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I noticed a number of billionaires have made their wealth by automating and banking the difference, the money which otherwise would have gone to the jobs which disappeared. For example J.D.Rockefeller made redundant a number of jobs related to transporting oil and shifted transporting jobs to a lesser amount of jobs related to maintaining his pipelines. Most arguments against automation taking jobs state that new jobs will be created, but is it really creating, if you replace previous jobs with a presumably smaller number.

A system where a delegate would have a number of votes they represent, and in which people could choose to cast their own vote, instead of letting their chosen delegate do it?

This would have a few problems, mainly the secrecy of votes, delegates having unequal voting power and people who didn't vote in the elections.

Dsxyliea 10 years ago

I was writing a deployment script and had written './setub.sh' instead of './setup.sh'. Of course when testing it on the command line I wrote the latter. It took 3 hours of debugging, for me to finally see the error.

In my opinion it was the patronizing tone Alex Haldermann had when presenting his research, that got certain individuals riled up. About the electronic voting itself, it seemed to me that the most relevant problem that he actually discovered was lapses in the operational security during the vote counting process, where certain procedures weren't done correctly or were outright ignored.