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The paper system is not "working and secure." Witness the election of Al Franken in MN and how trunkloads of hitherto unknown ballots arrived just in time to tip the scales in his favor. Realize that such an occurrence happens with alarming frequency in many lesser elections around the US.

Left or right, doesn't matter--I demand a better voting system first and foremost, one with with ID checks as well as fraud prevention mechanisms that are taken seriously.

BTW, my sister-in-law's first job as a prosecutor was to try voter fraud cases because that's the shit work they give to newbies. Voter fraud cases are the lowest priority type of cases in the county I reside in. Also, she was given two cases and failed to prosecute either one even though both parties were guilty as hell and had voted multiple times in the 2012 election.

It could not be more clear what is going on and who is behind it all, but nobody wants to fix it because it would expose all kinds of other wrongdoing and it would call into question the integrity of the entire system. Can't have that! It's just like when Americans lived under the British Crown--all manner of corruption and wrongdoing was swept under the rug for reasons of incompetence, covering for "old boys" in the network, or just because an aura of perfection had to be created so that the huddling masses would not rebel.

Here's the truth: The US needs to get rid of its autocrats and oligarchs and restore the power to the people.
impossible, Obama assured us last election that it was impossible to hack an election and that anyone complaining was just a conspiracy theorist or a sore loser.

All these conspiracy theories are making me tired, everybody should just go to sleep and stop worrying about our voting machines being compromised
I was just coming here to say the same. I can't believe anything positive related to Tron is on top of HN. It is a very well documented scam and obvious scam.
Word-of-mouth might be marketing, but it's not something you can work towards. To get that you need a good fun game. IMO that's not a marketing effort, it's a symptom of a good unique game.

I'm not a marketing expert tho, but I can't think of any way to force word-of-mouth onto people.
Can we make significant progress in carbon capture technologies within the next 20 years that would not require such dramatic changes to society?
Not to mention that it gets worse with the old publishers all wanting to start their own streaming services and having made Netflix block VPNs.

It's as if they saw a drop in piracy and asked themselves how to make it rise again.
Hi! First post on here.

The conversion/adapter tools exists. It's not a technical issue.

The problem is that cobol applications are normally monolithic, and a migration to another system represents an huge risk because:
1) you migrate like a Big Bang migration, or;
2) you migrate step by step.

Imagine a bank with applications running at 30 or 40 years without problems... Nobody in his perfect judgment will accept to have a Big Bang migration. The risk is too high.

For migrating step by step, you must have a good bussiness case (it must compensate the risk), opportunity (you must be able to keep working in the Bussiness As Usual) and you must have the right people (people that have the knowledge in organization). If you don't have this three things it will be very hard to migrate Cobol to another language/platform.

Usually Cobol is used in mainframe, so the right aproach (with less risk) IMHO is to migrate first COBOL from z/os to a Cobol in another platform (windows/*nux whatever), and then migrate Cobol gradually to another language.
This is not a valid statement. Entering a country illegally is illegal immigration, as is overstaying one's VISA. Until they are granted legal entry, it's illegal entry, and they are illegal immigrants. The solution is simple, asylum should only be granted to those with a current legal status. If they enter illegally, they get sent back to their country of origin where they must get in line with all of the others applying. There's a backlog in applications (400K+), but it's because of all of the people jumping the line which interferes with the quotas set for legal immigrants and clogs the system.
What does "used it" mean?

The government typically makes grandiose statements that sound impressive and make the accused sound like the devil himself but reality is almost always an order of magnitude more mild.

Unless I hear otherwise I'm gonna assume it was just pinging back to some C&C infrastructure he owned or something like that.
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> look at cutting [] other stimulants

That wont work unfortunately, I am prescribed some. However I had issues falling asleep before the prescription as well
> you give your ID

That's racist. (According to some in the US)

EDIT: So how would you design a system where you don't need an ID to vote (like many places in the US)?
Python?

Python is really easy to learn and has reached VB levels of snowball network effects.
I stopped using Facebook and Twitter. Same as majority of people who did the same, I report being happier and more productive.
If panspermia is to be believed, quite probably, yes.
Although " fixed-scope, fixed-cost and variable-time" makes it easier, this works also in other situation, including variable-everything, part of a product team.

You are given tasks or projects for a specific budget (budget, for your manager is 1 engineer). They have expectations on what 1 engineer can deliver on average.

This is what people mean when they say "we care about output, not butts in seats".
I’m doing consultancy at a CTO level for a number of medium/large environmental technology companies while I travel, comprising everything from supply chain management around hazardous materials to sustainable living systems to pipeline management - and I’ve been contributing photography and footage to documentarians as I go.

