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> I even logged … scans of post received (and categorised in Google Drive but linked from Google Calendar) Oh, very nice idea. What's your workflow for doing this?

> theres no website I can go to and check my vote If such a site existed, vote buying and/or coercion would be a lot more prevalent.

It's illegal for your employer to require you to work. That's not quite the same thing.

Before googling for something you need to actually realise first that there's something that you don't know, but could. Lots of useful things don't fit that pattern. To take one ex…

I suspect the primary compensation they hoped to get for that particular speech was _not_ financial.

> What about a plumbing business which dispatches jobs within a 5 mile radius. If the employee moves 2 hours away, suddenly the company has to pay 4 hours a day of commuting. As yo…

Having to get off the train for 75 minutes, with all your luggage etc., is effectively "changing train" to most people, even if you end up getting back on the same train.

Who said anything about keeping it quiet? Are you doubting that this already happens?

> anything less than perfect is broken Why? Even without getting into complex election fraud, parties in many countries already know how to buy votes in a paper-ballot system: you …

As I said, this particular approach isn't a solution to every potential problem. However, I'm much less concerned with this threat than with the much simpler virus that simply chan…

The Estonian voting system already allows you to verify your vote from a second device for a short time period. This certainly doesn't protect against all attacks (and it's only on…

Edison defended this approach in the New York Times: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9906E4D813...

They are being so. It's an ongoing process.

I guess you didn't read past the first screen or two, then? The section on "The Technical Origin" explicitly references that as the starting point for this project.

> does it matter if it was 1492 vs 1500? ... If suddenly the exact date does become important, it'll take our kids 90s to look it up The issue is more subtle than that. In lots of …

> Perhaps one day we'll arrive at a place where crowd-sourced reviews adequately filter the wheat from the chaff in an editor- and marketing-less world, but I'm not convinced we ar…

Simply viewing a copyright work is not deemed copyright infringement in most jurisdictions. The transient nature of browser caches etc don't generally constitute a reproduction. So…

Estonia (which has internet based voting) solves this by letting you check your vote on a different device but for only a short time period. The thinking is that even if someone ha…

> disliking a friend's post cannot lead to anything good and generate resentment Dislike != downvote. Dislike can also be "I don't like this thing that happened to you" / sympathy.…

> NATO's primary goal was to protect member nations territorial integrity against Russian incursion. Who here still believes NATO will do that There's a big difference between anne…

We persuaded mySQL to add the --i-am-a-dummy ( http://sql-info.de/mysql/notes/I-am-a-dummy.html ) option after about the third time one of our developers did this.

> There is a saying to the effect of "If your financial advisor is so great, where is his yacht?" If your financial advisor is so great, where is your yacht?

> the size for carry-on luggage is pretty large That's not so true in Europe, where many airlines have a quite strict size and weight limit (e.g. 8kg @ 55cm x 40cm x 20cm)

See also Umberto Eco's Anti-Library, c/o Taleb: “The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and non dull. He is the owner of a…

He wants to keep using the account, just remove the historic activity.