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he literally did, definitionally he launched a failed coup. At the very least an attempted insurrection.

He did the same thing Hillary did in the election before that.

complete disinformation, hillary contested the results, which is a thing you are legally entitled to doing (she later retracted that statement publicly) trump has NEVER once retracted his statement, he STILL says it was stolen.

dont let the defenestration allegations hit you on the way out

well then you better hope DJT goes first i guess, because that statement does not meet the logical extent of that circumstance.

a big question with all of these stats is whether or not they follow precedence, because there is almost certainly some amount of the voter base that will experience these issues, whether due to skill issues, or unfortunate mishaps. This wouldn’t nullify the claims, because disproportionately targeting certain voter blocks would definitely constitute a huge problem, but that’s a large uphill legal battle that needs to play out.

one of the arguments used is that “these laws passed in states where trump won” and to a degree that’s probably true, could be for any number of reasons, but the deep red states were never going to vote blue, so a lot of this is almost certainly going to be a sort of survivorship bias fallacy, where you’re surprised by red states restriction access to voting, and then voting red. Realistically it probably doesn’t make a significant difference, maybe it does in the swing states, it’s harder to tell unless you have the data.

turnout compared to registration, not previous registration of the year before, compared to the previous year that turnout implies very high return rates, which are not quite what we see when looking at the data, the 2020 election had about 5 million more total turnout than the 2024 election. Likely due to the easier voting at the time of the 2020 election. Which is about a 3% change in turnout.

turnout in the battleground states being the same makes sense, i’m curious about the turnout between registered voters, and political alignment, because if i had to guess, a bunch of registered dems, didn’t vote. Which would align with the party demographics, of course the other options are, the US literally wanted trump, which was a global shift away from incumbency, you can see it in the data, or that more republicans were mobilized.

It’s not hard to account for the voter turnout, the problem is specifically why, did trump just run a more effective campaign mobilizing more people? Or did the harris campaign fail to mobilize people to actually vote, as has historically happened.

I don’t believe for a second that someone voting Democrat down the board is going to vote Trump

i mean, does this align with the incumbency though? Coming from the biden admin where he had pretty bad ratings, it’s possible a lot of the downballots were republican at the time, the us tends to flipflop like that, again, it’s historical precedent.

yeah, that sounds about right, ok i think we’ve figured this one out now. lol

all 300 of them?

Those people probably knew who they were, and probably voted after the fact.

is there any data on registered voter turnout in a handful of counties where it really mattered? Because that would tell you whether or not the discrepancy is due to democrats simply not voting, a well known problem within the democratic party.

to be clear, there isn’t hard evidence that shows that trump colluded to win an election with the influence of russia, however it does show a LOT of overlap between the trump campaign, and russian influence in the election, all per the mueller report.

I heard that if you’re black or in a metro area in a swing state that your vote was likely thrown out through some beurocratic bullshit.

the only thing i’ve seen backed up is that a bunch of republicans were challenging registration status of mostly minority identities, pretty much all of which were fraudulent, so it’s possible that this did influence it, not very significantly im guessing, im also pretty sure as a voter, that if your registration was invalid, it would be very very obvious to you. Everything i know about voting registration informs me that you must do all of this BEFORE election day, im not sure if there are any processes that allow you to retroactively do this, im guessing there are a few, but probably for select circumstances, very unlikely to be those im guessing.

Realistically, they probably gerrymandered and ran aggressive campaigning, which appears to have worked.

to be clear, i’ve only ever seen actual reputable evidence of potential voter fraud through the case with the lady that illegally stole code for voting machines, it’s entirely unclear whether or not anything malicious besides stealing code illegally happened or not, however it’s not impossible that something couldn’t have happened, it’s hard to know for sure.

Every other claim seems like complete bullshit, and honestly, given the trump media circus, knock yourself out bro.

… That’s what I said, you’d just update the row, i.e. replace the existing data, i.e. overwrite what’s already there

u were talking about not keeping historical data, which is one of the proposed reasons you would have “duplicate” entries, i was just clarifying that.

… I don’t think you understand how modern databases are designed

it’s my understanding that when it comes to storing data that it shouldn’t be possible to have two independent stores of the exact same thing, in two separate places, you could have duplicate data entries, but that’s irrelevant to the discussion of de-duplication aside from data consolidation. Which i don’t imagine is an intended usecase for a DB. Considering that you literally already have one identical entry. Of course you could simply make it non identical, that goes without saying.

