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We don't know who leaked the emails. You'll have to show me proof otherwise.

What's disturbing is the content of the emails. Clinton will not last six months into her presidency, I can promise you that. There is clear evidence from the Podesta emails so far that the Clinton campaign cheated, broke the law, and used the Clinton Foundation for shady purposes. Mark my words, after what's come out in the last few weeks about Clinton, she will be seen in history as criminal, just like her husband.

Did you see she got debate questions ahead of time via Donna Brazile (in addition to the previously discovered town hall question)? That they made millions off pay-for-play with brutal foreign governments? Every day there are multiple discoveries of enormous magnitude, and that confirm long-standing suspicions about the Clintons.

I am disappointed by the lack of political discussion on Hacker News. Can't we trust our fellow HN users to handle this discussion civilly? Technology and governance increasingly have an extensive, nuanced relationship and HN is the exact place where that meta-discussion needs to happen!

> they can't be hacked

Not so sure, the paper ballot system may been hacked in 2000 US election. The other criminal activities of the Bush family make it more suspect, IMO.

So what are you saying, that the emails are fake or doctored?

I'm with you.

It's disappointing that for whatever reason Clinton in particular is barely discussed on HN. What's come out in the last few weeks should be an enormous, shocking news story (especially if you've been living in the MSM bubble), and yet every submission gets knocked off the front page instantly.

CNN is now mixing in pure lies with their usual selective reporting and narrative spinning. The whole "it's illegal to read the Podesta emails, but not for us at CNN, so get all your information from us" (not verbatim) is one good example of that.

MSNBC has had some drone riots lately, with Morning Joe and crew briefly exiting the matrix to talk about the utterly obvious pay-for-play scheme run by the Clintons, a scheme that has often amounted to pay-for-weapons with brutal foreign regimes. They also discussed, but missed the point, an email where Clinton campaign staff were prepping for how to deal questions about Bill (e.g. "How is what Bill Clinton did any different than what Bill Cosby did?"). It was such a marked shift in tone for MSNBC that a lot of Youtube commenters noticed as well. It's on their official channel even.

I make new accounts here all the time, and I've been posting on HN for 7+ years.

It seems pretty simple to me. Have the machine print a receipt that shows your info and who you voted for, have the voter check it over and sign it, and then have the voter hand it in before leaving the voting station. The receipt is really no different than a paper ballot at that point.

That's not to say that other security precautions can be ignored. Ideally I'd think there should be mature open-source software running on secure intranets for each voting station, and transparency at every level of the process, including better transparency in how those physical receipts are transported, handled, and stored.

Most of your list is either a specialized requirement, or something that probably wouldn't be that much easier on Windows / MacOS. I meant that simple things like browsing the Internet, video chatting, and playing music (the needs of 99% of computer users) work out of the box. GP was saying that you literally can't install Linux without kernel patching and command line wizardry, which is totally false, and the only point I was refuting.

I'll add one to your list -- dealing with Linux audio. I have a stable music production setup now, but it took me a long time to iron everthing out.

> you're an obvious Trump supporter

No he's not. I agree with most of his comments here and I'm voting for Stein too.

Youtube can be a nasty place. Take a look at the comment section of pretty much any video with a black person in it.

The WP article isn't really central to my point -- that outside factors have more to do with poor math performance than anything happening inside the schools. I worked in a public school as a tutor for kids slightly behind their grade level (not with the kids who were really struggling) and I have plenty of anecdata from that experience. Kids with drug-addicted parents, kids with parents in prison, kids not having enough food at night, medicated kids, obese kids, a kid who had to move mid school year because his house was shot up in a driveby, etc.

> No, I don't want to dork around with spending days compiling kernel patches and installing soundcard drivers before I can use the computer.

You are badly misrepresenting the current state of mainstream Linux distributions. I've done probably 20 Linux installs, and by and large it always just works. If there is some necessary proprietary driver, it's almost always as simple as Menu --> Administration --> Driver Manager and then clicking once or twice.

Kernel patches? I wouldn't know how the hell to do that, but somehow I've been using Linux happily for a decade.

> editing text files before the GUI will start

What text files are you referring to? I've been using linux for 10+ years and have never had to do this.

Sure, I'm quite positive I can help you with this. I don't have Skype though, do you mind communicating over email? Mine is [email protected], feel free to contact me!

Might it have something to do with this?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/majority-of-u...

I'm no fan of the American education system, having suffered through it a full 12 years, but I have to believe it's not the primary cause here. Math is hard, and near impossible if you're stressed. I excelled at math, despite relatively boring math curricula. Why? Because I wasn't stressed as a kid, my family was stable and did not suffer from any serious physical and mental illness, and one parent always made enough money so that the other could stay at home throughout my entire childhood. I had an enormous advantage, and most all of the kids I knew through advanced math classes and math competitions had a similarly charmed existence.

What CMS? Is the content in a database? Isn't your client paying you under the assumption that you already know how to do this?

Indeed. I'm sorry about your brother, and I'm sorry that in a saner society your brother might have gotten the help he needed, or known the purity of the heroin he took, or someone nearby would've been less reluctant to call an ambulance.

I had two friends overdose on heroin, and I found them and made the call that saved their lives. I watched the paramedics amble up the stairs, looking pissed that they had to deal with two more junkies on a Saturday night. One of my friends' hearts stopped for a minute and a half. I got grilled by the cops for an hour, who wanted me to snitch on the dealer and wondered why I would hang out with such "losers" in the first place.

Thanks to, among other organizations, the US Department of "Defense" and its 27,000+ "public relations" employees, even a comment section might be bought and paid for. It's known from the HBGary hacks that the DOD contracts the development of astroturfing software, or in their own language "persona management software". Ask Barrett Brown how kindly the USG took to that hack! It's the kind of thing you might find yourself on their "disposition matrix" for revealing!