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AFNobody commented on Voting system to be used in West Virginia elections is vulnerable twitter.com/GossiTheDog/s... · Posted by u/grey-area

micaksica · 7 years ago

IMO Occam's razor ends up here. Electronic voting systems do two things very well: obfuscate the system in a way that is relatively incomprehensible to a layman, and provide plausible deniability in the case of manipulation. Even if manipulation is discovered, you can chalk it up to a "bug" and re-run the manipulated election again. People are stupid, and most ordinary people only want to believe there's malice involved when they've run out of more pleasing cognitive options.

I believe that if this site enumerated all the ways that you can maliciously use computerized vs. paper voting systems, we would show a hell of a lot more benefits to a manipulator than a voter.

AFNobody · 7 years ago

That is more or less correct. It is a way for state governments to enable "their side" to win easier. It will get worse as the demographic shift continues to strangle the GOP's support in swing states.

AFNobody commented on The Backpage.com Case Is Testing the Limits of the First Amendment politico.com/magazine/sto... · Posted by u/danso

pitaj · 7 years ago

There no reason to paint this as a partisan issue. There are plenty of puritans on the left.

AFNobody · 7 years ago

The majority of the left supports decriminalization or legalization as the other commenter pointed out.

Pretending it isn't a partisan issue is silly.

AFNobody commented on The Backpage.com Case Is Testing the Limits of the First Amendment politico.com/magazine/sto... · Posted by u/danso

jack9 · 7 years ago

Both sides are criminalized in the US

AFNobody · 7 years ago

Which is the problem.

AFNobody commented on The Backpage.com Case Is Testing the Limits of the First Amendment politico.com/magazine/sto... · Posted by u/danso

dannyw · 7 years ago

As an Australian, it seems like a great deal of the problems with human trafficking surface from the criminalisation of prostitution.

Pimps hold far less power when the prostitutes have legal recourse and police on their side.

AFNobody · 7 years ago

This is largely correct but not something the US's religious right is willing to accept.

Decriminalizing prostitution and criminalizing the person doing the "buying" in public is the maximum that is viable without encouraging abuse.

AFNobody commented on What Economists Still Don’t Get About the 2008 Crisis bloomberg.com/view/articl... · Posted by u/paulpauper

closeparen · 7 years ago

Active traders tend to lose money relative to the “rest of us” passive index investors.

AFNobody · 7 years ago

Unless they are a market making financial institution, yeah.

AFNobody commented on Bank of America questions customer’s citizenship, freezes accounts kctv5.com/story/38753295/... · Posted by u/Fermin

AFNobody · 7 years ago

And this is why you have 3 of everything.

Three copies. Three bank accounts. Etc.

AFNobody commented on Ask HN: Why did you quit your last job? · Posted by u/boca

AFNobody · 7 years ago

Management made demands that exceeded resources available and kept blocking my vacation to try to meet deadlines. I literally left with 100% of my vacation accumulated.

AFNobody commented on China is making electric buses cheap, just like it did for solar panels vox.com/energy-and-enviro... · Posted by u/jseliger

WhompingWindows · 7 years ago

Is it about lying outrageously? I grant that occurs in high-profile and memorable cases, but is the average race for the house or a local seat corrupted by outrageous lies? It just seems sensible and historically continuous that those who study the law (lawyers) end up being the ones who most frequently write the law. I am 100% for more STEM and humanities-oriented law-makers, however I'm arguing technocrats lack specific knowledge of laws, not of lying.

AFNobody · 7 years ago

Do you genuinely believe that when many laws are written by interest groups and past with little modification?

And yes, the average race us corrupted by outrageous lies. I have literally never seen an election at any level that lacked outrageous lies by at least one of the candidates.

AFNobody commented on New Yorkers Trying to Flee High State Taxes Find Moving Isn’t So Easy bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/kimsk112

flyingfences · 7 years ago

Six whole potholes, wow. In NY you'll get six potholes on one road.

AFNobody · 7 years ago

6 potholes is 2 miles on one road.

AFNobody commented on China is making electric buses cheap, just like it did for solar panels vox.com/energy-and-enviro... · Posted by u/jseliger

tuxidomasx · 7 years ago

The fact that China's government moves so decisively in areas of technological advancement may have to do with the fact that many of their government officials have degrees in engineering, science, math, etc.

With so many of the Chinese officials having technical degrees, I can't help but wonder if the United States government could benefit from technocrats in Washington.

AFNobody · 7 years ago

Technocrats lack the skill set to win elections where everyone lies outrageously.

If they had such skills, they would be common American politicians. One if the few benefits of China's collectivism is all the politicians have to share the same reality, even adjusted by party propaganda. It allows technocrats to operate effectively since they do not need to compete with outrageous liars.

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