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Congratulations on the launch! I'm very excited to try replacing my hacked-together AppScript with this.

Hi there, I work on Fuchsia, specifically on our Software Delivery system [1]. You hit on exactly the right point: it's _possible_ to download and run software on demand, but it's …

There are some ways to do this on paper ballots! They aren't foolproof, but provide optional verification of votes without relying on electronic voting. An example: https://en.wiki…

A number of end-to-end verifiable voting systems have been proposed and fielded! See [0]. The key issue they try to solve is how to let you check your vote was counted without bein…

Chaum, Rivest, others have done the leg work though, in real-world binding elections: "Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election…

Backpressure between threads and utilization could be hard here. Balance between the speed of the accept, request, and worker threads is something I'm curious about. In theory, you…

This is called reference counting, and it's nigh-impossible to do quickly in a nondeterministic system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting See this for why it's slow …

That's the point--who.is won't play music by itself. Its lookup of the DNS records of jaimehawkins.co.uk injected the music into the page.

The real problem is the entrenched legacy software that uses BSD sockets. I don't want to even imagine the cost of rewriting all of that to use a different networking paradigm. POS…

It happens all the time, actually. Michael Bloomberg has attributed the rise in New York's crime rate recently to a rise in the snatch-and-grab thefts of Apple products. [1] [1]: h…

It looks like the GPU on the RasPi is still more powerful, so the cheaper board might still be better for things like a media center application. I'm very curious though about what…

I'm going to go ahead and guess that the people behind Qubes were worrying less about the fact that the desktop paradigm may be fundamentally flawed in terms of usability (not goin…