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One criticism I see often of many electronic voting systems also applies to vote by mail: it does not protect against external pressure or buying votes. Someone could easily offer to buy blank ballots (especially from poor voters who may need the money), or otherwise coerce/pressure people to reveal their ballots and break anonymity. I realize actions like these are already a crime, but one of the main reasons for the secret ballot is to protect against situations like these by making it impossible to do.

Perhaps this compromise in the integrity of the voting system is one we want to make in these unusual times, but I think it is important to point out that there is indeed a compromise here. Mail voting doesn't come without its own issues.
Thank you! Please don't hesitate to open GitHub issues if you have suggestions to make your workflows more convenient.

Just curious: what are the workflows you plan to use Tip for?
I bet that doesn't apply to that couple or this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk83N2u1ZmY (Living on a Self-Sufficient Sailboat for 10 Years)
It’s more like experts telling you that models predict you’ll need 50 fire extinguishers to put out a kitchen fire, you express skepticism, and you’re branded a science-denying lunatic.
If you rotate a square, then the length will oscillate. A circle will remain fixed (but presumably would have surface detail to clue you in that it's rotating.)
I was hoping your image would be a video of you showing that you're actually two coffee-crazed squirrels.

You must know that average touch typing speed is 40 wpm, professional is 75 wpm, therefore you have nothing to gain by optimizing further. Especially since bragging about doing it the hard way lets you seem like you'd be even faster if you tried.
Reminds me of those mid 2000s sites where you'd watch ads to earn credits to either cash out or spend on your own ads. Was always the default answer to "how to make money online". Forget what the name for that type of site was.
Used emacs for years, switched to VSC as it's just more compatible with the present time in terms of plugins, languages, and even simply working with other people. Emacs is a thing of the past. I do really miss the kill-ring though.
Here is a well written resource with plenty of references as to why what you say is untrue: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/trumps-latest-voter-fraud-...
Please elaborate on how the fraud would work in this case...
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Turns out that even if you cover people's basic food and shelter, they still are interested in producing stuff -- whether that's art, software, or widgets, many folks still take pride in doing work. They may not work 40 hours, but I guarantee you people would still be working.

Edit: Also, providing social housing, universal health care, and basic food assistance isn't communism. France isn't a communist country, and yet they have access to those things. It's not a boolean flip between capitalism and communism -- we can have elements of both and tune it to what we'd like.
I use a combination of WorkFlowy and Notion for note-taking. WorkFlowy serves as my daily quick jotting medium. Notion I spend more time crafting and organizing, so that knowledge is more discoverable. Do you ever find yourself going through these ISO-dated notes? I would image re-finding something is difficult?
I actually like this behavior more, since it is predictable. Sometimes it just works for occasional looking up proper nouns, and you can already tell if it won't.
Well that just makes me want to know what his week was like / brought him to that point.

Not that I can't imagine, I just want to hear about the train wreck.
Quick! Vote this comment down! The media in favor of the party that benefits from voter fraud always tells me that voter fraud is a myth, and they're right because voting by mail makes voter fraud so easy, it's almost impossible to prove. And if you can't prove voter fraud, there is no voter fraud. Yeah democracy!
Just stop. This guy has already made up his mind that the US is one of the worst countries in the world.
Trump referenced proposals from Democrats in the coronavirus stimulus negotiations that would have vastly increased funding for absentee and vote-by-mail options. The final package included $400 million for the effort, which was far less than what Democrats had sought.

“The things they had in there were crazy,” Trump said. “They had things — levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
> Don't forget the gaslighting "100k people dead is doing a good job" BS.

Now do the per capita numbers and see that we’re actually doing better on a deaths/million basis than several European countries.
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> it does not protect against external pressure or buying votes.

It does though. If your vote was coerced you can always request another ballot, which invalidates the first.

If you're getting paid to vote a certain way, then nothing here really changes. California already had vote by mail as an option.
Misogyny, just go back in his history and listen to his early videos.

For the other two, I recommend looking at the Wall Street article (or the videos he produced) about him paying people to hold antisemitic signs, and how that article coming to light prompted advertisers to start withdrawing their support from YouTube.

It's all out there, do yourself a favor and look.
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 more

And in that time there has been zero evidence of voter fraud at any kind of scale that would effect the outcome of an election.
Would you propose banning knives too, so police don't have to be worried about pulling over someone with a knife?
I mean, there are 20 million recently unemployed people who are probably wondering, "What are the safety nets like elsewhere? Why aren't we more like <country x>?"

They've just lost their healthcare. How can they not look at the rest of the world and say "Maybe they are onto something, not tying health care to employment..."
Aww, thank you!

