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Re:Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018) on Saturday June 15, 2019 @02:23AM (#20188656)
Still a lot less paper than a kids school notebooks.
Re:Show HN: Maildown – Super Simple Email API on Saturday May 25, 2019 @12:59PM (#20010035)
I feel this unnecessarily complicates things. If you want to send emails via SES, why not just use something like https://www.sendwithses.com or https://moonmail.io/
Re:The Economics of Hacking an Election on Friday August 10, 2018 @04:16AM (#17731545)
All democratic elections are hacked, not in a technical way but in a social way. Take my country India, for example. The winning party in almost all elections till 2014 got just under 40% of the total vote. Minorities form 15-20% of the vote bank and the minority vote is always consolidated, i.e. they vote enmass for a single party (usually for The Indian National Congress (INC)). In other words, anywhere between 15-20% of the 40% mentioned earlier is the minority vote. The majority vote is always divided between the many many warring parties and the minority vote becomes the king/queen maker. No wonder the INC has always danced to the minorities tune.

I guess the majority had had enough and came together for the first time in 2014, resulting in a win for Narendra Modi.

I also guess the same situation happened in USA in 2016. The usually apathic/uninterested majority were frustrated/angered with years of ’minoritism’ and bonded together into a single consolidate vote bank that resulted in Trumps victory.