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It does not

You are the king of your computer, but if you don't create rules for your subjects they will do as they please.

I've noticed sometimes that the verdicts on snopes are very subjective. Especially in line with their political leanings.

Many VPN providers claim to not keep logs, and have varying levels of trustability.

Per the article coconut oil has more saturated fats than lard. Jeez people, read the article.

"Michels based her warning on the high proportion of saturated fat in coconut oil, which is known to raise levels of so-called LDL cholesterol, and so the risk of cardiovascular disease. Coconut oil contains more than 80% saturated fat, more than twice the amount found in lard, and 60% more than is found in beef dripping."

From the article, which does also mention the second law of thermodynamics.

Saying that weight gain is caused by excess calories is true, but meaningless. It tells you nothing about the actual cause.

Most likely people were thin in the 60s because they consumed less calories then we do now.

Meditation has showed some promising results:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3772979/

Anecdotally it's very helpful to myself.

Deep breathing can be part of CBT too.

Yes to the web interface. VCS kinda, the jobs are all XML files, but Jenkins has built in change history like Wikipedia allowing reverts and comparisons.

Censorship as a Service?

If they don't mention a name in the title it's probably not someone big.

I did a search for "Fiona Wilson Australia fixated" and got back a few articles, not familiar enough with AU news to determine what is tabloids and what is not. Please post if anyone finds something reputable.

Collusion among multiple persons would break that, whereas a verifiable distributed system would be unaffected.

The public already has placed trust in bitcoin, which has a fair bit of complexity.

And there are people that don't have a lot of trust in our current voting methods. Can't stop conspiracy theorists really. I think with global warming there is a degree of uncertainty due to the varying environmental factors. This will be something where you can pretty simply explain what's going on, or at least say this part is encrypted with X algorithm and people are happy. The public is willing to trust encryption, specifically there have been cases where the government's efforts were thwarted by strong encryption.

Interesting it's allowed for by the 13th amendment.

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

edit: don't be so harsh on yourself, establishing a comparison between penal labor and slavery is an interesting point, even if you did so in a non chalant manner

How do you know nobody's vote was tampered with?

I personally don't understand how hashes work, I know _what_ they do, but not really how, just that they are not mathematically reversible. I should probably learn how exactly it works, since they extremely common.

I think most people know their passwords are encrypted, but they don't know about hashes at all, they just assume the domain experts have figured it out.

Security in e-voting would probably look similar. You would know there are smart people somewhere who understand the complexity, and ideally you would have ample opportunity to learn.

1. Notes -> CSV -> MySQL

2. Hire someone in another country for below minimum wage

3. ...

4. Profit

Collusion of multiple parties meant to verify each other.

The ideal e-voting program/platform would increase security and verifiability. Right now I don't know if my vote has been tampered with.

The secret ballot could be reproduced a number of ways, but I'm particularly fond of the idea you have an extra password that makes it look like your vote was different, and only your password shows you who you really voted for.

You will need to encrypt your vote, but they make forms of encryption that can be unlocked with multiple keys.

The encryption would need to be written so there is a fail safe password that identifies the opposite party was voted for, to stop voting coercion.

people will never do a complex blockchain verification

People don't verify their vote now, so this is unimportant.

have a mechanism to be certain that no additional machine-generated ballots were added to the results

This should only require a hand full of people to check.

If the only question left is whether or no it's easy enough, I think we're good and can find a solution for that problem too.

A counting room full of people counting paper ballots is a machine, and it's a transparent machine where everyone inside it and outside of it can understand how it works, and trust that it's working properly.

I agree with this 100%

Electronic voting must be cryptographically secure, and increase trust and security. I think this should be the first rule.

(1) The software is not doing anything nefarious

Open source

(2) The software toolchain is not modifying the software in (1) to cause it to do something nefarious

Use open source toolchains and hash the result.

(3) The software loaded onto the machines is actually the software verified in (1) and compiled by the verified toolchain in (2)

Maybe some kind of cryptographic puzzle, question/response, you need to make a hash with the program, and make the HDD not large enough to contain more than that. Or maybe read only storage. Even a combination.

(4) The machine doesn't have any kind of hardware/firmware-based defeat device to trick you into falsely confirming (3)

Your voting results are confirmable on the blockchain, but not specific, you can check that your vote hasn't been changed, but not the vote itself.

Why is it impossible without doing those things?

Including paper ballots?

Is it really impossible though? I feel like we could eventually figure it out.

Seems unrelated, but I'm glad that idea went through scientific review.

You are free to criticize the US, as is China. But this is a thread about China, it seems you're not making an argument that the US is equally as bad as China.

I suppose you could say there are more minorities in jail, but minorities tend to be more on the poverty line which is an easy explanation, I would be interested in a study on the treatment of only those in poverty.

Illegal immigrants should be deported, legal immigrants should not be.

The US is not a utopia, but my point was china is looking more and more like Big Brother in 1984.

I don't think we should buy goods produced by actual slave labor, I'm sure there are a lot of financial incentives with slave labor though.