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Shocking. I live in eastern europe and we've had a parliamentary election this July during the pandemic.

Two volunteers with disinfectant at the entrance to the local grade school. Political party volunteers to oversee the voting. Paper ballots and temp uni students to count them at the drop off sites.

Literally hundreds of countries do the same with no difficulty.
Yes, that is by far my preference. Much more 12 factor app-ish and framework independent. A lot of Java apps will want files though, so sometimes it isn't possible.
For clarification, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a more narrow view of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Exiled Palestinians were unwelcome to neighboring Arab states. I think you should read the book because your assumption is incorrect about its content.

This is cheeky of me, but... A hint for starters: the Zionists did invade Palestine with the intent to destroy it. The Zionist movement in Israel did not respect the partitioning of Palestine set up by UN Resolution 181. Zionists committed mass murder against the Palestinians even outside of typical warfare — there were significant civilian casualties. There is no need to equivocate the criticism that "what Zionists are doing to Palestinians is similar to what Nazis did to Jews" to a very different claim that "the Holocaust and the Nakba are wholly the same."

We are horrified that Israel would commit ethnic cleansing against another group of people. It is especially horrific given they did so immediately after having been dealt the same atrocity at the hand of Nazis.

You can narrowly criticize Israel for these historical and present-day actions, and you gain credibility by standing firmly on that point.

Because my response seems to have gained some traction, I will offer you a couple more sources. I don't require or expect you to purchase and read the aforementioned book, but I hope you will look over the following:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus
[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/5/23/the-nakba-did-n...
Exactly. Both parties will complain about parts of the voting system that made them lose. Then when they come to power again won’t change what made them win (which is naturally what caused them to lose originally). This is why we’ll never see the delegate system go away.
Hm, I skimmed this but might have come away with a skewed sense of the balance between reactions to it.
Good on them, I say. There's clearly a problem if people are having to wait that long to vote (to my knowledge it's rarely happened here in the UK, and I've never had to queue for more than a handful of minutes when I've voted), but I applaud the fact they're willing to wait and how seriously these people are taking their democratic responsibility as citizens. Well done!
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They are the official search for HN itself. That should have given you the hint. They are a YC company, so surely these posts rank up, perhaps because the alum group do some voting for peers. Which I feel is a good side-effect of being in YC.
Are sure the post office is reliable at this point?
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Some states use preferential voting for local elections, but right now Maine is the only one that does it for the presidential elections. I hope preferential voting will be the next major change to the election, after the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact gets enough members to activate.
I have personally waited in line for more than 6 hours to vote on Election Day in the US. How many could not wait that long and had to leave before their vote was recorded?

This is a real thing that happens in many states and should not be acceptable in a democracy.
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Apt update just updates the cache of the package lists - /var/lib/apt/lists/ - based on your lists - /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. "upgrade" actually upgrades the code on the system.

`rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*` in the same RUN decreases bloat and I think possibly decreases cache misses as well.
Except no, the exact reason I do/did these things with crypto is that I couldn't as easily do it with the existing infrastructure.

Buying at a Bitpay PoS in Japan is just scanning a QR code, instant confirmation (Wechat easy but even foreigners can use it). A P2P sale for a non-insignificant amount of money (~$1.5k): rejected by Paypal, inter-bank transfer would take days to go through. BTC was 5 minutes to wait for a confirmation. Donations through Patreon or other require you to sign-up, go through convoluted systems that sometimes require sending your identity documents, crypto is just copy an address/scan a QR code and confirm in your usual, familiar wallet.
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> Each bitcoin transaction costs about $50 now.

That's off by a factor of 18 even if you want it to be fast, according to https://bitcoinfees.earn.com

"The fastest and cheapest transaction fee is currently 110 satoshis/byte, shown in green at the top.
For the median transaction size of 224 bytes, this results in a fee of 24,640 satoshis." = .0002464 BTC = $2.81
I requested a ballot. I received my ballot in the mail. I filled out my ballot. I walked right up to my elections office, dropped it in a box, with no line. Done.

My problem with all of this is that it’s so easy to do it right, there should be no excuse for all these places to be doing it so wrong.

Washington State has perfected mail in voting, and has done it for over a decade. Just do what they do.

My state opens voting locations and makes it easy to get an absentee ballot and drop it off, no lines, no problems.

