salvadors

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by salvadors 10y ago
> I even logged … scans of post received (and categorised in Google Drive but linked from Google Calendar) Oh, very nice idea. What's your workflow for doing this?
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by salvadors 10y ago
> theres no website I can go to and check my vote If such a site existed, vote buying and/or coercion would be a lot more prevalent.
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by salvadors 10y ago
It's illegal for your employer to require you to work. That's not quite the same thing.
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by salvadors 11y ago
Before googling for something you need to actually realise first that there's something that you don't know, but could. Lots of useful things don't fit that pattern. To take one example from here, I use 'pry' regula
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by salvadors 11y ago
I suspect the primary compensation they hoped to get for that particular speech was _not_ financial.
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by salvadors 11y ago
> What about a plumbing business which dispatches jobs within a 5 mile radius. If the employee moves 2 hours away, suddenly the company has to pay 4 hours a day of commuting. As you say, if the company has a fixed office at the centre of
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by salvadors 11y ago
Having to get off the train for 75 minutes, with all your luggage etc., is effectively "changing train" to most people, even if you end up getting back on the same train.
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by salvadors 11y ago
Who said anything about keeping it quiet? Are you doubting that this already happens?
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by salvadors 11y ago
> anything less than perfect is broken Why? Even without getting into complex election fraud, parties in many countries already know how to buy votes in a paper-ballot system: you simply offer a bottle of vodka for a cell-phone photo o
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by salvadors 11y ago
As I said, this particular approach isn't a solution to every potential problem. However, I'm much less concerned with this threat than with the much simpler virus that simply changes your vote in real time. Most people I know d
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by salvadors 11y ago
The Estonian voting system already allows you to verify your vote from a second device for a short time period. This certainly doesn't protect against all attacks (and it's only one part of the security system) — but it _does_ h
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by salvadors 12y ago
Edison defended this approach in the New York Times: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9906E4D813...
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by salvadors 12y ago
They are being so. It's an ongoing process.
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by salvadors 12y ago
I guess you didn't read past the first screen or two, then? The section on "The Technical Origin" explicitly references that as the starting point for this project.
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by salvadors 12y ago
> does it matter if it was 1492 vs 1500? ... If suddenly the exact date does become important, it'll take our kids 90s to look it up The issue is more subtle than that. In lots of cases the value of knowing the information is when i
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by salvadors 12y ago
> Perhaps one day we'll arrive at a place where crowd-sourced reviews adequately filter the wheat from the chaff in an editor- and marketing-less world, but I'm not convinced we are there just yet. As more and more authors are
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by salvadors 12y ago
Simply viewing a copyright work is not deemed copyright infringement in most jurisdictions. The transient nature of browser caches etc don't generally constitute a reproduction. So clicking the link should be perfectly OK.
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by salvadors 12y ago
Estonia (which has internet based voting) solves this by letting you check your vote on a different device but for only a short time period. The thinking is that even if someone has managed to compromise, say, your laptop (e.g. through a sp
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by salvadors 12y ago
> disliking a friend's post cannot lead to anything good and generate resentment Dislike != downvote. Dislike can also be "I don't like this thing that happened to you" / sympathy.
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by salvadors 12y ago
> NATO's primary goal was to protect member nations territorial integrity against Russian incursion. Who here still believes NATO will do that There's a big difference between annexing (parts of, or even all of) Ukraine (which
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by salvadors 12y ago
We persuaded mySQL to add the --i-am-a-dummy ( http://sql-info.de/mysql/notes/I-am-a-dummy.html ) option after about the third time one of our developers did this.
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by salvadors 13y ago
> There is a saying to the effect of "If your financial advisor is so great, where is his yacht?" If your financial advisor is so great, where is your yacht?
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by salvadors 13y ago
> the size for carry-on luggage is pretty large That's not so true in Europe, where many airlines have a quite strict size and weight limit (e.g. 8kg @ 55cm x 40cm x 20cm)
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by salvadors 13y ago
See also Umberto Eco's Anti-Library, c/o Taleb: “The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and non dull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousan
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by salvadors 13y ago
He wants to keep using the account, just remove the historic activity.
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by salvadors 13y ago
>> They enforce the perception that cycling is dangerous. > Is that so controversial though. Cycling, absent dedicated bike lines, separate bike paths, and very well organized intersections is dangerous. The more cyclists there are
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by salvadors 13y ago
Derren Brown used this approach to convince people he had a system for predicting the winners of horse races: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R5OWh7luL4
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by salvadors 13y ago
Funding isn't too hard to get for tools like this. It works differently from the standard start-up model, but have a look at, for example, where the Sunlight Foundation gets its money: http://sunlightfoundation.com/abou
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by salvadors 13y ago
What might these anti-corruption technologies look like?
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by salvadors 13y ago
> And logically people opt to just not work Your logic isn't backed up by places that have experimented with this. Yes, there will always be some people who are content to live at the poverty line if they don't have to do any

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