I’m not optimistic about systemic action - the people taking it seriously don’t have the power to overcome a far more dominant system: our consumption-driven way of living, and the economies built around it. Mindshare may grow sufficiently in coming decades, but by then it’ll largely be too late, and that growth will likely come from more people witnessing and enduring the effects of climate change - and if we’re at that point, it’s already too late, as systemic collapse beckons as I laid out in my previous.

The climate is a chaotic system - it finds a metastable mode for a given set of inputs, and once moved by changing those inputs (e.g. CO2 ppm) from that point of stability can wander drastically before finding that point again. As forests die, as methane is belched from the thawing permafrost, as marine ecosystems collapse (everywhere is overrun by jellies - even Antarctica), as ice caps and glaciers melt, as coastal plains flood, as grassland turns to desert, core components of the current system of stability are yet further altered, thus pushing the current mode yet further from its stable point and making that stable point harder to reattain.

Like I said, get a climatologist talking in private, and it’s grim listening. They see the bigger picture in their work, but only publish studies on specific observations. Longitudinal studies end up being conservative otherwise they sound radically alarmist and don’t get published.

Anyhow. We should keep on playing while the ship sinks.
My theory is that exactly what you suggested was done in the 2016 election. The remaining patriots at the NSA and other places knew about the massive fraud and got together and fixed it right under the noses of the corrupt. That is my theory and in probably 20 years the history will be finally told after it all gets declassified.
All facts (those that are not lies) are true under specific circumstances/environment. Capitalism is bad. This statement is not always correct and neither is it always wrong. When unchecked, capitalism is bad. Capitalism also gave rise to SpaceX, Apple ...
I can't see the original comment, but you mean $3000/month in Belarus?
> boils down to there being a "hidden command in the affected software", according to Cisco itself.

It always amazes me that we continually release software with these backdoors in them. What is the thought process that's going on? Do they think security by obscurity really works? They must or else they wouldn't keep doing this. Cisco isn't a small company, they have the people-power, processes, and money to not do this. It literally saves no time or money when you figure in the cost to fixing the issue. US government conspiracy theories aside, I'm guessing it's just lazy developers, incompetent managers, or potentially intentional maliciousness from foreign governments or competitors.
Experimental Cities

These are like experimental schools.

Not intended to be mainstream at all.

Admission criteria would seem to be a critical consideration and the further from the mainstream that the experiments extend, the more unlikely it would be expected to be scalable beyond very strict criteria.

Houston comes to mind as a purpose-built city founded on undeveloped land for the primary purpose of entrepreneurship which has grown larger than average by maintaining that approach more so than average. As an example there has never been a zoning ordinance, that kind of regulatory obstacle would be seen as an experiment in cutailing prosperity, certainly not normal. A failed experiment at that after observation of long-term effects in other municipalities. Even though in most other municipalities the removal of zoning would be thought of as an experiment too risky for them to even consider.

In the mature real-world example of Houston it is also painfully obvious the benefit that could have been obtained with a little well-intended admission criteria. Besides, when's the last time you heard someone say "Hey, it's a free country" any more anyway.

> How do we help more experimental cities get started?

You've got to find someone who wants to subdivide their ranch, and then get settlers to move there like anyone else. Incentives might help speed things up, and you've got to figure that the more restrictive the admission criteria, the more people will want to apply.

Or something like that.
> I prefer having bearable temperatures where I live, sleep and have visitors,

What gives you the right to all that at the direct expense of the people who can't afford it?
It's a really sad state of affairs.

There's clearly hatred being directed at a certain gender and race, but that seems to be fine since "they are the oppressors".
If both keys exist, then it’s an even bigger signal of user mistake. Are you going to fail then? Distinction becomes pretty arbitrary.

As a user, I’d rather have a failure at boot time if I got it wrong. Just because I had a typo once doesn’t mean I always make it. What if I tried to transform my own config? I’d have to follow special case your referers property like you did to keep it consistent.
BASIC ?
Not an easy question. I think I can write a separate blog post about it. But generally speaking, we completely redid the whole system. In the beginning, we did not understand correctly what customers really need, and our architecture did not allow us to make this "pivot".

