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Re: Google Trends Electionland

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Post by jdiaz5513 »

loeg wrote: post #170
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. I'm registered in 3 states (I always kinda assumed registering in a new state unregistered you in another) and my wife is registered in 2. I wonder if my name is on that list. Damn even the criteria they use doesn't technically have to be unique; it's possible to have the same name, DOB and last 4 digits of a SSN (though that's likely incredibly rare but still the possibility is theoretically there). I f…

Every time someone brings up a national ID card (unique key), everyone gets really upset, unfortunately.

As a software developer who has had to answer the tough question of "how do we identify our users?", a tiny part of me wishes every human had a UUID tattooed on.

Our DNA is actually one heck of a unique fingerprint, but it's currently still quite hard to read... when that changes things will get interesting.

Re: Google Trends Electionland

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

biot wrote: post #62
mangeletti wrote: post #45

I just had to vote "provisional" myself (Palm Beach County). I have a feeling there is going to be a lot of fraud reports against the Florida Board of Elections. We registered almost 2 weeks before our Oct 11 deadline, yet neither my wife nor I were in their system - we received no mail or anything from the BoE. My vote, I'm absolutely certain now, will be thrown in the trash. Even if it isn't, the election will be o…

Why isn't eligibility automatic? Whether state of federal, doesn't the government already know whether or not you qualify to vote?

The party machines play games to try and purge the other side's voters to bias the results in their favor. This gets woven into the 10 year redistricting cycle as they scheme to gerrymander districts to further dilute the opposing party's constituents. Everyone in office is a beneficiary of this system so they won't take measures to fix it.

Re: Google Trends Electionland

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Post by twhb »

mastermachetier wrote: post #70

The UI on this app is spectacular actually . I want to sit down with the team that wrote it and just ask questions for days.

Performance is poor on my older laptop. Maybe I'm getting to the point where web devs should leave me in the dust, but, it's also a shame to waste resources on newer systems. I suspect the problem is that it's built on React, which struggles with large data sets.

If the team is reading this, I'd bring up a point made on the Netflix dev blog: the key to great React perf is doing the expensive stuff outside of React. Do it low-level, stitch it in with lifecycle callbacks. You can end up keeping most of your code in React's world, while fixing most of the performance problem.

Re: Google Trends Electionland

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Post by rabidrat »

jdiaz5513 wrote: post #171
loeg wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every time someone brings up a national ID card (unique key), everyone gets really upset, unfortunately.

As a software developer who has had to answer the tough question of "how do we identify our users?", a tiny part of me wishes every human had a UUID tattooed on. Our DNA is actually one heck of a unique fingerprint, but it's currently still quite hard to read... when that changes things will get interesting.

There are also cases where DNA fails, notably twins and chimerae.

Re: Google Trends Electionland

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Post by morganvachon »

throwanem wrote: post #106
morganvachon wrote: post #16

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It's not so much about HN, it's a meme that's been around nearly as long as xkcd has. I recall seeing "Obligatory xkcd" on Fark.com as far back as 2007 or so. I've also seen it on Reddit and similar forums over the years; hell I've even seen it in Usenet discussions.

> nearly as long as xkcd has It's been around a lot longer than that; I first saw it in version 3.0.0 of esr's Jargon File, which was released in 1993, and I doubt it was newly added then.

Well, I was referring specifically to the use of "obligatory/relevant xkcd", not the use of "obligatory/relevant" period. :-)

Re: Google Trends Electionland

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Post by throwanem »

morganvachon wrote: post #176
throwanem wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> nearly as long as xkcd has It's been around a lot longer than that; I first saw it in version 3.0.0 of esr's Jargon File, which was released in 1993, and I doubt it was newly added then.

Well, I was referring specifically to the use of "obligatory/relevant xkcd", not the use of "obligatory/relevant" period. :-)

Fair. Seems like that's always #927, though, at least around here...

Re: Google Trends Electionland

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

loeg wrote: post #170
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. I'm registered in 3 states (I always kinda assumed registering in a new state unregistered you in another) and my wife is registered in 2. I wonder if my name is on that list. Damn even the criteria they use doesn't technically have to be unique; it's possible to have the same name, DOB and last 4 digits of a SSN (though that's likely incredibly rare but still the possibility is theoretically there). I f…

Every time someone brings up a national ID card (unique key), everyone gets really upset, unfortunately.

Yeah honestly I don't get the outrage. A national ID would solve a ton of issues. Individual states could add information to and remove from the ID and it could link up everything. Even people who are for voting IDs it could be used for that as long as it didn't cost anything.

Yeah I know it can help "track" you. Look, you're already being tracked far more without the damn thing. In my opinion a national ID would be well worth it.

I'll hold my breath.

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