Natanael @ Natanael @slrpnk.net

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Incapacitate the president, invoke 25th, then proceed with immunity

Edit: NOT LIKE THAT

It varies between implementations, here's a rough example for how the concept works (details may differ)

It's important to emphasize that in each step each ballot only counts for one candidate.

First you count 1st choice votes. If there's already a winner here then you're done. Second choices don't matter if a majority already agree on a first choice.

If not (eg. if no candidate has above 50%) then you eliminate the least popular candidates first. Once a candidate has been eliminated, any ballot with the eliminated candidate as 1st gets transferred to the 2nd choice candidate.

Consider the US election - if your first choice is a 3rd party candidate instead of the 2 well known ones, they're probably not getting a lot of votes. Once it's determined your 1st choice can't win and they're eliminated, your 2nd choice on the ballot is counted instead. This stacks on top of the not-eliminated 1st choice votes from the first step.

Why does this matter politically?

Because of say Trump gets 48% 1st choice votes, Biden gets 40% 1st choice and then 12% 2nd choice votes = 52% total and a win, then that's a powerful signal about which alternative candidates can become viable and a powerful method of expressing discontent with the primary candidate despite being willing to vote for "the lesser of two evils". You can express your first preference without giving a bad candidate a bigger chance to win.

Another interesting feature is that it's possible to win a majority of votes being 2nd choice votes, but that's really only likely if there's many candidates and 1 candidate that most finds acceptable but not preferred, because all the ones that are preferred by a few but disliked by most gets disqualified one by one until all those votes has gotten transferred to the broadly acceptable candidate

SCOTUS will just rule he can't do that

For extra fun, how much into the future they're sent can be based on party stats + enemy stats

Wand of cut-and-paste

It's also a thing in the Loki TV series

He'll have to handle the hardware for his parents, they're treating him firmly

If you get root on the device you can MITM it by extracting session keys

That depends entirely on the auth system, but you can use a separate credential to retrieve the password (using something like a PAKE algorithm)

They don't need to, they already use overprovisioning for bandwidth.

It's only in rare cases where the backend is so old and limited that it only supports a specific maximum number of active clients that they do that, and I've only heard about it in rural areas and similar places

That party itself in USA is definitely bullshit though

OpenStreetMaps clients also works and are available everywhere

Store absolute time in something like Epoch (seconds since 1970-01-01) plus local time zone

Ear criminals? Are their covers that bad?

Even that requires overhead

So they didn't have their ducks in a row then

Eh, the patent office hasn't had standards for practically for like a century, just that you describe a novel method

You get used to it. I don't even see the code

Also it's not even the surgeon but a medical team lead, with plenty of assistants and a backup ready,

It would force them to drop evidence about his state of mind when he took the documents. They would essentially be unable to argue anything at all about how they ended up there. The case would then ONLY be about him not returning them later on request, with no other context available for the ruling