Devonshire
1yr ago
No, it is the math that works regardless of the security of the individual components.
If I send an encrypted message over an unsecured wire, and someone else shows up and says "oh but what if someone interferes with the unsecured wire?" they are missing the first part of understanding.
Each E2E system has its tradeoffs, but in general they are designed to absolutely detect if the people running the system deliberately messing with your vote. Detecting accidental messing with your vote is a necessary side-effect.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Is does not matter how secure your system is if people can vote from their app at home, because you just send your hired thugs to go door-to-door to "remind" people about the vote and "let us take a look at your phone to make sure you understand what you are doing."
Banking is trackable by design and very easy to reverse.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Should KF have been allowed to report on the criminal records of reddit powermods?
I want to know what the line is on doxxing, because right now, whoever says it, it seems to be "someone on your side posted true information about someone on my side that they did not want publicized."
Maybe the definition is literally posting a home address. That is one that works and would still allow for posting the criminal records of trans people.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Why September 9 in the headline?
Devonshire
1yr ago
Half of Broward County’s election precincts reported more ballots cast than the number of voters.
I stopped reading here because I had to look this up.
This is not "there are 4000 voters in this county, but 4100 ballots were cast."
This is "212 people were logged as submitting a vote at this voting center, but 213 ballots were in the machines."
So someone goofed up, or someone stuffed a ballot. This is distributed across 293 precincts, with a total of 885 extra ballots.
'strangely,' Broward and Palm Beach County had no discrepancies or delays in the 2020 election
It sounds like Florida fixed the problems. Which is what is supposed to happen when an auditor shows problems! That is not "strange" at all!
The systems to keep the books aligned have gotten much better. The election I observed in Florida (very boring!) had numbers on each ballot so if one just "showed up" it would be recognized. Was it someone playing games or was it normal human error? Good question. The new system stops both accidentals and purposeful unaccounted ballots, so either way I am happy it is in place.
Oh, and lets not forget that Rick Scott very directly claimed the election was being stolen. He and Stacey Abrams were two years ahead of Trump on applying this tactic.
This is important to remember.
Devonshire
1yr ago
It is hard enough for people to update with new information. To actually update with new information and remember they used to have the incorrect information is rare.
I absolutely thought that Kiev would fall and fall quickly. (Should I have known this based on information I had available at the time? Good question.)
Devonshire
1yr ago
all of the 'surplus' available to them,
Surplus is an established economic concept, not something for scare quotes.
Otherwise, why do you value such items more than a near-identical one you could just buy on the market?
I do not fucking want to wake up and find my kitchen table replaced with $400 in cash even though that is what it is "worth" in some market sense. I would probably pay more much than $400 to have a table but anyone trying to find my price point is my blood enemy. That is valuable information. Mail me an offer if you want it. Tell me how much it is worth to you.
People have things to do with their day besides deal with transaction bots.
Devonshire
1yr ago
I have always wanted to have a Newtonian spaceship combat game but figured it would be too hard to manage. Are there better candidates here?
Devonshire
1yr ago
Neocons at National Review are subtly admitting
So subtle you do not need it to be in the article to say it exists.
These are both true:
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Jim Geraghty is clearly happy that this happened.
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Jim Geraghty is American.
But that is different from him admitting (even "subtly") that the Americans did it.
Devonshire
1yr ago
I'd apply that last part to human rights lawyers who frustrate deportations -- if anyone you rescued from deportation commits a crime, you are also held responsible.
Lawyers are enforcing the rules of the game.
I know the rules are bullshit and people often deliberately frustrate the setting of the rules, but before making lawyers responsible for the crimes of the people they represent I would want to try everything else first.
Devonshire
1yr ago
It seems like bad-logistics was something that Putin could have known if he had bothered to check.
The argument the anti-torture crowd are making is not "Torture is useless for all purposes."
That is the exact argument I reliably hear from them. Bringing up that some torture gets useful intelligence generates a lot of hostility and denial.
(EDIT I got called a "torture apologist" for saying that some torture gets useful intelligence by this very person, so, yep, this conversation went exactly the way I thought it would.)
