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"There are more Trump voters in California than Texas, more Biden voters in Texas than New York, more Trump voters in New York than Ohio, more Biden voters in Ohio than Massachusetts, more Trump voters in Massachusetts than Mississippi, and more Biden voters in Mississippi than Vermont." [https://xkcd.com/2399/]

> How?

Imagine the legislators didn't escape - that a majority of them were killed. Trump and his people use this as an excuse to illegally "send the vote back to the states." Kelli Ward suggested this while the mob was in the capitol. We were not far from that scenario.

A demagogue riled up the plebs and they stormed the senate. Would you call this a coup attempt in 60 BC, Rome?

Ok - his 'argument' reflects, I believe, a delusion about the state of American politics. Specifically, he appears to believe that Joe Biden winning the previous election is a harbinger for a leftist totalitarian state in America. This is patently ridiculous - he doesn't deploy rhetoric of the radical left, his policies and record are far to the right of democratic leftist parties in Europe and elsewhere, etc. On its face it is a ridiculous thing to assert.

I don't believe, however, that I can convince the poster of their delusion. Therefore I wanted to present the best evidence for it: reality, as I expect it to be, in five years.

No, actually, "understanding" that Khameni is a "bad guy" requires accepting that received wisdom from nearly anyone in American politics or media. It is not a hard position to have; most Americans already have it without any examination.

Ah, Joe Biden, the jackboot of the totalitarian left. A career of middling corporate-friendly politics was brilliant cover.

The folks at thedonald.win - who openly planned this insurrection on that website - give the the lie to your implication that twitter, facebook, or reddit have the power to prevent protest.

This is delusional. I recommend you set a reminder to re-evaluate this statement in 5 years.

My friend, if you believe that tepid action redeems the inveterate liar and his despicable record of action, then there is little you won't look past.

Taxes. We tax the wealth. Aggressively, by raising rates, closing loopholes, and pressuring tax havens.

> entitles the government to take over ownership

Yes, successful or not, yes. Companies and their services exist within society, benefiting from our collective infrastructure, and society has absolute and final power over them. They are not people, with rights. Our economic system gives them extraordinary freedom to pursue wealth. That freedom is not a right. Capitalism is not morally equivalent to inalienable human rights.

> I don't think there's ever been a Mac made for embedded use

Actually...

The trashcan, which often power mac virtualization farms: https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/05/07/the-definitive-ma...

The rack-mounted xserve, which is old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve

Maybe not "embedded," but not end user devices.

Correct - ZoomPresence.app.

The iPads are generally paired with a mac mini - they don't run the zoom room, they are just the scheduler. (The iPads also emit a subsonic signal that allows other macs to autojoin the meeting.) Source: I run this setup for a startup.

And - well before this request from ZoomPrensence.app - we were weekly rebooting these mac minis via launch daemon. Would continue to do so no matter the specific meeting app - macOS updates often require a reboot.

`softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer` is slightly more elegant!

Apple has long echoed this line (part of the reason their purchasing of fleetsmith, not jamf, is surprising).

A sampling of MDMs that large companies you've heard of use:

- vmware workspace one

- bare metal micromdm

- simplemdm

- fleetsmith

- kandji

- jamf

That’s simply not true, a marketing a line from jamf. There are several serious MDMs. Of big enterprises I know of just one that uses jamf, and they augment it with many, many questionable bash scripts.

Journaling or therapy can be effective strategies. Both give you the outside perspective needed to spot patterns.

> fu Zuck > we are scared

In my opinion both completely reasonable reactions to Facebook attempting to set up a private currency.

YANAL. It certainly could be illegal, depending on the law. For instance, it is illegal for American companies to pay bribes in foreign countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act)

I'm no expert. My universal qualifier is based on sci-fi fever dreams and ugly history.

> There's also ethical questions around whether solving the problem is even something any human is entitled to do. No.

I'm more interested in hearing you explain this.

It's an open problem. All the proposed solutions are an invitation to or an implementation of tyranny.

There's also ethical questions around whether solving the problem is even something any human is entitled to do.

My god. You've solved voting! We've been waiting so long. Call the New York Times!

You're almost there. "Fixing" that problem - and you'll find many folks who don't want the federal government to have ID information for everyone - is not simple. In the meantime, multifarious ID laws will empower discrimination and disenfranchisement.

You're missing the point about IDs being incredibly easy to obtain. They are not in the US. Additionally, there's a long history of using voting requirements to disenfranchise voters.

I can't comment on the countries in the picture you've linked. I'll guess that most or all of them make it both easy and required to have a national ID card. That is not the case in the United States.

Consider a working class non-driver who has never travelled overseas. What is their ID?

Would you propose a new state or federal ID card? Great. How likely is it that the state or federal government will produce a system for issuing these that is easy to access, widely available, free, quick to issue IDs, etc? How likely do you think it is that politicians will attempt to modify the system for issuing these IDs so that their opponents' voters will find it more challenging to receive them?

If your answer is "likely" and "unlikely" respectively, you are naive to the history of voter disenfranchisement and vote-system-gaming in the United States. Much of it is based on race.

My job is deploying and configuring Macbooks at reasonable scale (2000-5000). This article is nonsense.

He's using conservative and liberal in their classical senses, whereby conservative connotes restraint in legislating social issues and liberal connotes freedom of the marketplace.

These or similar: http://prepinsta.com/amcat-automata-questions/