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> I would actually prefer voter ID

Unsubstantiated fear mongering erodes confidence.

The opposite side of this coin is voter suppression. A vote suppressed is exactly as bad as a fraudulent vote. But, I think I'm in the minority on the voter ID opinion, and I want people to be confident in democracy, so I hope we can come to a compromise.

I'll vote for voter ID if you vote for expanding access to voting. Make election day a holiday. Make issuance of voter IDs automatic. Switch to no-excuse absentee ballots everywhere. Expand early voting options.

p.s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_St...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_impersonation_(United_St...

Suppression has and continues to be an actual problem. Even in just this election:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-felon-voting-rights-pay...

Late edit: Downvotes. Hysterical. Wonder if it’s the vote suppression advocates or the folks who disagree with voter ID. No fans of compromise?
This thread:

https://twitter.com/CharlesMBlow/status/1323975456668979200

Which pulls its insights from this article:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/...

"The black male vote for trump increased from 13% in 2016 to 18% this year"

"The black female vote for Trump doubled from 4% in 2016 to 8% this year"

"Exit polls show a majority of white women voting for Trump. (Important note: Pew analysis of actual votes in 2016 showed that it wasn’t a majority but was a plurality.)"

"The percentage of LGBT voting for Trump doubled from 2016"

"The percentage of Latinos and Asians voting for Trump increased from 2016"
I didn't even know there were claims of fraud or cheating but as I was watching this video of Biden talk of how the president gets elected and smirk about the counting taking place[1], I immediately felt something offputting.

Now as someone who makes judgement not completely off facts but from what I see and feel, my eyes squint and my mouth pouts discerningly because I feel we are not much better off.

[1] https://youtu.be/XUnuLFIXWv4?t=267
I don't look through these very deeply but just as an example your link shows that the highest rated prediction on Nov 1st was 242-245 which is actually higher than 538's average.
> Who's being divisive here?

I thought you were speculating about what a party would do which you disagree with. If this is indeed something that happened (despite your use of future tense) I apologize.

> If voters want more relevant choices on the final ballot, and vote for the change, that should be fine in a Democracy.

If they decided to simply not have elections, because people want all D so what's the point, would that be OK in a democracy? (Answer: No, because it's not a democracy any more then).

I feel this discussion has sidetracked a bit. I think the conclusion is this: in a 2 party system, if opinions shift (due to time/demographics/fashion/talk radio...) then if both parties don't adapt, you risk ending up with a de-facto one party rule. And that's not the fault of the party that didn't need to change, but the fault of the party that needed to but didn't.
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Google is the biggest metamarketer.
Well, in practical terms, you have to be able to win the Democratic primary to be the Democratic candidate. There’s no “they” that could have picked someone better, and the people that you or others may have thought were better did far worse than Biden in the primaries.
Co-ordinated Russian election interference was investigated by Trump's own Justice Department. They didn't find any. That sounds like democracy working to me.

Or perhaps we shouldn't investigate foreign election interference?
That's cool, but I don't want to use Windows for games. Games that don't work on Linux (at least through Proton) simply won't get played.
That seems to have hinged on south Florida. Bernie would not have done well there given his comments on Cuba and Venezuela. In fact Bernie's comments may be the reason even Biden lost there.
I feel like you're glossing over the fact that minority groups still voted overwhelmingly against Trump, just slightly less overwhelmingly than before.
The Doge wasn't selected randomly, but via a series of randomized election rounds in order to ensure that no coordination was possible. Wiki has a fun description:

> Thirty members of the Great Council, chosen by lot, were reduced by lot to nine; the nine chose forty and the forty were reduced by lot to twelve, who chose twenty-five. The twenty-five were reduced by lot to nine, and the nine elected forty-five. These forty-five were once more reduced by lot to eleven, and the eleven finally chose the forty-one who elected the doge.[19] Election required at least twenty-five votes out of forty-one, nine votes out of eleven or twelve, or seven votes out of nine electors.

Ancient Athens appointed most offices by lot, they even had a democracy machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleroterion
If you want to know how ugly a format is, just look at all the options you have to enter correctly when you try to open it.
I think she might moderate over time.
One could view the US defense budget as a sort of subsidy to Europe and Democratic Asia. If the US decreases its defense budget (by a lot), Europe will likely have to increase theirs.
"more progressive policies" is a broad term, could mean anything from "Medicare for All" to "Abolish the Police", and some of these are much more divisive than others.
Do you have a source for him saying that? I can only find that he says he intends to be a “transitional candidate” to the next generation.
Thank you. That was informative.

