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The election of the doge (ruler) in the Republic of Venice used a mixture of voting and sortition, ostensibly to make it harder to collude. https://www.theball
by qsort 3y ago
The election of the doge (ruler) in the Republic of Venice used a mixture of voting and sortition, ostensibly to make it harder to collude.
https://www.theballotboy.com/electing-the-doge https://www.theballotboy.com/electing-the-doge
- Obscurity4340 3y agoAh, the origin of dogecoin
- 221qqwe 3y agoWas "doge" the Japanese dog meme really related to the Italian title, though? I thought it was just an intentional misspelling of dog
- lizardking 3y agoPretty sure it was and it’s a coincidence. There was an entire pseudo dialect around that meme
- Khaine 3y agoI always assumed it was supposed to be sounded out like dog-e-coin not doge-coin, but people did it the other way as a joke and it stuck.
- smolder 3y agoIt's not.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoI should have /s it