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Sure. Electronic voting is the safest and cheapest bet for leading politicians to win elections.

For voter fraud paper ballots are of course more difficult, but nevertheless doable. See the study about the recent turkish elections.
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Identification is hard to acquire in many parts of the United States, especially for poor people. Enforcing some sort of voter ID would prevent many poor people from voting, who are disproportionately poc. In other countries, ID is not difficult to acquire, in some cases acquired at birth or at a very young age.
I am from India, which is why I find this especially confusing - hence my motivation for asking
Not American, but from my understanding it is because US citizens don't have mandatory ID documents. If getting documents necessary to vote is voluntary but requires time and money, going to an office in the next bigger town, bringing documents not everyone might have, ..., disadvantaged people have a harder time to obtain them and are less likely to have them.

If you get ID automatically or are required to hold it in other parts of life, it's less of a hurdle.
D draws a clear distinction between programming bugs (not recoverable) and environmental errors (which can be recoverable).

Failures of the former throw an Error, the latter Exception.
Milligram looks neat but it's not the same idea as utility first CSS framework like Tailwind and Tachyons.
This seems pretty cool, but I'm left with one question. In the example from the repo it states, "The following computes Pi in parallel, using any number of machines and processors." However, after reading through all the docs, I see no reference whatsoever to any multi-machine support, only multi-processing on a single machine. Can this span over a cluster? Although they make the claim that it will "scale to hundreds of thousands of cores" (which I want to believe, I would love to use this) without the API documentation to show me how to do this, their fancy library doesnt do much good.
Easy access to getting ID. If you don't drive (many poorer people don't have access to either a car or education on how to drive one) getting an ID is surprisingly hard. If it was a mandatory law that all people are given a national ID card and it was made readily available, then I think much criticism would go away. But in the current state of laws, poor people struggle to get ID, minorities are poorer statistically, and more poor people are Democrats statistically. Hence why it becomes a partisan issue in a similar way of gerrymandering.

The second part of this is the obvious motivation - with voter fraud being so low as to be nonexistent (as shown with recent news about the "voter fraud" committee that has done and found absolutely nothing), what is the motivation for the laws given how many people it would negatively affect?
In fact, OVH Cloud[1] is already available in the US, but operates under an entirely separate legal entity to prevent from the access to non-US customer data[2].

[1] https://ovhcloud.com/

[2] https://www.ovh.com/world/a2294.how-ovh-will-balance-develop...
As I was saying to your other gross, now deleted comment... Context matters.

I can talk with my friend, in great detail, about sex. Outside of work. At work, it's inappropriate for the same reasons that talking about religion or politics can be. It will alienate people and make them uncomfortable.

But when that extends to have masturbation rooms at work, or your superiors bragging about how great they are at sex (lol), then it crosses a line. A pretty obvious line, to me. Even without the boss undressing. How do you not see that allowing the former sets the culture and leads to the latter? there are power dynamics inherent to the workplace and sex that are undeniable and unignorable if you care about an equal, respectful workplace.

No one anywhere has said "sex is dirty" and it strikes me as a pretty flagrant straw man.
I’m imagining you at a party in a smart dinner jacket holding some sort of cocktail.

“So, what do you do for a living?”
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Just started a landing page for a side project today with bulma: https://nodablock.com/

I'm not a frontend/design guy at all, and remember CSS as something really troublesome just to center things...
With bulma, I didn't touch a line of css, and had something responsive without thinking much! I'm really satisfied with the results and the time spent to do it (about 2 hours). What's also great is that it helps keep the design consistent. Hopefully it will stay as good with the main dashboard I'm building. It definitely gave a boost to my ego, and makes me even more excited about pursuing the project!

Any feedbacks on how to improve that?
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>To put it bluntly, the birth of a baby is not only a matter of the family itself, but also a state affair,” the official newspaper People’s Daily said

Lest anyone think otherwise, thd regime remains deeply authoritarian and has echoes of early 20th cent. Progressive thinking from Europe and elsewhere.
>Technology just introduces black boxes that citizens are somehow expected to trust

oh please. People trust the lock sign on HTTPS all day without understanding it. (or mastercard or the bridge they drive over or well anything).

Avoiding superior technological solutions just because the man on the street doesn't understand them is a bad approach. If society did that we'd still be in the 1800s.
I tried like every CSS framework/library out there and eventually I always come back to Tachyons. If you don’t know it, try it out!

With all its great aspects, I still want to point two things that constantly annoy me; the default breakpoints are - imho - not enough for complicated responsive layouts; and when you start to use custom classes, you will find yourself in situations where breakpoint overrides don’t work properly anymore. I have yet to find a scalable solution for both.
There is absolutely no need to have electronic voting machines. Votes happen months before one needs to take office. Counting of paper ballots is an easy and solved problem. No need to try to optimize speed of counting for elections. It's not a big enough issue. Paper ballots are also decentralized and thus, much harder to manipulate.