I remain confused as to why you worded your remark the way you did. And that was my real point, which I feel like I didn't make clear.
In all seriousness.

There was a lawsuit filed by the Trump with regards to the distance requirements for safe viewing of vote counting. The judge overturned a lower court decision on what safe distances would be, and enabled observers to observe from 6 feet instead of 10.

The first source listed corroborates this story (although I haven't found any primary sources or what the exact contents of the complaint were, abcnews seems to be the source that most outlets are referencing https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pennsylvania-judge-permits-c...).

There doesn't seem to be any truth to observers being removed from any tabulation rooms (or at least I can't find any trustworthy sources). The second source, while claiming this in the headline, is also just referencing the complaint discussed earlier and has twisted that into the headline.
Finally, my ferret is safe.
There are some that do address this type of issue.

Timescale DB have a license [0] that is basically open source with the one added restriction that you can't use their open source to offer a hosted SAAS version of their product. Basically to allow them to open source the software for those that want to host it for their own use, but preventing the big cloud providers from taking all their business. It's not really 'copyleft' though because it takes away a users freedom (albeit a very small and limited one).

The GNU Affero GPL [1], adds the requirement that using the open source software in a server environment you must also provide the ability for your users to download the source code. It doesn't address the problems through royalties because that's kind of against the GNU philosophy, but it does stop the cloud providers from just taking the software and modifying it and using for cloud infrastructure without providing the modifications back to the community.

I'm sure there are other examples of this kind of this.

[0] - https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-busines...

[1] - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html
Globalization isn't a choice. It's a fact. I understand being angry that your job is gone, but no one can bring it back. All of the factories in the world being destroyed was extremely lucky for America, and it probably won't ever happen again. America will never manufacture the vast majority of goods for the whole world again because now other countries can manufacture much of their own stuff, let alone stuff for us. Democrats and republicans both know that, but only democrats admit it. Trump won by pretending he can change it. I do blame the democrats for their horrible messaging. It doesn't matter if your platform is better if you can't convince people.
Here is a guy who is fairly good at math saying that the polls did in fact fail:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/11/04/dont-kid-y...

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/11/07/what-would...
How many square nanometers does a bit occupy nowadays?
Same thing: EoL for new on-prem Server licenses in Feb 2021, then end of support for on-prem Server in 2024. Only Cloud or Data Center going forward—-they said that’s their (horrendous) strategy for all their stuff.

Time to find a replacement for that one, too. Ugh.
Hmm. But what if you reframe the data? Instead of "Blacks commit more crimes than other racial groups", you're more likely to get on the path of finding constructive solutions by framing it as "People who grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods commit more crimes than those who grew up in predominantly non-black neighborhoods."

I mean, I think we've pretty well established that crime isn't genetic. It's environmental. So why frame it as if the opposite were true?

I haven't studied the demographic data at length recently, but fairly sure that your assertion does not hold for high income blacks.

I have no comment on the pay gap, I don't know much about it.
There's also a provision in the DMCA law about "circumventing copyright law"

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

Which you could argue this falls into.
Well, aside from having seen every episode at least twice and noting that the gate only ever spins A) at the SGC, and 2) when there is no DHD and the ring is turned by hand to dial... How about this Stargate Wiki entry on the DHD:

https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Dial_Home_Device

"DHDs establish a wireless link with the nearby Stargate and act as a control device and power source, allowing any intelligent species to dial it without having to rotate the gate manually or develop their own computer interface."

I'm not aware of an in-universe reference on the show, but it is hard to remember all the dialog for 10 seasons of a 40 minute show.
One of the biggest problems we have today is lack of good leaders. Not just in politics but in business and other fields.

Among those holding highest office across the planet - how many can you name that you genuinely love and respect? Maybe a handful? In a sane world, how can people like Trump, Bolsanaro, Duterte etc hold the highest office in their countries?

Business world isn’t that great either.

Somehow we have reached a situation where it is getting harder to find good leaders
Perhaps then the issue is you don't care that GWB started a war on false pretexts but other people do.
I think we should thank the people who counted the votes, all of them, but especially the ones in those "battle ground" places who had to feel a lot of pressure and had to work in difficult circumstances during a pandemic. Thank you all poll workers, you help make our, sometimes confounding, democracy work.
Reminds me of when HN was 100.0% sure that there was phosphine on Venus.
What? Every vote put biden over the line, those just happened to be the last counted (to declare a victor) -- and has nothing to do with how strongly they felt about Biden
I realize this will sound snarky and/or overly aggressive. However, I'm being entirely serious and can't quickly come up with a better way to phrase this:

How do people with functioning moral compasses come together with the kind of people who see pictures of children in cages and say "America, fuck yeah?"

