I'm not waiting so much as I am following Dijkstra's dictum that doctors are not expected to suffer themselves from the diseases* they diagnose. wrt https://ne

I'm not waiting so much as I am following Dijkstra's dictum that doctors are not expected to suffer themselves from the diseases* they diagnose. wrt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=885514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=885514 compare a previous swap: https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/pierce.htm#:~:text=The%20democracy%20of,two%20drunken%20men%2e https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/pierce... ! * I hear the DPRK would give their POWs chocolate bars if they wrote politically correct essays; similarly when I was young I used to get "gold stars" for writing essays about how obviously N=2 parties must be better than, not only N=1, but also N>=3. (thus far we've been able to avoid the major objection in that thread, by keeping a nearly continuous "grand coalition" government: proportional all the way up) [we're also helped because political boundaries are not arbitrarily redrawn, but tend to be based on centuries-to-millennia-old borders; I don't know what they do in the cities, but it's undoubtedly better than Austin TX: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/new-district-maps-texas-comparison/269-5194e901-fd3b-452b-b3b1-86cbdfae6a6e https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/new-district-maps... ]