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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Here's the list of states and electoral college votes:

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/allocation

Just don't think about the popular vote. It has no bearing on who wins the Presidency in the US.

You can argue that it should but just accept that under the current rules it does not.

As far as your question "If Kamala wins the popular vote, how much does she have to win by to flip the electoral college to her side?" the only answer is "it depends"

It depends because as amazingly stupid as this sounds, one vote for a candidate counts either more or less depending on which state it came from.

Example of California (most people) and Wyoming (least people)

    California:
        Electoral Votes: 55
        Population: 39,500,000
        Weight:  0.00000139

    Wyoming:
        Electoral Votes: 3
        Population: 580,000
        Weight:  0.00000517

A vote in Wyoming (0.00000517) affects the outcome of the electoral college much more than a vote in California (0.00000139).

Another way of looking at it is that one electoral college vote in California represents the will of a little over 718,000 residents, while in Wyoming it represents the will of a little over 193,000 people.

Things get even trickier when you factor in the fact that some states split the EC votes based on popular vote or district, and other states are a winner-take-all (whichever candidate takes the state takes all the EC votes.)

It's a giant complex mess and it cannot be easily related to the popular vote.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

that's a bold strategy coming from SatansMaggotyCumFart, Cotton, let's see if this works for them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This is EXACTLY what was in my head as I wrote the post.

[–] [email protected] 353 points 1 month ago (8 children)

just under 50% of people voted in Ohio in the 2020 election.

Trump won by 8%.

If just 9% of the people who felt like you (what's the point of voting) had showed up to vote for Biden, that would have flipped the state.

No single raindrop believes it can make any difference. But together, all those insignificant raindrops can change the course of a river in a single day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

To expand, pecans are about 6kcal/g sugar is 4kcal/g - since the serving size is 28g, not by volume, they have reduced the pecans per serving and added sugar per serving which is less calorie dense per gram.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I understand the concerns of privacy, but working in academia means that you give up some of the privacy.

Yes people will have your real name and they will know what college you work at and if some crazy person decides that they want to stalk you on campus because you're woke or part of the deep state turning the frogs gay with chemicals they'll be able to easily do that.

You're gonna have 100s of strangers in your classes during the year. You're going to tell them exactly when you're going to be in your office for office hours.

If you are unable to handle that I doubt academia is for you.

Academia is about furthering human knowledge especially a PhD. There are sacrifices involved; your privacy is probably one of them.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

Part of being an academic is being available to discuss your publications. Your full name will not only be flying around the internet but recorded permanently in libraries and journals.

Science is about collaboration, and standing behind the work you do, publicly. You will find it extremely difficult or impossible to get your PhD without being known to the academic community.

I think you won't find many anonymous scientific papers held in high regard.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

If the AI can run everything, then we become a post scarcity society. I'm hoping for Iain M Banks Culture series myself, but who knows. Or maybe the AI becomes so intelligent it just checks out like in the movie Her and we have to go back to doing it with non-AI tech.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Then came 1987 and 1988: 1987 II Electric Boogaloo

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (6 children)

In the US, discussing salary with coworkers is protected speech. It helps people find out if they are being underpaid or unfairly discriminated against. I always share my salary information when asked and I think it's important to do so.

My salary is not indicative of my net worth. I could have a 7 figure salary and be drowning in debt, or make 75K and be doing fairly well because of responsible choices.

I dislike the stigma of discussing salaries, and believe that it's propagated by companies to dissuade workers from getting fair salaries.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

You need to get your ISP to help troubleshoot the issue with your router. If the Steam Deck works fine on other networks that's a very strong sign that it's not the Deck that's the issue.

Most public libraries have WiFi or computers that you can use in a pinch, leverage those as much as possible. You are paying for those services via taxes, they are yours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The issueI have with the "always unique" plan is that if they can determine your browser was associated with some set of unique IDs, then they can track you. Imagine a TOTP where the keys were leaked so the adversary can determine the entire set of possible codes.

If everyone's fingerprints always match each other's, then you have plausible deniability.

 
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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I am trying to follow [email protected] from my self hosted instance. When I search for it on my instance (with the "All" tab selected) I get no results found. When I go to the community https://lemmy.world/c/tenforward, click subscribe, enter my instance name, I'm redirected back to my instance, but there's a "Cannot fetch [email protected]" error in the UI, and in my server logs I see this:

     The webfinger object did not contain any link to an activitypub item
    0: lemmy_apub::fetcher::search::search_query_to_object_id
              at crates/apub/src/fetcher/search.rs:19
    1: lemmy_apub::api::resolve_object::resolve_object
            with data=Query(ResolveObject { q: "[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])" }) local_user_view=Some(REDACTED)
              at crates/apub/src/api/resolve_object.rs:19
    2: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request
            with http.method=GET http.scheme="https" http.host=REDACTED http.target=/api/v3/resolve_object otel.kind="server" request_id=04b362f0-91fc-401c-bcbe-6a8317e0a768 http.status_code=400 otel.status_code="OK"
              at src/root_span_builder.rs:16```

Server OS:

Ubuntu Jammy

uname:

5.15.0-105-generic #115-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 15 09:52:04 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Browser console errors:

None - Firefox 125.0.2 (64-bit) / Windows

Lemmy Server Version

BE: 0.19.3

Lemmy Instance URL

lemmy.cringecollective.io

This is only happening for some communities, for example, subscribing to this community worked fine, and I was able to subscribe to other communities on lemmy.world. ([email protected] worked fine)

Any ideas why this is happening? Is this on my end?

 
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Bane Luc Picard (lemmy.cringecollective.io)
 
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