How do people who want some form of democratic government come together with the kind of people who think it's entirely right and proper for a president to do his best to prevent his political opponents from voting -- by disrupting the postal service, by soliciting the help of multiple hostile foreign governments to smear his opponent, calling for his opponents to be imprisoned without charge, and by attempting to halt vote counting in the courts?

How do people with any kind of respect for the value of human life watch video of the George Floyd killing and come together with the kind of people who watch the video and argue that the police did nothing wrong?

I don't think these divides can be healed. These issues are not matters, like arguments over the size of government, where compromise is both possible and mutually beneficial. Instead, they are moral red lines about which compromise is neither possible or desirable. What the 70-odd million who voted from Trump want out of their country isn't compatible with the basic moral outlook of the 75-odd million people who voted against him.

To take an extreme example, if a bunch of Nazis want to kill 10 million people, 'compromising' by agreeing to let them kill only 5 million people isn't acceptable -- and yet, this is exactly the kind of moral compromise (truly in the other sense of the word) that would be involved in bringing together Trumpist and anti-Trumpist factions.

In addition to the moral divide, there is a reality/gullibility divide between the Trumpist and anti-Trumpist factions. Trumpists believe an awful lot of stuff that is factually untrue. They reject global warming and dismiss the scientific evidence as the product of a Chinese hoax to destroy America. 56% of Republicans now believe in Qanon (an ideological conspiracy theory born out of the argument that Democrats eat babies) to some extent[0]. The overwhelming majority of Trumpists get their news from Fox, a media outlet which spreads more misleading information than accurate information.[1] How does anyone with a commitment to respecting consensus reality reach people who have chosen to live in comforting fantasyland rather than cope with the world as it is?

I don't see any way for the US to get out of this mess without breaking up into multiple countries.

And, to the usual 'downvote to -1' crowd: what part of this analysis is wrong?

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio...

[1] https://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/06/fact-checker-finds-6...
> I'm not from the US, nor do I live there. As an outsider looking in I felt Trump and all his crazy ramblings to be a real fall from grace for America. I felt very much like "wow, America has really lost its way electing this guy".

Exactly. I think Trump marked the end of America being seen as any kind of "shining city on the hill" (to use Reagan's phrase). He was and is a giant embarrassment for America, even if many Americans don't realize it or don't care. I say that as a relatively nonpartisan American with many immigrant friends.
Sure, but in war there is at least an exit plan (a way for eventually not having to kill anymore), even if it's shitty and ill-planned. If you are in software freedom for the purposes of abolition and you pick the GPL, you are allying yourself with people who NEVER want to give up copyright, because it lets them "exert control" over the end user, e.g. corporations, so your ally has a very strong real vested interest against what you take as a desired end goal.

What does the endgame look like for an abolitionist?
Real time notation for small groups, so they can work out exercises (ie, four-part harmony, variations on melodies, harmonization) and also get comments from others. Breaking a large class into small groups is very effective for remote teaching in music theory.
It follows because "supporting people of color" is an empty statement if it isn't backed by policies, some of which are quite different from the status quo.
Score voting will increase polarization to levels unseen even in 2020 America, for no practical benefit over approval voting.

Score's tactical logic leads to most voters giving the extreme scores to every candidate, and psychology means all these voters will end up justifying it to themselves - leading to extreme polarization when the losing side is convinced the winner has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The last presidential term showed what happens than, now repeat that for all levels of government all the time.

Worst of all, some very few people will actually give partial scores. Why is that bad? Well, what's the most common way to calculate scores today? There are various single-issue and ideological organizations which put out scores measuring representatives. Just about all these organizations represent absolutist POVs regarding their single issue or ideology (e.g. the NRA has a score for every representative). So to get a high score, representatives are pushed to extremes.
Have they considered changing their horrible menu to help their users find content at opposed to funneling people to the same old crap they want you to watch?
I had that view of Trump for the first 3 years or so - hey, he’s not just divisive but also incompetent so he’s not going to get anything substantial done! So nothing to worry about right?

But then COVID hit, and I’m fairly certain that having coordinated, science-based leadership in the highest levels of government would have spared us from quite a lot of suffering. So much for rooting for ineffectual.
> And I hope (but am not hopeful) that the left tries to mend their ways by refraining from pushing many (mainly white, straight men, but also others, like the religious) further from the Democratic party.

>> Both sides could do with a culling of the old and an infusion of new blood.

