stonesixone

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by stonesixone 5y ago
There is now: https://www.voting.works/ Their system has been used in real elections in Mississippi, and they’re actively working to expand to other states.
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by stonesixone 6y ago
> If anyone in government really wants to have a notable legacy, here's how: petition the USDS to create an integrated open-source election system, and get people like Matt Blaze and Harri Hursti to run a red team against it. Check
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by stonesixone 7y ago
Or even the first one could have been a false positive.
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by stonesixone 7y ago
Indeed, this is called an "evil merge" [1], and here's [2] even an email with Linus mentioning it. I'm surprised the blog post doesn't mention evil merges by name, as this seems to be a prime example of why they&#x2
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by stonesixone 7y ago
Speaking personally, I would say I'm most creative when dreaming (where there are no constraints).
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by stonesixone 8y ago
The City and County of San Francisco has started funding a project to do just this. More info can be found here: https://osvtac.github.io/
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by stonesixone 8y ago
No, Los Angeles County's new tabulator isn't open source. Look what happened when someone tried to request the source code for their "open source" system (as LA County's press release called it). LA County replied t
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by stonesixone 8y ago
Thanks, Tom! If you could go back and make the decision over again, would you have done enterprise sooner, or later? Do you think GitHub would still have been very successful if you stuck only with SaaS?
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by stonesixone 8y ago
This is basically what San Francisco, CA does. They use 3 10-sided dice to randomly choose 1% of ~600 precincts to manually audit. You can watch the random selection for the June 2018 election here: https://www.youtube.com/w
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by stonesixone 8y ago
They reserve the right to make it open source in that contract, but they may or may not do so.
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by stonesixone 8y ago
As far as I know, it’s not actually open source, but they may or may not make it open source at some point in the future. It has been frustrating because the media has been portraying it to be open source when there has never been such a co
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by stonesixone 9y ago
> I don't think you need to invoke an essentially mysterious "conscious" property of the mind to explain that. I don't think consciousness is being invoked to "explain" any of the things you list. The issue
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by stonesixone 9y ago
You left off the key part of the sentence: "for families." For single adults, substance abuse was the most oft-cited cause (68% of cities). See page 19 of: http://www.ncdsv.org/images/USCM_Hunger-homelessness-
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by stonesixone 9y ago
The governor also just signed AB 840, sadly, which greatly weakens California's 1% manual post-election audit. The change was introduced at the last minute and exempts from the audit all ballots that are counted by machine after electi
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by stonesixone 9y ago
It's not the Constitution but rather a federal law that was passed in 1967. FairVote's Fair Representation Act, which was introduced in Congress this year, seeks to change that for example.
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by stonesixone 9y ago
Proportional representation is definitely a big part of FairVote's agenda. They have a bill in Congress right now around electing members of Congress from multi-member districts using STV -- of which IRV is the single-winner variant. I
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by stonesixone 9y ago
There's also a class of valuable insights that are general and not surprising, but rather obvious. For these, the challenge is that no one previously had the insight to observe and state what is obvious. Maybe the surprise for these
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by stonesixone 9y ago
Can you provide a tl;dr?
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by stonesixone 9y ago
My memory may be a bit fuzzy on this. But I believe one way the term "dynamics" is used in her work is in reference to the space of Riemann surfaces (or equivalently, the space of hyperbolic geometries on a surface). This space is
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by stonesixone 9y ago
Also, were you able to find any papers in number theory? That's a huge gap as it is one of mathematics's primary subfields. Analysis seems to represented, as well as topology (via "geometry").
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by stonesixone 9y ago
If you've ever experienced lucid dreaming, I believe your hypothesis can be considered refuted _while_ you are in a lucid dream (for the same reason that the phrase "I think therefore I am" carries any weight). After the fact
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by stonesixone 9y ago
I actually don't mind people talking and socializing, etc, in cafes. It's when people talk on phones in cafes like it's their personal office space that I find it annoying (at least for me).
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by stonesixone 9y ago
One thing that intrudes on attention that has been around even before computers is noise pollution. Living in a city, loud motorcyclists and fire (and police) sirens are constant irritations. Unlike visual intrusions, you can't look aw
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by stonesixone 9y ago
The natural evolution of this is for men and women both to have bots go on dating sites for them, and when their bots hit it off online, their human masters can meet in the real world.
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by stonesixone 9y ago
> Thus, IMO the more likely mechanism ... is more that you get a better random restart This doesn't explain the many times (at least in my case, for example) where a solution pops into your head before you "restart." In
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by stonesixone 9y ago
FWIW, both Los Angeles County and the City and County of San Francisco are leaning towards GPL for their open source voting system projects. And these are new, ambitious projects just starting out. For Los Angeles, see page 24 of their RFI:
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San Francisco Open Source Voting System Technical Advisory Committee Application(sfgov.org)
1 points by stonesixone 9y ago|1 comments
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by stonesixone 10y ago
> A team consisting of four people. I count thirteen: https://lbry.io/team
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by stonesixone 10y ago
I also became a software developer after getting a PhD in mathematics and specializing in three-dimensional topology. One of the things I'm always struck by is how similar the process of writing code is to writing a math paper. There a
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by stonesixone 10y ago
Their "Chemistry Engine" model (described starting at 39:55) includes Rule 3, which says that materials can't change another material's state. But what about a player (a material) eating an object like a poisonous mushro

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