The downside risk of electronic voting is very high. It invariably leads to centralization, meaning allows risk of amplified manipulation in presence of hacks.

"Why can we have electronic banking, but not electronic voting, vowelless?”

For one, elections cannot be insured like your bank transactions can. Loosing money can be devastating, but the Republican system with democratic voting is much more important than the banking system.
It's not that you aren't the original commenter, but that you're not making the same argument. I'm interested in an answer to the question I actually asked.
Regarding "some hardware errors": This might include operationg conditions you didn't consider; say:

The divisor in your code went through a non-ECC DRAM module (maybe in a disk drive) that runs hotter than its specified operating temperature would allow and a random bit-flip changes your `1` into a `0`.

On this topic, the talk on Bitsquatting from Artem Dinaburg during Defcon 19 is worth watching. The most interesting part on bit flips starts around 15:05 minutes:
https://youtu.be/9WcHsT97suU?t=15m5s
If it takes a nineteenth century law to keep pedestrians safe from vehicles whose drivers obey neither convention nor signals of all kinds, so be it.
I used it to throw together a product page pretty quickly (https://minim.li)
> it's a solution to a problem we don't really have

I would add that it's also used to deflect (or in some cases shout down) discussions of mass voter disenfranchisement, which actually exists and undermines US democracy in a meaningful way.

Try bringing up gerrymandering, voter purging, shortening of early voting and holiday/week-end voting, selective use of overwhelming police presence with a US reactionary and count the seconds before they make voter ID the center of the conversation.
I always hear this, but getting a state issued ID is ridiculously easy and it fulfills ID requirements.
Places where voter ID policies are unproblematic have ubiquitous national ID cards possessed by every citizen. The United States famously does not have a national ID card, and instead uses a patchwork of state level IDs which require different levels of effort and cost to acquire. Many citizens do not have a legal ID at all, and some citizens even lack the paperwork necessary to acquire them under current law. If every voter had an ID, or if the government went to great lengths to ensure that every citizen could get one, voter ID laws wouldn't be problem. But as it stands voter ID laws prevent hundreds of thousands of citizens from voting, and those citizens are disproportionately poor and racial minorities, meaning that voter ID requirements have deeply distortionary effects on the composition of the voting electorate.
The needs of a voting system are challenging - you need to identify voters so people don't vote multiple times (and aren't deceased Illinois residents...) yet you need to assure people that their vote is anonymous, so there aren't repercussions for voting for unpopular candidates/initiatives.

Blockchain helps with the first, but does not with the latter.
Out of curiosity, could you give an example of a design guideline from a government / consultant that's not possible in grid?
Yes, and the only way to break the paper ballot method is fake ballots introduced physically into election sites. However, I predict this is much harder stunt to get away with the rise of social media. If anything, going with paper ballots reduces the attack vectors and the speed at which it's executed on a legitimate process.
To add to this, the more specific and informative an error message is the more authoritative it appears. "Malfunction 54" is nowhere near as good as "Unable to to set therapy mode"
> ideally suited & this seems like one of them

How so? What are the actual mechanics of how a blockchain would be used in this situation?

What is a "transaction" here -- what information would be stored? What would a node represent (and why does that data need to be part of a chain)? Who are the peers/clients -- how would the data be added to the chain?

Most importantly, what does the added complexity get us, over boxes of paper ballots?
After I wrote this comment, I decided to have another look to see if this was fixed on Windows yet. It turns out it is. You can call DwmFlush() which deschedules your app until the Desktop Window Manager decides it is time to draw a new frame.

I might now try to recreate the classic Amiga Bezier lines screen saver.
> Swift really does not support quickly iterating on a design.

I find the opposite to be the case. You assume that compile errors are a net negative for speed of development and expressivity. Instead I find that the compiler reminds me upfront of all the places I would need to update anyway in due time. In a dynamic language those inconsistencies would be found hours/days later and usually after lengthy debugging. Instead I find myself making large sweeping changes in the design very frequently, because I trust the compiler to warn of any logical inconsistencies.

You have to admit at that this point it boils down to subjective preference. You sound averse to the swift style of doing the right thing up front, and using the compiler to help you stay consistent. I personally tired of the hidden and unacknowledged costs of unsafe language, and compilers that allow your design to degenerate into an unmaintainable ball of mud over time. I'm ok with swift being an acquired taste and a technical advantage of folks who get it.
Aadhaar isn't a beacon of hope, the reason the poorest Indians are getting Aadhaar at all is to survive as the government of India forces it down people's throats, denying their benefits and even existence as real people if they don't have Aadhaar. Lets not even touch the attempts at demonetization as of late, these policies haven't created a stable environment in India.

https://m.rediff.com/news/column/the-giant-mess-called-aadha...
Basically, even now the party in power makes it as hard as possible for the minority power to vote. Making elections on work days, registration required 6+ months before election day, understaffing polling places in certain districts, changing polling places, etc. This has a nasty history going back to the jim crow days.