Don't know if I could have come up with a better example of the unhelpful language I'm talking about if I tried. Why would some white guy, say, in his 50s want to be on board with your "culling of the old" rhetoric?
Liberté: An open letter by 200 French lawyers protesting against lockdown
Let me guess - if you have to ask for the price, you can't afford it ...
If Biden is alive in 2024, I could absolutely see the Democratic party running him as a candidate and losing.
ohhh got it, thanks.
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If a weather forecaster can predict the temperature next week to within a few degrees and can tell you when they are sure it will rain, when they are sure it will be sunny, and provide a good guess as to rain or shine on most of the other days you would consider that person a good weather forecaster.

Do you expect the weather report for the next week to nail the temperature of every day next week to within 1 degree?

The pollsters can tell you if a hurricane is coming, they can tell you when the weather might shift significantly (albeit not be absolutely certain about which direction it is shifting) and they can give you a very good idea of what to expect even if they do not get the exact temp for each day correct.
Linux is there, it's just a matter of developer support.
Not US citizen but currently resides here.

I think Biden prevails on one thing: the public don't believe Trump will contain COVID.
If you hang out in LGBT and general non-conforming circles, you will realize that the white male position is the societal default, and it is nowhere near neutral - it is assumed to be only by those who have never realized that there are other possible default positions.

Some white men are beginning to see that their bubble is breaking.
FreeBSD is probably one of the most visible users of Phabricator.
Not necessarily. This economic system just has to be widespread around the world. Political power follows economic power, always.
> He wasn't slandered. It is an objective fact that he's racist and a person without moral compass or character.

Also grossly incompetent, ignorant, and incurious. It seems the only talents he ever had were inherited wealth and marketing himself.
And their lobbyists also donate to republicans.

"Mitch McConnell takes checks from voting machine lobbyists — even as he blocks election security bills" - https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/mitch-mcconnell-takes-check...

> David Cohen, who lobbies for Dominion Voting Systems on issues related to election security and monitors federal legislation for the company, gave McConnell $2,000 on March 31: $1,000 to his campaign committee and $1,000 to his joint fundraising committee. Lobbyist Brain Wild, who works alongside Cohen on the Dominion contract, gave McConnell $1,000 on the same day.

It's almost as if "Voting-Machine Lobbyists Undermine the Democratic Process" - https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-voti...

Both our politickings aside, Dominion is one of the largest sellers of voting machines so there are good odds that if there's a problem then it's one of their machines.
That perspective seems like it is just trivializing the reality that most Democrats do not like Bernie’s policies. It’s not some phantom scary “establishment” cabal rising up, which makes it sound like something unethical happened. Rather, it’s just sensible consolidation that is part of the process.
They don't love him. They hate Trump. How hard is it to understand?

It's like giving a vegan the choice between meat and their least favorite veggie. They don't love that veggie, but they will pick it over the meat.
>>>nobody I have talked to seriously voted for Joe Biden on his own merits.<<<

On the other hand, I know lots of people who voted him on his own merits which and they listed them as - he is centrist, he was a senator/VP which means he has the experience and knowledge to navigate congress, he has good ethics/morals (which means they could tell their kids to look up to him), he is a Christian, he believes in climate change.

I know lots of Democrats who are moderates/centrists and preferred Biden over Bernie and Warren.

Personally, I also found him to be a good candidate and not a 'he is not trump so automatically he is better'
Yes the DMCA prohibits circumvention but I’m asking if a takedown notice is the correct legal remedy for such violations? I thought notices were just for content distribution.
They already split (self-hosted) Jira into a few different “streams” or flavors with different features/pricing and dramatically different out-of-the-box configurations and workflows.
While what you describe is possible, I really don't think anyone thinks it's at all likely? For example, I would happily give you 10:1 odds against (a) the decision of the electoral college is not what we expected because of faithless electors and then (b) that decision stands.
> it's not even illegal.

SCOTUS from 2020:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/unanimous-supreme-co...

See comments below. This decision only means states have the right to penalize, but WI, PA and GA have no such laws.

https://www.fairvote.org/faithless_elector_state_laws
People change, and politicians are still beholden to their public. Where's the contradiction in that?
> No major party can have a platform that doesn't allow them to get a majority of the vote.

That’s patently false: one Republican president in 28 years has been elected with a majority of the vote.

On the local level, gerrymandering and vote suppression are both tactics to get around the need to appeal to a majority, and the GOP has embraced both.
Not culling in murder but removal from office. It was a stupid choice of wording on my part.
It is certainly something to recognize, that minorities generally held up that pattern. But the point I'm trying to make is about how peoples' minds changed after 4 years of experiencing an actual Trump presidency. Minorities moved towards him, and only white men moved away. That seems quite notable to me.