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Apparently not enough karma to flag this comment.
If I had enough, I'd flag it.

Do you also use other disorders as terms of abuse or do you just reserve that privilege for those who have ASD?
Apparently not this time:

> While county election officials were able to verify signatures and voter registrations upon ballot receipt, normally, absentee ballots can't be further processed or opened until Election Day. But this year, beginning 15 days before the 2020 general election, officials were allowed to open returned absentee ballots, remove those ballots from both the outer and inner secrecy sleeve envelope, and scan the ballots using a ballot scanner machine.
Any recommendation that can truly replace Quest has to offer the same experience, namely: standalone, no wires, and no complicated setup.
The article is pretty accurate, based on my experience of writing almost 1 million LOC over the decades.

Build physical strength. The damage done by sitting 8+ hours a day is underrated. - Right, also being folded up in a sitting position affects your organs (chi). Certainly go for a walk for at least a mile per day. Deadlifts, dunno about that specifically.

Make your place of work boring and tidy. - Yes, I use a dedicated desk with almost no clutter.

Make your smart phone dumb. - I use a Blackberry 8700g which has no current apps, so no distractions. 2 week standby battery.

Be an OS minimalist. - NA.

Other - I should use more terminal windows to have different apps open at the same time (editor, SQL client, etc.) but I usually don't.
These days putting attention is harder than ever with so many browsers tab open.
I’ve seen it multiple places, but the first time I saw it was in James Gleick’s biography of Feynman “Genius”.
It seems like the "fraud" in that article was no more than people voting when they weren't on the voter registration rolls. Today because of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002 require states to provide provisional ballots.

While there probably was some "fraud", it looks like this is more of a process violation, and one barrier that fortunately has been eradicated.
Kind of apples and oranges, with the Index being twice as expensive, requiring a gaming PC, and being wired.
>CulturalHusbandry @APhilosophae

>The following information is provided via an anonymous data scientist and another anonymous individual who wrote a script to scrape the national ballot counting time series data of off the @nytimes website.

>This is based on their proprietary "Edison" data source which would ordinarily be impossible to access for people outside the press.

https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1325592112428163072

Why should we trust these anonymous people (including twitter thread OP)? They could just tamper with the data and we would have no way to know that.

Take into account the pinned thread by @APhilosophae too, they are not impartial at all:

https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1325135291791839232
>Have you considered any sort of tiered index to allow one to classify a problem at hand and look up the relevant structures int he book?

I have wondered a few times if I can build some sort of guide/flowchart that allows one to pick tool(s) for a particular text processing job (for ex: when to choose head/tail/grep/sed/awk/pr/paste/etc). And then within the tool(s) chosen, how to break down a problem and select particular features of that tool. It has remained a fantasy as I haven't tried to actually start doing something about this. I dunno if this is feasible and/or whether I'll be able to do it.

>The reason I ask is that I've never figured out a good way to make use of this type of material.

There are several prerequisites mentioned in the Preface before you can use this book. You'll have to be familiar with cli environment as well as Perl basics.

After that, I feel the best way would be to start using these one-liners in your everyday tasks. If your workflow doesn't suit this type of usage, you'll have to be either motivated enough to explore or take a risk to change/modify your workflow.

I provide several examples for each topic and have exercises at the end of chapters. Broadly speaking, there are three main tasks (tools mentioned in parentheses is the fundamental task of that tool)

* Filter an input record based on regexp, string or numeric comparisons (grep)

* Search and replace (sed)

* Field based filtering/substitution (awk)

awk and perl can do all of these tasks. However, a tool specialized for a task is usually faster and has custom options for ease of use for those tasks.

So, my best advice would be to practice and find reasons to incorporate cli based solutions in your everyday workflow.
iSH runs Alpine Linux which might be easier to get precompiled packages for given the popularity of it in the Docker ecosystem - using the actual system terminal requires a lot more setup and precompiled binaries might be hard to find for arm64 (or you might end up compiling a bunch of stuff you need, if it's even compatible). But the precompiled IPA file is usable outside of jailbreaks since there are programs[0,1] which sign and install an IPA for non-jailbroken devices.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25030348

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25028786
The 2011 military intervention in Libya happened under Obama. It was led by France and UK, with US support, and wouldn't have happened if Obama had not green-lighted the operation. 10 years later the country is still in the middle of a civil war, de facto cut in two opposing camps that each control roughly half of the country.