Yeah, that entire article is generated from the set of notes. There's one note for each subsection (down to the finest level of granularity) and it just extracts the article directly based on the links. I described this in a set of notes that end up here: https://github.com/alefore/weblog/blob/master/zettelkasten.m...

The images (e.g., distribution of back links per file, semilattice view, etc.) are also just generated programmatically from the repository of notes.

The code that extract it is here: https://github.com/alefore/edge/blob/master/rc/editor_comman... (function zke, which receives the output path, the path to the initial note, and a string listing space separated paths of notes to ignore).

Here's another example of an article generated from my notes (this is way longer and is very incomplete, and probably contains a bunch of mistakes, but you may find it interesting as an example): https://github.com/alefore/weblog/blob/master/software-corre...
Is that why the name of the country is sometimes spelled with a space, "Viet nam"?
Feel free to go out and look at his video backlog, or look the well researched and documented Wall Street Journal article from 2017 and form your own views.
> since x87 is gone in x86-64, so even scalar FP has to use SSE registers.

No, it’s still there. What’s actually going on is that all x86-64 CPUs support SSE2, so there is little reason to use x87 in 64-bit code.

(You can use it for 80-bit precision. OTOH, for most purposes, 80-bit precision is actively harmful, and x87 is an incredible mess, so almost no one wants it.)
And most states have the concept of "absentee ballots", as well, which are effectively voting by mail.
I don't even use Firefox. You know what's really irrational? Trying to find ulterior motive in an argument instead of addressing its substance.
> As the article points out, Tesla went public before the "founder gets preferred shares that have all the voting power" thing became popular.

This is simply not true. Google popularized it in 2004 with their IPO. It's how page/brin today control over 50% of the alphabet votes. Zuckerburg copied page/brin. The reason why musk couldn't get the same privileges is because tesla wasn't a growth powerhouse that google/facebook/etc were. He wasn't in position to make such demands from investors.
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This seems... unnecessary? The free market guarantees fair contracts. If an individual is presented with an unfair offer, they merely seek employment elsewhere. It is just common sense that these sorts of things get sorted out by the free market; people just have to communicate when companies try to screw them, so that word spreads and the company either changes its behavior or (hopefully) goes out of business. The logic is simple and self-evident.

A startup to facilitate this is tantamount to government intervention in the economy: it is bastardizing a perfect natural order. This company idea seems naive at best and basically grifting at worst.
I don't remember that at all. I remember being warned (correctly) that this was a possibility, and that lockdowns were needed to "flatten the curve" and prevent it. That kind of framing was pervasive. But I remember it being very explicitly presented as a caution and not an inevitability.
And as it happened, people took heed. And it worked. We beat it.

Can you cite the specific coverage you're thinking of?

Basically: this seems like a bit much to me. The media warned us of something. We listened. The warning worked. And now you want to attack "the media" because the thing they warned us might happen didn't... because they warned us.
I wish people would stop comparing US coronavirus deaths to the Vietnam war. The comparison is intended to increase the perceived gravity of coronavirus pandemic - "Remember that war 50 years ago which had massive cultural & social impact? This is just as big!" - but implying the Vietnam war's impact was based on American bodycount is just wrong at best and appalling at worst.

The Vietnam war had such an impact because the US military went on such an insane spree of war crimes and civilian massacres that America permanently lost its standing as a moral authority gained in WW2. Two million Vietnamese civilians paid the ultimate price for America's geopolitical theorizing, and the disaster was prolonged for an entire decade because the country was too proud to admit it was in over its head. McNamara and then Nixon knew the war was unwinnable, but the US could not appear defeated. And so the atrocities continued. Many in the US realized all of this and became permanently disillusioned with their country.

Apologies for the off-topic rant but this comparison has been making its way through a lot of circles that really should know better. If you find yourself wishing you knew more about this topic, I recommend the Ken Burns documentary The Vietnam War or the book Kill Everything that Moves.
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Elon uses four personal jets guzzling who knows now much gas. He practically flies 24x7. When it comes to climate, he is a hypocrite.
The nonsense wasn’t PR, it was drugs.
I wonder why we don’t have Markdown browsers. Seems like that would help a ton.
Trump is replacing the post master general with his crony. What if the Republicans suddenly win California? Please don't claim voter fraud, if you do, the irony will be so so deep because you're saying these changes that the Governor is making won't make voter fraud any easier. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-republican-fundr...
I love this. I have a grouping of pages in Notion for tech notes. But I really like the idea of scoping it to a project. I like that you don't need a local repo. I'll have to experiment with this. Have you automated anything for it? And do you have any patterns you use (eg. organizing the information, etc). Thanks!
This looks like it could be described as a cross between Dwarf Fortress and Sonic Pi?
The fields that fill the space are squished?
Are car accidents contagious? If you crash your car, do two other cars crash? If they did, we'd certainly lock things down.

