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by woofie11 6y ago
Well, there's a question about what will calm millions of people down: 1) Lying to them that elections are secure, and telling them to sit down and shut up 2) Taking concerns seriously and addressing them Your premise is that #1 will p
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They flopped like this on surveillance about two decades ago. Democrats were pro-surveillance, and Republicans were pro-privacy. Now, it's the other way around. I could list of a dozen examples when one party flips, the other flops. An
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by woofie11 6y ago
I kind of do care that the election is fair, and I've kind of cared for decades that we've undermined that. I care about that a lot more than Georgie. Discounting me as "these people" is distinctly how we get to corrupti
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by woofie11 6y ago
I'm not sure it's relevant. Paper ballots can't be hacked on a national scale. I trust my local election commission. And even modest fraud can be managed; if someone wins with 45% of the vote, we've changed an outcome, b
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by woofie11 6y ago
I'm not worried about machines which print ballots and leave a paper trail. That's not what they look like many places. You hit a button on the screen. Your pray your vote is counted correctly. There's no audit trail, no secu
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by woofie11 6y ago
The whole fabricated evidence thing has been pretty funny. With both Biden and Clinton, the number of fabrications meant that the few times real things came up, they were simply ignored by the main stream media. The main stream media has en
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by woofie11 6y ago
> finding no evidence of anything like what you're alleging Indeed. A recount provides absolutely no evidence in either direction on what I'm alleging. Fortunately, if you'd like evidence, you can look for the auditable so
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by woofie11 6y ago
It's not evidence in any direction. It's perfectly possible votes were stolen from Biden, from Trump, or neither. We don't know. I wish we did. In this context, though, security is NOT hard. We've just made the decision
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... and I can lie and show you the vote of someone who voted the same as your orders, unless you following me to the polls (in which case, you might as well hide a pinhole camera in my button).
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... and it's both racist and corrupt. I agree we need reform if we're to survive. Between BLM this spring, DC now, the fringe militant elements, we're seeing more and more violence. I will mention that the split-down-the-midd
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by woofie11 6y ago
I'm not actually sure it is too reductive. Game theory predicts almost exactly the behavior we see. My own observation is that we saw major progress with the Renaissance, then the Enlightenment, the Constitution, and so on. Progress sl
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by woofie11 6y ago
Analogy: When I looked around my computer, I found no evidence of someone having broken in. Doesn't that lay to pasture claims of all these "security holes" "zero-days" and "hackers?" And aren't these
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by woofie11 6y ago
It's complex. The scheme I saw in Applied Cryptography would in abstract permit vote selling, but not simple vote selling -- you'd need pretty complex security between the buyer and seller. If you're trying to buy my vote, an
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by woofie11 6y ago
Can you please point to where I contradict any of that? It's like telling your grandma to install security updates, and her coming back saying no one has broken into her computer so it must be secure (while gramps insists someone has).
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by woofie11 6y ago
My experience is that the stance the Democrats take is the opposite of the stance the Republicans take, and vice-versa. If one party flips on an issue, the other almost immediately flops. At this point, the Republicans are mid-flop towards
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by woofie11 6y ago
(1) My state doesn't use machines with a paper trail, so it's sort of irrelevant here. (2) Many of the machines with paper trails don't show the voter what's printed is the same as their vote (although I haven't loo
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by woofie11 6y ago
Yeah. They've been around for decades. Applied Cryptography gives them (excellent book; highly entertaining, yet reasonably mathematical). The gist of it is that: - Everyone can verify who voted (so number of votes equals number of vot
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by woofie11 6y ago
I think large scale makes it impossible to be good. Small scale doesn't guarantee good. Reddit, slashdot, and a whole slew of others went through an HN-like phase of high-quality discussions and content before turning into cesspools. I
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by woofie11 6y ago
The facts are we have: * electronic voting machines * credible claims of foreign interference in elections * credible claims of organized state agent hacking of US digital infrastructure. * voting machines with designs and source code which
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by woofie11 6y ago
I don't consider that man particularly wise. Clever has many different axes. Compare debugging something like git or hg (clever, simple data structure) to cvs or svn (non-clever, standard data structure). Systems like git and hg don&#x
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by woofie11 6y ago
I think we're in agreement. I do a lot of my work in Python these days. One of the really nice things Python did is take the major design patterns in Lisp/Scheme, which were super-powerful but quite unreadable, and gave visually-d
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by woofie11 6y ago
The former doesn't follow from the latter. For tools I use and places I want to work: * Programming languages should be general. * Programmers should be competent and disciplined enough not to misuse that generality. I absolutely hate
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I wasn't judging by open source. I was judging by: 1) Who is hiring top people in my group of colleagues 2) Who is described by people who work there as having a healthy work environment (i.e. people want to work there) For Twitter, I&
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by woofie11 6y ago
I don't mind security updates. I DO mind updates which install increasing amount of Microsoft spyware and adware. Windows 10 wants to track my every motion, direct me to content, up-sell me crappy games and apps, or try to pressure me
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I have one of each (Windows, Linux, Mac). On the whole, I don't find any dramatically superior. PC laptops do have a race-to-the-bottom. Even top-of-the-line laptops are luck-of-the-draw. Lenovo is far more scammy than IBM ThinkPads of
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by woofie11 6y ago
My impression is Amazon is mostly for people who don't land Google/Twitter/Facebook. The quality curves mostly overlap (interview processes are noisy), but historically, Google has grabbed the very top -- the people who get o
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by woofie11 6y ago
MIT's NDAs never expire. #krueger #epstein #...
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It's possible, but I'm skeptical. Giving someone a nice office doesn't take all that much. Unpaid "visiting scientist" or "research affiliate" positions aren't actually very hard to come by. It doesn&
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... I think you missed how this played out at Harvard. The Harvard administration -- exaggerating only a little bit -- said "Yes, we took a bunch of money from Epstein, yes we gave him an office, and by golly, we're not giving any
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I always assumed it was a side source of profit -- rich tourists and businessmen. If there's a price listed, I never thought of it as inappropriate, especially given the markup. I think if my income was 2x what it was at one point, I w

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