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The State of Electronic Voting for Overseas Voters in America
County recorder: Thank you for registering. Here is your username and password to login to the overseas voter website to upload your ballot. Me: *fails to login* Me: *attempts password reset* Website: “We’ve never heard of you” Me: Dear County Recorder, WTF? County Recorder: You have to register first. Me: I thought I already registered. […]
Asking for help with a programming problem: contrast
Women asking me for help with a programming issue: Hi! I really liked the X you made in R that you presented a few months ago. I’m trying to do something similar, but I’m having trouble with [specific aspect of X]. I was wondering if you could direct me to a few resources or help […]
Better science textbooks through history and mystery
I think more science textbooks and classes should devote space to wrong ideas and stuff we don’t know. Like Codons took forever to figure out after we got the structure of DNA down. Here are some coding schemes we thought might be real, but were total bullshit. and We figured out the genetic code, but […]
Rebecca Solnit on men on ladies having opinions
It is a fact universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of an opinion must be in want of a correction. Well, actually, no it isn’t, but who doesn’t Rebecca Solnit on Literary Hub Rebecca Solnit is better at explaining things than I am.
You aren’t clever. You’re pedantic.
If I say something about math or stats or programming, I can look forward to getting well-actually-ed by a guy. This is especially common on the internet but happens rather often in non-screen mediated interactions, too. It seems that if I don’t copy my point straight out of a textbook, it’s so wrong they must […]
Your opinion is fringe
Source: The Purple Election Map | Observer I often see conservatives complaining about how their views are decried as “fringe,” that the only people who don’t recognize the normality of their worldview are those in liberal, coastal cities. The problem is, there aren’t really that many people outside of those liberal, coastal cities (especially if […]
Progress isn’t moral
Critiques of recent scandals in Silicon Valley rightly place the blame on a culture that supports amorality, thoughtlessness, and ignorance rather than ill intent.[2] But the problem runs much deeper, because Silicon Valley’s amorality problem arises from the implicit and explicit narrative of progress companies use for marketing and that people use to find meaning […]