The hardest thing is that we could not learn it without failing. We got it only after we showcased the product to the market and after talking to hundreds of customers.
It avoids saying pay for files, I feel like the music/media industry’s lawyers would have a fieldday with anyone using this to “share” music files
Yes, that's sort of what I'm getting at with that leading question. If we accept evolutionary biology then a headline like this wouldn't be all that surprising. All living things converge at the root.
That is really interesting. During the pre-internet days you only saw what you saw, so if your school friends were into Spectrum games and if you had BBC Micro at school (and for the rich kids) then you did not see what was going on in the parallel universes of Atari and Commodore. Generally the Atari was considered a games console back then, not something to program. Commodore owners were also a different demographic, into different things.

Braben and Bell were Cambridge University grade geniuses, in the UK's Silicon Fen, so they were probably exposed to a lot more than schoolkids like myself living in the countryside. So I now imagine they had a lot more influences, and, like all great artists, they 'stole' ideas from other platforms for their 'stolen ideas' to be as good as rocket science magic for the likes of myself.

Elite on the BBC Micro was the best game ever until networked games came along. This is probably why I am not a gamer, I was not that impressed by consoles or PC games, they lacked the ambition of 'Elite'. Of course that has changed now but there was a step backwards for me.
> Bioweapons seems unlikely to end humanity ...

I was more thinking an infectious agent that's modified to be particularly deadly.

I believe that the second law of thermodynamics implies with high probability that humanity will not last forever, so I don't think it's that unlikely that something will wipe us out.
As a Dutchman in London I was a bit appalled by the use of 'Dutch Courage' on a pub sign. It's not terribly civil of our British friends to use these phrases but knowing the context makes it all right - I mean, we both know our navy has always been better, we should let them have this one.
Browser extensions are underrated, and ideal for such use cases! More people should consider it as part of their tech arsenal. Congrats!
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it's sad that we are getting towards a world where hyper consumption becomes such a focus and so important that advertising is able to get budgets that can support this kind of ads.

The fact that you had attention to spare while in uni can also be seen as a loss (not a personal attack to you). But if you are in uni and don't have anything better to do but to listen to someone reading you ads, then, in my opinion, it's sad (again no attack against you).
It is racist, when you make it exceedingly difficult for some minority populations to get an id.
There's an unbroken chain between everything current living thing and the first living thing...

I don't think that's an established fact at all. DNA is a very complex system so it's reasonable to think that simpler systems predated it. Not that it affects your reasoning at all, since every current living thing that we know of does use DNA.
> Erm, no.

Why do you bother commenting on this if you just flat-out refuse to accept scientific evidence in the original post?
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Most 'facts' are debatable.
In any other context, an obsession with the end of the world would be evidence of mental illness.
> If we accept evolutionary biology then a headline like this wouldn't be all that surprising.All living things converge at the root.

That doesn't mean that everything has already been "invented" at the root.
I wouldn't say "greatest scam the world has seen"; that's really selling the grand history of scams short. TRON may have been profitable, but it was not terribly clever or high-effort; the crypto-speculation space was just abnormally high in unreasonably-enthusiastic suckers.
Also most western countries are in negative population growth sans immigration.
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"Scientists at Radboud University discovered a new mechanism for magnetic storage of information in the smallest unit of matter: a single atom."

This press release is aimed at a fairly technically oriented audience, so I'm going to being very precise about why the leading statement in the press release is wrong.

The electron is smaller, more fundamental, more fundamental as a unit, and more fundamental at a higher level of science (is in, electrons are even more fundamental to chemistry than atoms are to physics), than the atom.
BASIC was the inspiration.
Statistical mechanics/Biophysics:

Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics - David Chandler

Physical Biology of the Cell - Phillips, Kondev, Theriot, & Garcia
> without having to beg and wait for the whole world to stop burning fossil fuels, eating meat etc

You don't have to beg and wait for YOU to stop burning fossil fuels, eating meat etc.
This is entirely state-by-state; there's no federal law that covers it. As such, the exact terms vary pretty widely; in many cases there is no requirement if you have n hours (sometimes 2) before or after work when the polls are open; the time can be unpaid in many cases, which can make it a difficult choice for people paid hourly.

It's also not really expressed as an affirmative mandate per se; you have to request time off, in some cases it's the employer's choice when the time is taken, and if they "retaliate" or fire you then you can complain after the fact. So now you're in a dispute with your employer and you missed your chance to vote...hooray.
>I've been living here for a year now... I really ought to know this stuff :/

Don't worry, people who have lived here all their lives often get this stuff wrong!

>Are there ever cases in the UK where two different canonical documents disagree?

IANAL, but as far as I know it generally doesn't happen.

Parliament is sovereign, so what it says (when it creates Acts of Parliament) goes. And newer Acts trump older Acts.