That, mixed with the fact that in person polling fraud pretty much never happens, means we shouldn't want another tool in the hands of disenfranchisers.
This is a very poor article that contains next to nothing of any substance.

It starts off by announcing the top 6 summer ecommerce events, then goes on to refer to just 3 (all of which are no brainers - is there anybody unaware of the back to school season?!).

It then makes a load of claims about trending products with no evidence to back this up other than paywalled links to their service.
I even had cases where a valid invoice did not work. But creating a fake invoice did the trick.
Declining demographics is not only a problem in China, but many countries in the world. Japan's government policies, for example, have had limited success.

https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/tackling-de...

China's backtrack is also reminiscent of Singapore's campaigns, which also had problems raising its fertility rate after its "Stop-at-Two" campaign in the 60s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_planning_in_Singapo...

A side effect of encouraging more births in a patriarchal society such as China will be fewer selective female abortions.
While I agree with you that the risks are not worth it, there is the counterargument that votes are expensive. If votes were made less expensive it might be feasible to put more things out for popular vote

Edit: typo. Stupid autocorrect set for the wrong language
And costs $14, at least in Ohio.
Vores?
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So how do you know someone is who they say they are? If someone is born and never acquires a nationally issued ID, how can they even prove they are american and have the right to be there?
Id Software and and Bethesda are sister companies, both are owned by ZeniMax.
Aircraft and spacecraft all have backup systems for critical software. When software self detects a bug (such as an assert failure) the offending computer is shut down and electrically isolated, and the backup is engaged.

What is absolutely NOT done is soldiering on with a computer in an unknown state.

Any software system that is life critical is either designed this way or is very badly engineered. I've written a couple articles about this:

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b39.html
https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b40.html
It's not hard but I wouldn't call it 'ridiculously easy'. In Michigan, you need to supply minimum four documents. One of which is for proof residency which can be really hard for a homeless person.
Earlier today I searched Google for "RoundUp alternatives Reddit" and found a bunch of comments saying it wasn't that bad. Stuff like "It causes cancer in the same way red meat causes cancer" or "Alternatives are probably worse they just haven't been studied as extensively because of their popularity".
I'm super bearish on blockchain, but this is one place I'd like to see it.

The machine gives me a paper record of my vote to keep. Meanwhile, it appends my vote to the blockchain. I go home and use information from my paper printout to verify my vote is indeed counted and on the blockchain. If my vote isn't on the blockchain, I have a paper record of it that can be used to append it, should the machine "fail."
Someone I know was complaining recently about getting the first driver's license for their kid. Apparently, the state was looking for proof of residence like utility bills that the kid obviously didn't have. Presumably it was all eventually resolved but it took a couple of trips and many hours--and this was for someone of a demographic one wouldn't expect to have any issues.
I heard that the project was renamed because no one could pronounced "Cretonne". :)
If you feel unsafe, that's a valid feeling.

I'm not sure I follow the logic here. I can think of a bunch of scenarios when someone might feel unsafe, but that feeling is invalid. Some prescription drugs have random senses of fear as a side-effect, for example.

I don't think that someone's irrational fear should necessarily be a police matter. But then, I'm also glad he decided to call the police rather than act violently against the little critter. If park squirrels had fewer teeth and less rabies, they could be community kittens.

(Do I sound high? Re-reading that last part really sounds high.)
Take NYC for example:

To apply for a photo ID card, you must:

Be a citizen or a legal resident of the U.S.

Be a resident of New York State.

Have your original birth certificate.

Have your Social Security card.

Be able to provide enough documents to verify your identity.

https://www.dmv.org/ny-new-york/id-cards.php

That's far from easy, and it's very easy to imagine scenarios where one lacks one or more of those. Proving residency can be hard, and is impossible for those who are homeless. The homeless have a right to vote.
Milenkovic's book on KMOS was rather underrated and overlooked, I found. It covered a couple of things that Comer and Tanenbaum did not.
Real-time results updating is kind of heavenly, though.
It’s just politics, trying to get brownie points. If you're poor you probably need a state ID moreso than richer folks. Any benefits need IDs, school you need ID, medicare/medicaid you need IDs, etc. Basically any state or federal benefits require an ID. Controlled goods like cigs and beer require ID.
Hint: It wasn’t a CEO, it was the march of technology.

BitTorrent dealt the fatal blow over a decade ago (and something else would have come around if not it).