Locations with these problems should be embarrassed for not simply looking to locations that do it right, and then copying what they do.
Why not? Should they instead quote their neighbor Joe Six Pack? This is a technique called Appeal to Authority and you can read about it on wikipedia.
It's not about being "far behind", these delays are intentionally engineered where they're happening.
Creating ballot boxes that convince people they're officially administered by government is called Talent, not incompetence.
The comment was not about the EVM but the sheer personel & logistics deployed to make voting as convenient as possible. Remember India is not a rich country like US, so think in that context as well.
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You're right, it's not unit testing. I call it integration testing, some people call it functional testing.

The question is why you want to test that one class? We do have some modules in our (elixir) system that are 'thoroughly' unit tested. These are modules that are algorithmically complicated so testing them in isolation is useful. Most of the code is tested in logical chunks though.
It is a feature but not how you’re describing.

The US governing system is designed in such a way as to move at a glacial pace but also to not make mistakes or over correct. The polling systems may seem broken now but will inevitably get corrected over time.

Further, the US take states’ rights seriously and allows states to make many key decisions in terms of how they wish to hold elections. The thinking is that you’d rather have Johnny down the street dictate your election than someone you’ve never heard of in Washington DC.

It’s en vogue to shit on the US election system right now but y’all are still using first-past-the-post just like the US. Seems a bit hypocritical.
> Netflix isn't the same medium as Cable/Broadcast.

No, it's a newer integrated content & delivery service that’s far less diversified as a whole business than the corporations that run traditional cable and broadcast, so the pressures on its content to succeed in driving metrics are even more intense.

> A 2 season show that was canned on a cliffhanger? Will NOT TOUCH.

A seasons show that got canned on cliffhanger wasn't getting touched in a way which would justify the cost, anyway; they are writing in off and stopping lighting money on fire when they are cancelling it.

They don't want to invest the kind of money they put into these series for something people already committed to the platform might try out, the expensive, heavily promoted at launch series need to be drivers of the decision to subscribe or stay subscribed (there’s plenty of stuff that’s cheaper, less promoted, and probably fine for them if it's essentially catalog filler, but that's not the series that get attention.) And if it's not doing that, throwing another (even truncated) season’s worth of money to slightly boost it's value as catalog filler might make some artistic sense, but it doesn't make a lot of business sense.
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The election is a still almost a month away. I fully support improving election processes and infrastructure and think election officials could have foreseen this demand, but I would argue that most of your comments are hyperbole.

No one in the US is required to vote weeks in advance of election day in person.
The article only mentions in passing that these lines were on the first day early voting was open. Of course if everybody tries to show up on the first day, you're going to have long lines. Those polling places will be open for a total of three weeks (up until the weekend before election day--and in many US jurisdictions early voting lasts even longer, in my area it opened two weeks ago) and for most of that time there will be no lines at all. But that won't get reported in the news because it doesn't fit the "voter suppression" narrative.
Don't know how other countries are faring but cases doubled in the last 2 weeks and we are at >5000 new infections per day again.

edit: No idea why the numbers are that different, mine are from the RKI, a renowned institute and the reference for case numbers.
It is several weeks until election day. Right now some areas have early voting available. Early voting is available in most areas every day of the week for several weeks prior to election day, including weekends.

During early voting you can choose to vote at any location in your county which often include convenient places such as the grocery store, instead of being required to vote at your assigned district polling center, which is usually a public school, but is sometimes another government or community building.

I cannot remember waiting in line to do early voting even once. Sometimes I would go to the grocery store two or three times during early voting and see a line to vote, and I just wait until I see no line. There are always surges in the first and last days of early voting, but a big lull in the middle.
A little out of left field but here is my opinion on why we are here.

None of this is possible without the perverted media market that view based advertising has created. The entire political landscape has grown to this mess because of "Click Bait" style ad metrics.

Every single news outlet, media outlet and otherwise has been corrupted and perverted to seek instant gratification and has lowered their editorial bar so low that they'll say, show, do anything that gets more attention. Because attention brings them more ad $.

Without the money flowing from ads via these false metrics, none of these media outlets could exist let alone thrive. And they, are the reason America is so divided. Sensationalism is what is driving the discourse, not intelligence or reason. The power brokers know this and the leverage it very, very well.