There are exceptions, though. For example:

- Common law, which is entirely created by case law. However statute does override this where it exists

- 'Constitutional Acts', which are certain Acts of Parliament that are held to be more foundational. For example the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Communities Act 1972. These are exceptions to the "newer Act trumps older Act" doctrine and can only ever be explicitly repealed, modified or ignored.
I dunno specifically about this particular instance but our CFO encourages us to select annual plans for apps that are cheap enough to not impact cashflow in a meaningful way and where we get a discount if we choose the annual plan.
Because the US justice system inherits from English common law. The moral motivation is that it is unfair to judge equivalent cases differently. This contrasts with civil law systems, used predominantly throughout mainland Europe / ex-Roman empire, which have the moral motivation that explicit codification of the law is the best way to be fair.
It's been a solved problem in private tracker communities - where users leach bandwidth is on a credit system and they need to maintain a ratio of upload/download to keep their access.

What TRON is trying to do is sell tokens to users to be able to access bandwidth. Where do these tokens come from to begin with? TRON just whips them up for free.

If I remember right, a famous Bittorrent group based out of the UK called Oink was shut down because they took donations for running the site. One can imagine the same fate would await TRON once the tokens are found facilitating pirated MPAA and copyright IP works.
>What's the successor to the book?

The second edition.

And how could books be improved?

Until a different unpowered human-readable medium is proven over a longer period of more careless storage conditions, looks like a third edition if appropriate.

If it hasn't been printed it hasn't really been published as thoroughly as it could be, and if it hasn't been bound then it's not yet a real book. Up until recent decades the survival of unique knowledge was largely dependent on the number of copies printed and distributed, so popularity has had undue importance.

But don't let earlier editions become lost or woe on you.
How is it delivered? How would I install it on my 500 or 600?
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Radiation is a thing so probably better to send robots first.
I really hate when people try to justify them not being successful saying something along the lines of, i'm smart why am I not successful.
The number of people available to count scales directly with the number of votes to count.

Votes happen what, every few months at most? I would say saving a few hours every 100 days isn't worth that investment.
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Which models? And please provide a reference.
i like it. you can feel german engineering.
technology with no elitism and ease of use in mind.
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Thanks!

This makes me wonder, since we've obviously never actually mirrored any particle, is there any chance that charge will (ultimately) also turn out to be a geometric concept? (By analogy to magnetism, where changing the orientation of the current flips the polarity of the magnetic effect).
What this article is saying, though, is stronger: It's not just convergence to the root, but also branch merges. While those branches will converge to the same root, they may have diverged significantly (such that today, we recognise them as from totally separate organisms).
The coming AR computing epoch will again increase the hours/day we’re staring at (through?) screens.
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I'd argue that these fundamental questions are elaborated upon in most contemporary textbooks. In practice, however, young entrepreneurs creating business models around apps need to deal with a whole range of both general and specific issues that need to be addressed and Kotler is of limited use here.
I agree. And once again I will note that browser extension was the crucial idea behind our growth.

But there are some difficulties. For example, sometimes our customers do not understand that the extension is needed and delete it :) Or, for example, they have several computers and on each, they need to install our extension. And they simply forget it.
Popcorn time when I looked at it has consistently given me performance at least as good as Netflix (which tends to downgrade quality for bad reasons - I have very fast fiber and my ISP has good peering - and has a client that can't seem to stop desyncing audio). The only reason not to use it is arguable legality and the fact that content creators deserve money. It's definitely not quality of service.
It's not a 100% fit to your point, but there's that old bromide that half of $[stuff] is $[good in some way] and half is $[bad], but we don't know which is which.
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I can agree with you that a lot of people criticise "tall poppies" as a distraction from their own weaknesses, and that this applies to Elon Musk critics more than most.

But people are well entitled to point out mistakes and ethical/legal breaches by elites, and indeed it's important that it be done so in order that elites be kept from completely reckless or stupid behaviour (I refer you to the story of The Emperor's New Clothes as a long-understood demonstration of this concept).

People still need to be kept accountable to laws and societally accepted standards of behaviour, no matter how much they claim to be doing to save the world, else anyone will be able to come up with their own justification for acting illegally and unethically.
I paid extra to get the ad-free version of the Kindle Paperwhite thinking I was dodging obnoxious ads for random products.

Turns out the ad is just a featured book on the lock screen. I regret paying extra. Seeing the ad for Leviathan Wakes on my gf’s Kindle is how I discovered The Expanse series.
The right of the stronger, fitter. I’m sorry if it hurts your feelings, but that‘s how nature and evolution works. Perhaps your religion preaches something else, but why should I care?