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nxzero··on Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative Approved
That would be the most obvious resolution in the case that another election was required, though might be exploited as a means to get around term limits.

Another option might be the delegation of responsibility to the voting population to force a timely resolution of the election, greater understanding of the issues at hand, etc.

nxzero··on Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative Approved
Has anyone seen analysis of elections nullified by vote?

For example, voters would be allowed to put the status of any and all candidates as null and/or a top vote as null. If the majority of votes cast as were null, another election would be run with all candidates from the prior election removed.

nxzero··on Why 30 is the decade friends disappear
>> "This has been shown in several studies"

Have links to these studies?

nxzero··on Playpen: The Story of the FBI’s Unprecedented and Illegal Hacking Operation
Are there any examples of the FBI creating or enabling predators so they are able to hunt them?

If so, is this illegal, and if not, why?

nxzero··on Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature
While speculation, Moxie's projects appear to have gotten (deservedly) a lot of attention, which brings a lot of feedback that's unfounded and potential malicious; for example, the f-droid comment about in my opinion fails to reflect both sides of the issue, and build security is VERY IMPORTANT and often ignored.

I don't know Moxie, but we've exchange messages before and never got the sense that off the cuff he was discounting any feedback. At a very highly level we agree about what he's doing, though I get the sense that anonymity is something we don't exactly agree about, but do understand a little of why he feels the way he does.

nxzero··on Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature
Do you feel f-droid's build security should be trusted, an if so, why?

>> ""F-Droid has received criticism for distributing out-of-date versions of official applications and for its approach to application signing."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Droid

nxzero··on I Used to Be a Human Being
Always fun watch someone go cold turkey, since it becomes obvious to them their an infozombie really quick; reaching for a phone in their pocket that's not there every few minutes, going through withdrawals from not being able to read feeds/email, etc.
nxzero··on I Used to Be a Human Being
Just wait until machine learning gets really good at providing information that's of value that you "must have" to get through the day.
nxzero··on Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature
Aware of that issue (asked moxie about it on HN) and other issues too, but it doesn't change that there's zero reason to believe Moxie's intent is malicious and it's a stretch by any means to claim his contributions are anything but positive in sum.
nxzero··on Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature
Here's Moxie's related press release on doing E2E for Allo: https://whispersystems.org/blog/allo/

Curious if he'll comment on what happened:

https://twitter.com/moxie

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=moxie

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If you don't know about Moxie, highly suggest learning more about him:

https://thoughtcrime.org/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike

nxzero··on Will Coke Dissolve a Nail? (2003)
The pH level of most drinks are not low enough to eat metal, roughly a level of 2 depending on the metal and reactions: http://www.sheltondentistry.com/patient-information/ph-value...

Citric Acid will eat metal, which is why liquids like orange and lime juice are not stored in metal containers.

nxzero··on Search Results are officially AMP’d
As you likely know, AMP'd stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages Project; meaning AMP'd is for mobile traffic.
nxzero··on Chinese factories are lying and they don’t even know it
Might be wrong, but my understanding is that China currently leads the world in robotic labor; meaning all robotic labor preformed by robots own by Chinese companies regardless of where the robots are.
nxzero··on Search Results are officially AMP’d
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, believe you're talking about the search result redirects that Google does; which is different, because the user get redirected the the real URL.

AMD'd links never redirect, if you click the X you're sent back to Google's results, there's no way to get to the real URL that an average user would easily be able to do, if the link is bookmarked the link it's not the real link, etc.

nxzero··on Search Results are officially AMP’d
Super annoying feature, since Google hijacks the URL in the process.

There should be a way to opt-out that is simple and does not require the user to be signed-in to do.

Ironically, almost positive that Google hates when links are wrapped like this.

nxzero··on Dear Al-Jazeera: thank you for doing the right thing
Open Source Version referenced by AJ: https://github.com/codevise/pageflow

Given this is in fact the source code that the developer in question has admitted was the basis for their code, it would be interesting to know if they were correctly using the MIT License here: https://github.com/codevise/pageflow/blob/master/MIT-LICENSE

nxzero··on YC and Founders Pledge
It's a common term in this context, but would agree it's not completely Plain English either:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor-advised_fund

nxzero··on What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt
More to the point, if anyone truly believes they're able to do it for cheaper... Do it, don't comment about it.
nxzero··on Oct. 4
The release date 10-4 is radio code for "understood":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-code

nxzero··on GoPro finally debuts its portable Karma drone
Drones Make Elephants Go Berserk:

http://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/481701/

nxzero··on FAA Poised to Take on Role as Traffic Cop for Space
Military would be required to provide a scope of work, privately state what their budget is, and it would be open to anyone that meets the stated requirement.

Congress would review the proposals and select the winner and provide the budget needed.

Honestly at this point, strongly feel there needs to be a agency explicitly responsible for commercializing space - and neither FAA or NASA have a track record of doing this.

nxzero··on FAA Poised to Take on Role as Traffic Cop for Space
Why exactly is the FAA taking this over?

It's clearly stated that the US military is still going to be the primary source for the data.

Why not have an open RFP that anyone is able to provide a proposal and if the a existing agency doesn't win, make it independently run?

nxzero··on I quit my job, bought an army truck, and spent 19 months circumnavigating Africa
Author of the post has posted responses to comments on Reddit:

https://m.reddit.com/u/skebanga/activity

nxzero··on How to Overthrow a Government [video]
I'm sure marauders would thank you (nicely of course) for all of your hard work to supply them with your booty.
nxzero··on The cypherpunk revolution
Revolution amoung subsets of a population is no revolution.

What is need is a mainstream movement to embrace crypto as a fundamental human right.

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Sidebar: The article is part of "Passcode" - a field guide to security and privacy from The Christian Science Monitor: http://passcode.csmonitor.com

nxzero··on What I Learned from Executing Two Men
Correct, it's called wrongful execution, and is a very real problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution
nxzero··on What I Learned from Executing Two Men
Mistakes happen, killing people for killing just sends the message that killing is a solution.

There is a long list of "murders" that were found not guilty after being executed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution

Beyond that, some confessed murders go on to contribute to society, for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs

Feel free to respond with your reasonings, though think in the end they'll fail to be reasonable.

nxzero··on The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Restaurant
Correct, half of the pallets get delivered and the dairy farm is owned by the launder too via a series of shell companies.

Best way to learn about money laundering (ML) is to study anti-money laundering (AML), since most laundering outfits aren't going to write a book about how they do what they do.

Most interesting thing about ML is that in cooking the books, they've got to keep very good records of what's been done, otherwise they've got no idea what's going on; which is counter intuitive, since you would think they would not keep records.

nxzero··on Dear Al-Jazeera: Why Steal Our Code?
AJ is a professional company. If you read the other comments, which were posted after my comment, it's clear the developer made an agreement a freelance journalist, not AJ; which isn't even mentioned by the developer in the blog even though they're 100% aware of it. Given near the journalists or the developer have committed publicly to the terms of the agreement between them, I don't see the point in speculating what their agreement was; I do know on GitHub that the developer use the MIT license for some other code, which would have allowed the journalist to reuse the code where ever they wanted.

As for what to do, volumes of books are published on the topic. If the content was hosted in the US, the next step would be contact the ISP that's hosting the content.

nxzero··on How Google’s Blind Lawyer Does His Job
Companies going out of their way to help the blind is not the norm.
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