Of course, compared to Iraq invasion it was a small scale operation, but is still generally considered Obama responsibility (although of course primarily Sarkozy and Cameron responsibility).
> I like pre-recording hypotheses when these things happen

I wish this was compulsory before posting. So people actual have to think first. With the important bonus they will improve their critical thought and confidence.
> encryption is unconstitutional as in because the government can subpoena or obtain a warrant to your information it may not be able to enforce it because of the encryption

No, you can't subpoena information from someone that doesn't have it. So the government can subpoena the cyphertext, but can't ask for the plaintext if the provider never had access to it.
> Around 3am Wisconsin time, a fresh batch of 169k new absentee ballots arrived. They were supposed to stop accepting new ballots, but eh, whatever I guess.

> By 4am the D to R ratio was all thrown out of whack. That is because these ballots were not sampled from the real Wisconsin voter population, and they were not randomized in the mail sorting system with the other ballots. They inherently have a different D to R signature...

Anyone who knows anything knows Milwaukee (not just as a city but as Wisconsin's largest city) votes blue. So as soon as those votes start getting counted the votes will shift blue. You _should_ see this bimodal distribution in vote counts.
quantum is the way to go for electric cars and other complex stuff
Add infantilization to your list, please. America's sins aren't unique, but Americans are fairly unique in demanding that they shouldn't have to confront those sins. That's for people of color to do, every day, disproportionately shouldering the burden of American's demand for innocence. It's like white Americans insist on being children, needing and deserving to be emotionally coddled instead of being told to grow up.
What is the difference between APIs, SDKs, and Webhooks and when to use what?
Looks solid. I'd improve the UI though.
I don't know enough about Benford's law to draw conclusions, but is N=O(1000) a large enough sample size to expect it to apply? My intuition suggests that if county size does not span enough orders of magnitude then Benford's wouldn't apply because the distribution might lie in one of the "spikes" of the Benford curves, rather than reflecting the average. For example, if many counties had a population size starting with a "4", you'd expect more vote counts to start with "2" (presuming each candidate received close to 1/2 of the votes).

Hopefully someone with a stronger math background can expand in a more fluent way :)
I loved typing on those. Sheer joy.
> I also think low-skilled migrants are ok, to a degree. Migrants from EU can travel and work in Finland freely without visa. There are many Estonian, and some Bulgarian etc construction workers - but there also legally enforced minimum salaries for everyone. In Singapore there is no minimum salary and that is one of the causes of their extreme income distribution.

You are mixing up two things. First, Singapore doesn't have minimum wages for locals. There are much more interventionist for foreigners: there are different visa categories, and they come with restrictions like minimum salaries and various levies etc.

(And that's independent of any critique of the notion that outlawing jobs for people with low productivity does them a favour.

Interestingly, Finland also doesn't have a universal minimum wage. Just like my native Germany didn't use to have one.)

But yes, you are right to remind me that the EU is rather big and has parts that are much poorer than Finland where the Fins might draw construction workers.

About cars: for most people they are status objects here. There's more of a real need for cars for people with lots of kids, but even there ride hailing has gotten much more convenient in the last decade.

About the costs: the well to do foreigners that can afford private schools are also exactly those that the country is most open to offering permanent residency and citizenship to.
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He is(was) one of the few people I know of who excelled in the field they touched. He was not perfect. Nobody is. But there are very few people who can match their success in one area with their success in another area.
Personally I'm curious how much voter fraud is committed by parents of college students who receive their students absentee ballots and decide to "fill them out" for them. It's the most intentional voter fraud that I'm aware of at the moment and non-conspiratorial.

Things like this pop up on reddit occasionally.

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/9twaf9/gfs_dad...

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/9ni5uf/family_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/j7440r/parents...
Do you have the per precinct D/R ratio data?
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Have a similar problem but with my Facebook ad account. Didn't use it for sometime and when I went back to have a look at it, Facebook had disabled it and disabled my associated domain. I reached out to them to enable my account and they quoted the 180 day limit for appealing and said it would be better if I don't appeal further. The associated domain was disabled for not following community standards. Again I reached out to FB via the sharing debugger contact form and have received no response. The only thing I can see online is people crying about similar apathy and reaching out to a certain Karlin John who apparently is solving these issues. (I haven't reached out to this person, so could be a scam.)

What I have learnt is in a world run by monopolies/oligopolies there is little room for mistakes and even if you don't commit a mistake your livelihood can be at the mercy of corporations.
> who neither care about nor want such control

Right up until they’re locked out. It’s like not caring about privacy.
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Lieberman was a huge reason for the bill being as conservative as it was - for example: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-art... .

