Mindless2112

Good points, though they're rather at odds. If you assume voters will mess up their ballots that frequently then the voter being coerced can just find a ballot that's close to what they were coerced to do and say they messed up the rest.

No way to prevent surreptitiously taking more than one strip of paper comes to mind. Someone should be observing the voters take the strips of paper to ensure only one is taken, but that doesn't prevent sleight of hand. But if there are mail-in ballots, you've already basically given up on voter coercion anyway.

1. Whoever issued you the key pair can know which vote is yours.

2. Someone can coerce you to vote a specific way by forcing you to provide them with your private key.

Ballots don't need to be secret, they just need to be anonymous. If you get rid of the secret constraint, it becomes fairly easy to produce a trustworthy voting system:

1. Immediately before identifying at the polling location, each voter takes a nondescript strip of paper out of a large container of numerous strips of paper, each with a unique identifier printed on it. (No one but the voter knows which identifier they took. No one can force a specific identifier.)

2. The voter fills in the identifier on a Scantron-style paper ballot. (Easily digitized, with a paper trail.) The ballot box scans the unique identifier and spits back out out any ballot with an identifier that wasn't generated for that polling location. (Ensuring no one can force a specific identifier.)

3. A list containing the entirety of every ballot is published publicly, including the unique identifier. (The voter can look up their ballot later. It becomes difficult to coerce a voter because they can say any one of the published ballots is theirs.)

4. A list of names of people who voted is published publicly. (Registered voters who didn't vote can check if a ballot was cast in their name. This is already done in many places.)

You can also have mail-in ballots with user-generated statistically-unique identifiers (requiring only several rolls of a die, so anyone can do it at home), but you can't prevent voter coercion that way.

My own anecdote is about the same, except in my ZFS-based NAS, I've had one WD drive fail. It was a WD Green though, so no surprise.

Not only will Adobe stop distributing it, it will stop working.

> Flash-based content will be blocked from running in Adobe Flash Player after the EOL Date.

Taken to its ultimate end, we will have to have

  Colors.Black == Colors.White

And, courtesy of Douglas Adams:

> "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”

There were 10 receptacles/9 plugs[1] before USB-C. Of those 19 total, the only ones I've never seen in the wild are the USB Mini-A receptacle and the USB Micro-AB receptacle.

Receptacles: USB A, USB 3.0 A SS, USB B, USB 3.0 B SS, USB Mini-A, USB Mini-AB, USB Mini-B, USB Micro-AB, USB Micro-B, USB 3.0 Micro-B SS

Plugs: USB A, USB 3.0 A SS, USB B, USB 3.0 B SS, USB Mini-A, USB Mini-B, USB Micro-A, USB Micro-B, USB 3.0 Micro-B

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Host_and_device_i...

If you want to stick with WD, you can still buy WD40EFRX, which are not SMR, at many retailers. Of WD's current product line, you want to avoid the EFAX, EZAZ, SPZX, and SPSX models.

TIL about ToTitleCase. An easy-to-visualize example of the difference is

    ToUpperCase("dz") => "DZ"
    ToTitleCase("dz") => "Dz"

You can do

    using Console = System.Console;

This isn't true anymore. (Although for most adults, it doesn't matter as they got their SSN before it changed.)

> On June 25, 2011, the SSA changed the SSN assignment process to "SSN randomization". SSN randomization affected the SSN assignment process in the following ways:

> 1. It eliminated the geographical significance of the first three digits of the SSN, referred to as the area number, by no longer allocating specific numbers by state for assignment to individuals.

> 2. It eliminated the significance of the highest group number assigned for each area number, and, as a result, the High Group List is frozen in time and can be used for validation of only those SSNs issued prior to the randomization implementation date (see section "Valid SSNs").

> 3. Previously unassigned area numbers have been introduced for assignment, excluding area numbers 000, 666 and 900–999. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Structu...

Which is still an improvement over his predecessors who were playing "kick the can".

IPFS is waiting for the use case to catch up. If/when we start to colonized Mars, the InterPlanetary File System might actually be useful. (Only being somewhat tongue-in-cheek.)

Who can say. Different owners may have different priorities.

As of 2016, NewEgg has been owned by Hangzhou Liaison Interactive Information Technology Co., Ltd. Some people have said the customer service has worsened, though I haven't noticed anything myself. I don't like Chinese companies buying out American companies for brand recognition though.

B&H Photo Video has a surprisingly large selection of computer components and the filtering options seem comparable to NewEgg, so I may start buying more parts from there.

"You can use your laptop power brick as a foot warmer."

Not quite so grand as some ideas here, but still... my feet are warm.

See also "In England, rhubarb is grown by candlelight" as discussed here[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19746707

That's not a bad thing.

Reuse > Recycle† > Landfill

†Assuming Recycle is not the same as Landfill, which it often is.

Excellent! Though it seems there is still a user-agent check in place -- visiting your site with an archivebot user-agent just shows "403 Forbidden".

The emulator design articles you've written are interesting and valuable, and I'm glad that they will be preserved for future emulator developers to read.

So you would have to run your own email server or be given access to one by someone who trusts you, which would be a better situation in some ways than the Gmail monoculture we have today. Google likely has your mail on one end or the other; you're already under surveillance; Section 230 hasn't saved you.

> Without the immunity provided by Section 230, there might very well be no Twitter, or Facebook, or dating apps, or basically any website with a comments section.

Going on that description, a bit of me wishes for Section 230 to be repealed.

Of course there would be no GitHub either, which wouldn't be so great.

You could, but you wouldn't have many friends left after a while. And it's not like the money would go to you.

The speed of light through optical fiber is slower than the speed of electromagnetic waves through air, so good wireless could be lower latency than good fiber.

Feel free to express your support at [1]. Although I'm not very optimistic that NRT in 7.x will happen, more support would help.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/2995

Having seen AI play Mario, I'd expect to see it try to achieve its goals by exploiting bugs in reality based on whatever simulated reality it was trained in.

Well, she didn't miss out on much.

Ripping a page out of a book isn't copyright infringement. Ad-blocking is equivalent.

Tipping needs to go. It's discriminatory and a PITA. But I think the only way we'll get rid of it is if it's made illegal.

Or lack of experience. Want to go from Denver to Albuquerque? The shortest route goes through Illinois. I'd love to take Amtrak -- there's even a station in my city -- but anywhere I want to go, it's faster and cheaper to fly.

Frankly, I think HackerOne deserves a bit of blame for that. Any WONTFIX ought to be made public automatically unless there are extenuating circumstances (like the vulnerability being reported against the wrong product).