PaxDramaticus
PaxDramaticus t1_iugo3j6 wrote
Reply to comment by TheMotorcycleBoy in Brazil’s highway police carry out massive voter suppression in Northeast region by New-Program7948
With ebanking, you want your name attached to every transaction you make. The whole point of voting is to detach your name from who you voted for.
Systems that are anonymous, easy to access, and hard to cheat in are quite difficult design challenges. Framing the fact that they haven't been implemented on a wide scale as a conspiracy doesn't make those design challenges easier.
PaxDramaticus t1_iyaaotr wrote
Reply to comment by blatantninja in TIL During the 20th century TV series that reached 100 episodes were generally preferred for syndication, since that meant stations could run 20 weeks of programming without repeating a story. In recent years that number has fallen to 88 episodes. by UndyingCorn
People forget how radically storytelling has changed on TV. There was a time not that long ago when having a series where each episode continued the story directly from the one before was unheard of. The majority if not all of the episodes were bottles or filler. Babylon 5 was radical in its day because writer J. Michael Straczynski knew how he wanted the story to progress over multiple seasons, up to its climax. But the business of producing TV hadn't caught up, so he had to write trap doors into his main characters to explain why they might not be there if contractual business didn't work out. Imagine if David Benioff and D. B. Weiss had to weave opportunities to kill off and replace Tyrion Lannister or Daenerys Targaryen because it couldn't be known if Peter Dinklage or Emelia Clarke would choose to stay on GoT next season.