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harrisj / 2020_tweets_from_harrisj.md
Created November 5, 2024 18:16
Stupid Election "Fraud" detection from 2020

Because they'll likely roll out the same bad code again, I decided to bring out some tweets from 2020 about how a past effort to reconstruct the vote and prove that votes were being reallocated from Trump to Biden rested on multiple bad assumptions. Sharing today in case it's relevant again.

Hey all, I just saw the stupidest "proof of voting fraud" by someone with a terrible Python script and I don't know if I should bother explicating all the mistakes he's making

Okay, the first thing you must understand about live election reports is that they are eventually consistent. County people are giving numbers to stringers who are reporting things in dozens of time each hour. Individual mistakes happen and get corrected over the night

As a result, it's a really stupid assumption to look at two different timestamps like this: T1: N votes Cand1: 50.3% Cand2: 47.8% T2: N+M votes Cand1: 50.4% Cand2: 47.6%

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(including unpaid Fee the dollars that would be
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(B) The provisions of 47.303-3(c), the Contractor's right, Economy for Construction.
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harrisj / fake_far.txt
Created February 20, 2020 03:51
Fake FAR text
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performs an icers, defective or noncoverent accounting procedures, together with-rights
(including unpaid Fee the dollars that would be
the form of performance of a sectre-owned small business settlement proposal aracts;” the terms and conditions of Severance Program (line item number;
(B) The provisions of 47.303-3(c), the Contractor's right, Economy for Construction.
22.1007(i)(A)
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harrisj / FAR.txt
Created February 20, 2020 01:47
The text of the FAR
This file has been truncated, but you can view the full file.
VOLUME I-PARTS 1 TO 51
FEDERAL
ACQUISITION
REGULATION
Issued Fiscal Year 2019 by the:
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
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harrisj / shins_girls.txt
Last active May 7, 2017 23:56
All the times the Shins mention a girl
And she was no ordinary girl
Girl, inform me, all my senses warn me
Remember the girls in the middle are always the first to fall off.
You're the girl on the wing of a barnstormer
So forget about it, girl
I gotta leave here, my girl, get on with my lonely life
Girl, you must atone some
Eyeless in the morning sun you were pale and mild, a modern girl
You'd be damned to be one of us, girl
Dare to be one of us, girl
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harrisj / examples.txt
Created April 20, 2017 16:26
Adding even numbers between 1 and 100
Go
total := 0
for i := range 100 {
if i % 2 == 0 {
total = total + i
}
}
Rust
let evens = (0..100).filter(|&x| x % 2 == 0);
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harrisj / times_machine.rb
Created April 10, 2016 01:34
My hackish Ruby script for hopping to a random NYT issue in the years 1851 - 1922 (ie, in the public domain)
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
years = (1851..1922).to_a
months = (1..12).to_a
def max_day_for_month(month, year)
case month
when 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12
31
when 9, 4, 6, 11

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harrisj / gist:4e55678aeca0bcaf3f16
Last active August 29, 2015 14:16
Georgetown Lecture

Outline for Georgetown Business Class

  • Who I am
  • Journalist's Best friends: SKEPTICISM AND PARANOIA
    • They're here to keep you from making mistakes
    • SKEPTICISM - is this data really correct?