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Comment Ballot Secrecy (Score 1) 120

I just voted by mail in the primary. Ballot secrecy is about as safe as it can be. Only a very few people actually remove the ballot from the inner envelope. The ballot itself does not contain any information about who cast the vote. The envelopes and ballots are immediately separated, in bulk and stored separately. It might be possible that a person doing the separation might recognize a single name and be able to glance at how they voted. But, any attempt to make information public about who voted for which candidate for more than a few individuals would be noticed.

Comment Re: speaking of BO, I'm amused (Score 1) 126

Do you have any facts to support your assertion? What is your definition of a recovery? When is a recovery over?

Choose a metric, any metric and show me how that number correlates with the deliberations, ratification or implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Keep in mind that Obama was elected in November of 2008. He didn't actually become the president until January of 2009. Granted, he almost immediately started pushing for changes to health care. But, as I stated above, the Affordable Care Act wasn't passed until 2010 and didn't take full effect until more than two years afterwards.

In the meantime, the U.S. entered the longest continuous period of economic growth in US history at the beginning of Obama's first year, and that continued right up until this year. Here is the DJIA for that period*. Those lines go up before the act was passed, continue to go up while the act was implemented, and continued going up afterwards.

So, again I challenge you to show me the facts. Your posts have not had a single verifiable number in them. Link to your numbers, and make your case, or else you are just stating an unfounded opinion.

* I recommend turning off the log scale for that chart. With it on, it exaggerates the fluctuations in the earlier years, and minimizes the volatility of the most recent years.

Comment Conflating (Score 1) 48

Everyone seems to be confused. Tile competes with the Find My app by allowing you to click on the Tile and find your iPhone. It also has a webpage you can visit to try and track down your Tile (or Phone?) if it is out of range. But in order to do these things, the Tile app has to be running in the background. Apple discourages this by regularly asking if you want the Tile app running in the background. In the meantime, it never turns off the functionality that allows the Find My app to work.

Oh, and Tile started selling versions where you can change the battery quite a while ago. They are bulkier, but work great for when my kids lose the remote.

Comment Re:Lower those barriers (Score 1) 63

Wow, this is incredibly pessimistic. The project I work on has a whole slew of ways that beginners can help. We actually have a tag in our issue queue for tasks that are good for Novices. We also encourage other non-code contributions, like:

  • Documentation
  • Testing
  • Writing tutorials
  • Helping in chat.
  • Presenting about the software at a conference?
  • etc.

Comment Re:Stop asking me if I want notifications (Score 1) 50

The GDPR specifically allows you to store some cookies, including a cookie that keeps track of your privacy preferences. If you are seeing the pop-up over and over again, then the developers have screwed up, or the settings on your browser are too aggressive.

Another example of cookies that are allowed are accessibility preferences, like larger text or high contrast theme, so that you don't have to reset those on every page load.

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