We have created a US where information is the ball, and our lives and the policy that governs us, is the sport.
In a first past the post system like the US has it will always mathematically be a 2 party system. Maybe the democrats or republicans actually self destruct and cease being a party and one of those other parties take its place but there can never be a 3 party government in our system as it's impossible.
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I'm one of those people. I certainly see America as a republic first and foremost.

I appreciate the design of America that incorporates democratically electing one's representives in the House of Representives while balancing the downsides of such a process against other forms of voting.

It's necessary to capture the passions of the body politic at large - which democratic voting does! - but it's also necessary to introduce mechanisms that can serve as a counterweight to the madness of crowds that have been frequently observed in history in America and other countries.

If you haven't done so, do read The Federalist Papers.
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From what I've read, in the case of commercial lets there's a good reason for this.

The companies that manage these properties acquire/refinance loans based on the value of their assets and the value of their assets is mostly determined by the rent they ask for, much less the rent they are actually getting. This leads to commercial landlords refusing to budge on a ridiculous price that was determined in different market conditions and as a result will opt to leave it vacant.

Taking the lower price would adversely affect their access to financing and could put them under water (they already were) on their loans.

Why these agreement/loans don't take this problem into account to prevent this situation is a total mystery though.
> in the UK during elections there is usually voting booths in pretty much every church, school and town hall so you'd struggle to live more than a mile away from one.

On election day or in the month leading up to an election? We have plenty of places to vote at in Germany, but only on the day of the election, not for early voting.
This is a conversation I'd like to have, but I'm not sure the thread will survive long on HN. If you're left wanting for more discussion, please feel free to DM me.
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Interesting.

I’m on an ethics committee with my employer, while it tends to focus on how our product behaves ethically I’m going to be making a push to focus a few things inward, and I plan to start with this.

Frankly it’s of my opinion if you’re going to assess someone using this type of technology and use it in any means to make a determination of hiring, that candidate is owed their results.

Thanks for sharing your experiences here.
Strongly disagree. Using the law in this strong arm manner stiffles innovation.

Yes, the current Oculus / Facebook situation sucks.

However, blanket statements like "Hardware requiring an online account to work must be outlawed." Would ban very legitimate products such as Amazon's physical buttons for restocking supplies.

Sure the Dash buttons are discontinued, but there's definitely an interesting area of products that might be developed in the coming years for other products in this wide domain.
>I can't understand how anyone in the US accepts the status quo of their terrible and flawed election system.

Your next paragraph shows you understood all too well. People support things like long voting lines because it suppresses the votes of other people they don't think should be voting at all.
As much as we should be cautious about complicating the problem further, we have roughly 20 years before the cumulative greenhouse effects really take effect. At what point do we stop worrying about what might happen in the far future and focus on what we know will happen within our lifetimes? I get that knock-on effects might cause more problems further down the line, but the impending end of the world seems like a more pressing concern.
If you are are writing the app, I agree with you. Unfortunately in some cases the person/team that wrote the app has been gone for a long time. I've even seen a case where the source code was missing and nobody knew where it was, yet the service had to continue running.

If you're in that boat, there isn't much you can do except work with it.
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What is the alternative to acceptance? My state has closed hundreds of polling places over the past decade or so. Mostly in poor area, college towns, or cities. What should we do if our option for making our voices heard are removed?

I hope we just make voting compulsory and a national holiday, but I won't hold my breath.
Unless recently changed, I know my father temporarily re-enabled his Facebook account that had been deactivated for years prior
Yeah, it was previously a Magic The Gathering exchange, and then converted to a Bitcoin exchange.

They learned the hard way you need a higher standard of engineering for a financial exchange.
At a minimum, a "ban" of the Oculus account should also include an immediate refund of any and all purchases. It's absolutely ridiculously to think they can just keep all that money while depriving a customer of software licenses they paid for!
At the moment we're definitely looking at IndieHackers and ProductHunt, but also using Pioneer's tournament aspect.