My point is, why is it that if Pelosi doesn't bend the knee, she bears sole responsibility for an agreement being reached? If she and the white house can agree, why can't McConnell be blamed? Your position seems to be that she should just take what she can get, but why shouldn't McConnell take what he can get? This is a negotiation. The idea that either side bears sole responsibility is crazy to me.
You're not wrong, but... I feel like if there's that much distrust then there are significant other problems and the distrust is going to persist regardless of which tool is chosen.
Well that's why I ported and ran the python script, and put it on GitHub, so you could re-scrape the NYT data too, it will just overwrite what's in the repo. I'm not vouching for any of the corresponding analysis, but the data seems real: https://github.com/guscost/nyt-election-2020-analysis
I wonder if anyone preemptively made a bunch of non-fb connected oculus accounts to sell on eBay.
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Have you been?

It's perhaps not for everybody. But the usual complaint from the set of people who have been and don't love the place, is that it's perhaps a bit too boring and well ordered.

It's pretty much the opposite of scary here. I like that I don't have to constantly use 20% of my brain when out in a cafe to keep an eye on my stuff like in London, where things get nicked left and right.
Didn't know that, I'd always thought it was an expansion since it was from the same dev. In any case, still amazing.
Help other people. Volunteer for causes. Explore philosophy.

You're a free man. Use what you have wisely.

Have a family.
Apple's insistence is probably because they don't want to let other developers [even Google] near JIT, which is the only way to make a super performant browser (although a sandboxed browser's speed would probably be acceptable on modern hardware).
>Gee. It's almost as if it's what's inside that matters

Gee, when it comes to design pattens (or product design in general), it's what's outside that matters. Division of labor and all that...
I think Facebook's are objectively more onerous here. Creating another account violates their ToS. You can't buy physical copies of games for their headset. You can't play any of the games you purchased, even in an offline mode, if your account is deleted. You must tie your account to your real identity. It just all seems excessive
What's interesting is if people go into debt to obtain these status symbols, they're tricking a person into thinking they're well off, but by buying the status symbol, they're avoiding investments that may actually make them well off. I look past this for financial frugality. I'm very impressed by someone who can afford a very nice car but instead choose to drive their 15 year old Honda because it's still good.
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Just because it's distributed or handled individually by each state doesn't necessarily mean it can't be compromised or interfered with.

If anything, I would argue that because it's distributed and handled by individual smaller units, each individual one is susceptible to interference within its own area. On a side note: There is a reason why people recommend "don't roll your own encryption". Some things such as security are hard problems, and just because you want to be "independent" doesn't mean you should come up with your own half-baked solution to the problem instead of using a secure and standardized one.
A youtuber I follow has recently started a series where he takes a myth or supernatural subject and splits it into two parts: the first he presents it as a total believer, with the idea that the viewers pick it apart, then in the second he picks it apart.

You reminded me of the one on the Mothman sightings, where in the second part he made a really good point that if you ignore all the naming, the eyewitness descriptions sound like a man with a jetpack and red goggles.
Some people might prefer lucrative obscurity?
Half a percentage of the AZ vote is over 16,000 votes. See why this crime doesn't make sense?
Bell[1] ran a study to find out what the most productive engineers did differently from their peers. The answer was communication. They did a lot more of it. They bounced ideas with co-workers, they validated solutions with customers, they did their own research, and so on.

While I have no doubt attention is important (much like a luck stat, it affects everything you do), it might be a bit premature to declare it the most valuable asset without additional evidence than personal anecdote!

[1]: Or some other phone giant -- I keep misplacing this citation so if someone knows what I'm talking about please hand me a reference.
I'm going to start naming a few major government security breaches:

+ TSA keys

+ OPM (all of it)

+ NSA's hacking tools

Were these incredible skilled sidechannel attacks? Movie esque infiltrations?

+ TSA accidentally published the keys

+ OPM was a master password from a contractor who was bribed for about the cost of an ipad

+ NSA hacking tools was.. an email trojan? A CD walked?

Do you really trust these people with anything?

Putting a backdoor into encryption is less secure than a random Microsoft employee backdooring me. At least I know it's Microsoft who will be doing the backdoor...

This isn't politics, this is history. This is not the first time, nor the last time we've seen these moves. We know 5 eyes have had major incidents of internal abuse because we have their own documentation on it - and we have their own documentation that they decided to do nothing about it.

