting.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
An electronic voting machine may present an obvious error in the UI and ALSO may present a hidden error in pubishing the vote. So it's worse.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
The 20th Century German model for unifying political dissent is not one to be emulated.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
> Another problem is blantant violations of election law by generally Democrat election judges. Examples from today: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/11/06/judge-orders-oba... . The content of those articles plainly contradicts
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
That is incorrect. Why do you think so? Are you thinking of this: ". The voter can look up her ballot by typing in the serial number and she can check that information held by the election authority matches her ballot. " The voter must reta
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
You could make your point without rabid partisanism. There is violence on all sides of unionization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
What are you defining as "the" margin of error?
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
And Mike Bostock, and the rest of the team! I am still sad that fivethirtyeight got swallowed by NYT. fivethirtyeight has a much better reputation in my mind, I would have loved to see it grow into its own powerhouse.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
If water is leaking in, not a crushing tidal wave, all you need is a small elevation about drainage / pump to route leaking water to another location.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
> What's stopping you? Respect for the confidentiality of internal communications. Anyone is free to share their own impressions, but it is inappropriate to pull someone else's privileged documents and wave them in public.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Clearly, removing everyone involved in failure is the route to success.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Yeah, any sort of trading instructions, even a binding instruction like "Sell my shares a year from today, when I won't be under lock up", is considered suspect for insider trading. A 10b-5 plan or similar is the only legally safe way to ac
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
It means overtime work without overtime pay.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Unionization really only makes sense in industries where work is very much to spec, and many people perform the same function, to the same standard of quality, and there is no reason or benefit to exceed that quality. Otherwise, a unionized
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Powerful tangent, stolen from Dan Knoepfle posting at Quora: ============= What's in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20(1), Winter 2006, 175-188 (available here: http://w
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
> 24.3% for Lie Algebras, and 4.5% for Oscillation Criteria. This is easily explained by the naturally occurring variance of small numbers: 24% of 58 authors, 4% of 41 authors, etc.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Only if you have data (or blindly assume) that women at some level of "the career ladder" have fewer publications than men at the same level.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
> the prestigious last-author position, The what? http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-significance-of-the-orderin... (Wow, Quora being useful.) I did not know that.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Allow me to introduce you to the "Business Associates" loophole to FERPA and HIPAA: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/covereden...
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
The killer app for SIS is "support for 200-row CSV upload" ?!
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
> Flickr for Android What? Since when has this existed? Lovely to learn of this the day after my 2-year Flickr Pro account expired. Seems like it's been out for over a year. And I never found it before I gave up looking. Too little, to
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Holy cow, the plot of Sin City (Politician's son builds a rape/torture chamber, and the son is protected from punishment because the politician wants him to produce an heir) ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401792/ ) actually really happened
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Covering up corruption, like Councillor's Expenses, is part of corruption.

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