The anti-torture movement has been colonized nearly completely by people opposed to Bush's GWOT and they want him to be both stupid and evil.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Also, what are the arguments against LVT
As you say in your comment, a lot of land value assessments are completely random and depend on how much time you can spend fighting the tax collector assessor. How well the government runs property taxes is a good proxy for how well they will run land taxes.
Devonshire
1yr ago
You are saying "stops infection" where I am saying "stops transmission."
I guess when I said "only testing" I should have said "only proving."
Devonshire
1yr ago
Alex deciding to keep on holding onto this issue is fine. Right or wrong, it is A-OK for him to keep going on it.
But Alex demanding Scott's attention -- whether or not Alex is right -- needs to be shut down.
Speaking from the minority position, the duty is on Alex to behave in a fashion that makes people want to engage with him, instead of him constantly giving off danger signs that say "DO NOT TOUCH".
I am sure some goof will say HA HA YOU ADMIT YOU DO NOT CARE ABOUT WHO IS RIGHT, THEREFORE I WIN, and
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you can never make sure you get the last word,
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damn straight, I care much more about not ending up some stalker's new hobby.
Devonshire
1yr ago
merely securing the wire
You still are not getting it.
WE
DO
NOT
CARE
ABOUT
SECURING
THE
WIRE.
The assumption is that the fire is compromised as fuck. Not only monitored by the enemy, but in complete control of the enemy.
Devonshire
1yr ago
US officials have long hated this pipeline and publicly threatened to terminate it, regardless of what Germany wishes
This is what happens when you are linked to Biden's speech by someone saying "oh he threatened to take out the pipeline no matter what Germany wants" without realizing that he was standing right next to Germany's chancellor answering that question. In the statement "I promise you we'll be able to do it" the "we" includes Germany.
This is the most likely explanation.
Both sides of a pipeline want it operating, by definition, or else it would not be operating.
More complex "teaching the other side a lesson about the pipeline possibly closing off" explanations require big assumptions on who exactly is supposed to be learning what, since again both sides want it operating.
My gut instinct is a non-state-actor LARPING or thinking "I AM HELPING."
Devonshire
1yr ago
Kingmaking based on in-game grudges is fine.
Kingmaking based on out-of-game status seeking is not and always what I think of.
Devonshire
1yr ago
This, particularly for the "load more comments" button.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Do you have a citation? I see no news stories, and https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/ does not have it although I admit I do not know if it normally would.
Devonshire
1yr ago
But the NYT continues to make the mistake to this day. Has their hosting provider terminated them until they delete the article?
And posting PII is pretty easy to do. NYT reports the names and cities of people every day. That is PII. Did they check on each one to make sure it is okay?
"Yeah but that information was already public" you will say, sensibly, but that is the typical KF response. In many cases they are just doing open-source reporting and find the account said their real name in public at some point. (This does not cover every thread. Some people there have access to PI databases, I think.)
If a real-life terrorist is captured and put in jail, even if he is the devil on earth, someone at some point should be able to name the crime he is in jail for, and not say "well if not this rule then probably some other one, who cares."
This is the problem with "you cannot post PII." I have suggested the rule being that you cannot publish the street address with enough specificity that a rando could walk up to their door. And I think that is a pretty objective and legible rule! (A lot of person-lookup websites violate the rule right now, but maybe that is not a big loss.)
But when I suggest that rule to people who want KF off the internet, they never seem happy to accept it. Perhaps because they want the rules vague.
they could opt not to cross and they'd have a lot more friends.
Sure. I do not expect any of the many people who have had threads made about them on KF to spend a single second carrying water for them.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Of course, most likely no one else wants a $250K house on land they can't afford to pay the taxes on,
The hypothetical was that the land value was going way up. If no one wants to buy it then the value is not there.
Devonshire
1yr ago
A mainline MCU movie has a budget north of $100,000,000. How much do they save by going economy-size on the writers and directors?
Iowahawk identified this pattern a while ago for "lefties" as he called them
Identify a respected institution.
kill it.
gut it.
wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect
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