It requires external oversight for any organization to truly follow compliance, otherwise the incentives to cheat the system are overbearing. If they won't take us at our word, why would we take them at theirs?
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My favourite is to start typing the question in to MS teams/slack and often I have the answer before I finish typing.
I can imagine the conspiracy theories that will emerge if this comes to pass and these comments are dug up.
Yes, I saw some of the strongmen interviews on either deadlifts or squats. What they said was to look at the probability of injury, and avoid anything that was high-risk.

Something to keep in mind when you see men and women doing squats in Silicon Valley gyms is that often they're staff, so they know what they're doing, and you may not.

When you do recruit larger muscles, you get better strength gains overall - the "one weird trick" about weightlifting.

Strongmen also only spend time on high-reward exercises, so some like Robert Oberst don't do shoulder shrugs, as he found it be a waste of time compared to other exercises (for the time period he was interviewed for.)

Overall for an office worker, walking, stretching and gym are good ideas for a routine.

Professional chess players have worked out for the past 4 decades, so that should tell you something. (They do it for overall fitness to handle crippling stress levels during tournaments.)

I was thinking about doing the Thomas Inch dumbbell lift back in the day, but I probably would have pulled an abdominal muscle, so no big regret:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Inch#The_'Thomas_Inch'_...
Yes!

I made a 3D ToDo 'list' that does just this. See:

https://todo3d.app
StealthDB: A Scalable Encrypted Databasewith Full SQL Query Support [pdf]
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I'm from a coastal state in India (Kerala), and although non-fish meat is also quite popular here, majority eat fish almost daily (often with rice).
You still haven't answered how a hack could find deleted emails?
twitch I would not expose such a device directly to the public internet! Get a router with VPN support or something!
They're scanned. They're not counted. They're not allowed to count until the poll close.

(If you Google this you'll see a lot of other stories about why the counts from D-heavy areas were delayed; there were glitches).
> It’s nice to have security features until it’s not.

It’s nice to have security features until you can’t turn them off any more.
> 2) It's a direct request to hack the Democratic presidential candidate and party standard bearer.

So if someone were to hack Trump's emails, do you think it would be an accurate statement to say that they "hacked the Republicans"?
No one likes to hear these, but some simple ones to try:

1. Central database of all citizens. (Can be state-level if you want to do that).
2. Require voter-ID to link against 1 above.
3. Tick off people on the database as they've voted so they can't vote twice.

And just like that, most (but not all) of the "mail in ballot" concerns are rendered mute and we can all continue with trusting the election results.
Ah I misunderstood, I thought one can't repeat the scraping part. But what did they mean by "proprietary "Edison" data source which would ordinarily be impossible to access for people outside the press" then?
Anyone else getting mixed messages here? Seems like the TL;DR is something like "Encryption is great and helps people be safe and also for our own safety we need the ability to break encryption"

I also don't see how they can propose with a straight face that encryption is important in securing human rights while advocating for governmental ability to break encryption.
Implementation is at https://github.com/cryptograph/stealthdb
Does your organization use both MS teams and Slack? Why do they use both? Does one provide some advantages over another?
That reminded me of plasma pong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGJO5bydch4
Yeah, I don't know anyone like that and I am skeptical that a significant amount of people exist who do. This article is pretty lacking in substance. I certainly know people who strongly prefer iOS personally and frequently remind everyone of said preferences, but you could say that about video game consoles.

I know multiple people who refuse to communicate unless it's on an app like Signal or Telegram, but I don't know anyone over the age of 17 who cares that my bubbles are green instead of blue. And even if I did happen to know people like that, I still don't see "well some people will find literally any excuse to be exclusionary" as a good argument for iMessage locking users into their ecosystem.
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The pattern holds true even in 3 digits order of magnitude. The link I shared shows an analysis for 2nd digit Benfords as well, where Biden's is suspect and his opponent's is not.

imgur.com/a/gxuVAxc

Plus there are numerous other examples across different states with the same patterns, which is troubling.
>Trust me folks. Doing deadlifts because you see the gym-bros on youtube doing them is a big mistake.

A lof of gymnast / psycisian's advice I've read says the opposite. That deadlifts are a great exercize, and should not be restrained to the weight lifting / body builder types.
'Aurora borealis" seems to have begun appearing in print at rougghly this period:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=aurora+boreali...

References prior to 1714 (daate attributions may be inaccurate):

https://www.google.com/search?q="aurora%20borealis"&tbm=bks&...