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Thinking only about profit can and has lead corporations to some pretty dark places. Just because you work for a corporation does not absolve you basic human decency.

Accident risk has been shown to decrease by the same amount when the time switches in the fall. It's a wash.

When margins are wide, you could count 10% of the ballots by hand as a sanity check on what the machines are reporting. When margins are close, you could count them all by hand. Pr…

100% agree. If automation is needed, use scantron technology (where you fill in bubbles on actual paper), which can be manually audited if necessary. No firewalls, phishing, spectr…

For PDF annotating/collaboration, Xodo for the web deserves to be better known: https://www.xodo.com/app/#/ It displays/creates standard PDF annotations. You can collaborate with p…

When 5G is pervasive and cheap, "instant apps" will undoubtedly become a thing, which will reinvigorate apps. The App/Play stores cause too much friction now. That will change.