In fairness to the article, they do mention some of the later actors: Hulu gave it a good pillow smothering, but it looks like Netflix will be the one to convince everyone to pull the plug.
Not only should we not use electronic voting machines, we should not use electronic vote counting machines.

Paper ballots counted by electronic means should be just as suspect, as whoever hacks the counting machine could set vote totals to be just shy of the limit required to initiate a manual recount.

All votes should be counted by hand.
Odd place for small rodents to appear, but maybe there's a lesson to be learned from them.
After the Bush vs. Gore election problems in 2000, I recall a paper here on HN of a study of different voting mechanisms. I think it was an MIT study - if anybody knows the paper, please post.

Anyway the conclusion was that all systems have some non-zero error rate, but the most reliable was paper ballots with optical readers. Ability to audit was important too.

So this paper was discussed here and I thought it might make some impact on the voting systems in the US. After all, I thought, here we had a credible study, the merits were being discussed, and so on.

Of course what happened was that my state (PA) adopted all electronic systems, with poor audit trail, etc. I don't think any legislature anywhere made a good faith effort to weigh the possible options in a rational way. I think the vendors came in, gave a presentation, and the everybody went with their gut feel.
Yes. But shame on her for trusting the CFO firm they paid for this information? The whole point of hiring a CFO or paying a contractor to do it is so that you don't have to do everything yourself as the CEO. It would be unreasonable to expect every CEO to know the financial details down to a difference in 2 pay periods a year.

But that brings us to the real issue, which is that they were obviously operating way too tight if a difference of 2 pay periods a year was enough to bankrupt them.
Edible votes perhaps?
Boolean true is -1 in Visual Basic, too: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/languag...
How easy? Are the offices open outside 9-5? Are they in areas easily accessible to everyone or only in the major cities?
> oh please. People trust the lock sign on HTTPS all day without understanding it

Yes, and the internet is an absolute cesspool when it comes to security. Do we really want to hold up the internet as a shining success that we should be applying to probably the most important institution we have?
One small piece of feedback: your hero text in the middle of the page isn't actually centered. While not a big deal, it just looks better if the `column` on line 84 containing all the text is of width 8, with offset of two (since Bulma's grid is 12-column).

Before (index.html:84):

<div class="column is-7 is-offset-3">

After (index.html:84):

<div class="column is-8 is-offset-2">
The understanding is an important part of voting, not in general use of technology and the parent did mention this:

> The most important feature of elections
The ones implying, "gawd, why does this kind of business even exist?"
I'm in the same situation, I don't fancy breaking my back weeding by hand or hoe
It turns out that the history of these tactics goes back to the northern states using them to disenfranchise new immigrants in the second half of the 19th century (they didn’t want Irish, Italian, German, Polish, ... immigrants voting). Later white southerners who wanted to disenfranchise blacks were inspired by their example, and took voting suppression to new heights.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/todays-voter-suppressi...
Paper ballots might work best in the west, but in some developing countries ballot stuffing remains a big problem. In these countries I feel VVPAT is a better solution.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter-verified_paper_audit_t...
Can you talk about the machines in the lab. I’m in WL and have seen in Greyhouse and in Lawson people battling with XINU enough that I’ve gone over to see what they’re doing.

I’m curious about the machines used to run the code in, their boot processe, or anything you can talk about.
A counter argument to expanding popular votes, the reason for a representative democracy is so we _don’t_ have to vote on everything. If we’re electing representatives that we distrust so much we want to directly vote on more of the laws I think we should fix the election of representatives.
This is just presenting factual information, how is this being downvoted?
For all the doubters here thinking that there's nothing wrong with Musk making some jokes on twitter, go read Matt Levine's Money Stuff column on Bloomberg this week.

Not only it explains in detail what's wrong, but it's also high entertainment value (as all his columns.

Also the follow-up yesterday [2] is a good summary of the possible solutions for Musk. TL;DR:

> If I were Musk’s lawyer, and if he doesn’t actually have $80 billion of financing locked up, I’d be working on a termsheet for the board that (1) offers Tesla shareholders the choice between (A) $420 in cash or (B) shares in a new special-purpose-vehicle that will hold shares in a private Tesla (or whatever your plan is to let people hold on to their shares); (2) limits the cash consideration to, like, $5 billion, or whatever Musk can actually raise; and (3) has some sort of proration mechanism in case more people choose the cash than he can afford.

> Does this fit with the spirit of the going-private transaction that Musk tweeted about? No, absolutely not, not even a little bit. But it is … something. And then let the special committee reject it, and then quietly walk away and say “well no we were serious about the buyout proposal but it just didn’t work out.” Which is a much better position to be in than walking away saying “oh yeah sorry we were kidding about that.”

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-08/elon-musk...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-10/tesla-doe...