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You are the king of your computer, but if you don't create rules for your subjects they will do as they please.

I've noticed sometimes that the verdicts on snopes are very subjective. Especially in line with their political leanings.

Many VPN providers claim to not keep logs, and have varying levels of trustability.

Per the article coconut oil has more saturated fats than lard. Jeez people, read the article.

"Michels based her warning on the high proportion of saturated fat in coconut oil, which is known to raise levels of so-called LDL cholesterol, and so the risk of cardiovascular di…

From the article, which does also mention the second law of thermodynamics. > Saying that weight gain is caused by excess calories is true, but meaningless. It tells you nothing ab…

Meditation has showed some promising results: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3772979/ Anecdotally it's very helpful to myself. Deep breathing can be part of CBT too.

That's pretty racist.

Yes to the web interface. VCS kinda, the jobs are all XML files, but Jenkins has built in change history like Wikipedia allowing reverts and comparisons.

Censorship as a Service?

If they don't mention a name in the title it's probably not someone big.

I did a search for "Fiona Wilson Australia fixated" and got back a few articles, not familiar enough with AU news to determine what is tabloids and what is not. Please post if anyo…

Collusion among multiple persons would break that, whereas a verifiable distributed system would be unaffected.

The public already has placed trust in bitcoin, which has a fair bit of complexity. And there are people that don't have a lot of trust in our current voting methods. Can't stop co…

Interesting it's allowed for by the 13th amendment. Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly co…

How do you know nobody's vote was tampered with?

I personally don't understand how hashes work, I know _what_ they do, but not really how, just that they are not mathematically reversible. I should probably learn how exactly it w…

1. Notes -> CSV -> MySQL 2. Hire someone in another country for below minimum wage 3. ... 4. Profit

Collusion of multiple parties meant to verify each other.

The ideal e-voting program/platform would increase security and verifiability. Right now I don't know if my vote has been tampered with. The secret ballot could be reproduced a num…

You will need to encrypt your vote, but they make forms of encryption that can be unlocked with multiple keys. The encryption would need to be written so there is a fail safe passw…

> people will never do a complex blockchain verification People don't verify their vote now, so this is unimportant. > have a mechanism to be certain that no additional machine-gen…

If the only question left is whether or no it's easy enough, I think we're good and can find a solution for that problem too. > A counting room full of people counting paper ballot…

> (1) The software is not doing anything nefarious Open source > (2) The software toolchain is not modifying the software in (1) to cause it to do something nefarious Use open sour…