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> Even on HN you can still see claims that USA is a "free" country where anyone can say anything about the government, without consequences.

The first amendment applies to public spaces. Not private conferences which are invite-only. You're on an anti-U.S. tear in this discussion but lack understanding of the basics.

For the same reason I can't show up at your office and start handing out religious materials and/or pornography (take your pick) to everyone showing up for work and claim it's a free speech issue and my right to do so.

As someone else pointed out below, this exact argument was used to ban apps lacking "correct" moderation from the app stores a few years ago.

I'm a bit confused.

The first three posts you linked were all upvoted, one sits at +10.

In absence of an official scoring rubric, how is one to know what will or won't make you upset if the feedback differs?

As few have already pointed out, an AI hallucination...

Quick, to the top of HN!

Toyota engineers equally puzzled their doors fly off when you reverse through a toll booth with them open.

This submission should be studied by people holding clipboards. It needs a follow-up:

"How I made it to the top of HN with zero content beyond a catchy title"

It further proves the key to getting your stuff on HN is not to post interesting content, it's to post something that sounds interesting.

Sounds like a great use case for serving plain HTTP over cloudflare tunnel. Why terminate TLS when you don't have to?

Interesting this keeps moving up the front page when the site is inaccessible because it's hosted on a baked potato.

This isn't 'Nam, there are rules.

If your ballot shows up a year later does it deserve to be counted? No, it doesn't.

You seem to be taking the position of the end of Trading Places, screaming "turn those machines back on!"

You set a deadline. Everything past the deadline is discarded. California allows for an 8-day buffer, which is artificial.

Lobby to mail the ballots 8 days earlier if that would make you happy.

Because every time basic fraud prevention measures are brought up, everyone acts all cutesy saying show me proof it's ever happened as if the world is somehow honest by default when it comes to elections.

Do you leave your servers wide open with all ports exposed? Do you ask "prove to me we've been owned before" when you're told to put a firewall in place?

I wouldn't want to disenfranchise people sending ICMP traffic my way.

The disenfranchisement bit is such a tired, worn out trope.

They mail them a month ahead of time.

Developing countries where people struggle with food and sanitation have this figured out and California rightfully deserves to be mocked by them.

Voting is for adults and we don't need to cripple the system to cater to people so irresponsible they can't drop a piece of paper in a box on time. If that's too hard you don't deserve to vote or there is something more nefarious at play.

Because if they find out your registration was fraudulent a day later, how are they supposed to dig your anonymous ballot out from the barrel?

It's for the same reason most insurance policies have a waiting period. To prevent the most low-hanging fruit of fraud.

I've actually seen this happen in big cities where they have same-day popup registration tents in the middle of skid row, signing up random homeless people who don't even have stable addresses. No verification, nothing, we'll worry about that later here take a ballot. I'm sure everything was on the up-and-up there.

Whenever the obvious drawbacks of mail-in voting are brought to light, the massive cope machine comes out in full force.

Many of the flaws are self-imposed. The requirement for ballots to merely be postmarked by election day is insane. If my credit card bill is due on June 5, it's due on the 5th, not postmarked by. I will pay penalties if it arrives past that date.

If you have the privilege of voting by mail then be an adult and mail it promptly so it arrives by election day when all ballots should be counted. Ballots arriving after should be summarily rejected.

California also allows same-day registration, another insane innovation ripe for irregularities.

A compromise would be vote-from-home but dropoff-in-person (where ID is checked). I would argue most states allow ample time for early voting, sometimes weeks ahead of time, allowing just about anybody to fit it into their schedule to vote in person. The arguments for default vote by mail (barring some verified hardship) simply don't hold up enough to offset the potential negatives.