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The media doesn’t decide who wins elections, voters do.

> The mail-in votes in a predominately black area should be expected to be close to 100% for Biden. It would be suspicious if they weren't.

Consider that Trump won the largest share of non-white voters of any Republican in 60 years, including historic numbers of Latino and African Americans.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres... [2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-men-drifted-democr...

This was reported by NYT, ABC news. Is well documented and web-archived. I witnessed the update of 130,000+ in favor of Biden in nytimes.com in November 4 at about 4AM.

Twitter also put a disclaimer on a U.S. Senator who was quoting Kentucky Democrat Ed Pritchard https://twitter.com/Peoples_Pundit/status/132478060579671654... and blocked a tweet from @marklevinshow that merely articulated Art. II, §1, cl. 2 of the United States Constitution!

The supreme court of PA changed the law months before the elections to allow non-postmarked ballots without signature verification to be received after election day.

I just can't trust the results of MI, WI, PA. Hundreds of thousands of mail-in votes that arrive at 4AM after election day were just enough to change the outcome of the election. And how is that out of a batch of 130,000+ mail-in votes all of them were for one candidate.

> It's almost like one candidate has been telling his supporters to, in no uncertain terms, not use mail in ballots.

MI, WI, PA stopped counting votes on November 3. These states had the same candidate winning by 130K+, 300K+ and 700K+ votes respectively. It's remarkable that at about 4AM in Nov 4, WI and MI reported just enough votes to change the outcome of the election.

And there is evidence of people that was prevented from observing the vote count, and apparently some observers were kept so far away that they had to use binoculars to observe.

> occurred in front of hundreds of bipartisan observers

There is evidence that in PA and MI republicans were not allowed to observe the vote counting. Why are they not allowed to observe?

> There is no liberal conspiracy to steal an election. Trump made the same claim in 2016.

In WI, MI there hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots all arriving after election day. And they almost entirely for one candidate. I don't remind this happening in 2016, or never in US history.

Please tell us why this is a conspiracy theory. The article has references to the data sources, including web-archived snapshots of official government websites.

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Some more factors to consider:

* Joe Biden has been in politics since 1972. Do you think someone who has been in office for so long without accomplishing much is going to come in and change everything for the better?

* Biden claims to be the candidate of the middle class, yet he takes millions of dollars from tech billionaires for his campaign. His commitment to the middle class is dubious after taking so much money from the rich. Once he gets past the election is payback time.

* Biden claims he would've handled the pandemic better than Trump. This statement is hard to believe after he was against the China travel ban that Trump imposed before most western and european countries. Trump was not the only one to initially belittle the pandemic hazard, there was also Biden and the World Health Organization.

* Biden wants to stop subsides for the oil industry and ultimately shut it down. Trump is for a balanced energy production system with both clean energy and non-renewables. Trump's focus on energy independence has lead to the lowest US energy imports in decades.

China is the epicenter of the worst pandemic in decades and does a terrible job in preventing it from spreading to other countries. Now China is trying to put senile, weak, and easy to manipulate Biden in the white house. There is unrest and suffering in most democracies for something that came out from a communist authoritarian regime. I hope the next US president imposes more economic sanctions on China, and I doubt Joe, who hasn't impose any sanctions in his 47-year political career, can get it done.

Can someone explain why this post is flagged but not this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24957094. Is HN leaning left?

Yeah, they seem to be a good place to build apps, but certainly not better than my local dev environment where I have total control over my packages and commands. E.g. some of these are restricted or not even supported in repl.it: sudo, dnf/apt-get, Vim plugins

I use Vim. Thanks for mentioning edit conflicts, I had overlooked that important feature. Will add it to the next version of Wikian by comparing timestamps of the local and most recent revisions.

*edit: delete "Shameless plug" from above comment

Shameless plug: I recently wrote a Ruby gem to get/post Wikipedia articles from the command line. Then I can use my text editor to edit the articles which is faster than doing so in the browser. To install it: gem install wikian. To see how it works visit https://rubygems.org/gems/wikian.

The wildfires seem to be miles away and isolated from each other, so how are they propagating?

> people want to order on a whim and have it arrive at their home the next day

Some people don't mind giving up convenience (price, shipping time) to help their local bookstores. From the article:

    "The vitality of our neighbors and neighborhoods depends on the ability of local businesses to thrive. We will not participate in undermining that vitality."

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Related passage from Bell's "Men of Mathematics":

    It (inversion) is one of the most powerful methods of mathematical discovery (or invention) ever devised, and Abel was the first human being to use it consciously as an engine of research. "You must always invert," as Jacobi said when asked the secret of his mathematical discoveries.

A somehow related quote from Paul Halmos (https://youtu.be/LwMcz1Yh8tc?t=1506): "I would choose depth over breath of knowledge every time. I think if you know something very well and keep try to know it better, then you will expand to other subjects, and the deeper down you go the broader the near by becomes."