> I'm not saying we should not be doing anything, but we have existing protocols to deal with respiratory epidemics, which are not a new thing at all (they happen every winter).

Good lord. Last flu season, 35 million Americans got the flu and 34,200 died. We have 1.3M confirmed Covid cases so far and 78k deaths (the real total of both is surely much higher). If that 6% CFR is 5x too high due to mild cases that haven't been counted and we made it to 35M infected, we'd have over 400,000 dead.

I'm getting the strong feeling that we're going to find out exactly how deadly this thing can be since people are so ignorantly dismissive of how serious we should be taking it.
> Please don't. Set the charset in your headers (and it should be utf-8 unless you have a very good reason).

Legitimate question: why? If I'm not planning on using non-ASCII characters, why bother?
I live in Santa Clara county, which had a vote-by-mail-only policy for the primary in March. It was supposed to be part of an experiment in mail-only voting, as California was planning to be mail-only statewide by 2022 anyway.

FWIW, it was the easiest voting ever. I've been permanent vote-by-mail for many years, but usually I had to fight the crowds on election day to drop off my ballot at a polling place. This time they had drop boxes all over the county that were open 24 hours, so I was able to drop my ballot off at 10 Monday night, after I filled it out.

So this isn't actually a huge change. They're just accelerating the timeline.
I hope Elon will be fine. The future depends on benevolent billionaires like himself to get us out of the financial mess the governments of the world have put us in. If we have any hope of tackling climate change, Tesla will be front and center in that battle.

Besides, he just had a child! What a wonderful gift to the world. I hope his child grows up to be as wise and down-to-earth as his father. :)
> it feels unscientific to always quibble over experiment design after the results show no effect.

Respectfully, this is exactly what science is. The process of finding potential confounding variables and controlling for them in a new study is critical.

The OP isn’t saying the original study is wrong, or falsified, or whatever, just that it might not account for a particular effect. Someone should study that effect!

There is a lot of untestable post-hoc armchair experiment criticism from the supplement crowd, but this isn’t an example of that!
I'm not usually motivated by these discussions, but it does seem like it's worth testing the difference between morning and evening for taking something that's related to circadian rhythms.
California is one of the only states where “ballot harvesting” is legal. [0] Party officials can submit batches of votes collected from people who are not their family members. As you can imagine, accusations of impropriety abound.

Putting partisan politics aside, I’m not sure how a rational person can look at this and conclude that it leads to fair elections.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballot_harvesting
Nice! I've been looking for something like this. Do you use tmux? I wonder how it works with tmux copy mode... Semi-related to this, I wish there was a way to visualize your undo/redo tree. I hate that if I want to undo a change I made 10 changes ago, I can't (at least, I don't know how to). Something like a jump list in vim.
Well, did you improve the product based on what the "free candy" people said? Were you able to determine the reasons they didn't buy and then improve your product accordingly?

Seems you should be improving your product/product positioning more. That would make marketing a lot easier.
I consider scripts to be functional documentation, so I write a lot of them, usually shell scripts but Ruby and Python, too. Any task that I might want to perform again, or tasks for someone else, gets a script if possible. All of my repos have a /scripts directory.

It can take some work to write and debug but in the end when it's working you know you have correct "documentation". Text and wiki documentation may look right but you can't be sure. Just today someone on my team was trying to create a particular build on Jenkins but was using the wrong build parameters, which were copied from wiki; the previous owner of the wiki had neglected a few changes. But the script worked!
You don't have to assign the copyright when your total contribution is below 15 lines of so.

Just something to note.
Thank you this is still much better than the useless original title
“If Bullets Come Flying Through the Window, Duck.”
I don’t think Amazon would leave the Seattle area entirely, just the city limits. And not even SF has imposed the level of taxation Seattle’s local socialist movement keeps trying to impose on Amazon. (NB: I’m not using “socialist” as a slur; Seattle has an actual socialist movement with one council member openly affiliating with the “Socialist Alternative Party”).
Why are the red suburbs red?
Elon has done more for climate activism and the green movement in the last decade than basically anybody. Besides perhaps Miss Thunberg.

His "guzzling" jets as you call them are a minor convenience in order to facilitate quicker, more efficient transport to enable the evolution and development of Tesla and SpaceX.

