IphtashuFitz @ IphtashuFitz @lemmy.world

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Counterpoint: such articles should automatically be processed through https://archive.is when submitted and only accepted if successfully bypassed.

Fuck cancer

This AND forfeiting properties next week. 🤞🤞🤞

These types of ballots don’t have chads. They have circles you fill out with a pencil or black marker, very similar to standardized tests like SAT’s. After you fill it out you feed it into an optical scanner that tallies the votes.

At the end of the election officials simply add up the results from each optical scanner. And if there’s a legitimate concern about the counts, or simply a desire to audit a machine then you just pull the ballots from one or more machines, count the results, and compare those with what the scanner counted.

So you have an easily audited paper trail and the ability to audit small sets of ballots/machines rather than hand counting everything.

Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/JVhNN

Not to mention that SpaceX has designed things so that they can piggyback starlink deployments on the back of other commercial launches. So, for example, AT&T pays them $25 million to launch a new telecom satellite, and they toss in another dozen or so starlink satellites along with it.

AT&T pays for the majority of the launch costs and starlink benefits from it.

I have no idea how it’s done in WI, but here in MA:

1. You register to vote, including providing your signature on a registration card.
2. You request a mail-in ballot
3. when you receive the ballot you fill it out
4. You place the ballot in a blank envelope that came with the ballot.
5. You place THAT envelope inside a second one that’s already addressed back to city hall, and includes your name/address on the outside (and I think a barcode). That envelope also has to be signed by you or the ballot won’t be accepted.

My understanding is that when city hall receives it that it goes through the following process:

1. They confirm you actually requested a mail-in ballot and that one was in fact mailed to you.
2. The signature on the envelope is at least a rough match of the one in your voter registration.
3. The voter rolls are checked to confirm they have not already received a ballot from you.
4. The inner envelope is removed and confirmed to be sealed.
5. The voter rolls are updated to indicate your vote has been received.
6. The outer envelope is thrown away.
7. The inner envelope, still sealed, is added to the pile of all other ballots that have been received.

On Election Day those envelopes are opened and the ballots are counted.

If at any point in the process a discrepancy occurs then a formal investigation is launched. This includes receiving more than one ballot from an individual, somebody showing up to vote in person after a mail-in ballot was received for them , etc.

So Trump puts up $400 million of his own and gets a bond for the remaining $100 million & change. It doesn’t ALL have to come from a bond.

Not just a billionaire but he testified under oath a month or so ago that he had approximately $400 million in cash so covering the whole thing himself should be relatively easy.

Putin cares more for America than the Democrats do!

Worse, what happens if cybercriminals are able to successfully steal a large number of the countries bitcoin, or if they somehow lose access to their bitcoin wallet(s)?

Jury selection will take forever… Step 1, reject everybody without a security clearance…

Exactly. There is already one recent case where a lawyer filed a brief generated by an LLM. The judge is the one that discovered the cited cases were works of fiction created by the LLM and had no actual basis in law. To say that the lawyer looked foolish is putting it lightly…

He testified last year that he had around $400 million in cash:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-letitia-james-new-york-engoron-38bc3a7f2ccb22555c026e9bf70fd5bb#:~:text=Trump%20maintains%20that%20he%20is,to%20properties%20and%20other%20investments.

Including my employer being bought out by another company? Ten since 1990. Shortest stint was under a year. Bern with my current employer 11 years now.

I started out doing software development. I’m now a devops engineer.

It took me 1 second to realize that your comment means I’m old as fuck…

I am SO looking forward to that.

Probably only in public locations like theaters. But hey, if you’re into that sort of thing…

Married my wife over a decade ago. It was very scaled back compared to all the other weddings either of us have attended.

Back in the 90’s Ask Jeeves was a “question answering service” and not a search engine. They had teams of human editors that would curate answers for popular questions. During the dot com boom of the late 90’s they realized they needed to automate that system so they started buying other small startups that were doing more with search technologies. They acquired one search company in New Jersey called Teoma and another in Massachusetts called Direct Hit.

The executives at Jeeves at the time were not very smart though. They were very hands on with these technologies they didn’t fully understand and made some stupid decisions. For example, Direct Hit had a simple advertising platform they had developed where anybody could sign up and bid for ad placement on search results pages. It was largely automated and generated a lot of revenue. The Jeeves CEO said “we’re not in the business of advertising so get rid of it”, so it was sold off. It was sold to that scrappy little startup you mentioned and transformed into AdWords. Jeeves squandered other tech advantages in similar ways.

In a similar vein, they had a huge internal project for many months to create an adult (porn) search engine that they were going to co-brand alongside the Jeeves character they used to use. They planned to call it “Ask Mimi” and had registered domains, created a French maid character to go along with the Jeeves butler character, etc. After a huge push the company decided they didn’t want to tarnish their image with porn and dropped it all pretty much overnight. There used to be an article about all this archived on CNet’s news.com site but I can’t find it anymore thanks to their terrible search engine….

Source: I worked for one of those startups that Jeeves acquired.