Applied correctly, either every credible outlet excepting this one with the capacity to monitor and detect election fraud was busy during one of the most contentious races in modern US history, or nothing was missed and the convenient outlier can be dismissed as that.
The better explanation is probably that people who were annoyed by having to listen to dubious claims of voter and election fraud over the past four years are using this thread to give others a taste of their own medicine.
Extraordinary claims like this need a lot more substantiation to be news. As-is, this is just some crazy person yelling at the clouds. We don't need to amplify that.
> Extraordinary claims like this need a lot more substantiation to be news
That's the point of having this discussion (and not flagging, ridiculing and suppressing it). It will take some time and attention to scrutinize both the analysis and the software.
Don't know, this seems both important and of technical interest.
If Occam's Razor is of any value here, there are likely many more Trump voters on Hacker News than one might expect.
Applied correctly, either every credible outlet excepting this one with the capacity to monitor and detect election fraud was busy during one of the most contentious races in modern US history, or nothing was missed and the convenient outlier can be dismissed as that.
The better explanation is probably that people who were annoyed by having to listen to dubious claims of voter and election fraud over the past four years are using this thread to give others a taste of their own medicine.
I didn't flag, so whatever.
Extraordinary claims like this need a lot more substantiation to be news. As-is, this is just some crazy person yelling at the clouds. We don't need to amplify that.
> Extraordinary claims like this need a lot more substantiation to be news
That's the point of having this discussion (and not flagging, ridiculing and suppressing it). It will take some time and attention to scrutinize both the analysis and the software.