Do you expect him to drive everywhere? Not only would that be worse for the environment, but it would mean more of Elon's precious time wasted and thus also our time wasted because a brilliant man is stuck in traffic.
Sweden didn't have an official lockdown, but they encouraged safer behavior and already have more work from home and single people living alone than other places. That would not have worked in the US, and in truth it didn't work as well as their neighbors.
From my experience - multiple desktops, especially when having multiple monitors (and yes, you should probably get a second monitor).

If you don't use desktop switching: the basic idea is to have one desktop per task/bug/project. Lets you context-switch in a very organized manner.

If you're using them, good, but you may be surprised how many people don't!
I didn't say it's not dangerous. I said there's worse to come and that setting ourselves up to deal with this coronavirus will stand us in good stead for the next one. Imagine if a virus came out that combined the lethality of MERS with the contagiousness and asymptomatic spreading factors of SARS-Cov-2.
Same for Indian people. Everyone gets super excited when foreigners speak even one single sentence in Hindi.
In one case, "They all involve a pair of women coming to their doors, asking to see their ballots and either filling them out for them or simply taking the ballots away. The women either say the residents should vote for Peskin or simply vote for Peskin on the ballots themselves."

The DA dropped the case, but they also know where their bread is buttered.

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Allegations-of-voter...
Absolutely! I've come to the same realization. Just haven't figured out my effective documentation rules. Difficult to experiment with what works when the feedback loop is on the same magnitude of how long it takes you to forget (eg. 6 months). Best proxy I can come up with is "how can I communicate this to someone who has no context? What would they want to know?"
Ex-browser dev here. Please don't ship invalid HTML like this.

Web standards specify how to render valid HTML in a standard way, and browsers have become better and better at that over the years.

Invalid HTML destroys all that. Each browser will have to guess how to repair and fill in the blanks on malformed incomplete tag soup, and there is no one right way to do that. Browser X will make different guesses from Browser Y, and the next version of each will be different too.

Please just write actual HTML that is valid and your website will render much more consistently and reliably across shifting platforms, browsers and versions. It is not the size of HTML that slows the web down anyway.
Yes, this is the law in the US as well.
The catch in both the US and France is that you have to say you believe it is unsafe and why.

https://www.osha.gov/right-to-refuse.html
What's the argument for it?
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Some countries are starting to loosen the lockdowns, others just try to minimize impact. Same goes for companies. So what are you doing currently in your career and what are your next steps?
i am glad that there is a small village of indomitable developers holding out against tens of megabytes of reactive functional progress modern javascript frameworks.

thank you
Because your browser will enable a compatibility shim to improve rendering of web pages authored 15+ years ago. If you omit DOCTYPE, your HTML is assumed to be very old.
There is a huge distance between what you are planning to do and what happens when reality shows up.
You can already do this with certain forms of type-level programming. We did it in the Rust-based OS we created atop seL4. It started out as using types to track setup processes and kernel objects at compile-time to bring some of the guarantees seL4 provides only at run-time, and also to provide guard rails to ensure that you're not accidentally creating unsecure systems using the tools seL4 gives you. After some exposure to doing this it became clear that we could also track memory allocations this way, so we created an allocator to do exactly that.

It basically ensures at compile-time that every allocation in the program will succeed given some expected usable footprint, which also has the benefit of ensuring that we kill the kernel/OS immediately at bootstrapping if the machine/environment doesn't have enough memory to make sure our proof-carrying code can meet its expectations.

One huge problem with this approach though is that it doesn't scale well. Where "scale" is in the dimension of revising your programs because the type-parameters tend to bleed all over the place and don't compose well/at-all. So, it's great if you're sure you've got your design locked-in, but it's kind of a nightmare if you're still prototyping & refactoring.
Well that would be election fraud, not voter fraud. So I would never claim voter fraud if that happened.

But also, the system doesn't actually use the postal service exclusively to deliver the ballots. There are dedicated ballot boxes all over the county/state to collect completed ballots.

Also, when you vote you get a code that you can put into the Secretary of State's website which will tell you when your ballot was revived and counted. So you can bet that if the results aren't close to the polling, the Democrats will ask everyone to check their code and make sure their ballot was received.
My problem with vote-by-mail is that they have to confirm that your signature is the same... and mine is not. I have been voting by mail but I don't know if they count my vote.
1987: "Vote-by-mail becomes permanent, with the majority of Oregon's counties making use of it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote-by-mail_in_Oregon

1987: The last time a Republican was Governor of Oregon (33 years).
That's a decimal not a percentage. It's 0.058 which is 5.8%.
Going out and not having to constantly make sure that I'm keeping my distance from people.