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Quite amazing how little traction this story is getting. Back in the 1950s-2000s, when Russia's influence on the West was rather subdued, this would have been the only news in town…

Sure, but 1000 is just 1 in 3000 voters. In practice it's going to be way more than that, probably 2 or 3 in 10. Thats hundreds of thousands of voters, many of whom are going to be…

The ballot printout is not discarded, is it? If not, then the ballot-barcode consistency in the sample can be verified as part of the audit.

Believe me, we've been aware that this is a non-bug feature for a long time. The Tuesday law was passed in 1845. Instead of changing it, many legislators are pushing in the opposit…

Indeed, and the math is the same. If out of 3 million voters, just 1000 double-check the printout, they will detect a 1/100 flip with probability 99.996%.

Not with a randomized audit, such as this one for the 2022 primary [1]. If it flipped just one vote out of 100, and you drew an audit sample of just 1000 votes, the probability of …

If you exclude its pre-Athlon Nvidia-like era, Intel's market cap earlier this year was only ~20% below its 2020ish peak. It has engineers. It might yet surprise. Nvidia hasn't pro…

> nothing burger event for an index that has lost relevance This argument has been around since time immemorial. The right way to think of it is more like a country club or a who's…

I wish some of the sleeping/eating studies covered the options "sleep when I'm tired" and "eat when I'm hungry." When remote work is an option, it'd be nice to know the health oppo…

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> it decreases demand for existing homes as well. It also negatively impacts employment and many other areas, basically if your run on debt the higher rates hurt The question is no…

The goal in increasing rates is to cool the economy by reducing construction , i.e. housing starts. Exchanging existing units doesn't affect employment and output as much. Since st…

Prices are not the relevant statistic though, it's housing starts [1]. They dropped from ~1.8M in April 2022 to ~1.3M today. Prices are affected by supply and demand equally, while…

That's not really surprising, considering that's exactly how interest rate increases are supposed to work. They crowd out a bit of business investment and a lot of housing investme…

Is there a blog post about what specifically she found to be inscrutable? The C++ doesn't look all that terse at a syntactic level, and has plenty of comments. Are the problems at …

Here's an algebraic example to keep things theoretical. If the easy to delete version proposed by the article is: f(x) = 6x^2 - 5x + 1 The prospective extensible version is: g(x,a,…

At the risk of turning a unison into a chord, here's my two cents. If: 1. You know where the 'creases' of orthogonality are. You've carved the turkey 1000 times and you never get i…

Global Russian paranoia would actually be alright. We used to have that in the 80s. Certainly better than global Russian domination by way of stooges like Maduro, Orban, Wagner in …

The most salient feature of Russian meddling is playing all sides, both ideologically and in levels of sophistication. The less-sophisticated efforts are basically misdirection and…

> camelcase naming for everything, getters and setters for every class variable, interfaces everywhere This is not far off from the guidelines in many cases, e.g. Windows code (wel…

Moderation is speech too. It's not possible to have an apolitical discussion of matters related to a plutocrat that offers a $100M vote bounty. To selectively silence dissenters is…

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> Then why is he doing it in the Bay Area, then? Probably so he can blame in on politics when it fails spectacularly.

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