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by untog 6y ago
You still haven’t answered how government IDs would be checked as part of mail in voting. If they can’t be then you’re forcing people to risk their health in order to vote in person. > This has been a debate for at least a decade if not
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by untog 6y ago
So, we don’t know for sure if there is a problem at all. But we absolutely should stop people from voting safely in a pandemic in case there is a problem? What about every other method of voting? Do we know voting machines used across the c
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by untog 6y ago
Why have you assumed there is no opportunity to follow up and check?
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by untog 6y ago
How would mail in voting even work with voter ID? Voter fraud has never been seen in any meaningful level in the US. Worries about it are a fiction concocted by those who would really rather as few people vote as possible.
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by untog 6y ago
> did the company and the investors ever actually believe that the robotaxi stuff was even close to viable IMO, absolutely. The hype for self driving cars a few years ago was massive . I forget who, but a prominent SV investor offered t
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by untog 6y ago
Counterpoint: I'm a parent and I very much care . I won't be moving to the suburbs tomorrow but it has us asking questions about our ideal life: if we're not taking the subway into the office every day then maybe city life i
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by untog 6y ago
The common thread in a lot of this is disregard for end user experience. But I think the biggest reason that these discussions never go anywhere is that people are using the same tools for wildly different purposes. At a guess, I'd say
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by untog 6y ago
That depresses me because it's clear who is being ignored here: the user. A 3MB bundle size instead of 1MB does make a difference, and if you're working on the kind of site that relies on conversions/purchases to succeed then
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by untog 6y ago
The example given was hyperbolic but I do think it’s true that a database can be “weaponised” once it’s got the power of state violence behind it.
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by untog 6y ago
A more correct way of summarising the link you provided is that some historians contend the 1619 Project is at its core flawed, and it has been criticised by many prominent conservatives. It’s a subject of much debate both in and out of a
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by untog 6y ago
You’re playing into his game as soon as you start talking about “the media”. There is no one “the media”. The journalism produced by cable news opinion segments is not the same as that produced by national print outlets, which is also not t
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by untog 6y ago
What would the organisers have to gain from lying about bad conditions in their warehouses? It’s very obvious what Amazon gains in the reverse. The organisers are putting their livelihoods on the line, you’d have to imagine they have a good
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by untog 6y ago
Perhaps a little off topic but I notice that despite the huge number of upvotes, this thread is ranked below other stories with far fewer points from around the same time. Are people flagging this story? It would be interesting to be able t
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by untog 6y ago
At a guess: the level of danger the misinformation poses to the public would be a deciding factor.
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by untog 6y ago
That isn’t an answer to the question the OP posed, though. And it’s an important question.
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by untog 6y ago
> I don't believe in fighting "bad ideas" by suppressing them, I believe in shining a light on them. Let the truth fight for itself. I used to think this too, but I think the decentralised nature of the internet has broken
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by untog 7y ago
[edit: deleted. Appear to have been rate limited by HN so I can't reply? so withdrawing from the conversation]
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by untog 7y ago
You're talking about something different to me then criticising me for it. The quote I was originally replying to was: > React is great because it's vanilla Javascript React is not vanilla Javascript. "it takes a minute to
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by untog 7y ago
> That is, even if child components got -rerendered (in react terms), there might not be a DOM update at all (which is the slow, costly operation). Crawling a large React tree's render stack is also a costly operation. Not as much a
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by untog 7y ago
> But if you disagree I'd really like to know why. I'll take a stab at it. I agree with you that Fox actually does have some decent news output at various points in the day (dearly departed Shep...), but I simply don't th
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by untog 7y ago
> We're talking two different things. I'm talking about the developer perspective. You're talking about browser. I'm not. I'm talking about a programming language. It has a spec. "if you know JavaScript you
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by untog 7y ago
I don't understand how that is relevant to the quote I was replying to: "React is great because it's vanilla Javascript". Vanilla Javascript works in a browser with zero transpiling. That's important. (also, "i
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by untog 7y ago
It uses tag syntax, which regular JavaScript doesn’t at all. Browsers cannot parse it. These are meaningful differences.
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by untog 7y ago
> React is great because it's vanilla Javascript What about JSX? It’s very useful but it’s also an absolutely huge departure from vanilla JavaScript and hides a fair amount of complexity behind what your code is actually doing.
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by untog 7y ago
> You're assuming that if all states had taken the same approach, they would have all taken the best approach. I'm really not. It makes sense that different states should try different things, and I imagine that if all politici
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by untog 7y ago
I don't think that's actually true. On the 17th de Blasio announced that it might happen and he'd release the decision within 48 hours. Cuomo smacked that down but then issued a shelter in place order on the 20th. So there&#x
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by untog 7y ago
> Tom Frieden, the former C.D.C. director, has estimated that, if New York had started implementing stay-at-home orders ten days earlier than it did, it might have reduced COVID-19 deaths by fifty to eighty per cent. Obviously that'
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by untog 7y ago
As a New Yorker it's been eye opening to see the extent of the Cuomo worship nation (world?!) wide during the COVID outbreak. The view of Cuomo from many in the city was quite negative before, and I've been waiting to see how long
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by untog 7y ago
For me personally the camera was the reason I finally upgraded from my old SE. The camera in there was noticeably old technology. If they’d done a 2018 refresh with current camera tech I would have bought it in a heartbeat.
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by untog 7y ago
It feels ironic that at a time where I want to use contactless payment as much as possible my Face ID has stopped working because I’m wearing a mask. I’d take Touch ID back in a heartbeat!

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