Also, we’re talking about the DB used for the social security database, not fucking tigerbeetle.

On June 25, 2011, the Social Security Administration changed the SSN assignment process to “SSN randomization”,[36] which did the following:

The Social Security Administration does not reuse Social Security numbers. It has issued over 450 million since the start of the program, about 5.5 million per year. It says it has enough to last several generations without reuse and without changing the number of digits. https://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html

evidently they must be doing something else on the backend for this to be working, assuming there are quite literally 100M numbers, which is going to be static due to math, obviously, but they clearly can’t be reassigning numbers to 3 people on average at any given time, without some sort of external mechanism.

There are approximately 420 million numbers available for assignment.

https://www.ssa.gov/employer/randomization.html

that certainly doesnt seem like it would support several generations, possibly at our current birth rate i suppose.

DDG AI bullshit tells me that there are a billion codes. https://www.marketplace.org/2023/03/10/will-we-ever-run-out-of-social-security-numbers/ this article says it’s 1 billion

https://www.ssn-verify.com/how-many-ssns

this website also lists it as approximately 1 billion.

Also, elons remark is stupid as is. Im sure the row has a unique id, even if its just a rowid column.

even then, i wonder if there’s some sort of “row hash function” that takes a hash of all the data in a single entry, and generates a universally unique hash of that entry, as a form of “global id”

Well, there’s not always a benefit to keeping historical data. Sometimes you only want the most up-to-date information in a particular table or database, so you’d just update the row (replace). It depends on the use case of a given table.

in this case you would just overwrite the existing row, you wouldn’t use de-duplication because it would do the opposite of what you wanted in that case. Maybe even use historical backups or CoW to retain that kind of data.

Elon believes that each row in a table should be unique based on the SSN only, so a given SSN should appear only once with the person’s name and details on it. Yes, it’s an extremely dumb idea, but he’s a famously stupid person.

and naturally, he doesn’t know what the term “de-duplication” means. Definitionally, the actual identity of the person MUST be unique, otherwise you’re going to somehow return two rows, when you call one, which is functionally impossible given how a DB is designed.

on the server side, sure, on the development side, sure, on the desktop side? Not very much, it’s usable, thanks to the core of dedicated users, but to be “perfected” it needs a larger userbase.

I planned and sharing that third drive between Windows and Linux so I don’t require duplicating data.

you should definitely be able to do this, i’ve done it before and even played gtav off of it, i’m not sure if it has significant performance penalties, it might slow down game loading, or cause micro stuttering, weird stuff like that, but it will definitely work, it’s just something you should use in the meantime while you work towards moving away from it in the future.

A home server/NAS is also in the works, and I’ll be looking into Samba.

there are other options, but im pretty sure every other option is based on the SMB protocol in some way, samba is just the most barebones way of doing it, if you like tinkering and just want a file sharing server on your local network, it’ll work great, just be sure to enable that weird renaming flag that allows you to translate the character set, since windows has a very weird restriction character set for naming, while linux pretty much only prevents you from using / (directory separator)

truenas is one of the industry staples, but that’s more involved, has a lot of config and flexibility as well,

It’s just been a bit enlightening finding out all the unicorns and rainbows on the Linux side of the fence are equines of indeterminate parentage with paper cones glued to their foreheads and RGB light strips soldered together with a “trust me” sticker on them.

it’s both the worst, and the best part lol. It’s great because everything is so standardized and well implemented half the time it feels like using an open ecosystem, which is truly the best. The other half of the time you have so many options you have no idea what to use, in which case i usually like to select by popularity and it’s minimalism.

Microsoft is still a ghetto, and Apple is a WASP country club where the HOA president lives next door and is “retired”. Computers are both at an all-time high for choice and in some of the worst states it’s been in.

linux is quite literally whatever you want it to be, and that’s why its the best. Can be anything from NYC to a suburb, to a hippie commune if you so choose, just depends on what you want lmao.

Big thing I’m prying at is whether there would be a legitimate purpose to have duplicated SSNs in the database

formally, changing the identity of someone would have a very explicit reason to keep a “duplicate” ssn entry, if purely for historical reasons for example. I’m sure there are a myriad of technical reasons to be doing this.

it seems that nobody really cares about the word retard anymore, it’s quite funny how it went from super common language, to being less common, to people just saying it again now.

I’m curious how many people actually consider the word a slur, and how many people even care these days.

it’s probably using some sort of proprietary home grown database, because it’s probably old enough that no database could support what they needed, could be wrong on that one, but it was my best guess.