mipadaitu @ mipadaitu @lemmy.world

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Yes, it's called a paper copy of the vote cast. The problem isn't technical, it's a trust issue.

You can't trust an entirely digital process for voting, because either it's not independently auditable, or it's not anonymous. Our current system of vote counting requires an independent group of people counting a subset of the ballots in order to ensure the voting was done fairly. You can't do that if the process is entirely digital.

The people in this thread aren't just jumping on a Musk bandwagon, the dude is a moron and he is trying to sow doubt in the process.

I myself support the current scantron style system that we use in our local election offices here. You get the instant electronic counters, and you get a paper ballot that can audit that the electronic counters did their job correctly. There are many other ways to have a perfectly valid system, but this one is extremely robust against any sort of tampering.

To be fair, I wouldn't trust a computer program for voting either, but I would trust and ride in an autonomously landing rocket.

Which is why I much prefer the scantron type fill in the bubble ballots, you get a full digital count with an easily cross referenced ballot.

Literally happened at my local fire station. They were doing a pancake breakfast fundraiser and some kid accidentally hit the fire alarm, dispatch paged out the station to itself.

I understand what you mean, but every building has at least a few places in it where a fire can start and nobody would notice (obviously.)

Just like anything else, one chunk at a time.

You can start with a story and build the game off of that, or you can start with the gameplay and build up from there.

Sometimes you just have to start, and see where it goes. Pick an engine and start building something, don't be afraid to throw it all out and start over from what you've learned so far. Make a game that has some of the elements you want to use and try it out, then throw it out and make a different game with other bits. Start small and work up.

The biggest problem is thinking it has to be perfect to move on to the next part.

You can commission art, or you can buy some models and just use those.

You can also just build everything from the ground up, but it would be hard to do that for your first project.

Democrats should put their best foot forward in every senate race. Push hard and get the message out. It just takes a couple unlikely wins. Maybe they won't win the senate, but it might push enough people to vote blue in local races.

Warp 10 is infinitely fast, then how come the upgraded Enterprise D can go warp 13!?!?!

edit: I don't know how to make this a link...
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/All_Good_Things..._(episode)#Continuity

#it'sJustAShowIShouldReallyJustRelax

https://support.google.com/a/answer/81126?hl=en

Did you set up SPF and DKIM? It helps Google know you are not a spammer.

Only if it's windy and cloudy. A calm sunny day at 21f is fine for walking around in shirtsleeves.

I recently switched to a self hosted FreshRSS. I used Feedly for probably a decade tho.

It makes more sense to have a server downloading and consolidating the data from the various sources, rather than syncing and downloading from dozens or hundreds of sources to build the feed in real time.

It's technically possible to do it all client side, but it would put more load on the RSS sources, and be a much slower user experience.

The scale of the star wars universe is much bigger than Star Trek. The millennium falcon can cross their whole galaxy in the time it takes the enterprise to cross federation controlled space, which is just a portion of a quadrant of our galaxy.

Phaser beams travel at the speed of light, and can stay on continuously for long periods, an ensign could hit the button and sweep the beam across a Jedi and kill him pretty easily.

Probably zero since this all happened decades ago at this point.

You are 100% correct, EXCEPT for the emergency cash flow thing is backwards.

Let's say you have $20,000 for a car. If you put that whole $20,000 to buy a car, and an emergency comes up where you need $5,000, it will be much harder to get a loan to pay for that on the same terms as a car loan.

On the other hand, if you put $2,000 towards the car and borrow $18,000 at 3% for 5 years, that's $325 a month, give or take depends on fees. Now you still have $18,000 free for emergencies, and you're theoretically still making money at your job, so you can keep building that neat egg with interest. If that same $5,000 emergency comes up, you still have $13,000, which is more than 3 years of payments to cover the rest of that $5,000.

Obviously emotions come into it. Obviously some folks can't just leave that $18,000 in the bank. But there are real tangible benefits to just taking out a loan.

That's fine if that's what you want to do, but when car loans are less than 2% and bank interest rates can be 3-4%, you can literally make money by taking out a loan.

On top of that, if you are in an industry that gives regular raises, having a 5 year loan means you're paying less of your paycheck every year towards the car.

Obviously most people aren't thinking this far ahead, but even if you have the cash, sometimes it actually makes sense to take out a loan.

Page and a half here, and almost all of it was uncontested local elections.

At least he steals his ideas from good sci-fi.

Wonder who he pays to summarize them for him.

It does work in the real world, as long as the floor is the problem, and the table is perfect.

Most of the time at a restaurant, it's the table that's been beaten up and is no longer even.

I have a few of these. Honestly don't understand why more companies don't make flashlights like this.