Twitter seems to be doing fine after laying off much more of it's workforce.

I am an ex-programmer who worked a few months with VB. The first time I saw it, I was amazed at how quickly I was able learn & create a User Interface with VB.

OTOH, I found it extremely difficult with Java/Python etc.

Do modern languages have an UI Designer like VB - where you pull a command button off a palette & place it where you want & double click it to write code which gets triggered when you click on the command button at runtime? Arrange UI elements inside a window.

I found Java's UI paradigm with layouts & stuff extremely difficult & confusing.

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> researcher Jackson Henry discovered a vulnerable workstation running the open source, web based eXide IDE.

Fix can be downloaded here

> Vaccine hesitancy is a worldwide phenomenon; only 30% of Hong Kong is vaccinated, and various parts of Europe are stuck at the same level as the US.

I have got my first dose & will get the second one when it's time, but I wouldn't call not getting a covid vaccine as vaccine hesitancy.

None of these vaccines have a general approval from any Govt - all they have is a Emergency Use Approval. Which means even the Govts are hesitant to give it a general approval. Many govts have given a liability waiver to the manufactures - are these given for other vaccines - if not why not? Again it means that the Govts themselves are hesitant

Vaccine hesitancy is when you are hesitating to get a vaccine which has been well tested & fully approved.

> Luckily, the groundwork for securing the practice of remote, online voting is already there.

Voting from home, voting by mail all break "Secret Ballot which is one of the core securities of voting.

If someone offers to pay you 100$ for voting for his party, you could take that 100$ & still vote for someone else at the booth because he has no way of verifying who you voted for at the booth. Because of SECRET BALLOT.

Likewise, if someone is threatening you.

But there is no secret ballot with voting from home or mail-in ballots.

Most countries have laws which insist on "Secret Ballot".

The right to hold elections by secret ballot is included in numerous treaties and international agreements that obligate their signatory states to do so.

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By using ventilators more sparingly on Covid-19 patients, physicians could reduce the more-than-50% death rate for those put on the machines, according to an analysis published Tuesday in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

The biggest problem with online voting (& voting by mail etc) is that it's not a secret ballot.

Let's say someone is paying you to vote for Party X or is threatening you to vote for Party X, if you vote at the booth, he will never know who you actually voted for.

OTOH, if you vote online (or by mail), he can stand over your shoulder & make sure who you voted for.

The Rich Son of Texas can't really be that rich if he is worried about a 10$ a month fee.

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This is probably the reason

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Why do tax software companies need to provide you a free option below a certain income level? Why did they get into this agreement with the IRS?

This guy was a murderous barber, wasn't he?

Internet voting breaks secret ballot. If you are being bribed or threatened into voting for someone & you are voting at booth, then you can vote for anyone without the perpetrator knowing who you actually voted for.

Internet voting, OTOH, doesn't ensure this - the briber or the "threatener" will be looking over your shoulder when you are e-voting.

Nope. I don't have any digital wallet at all.