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Here's some harder news: Michigan officials say they can not reconcile vote counts in 610 of 1,680 precincts, or 59% of the precincts, in Michigan’s largest county , Wayne County, …

> How difficult is it to hack the electronic voting system the US uses for elections? "The electronic voting system" doesn't exist. There are multiple types of machines, software, …

Disagree. Having one or two "legacy" ports decreases the disruption when upgrading, particularly if the user has some oddball peripherals. This is why API's have deprecated functio…

Not sure having the government run a standards-making organization is the best idea. From the NIH storing smallpox vials, the NSA hoarding zero-day exploits, the infamous Obamacare…

Had to laugh at the thought of Austin as too conservative. And given that both Uber and Lyft have headquarters in San Francisco, they could hardly be less "tax-fleeing"!

Didn't assume either 1, 2, nor 3. 1. Perhaps your definition of "compensated sufficiently" doesn't jibe with those of the thousands of drivers who voluntarily choose to drive for U…

More efficient? By what measurement? Certainly not the consumer's time nor the taxpayers' money! Billion dollar light rail trains that roll empty are not a terribly efficient use o…

Not sure about Germany, but in Austin, Uber wanted their drivers to carry auto insurance, although the company also has its own policy to cover drivers--many personal auto insuranc…

It's a matter of risk. With AirBnB the customer is going into the "vendor's" home. With Handy, the vendor is entering the customer's home. While there have been incidents of bad Ai…

Misleading title in article. The 3D printers are being used to make card skimmers. Almost any kind of plastic blank can be used to make mag-stripe credit cards. The article says: "…

Summary: the "sharing economy" is awful because companies such as Uber and AirBnb profit from facilitating the transaction between the consumer and the provider. To quote: "The cap…

You could also look at the Bitcoin blockchain, e.g. on the blockchain.info web site. There is a new block generated every 10 minutes or so. Some useful fields in the block include …

Being below sea level hasn't particularly bothered the Dutch. Half of Holland is at least a meter below sea level. Of course, in the 1200's when they started, they didn't have clim…

The article does (quietly) mention that the sea level rise in the Marshall is due to changes in the trade winds. They also mention that they are not sure of the relationship betwee…

We agree it's worthy of debate, not merely a hand-waving assertion. In the 18th century, the French Academy of Science published their consensus that there were no rocks that fell …

> The report did not examine the impact of outside money on the messages of groups that encourage activism on climate change. Farrell suggested that there were qualitative differen…

> One of the best programmes on offer (...). A class of primary-aged children ‘“adopts” a real live baby for the year (I’m not joking). Every few weeks the baby visits the class wi…

This is how it starts: "I became fascinated by fungi when I was a student, and so I decided to do a PhD in fungal genetics. By the end of my PhD I learned through watching BBC’s Pl…

I suspect that it's not Amazon directly changing the price, but some of the other vendors, and Amazon matching. Other sizes are offered at prices up to $85 at both Amazon and other…

McCabe software has a tool that's supposed to find duplicate code within a code base (e.g. cut-n-pasted functions), using path analysis. They have been around for ages, but I've ne…

If the assumption that the ratio of births is 50/50, then no. However, a rule requiring parents to have children until they have a boy could lead to evolutionary pressure increasin…

One "hack" is the pomodoro technique. Do about 20 minutes of work, then take a five minute break. This avoids burning out trying to work for hours on end, finding that you've accom…

Interesting: "The country is currently home to more than 50,000 businesses that are over 100 years old. Of those, 3,886 have been around for more than 200 years. As a point of comp…