We have some basic weekly challenges right now that help boost your score to incentivise community feedback (these are only be visible to users). Adding competitions is not something I'd thought about, but it's a fantastic idea.
There are certainly examples of countries that both had a lot of deaths and didn't have very strict responses. But the list also includes Spain and the UK, which had long and strict lockdowns - Spain kept kids locked indoors for 6 weeks!
Or wait a couple days. People who can't wait to vote will head out on day one of early voting.
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A more accurate title would be “California GOP admits to placing ballot boxes that others consider misleading.”

The GOP officials did not at all concede to any point of misleading-ness regarding the boxes’ locations.
Generally speaking, commercial enterprises are more accountable to customers and efficient than state endeavors. Fanatics still line up and camp overnight to obtain a new iPhone when they are first released.

That said, I've never waited more than a few minutes when voting on election day in the US.
Here's an example of the UK use of the word "series", which would be called a "season" in other places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_(series_10)

> The tenth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who premiered on 15 April 2017 and concluded on 1 July 2017, and consisted of twelve episodes, after it was announced in July 2015 that BBC Worldwide had invested in a tenth series of the programme in its annual review. The series is led by head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, alongside executive producer Brian Minchin. It is the third and final series overseen by the two as executive producers, as well as Moffat's sixth and final series as head writer. This series is the tenth to air following the programme's revival in 2005, and is the thirty-sixth season overall.
Voting should probably be a higher priority than PE. It's one day.
It's a representative democratic republic. A system of governance need not be a "direct democracy" to be a democracy.

Article 1

Section 1: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Section 2: The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
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Well "fatigue", "exhaustion" and "shock" imply you could just get over those, as medicine advanced we got a better picture of what it is, hence the more precise term now.

As for the "Patriot Act", it's funny how ironic of a name it is.
Would you have a link to the talk? I couldn't find it with a google search.
I posted something similar to the parent below.

There has been 1 open polling location in my county, with a dozen or so more opening this week, and hundreds more opening for election day. All the other counties near me are following the same model.

I haven't seen data for every locality, but in my experience, yes there is an extreme difference between the number of early polling locations vs. the number open on election day.
Do we have evidence of what happened with coral reefs in earlier historical eras with much lower temperatures?

It’s surprising to me that the corals seem to be unable to survive the 1 degree warming (to date), and troubling because even if we stopped all carbon emissions at this point (IIRC) a 2 degree increase is pretty much guaranteed.

Tragically, I fear it’s already too late for the corals. But I wonder if we have evidence that they can adapt to temperature shifts under the right circumstances, and maybe there’s something we can do to help the ecosystem adapt?
Not a new finding, just adds more evidence and more explanation.

Low air humidity indoors during cold weather probably contributes to the seasonal variation of flu's in the north. All the details are not clear yet but:

- droplet sizes are smaller in low humidity. Smaller droplets fly better.

- more viruses in the form of free-drifting aerosols are formed evaporating droplets in dry air. They drift longer in dry air.

- mucous membranes in a dry air may be more exposed.
There are going to be a lot of people still voting into the early hours of 11/4 this year. Add in mail in ballot counting that can't even start until polls close in some states, we aren't going to have a vote count for at least a few days after Election Day.
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One difference in US is there are lot of jobs which have elections like sheriff, judge, board comissioners etc.

Prefential or ranking systems work better when you vote a party and /or have less positions to vote for.
The long queues obviously are there on purpose; incredible your sitting government can get away with it. It is really a sign of a broken system - there are supposed to be checks and balances.
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We had a parliament election in Lithuania this weekend. Even with everything taking longer because of COVID-19, I didn't have to wait more than 10 minutes. If you vote in another precinct than the one you are registered at, you might have to wait a bit more (maybe 20 minutes). It really is remarkable just how many small things seem to be broken in strange ways in the US.
You'd probably want to be able to communicate with multiple anti-fraud systems anyway, so I would expect it to be something plugged into Plausible and not part of Plausible itself.
Truly incredible how much nonsense you managed to lack into such a brief comment.

What about the parent comment sounds "far right" to you? In a two-party system, everyone's vote is a combination of push and pull, which means that it's incredibly normal for a bad candidate to help determine your vote (or as you dishonestly framed it, "force" you to vote otherwise). Isn't that what all the "anyone but Trump" voters are saying? I happen to be fairly happy with Biden, so it doesn't directly apply to me, but I would have voted for any of the Dem primary candidates over Trump, and for the ones I didn't like, he would've "forced" me to vote for them.
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