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by adamjb 5y ago
Original mailing list post https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2021-Jun...
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The machines at the polling places can only count first preferences. Distribution of preferences will occur once the votes are transferred to the central scrutiny centre. https://twitter.com/AntonyGreenABC/status/1
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>Yes? I said those 4 examples use different election styles, not that Canada doesn't use FPTP... FPTP is a winner takes all electoral system. You said Canada had "a parliament where seats are assigned proportionately to votes (
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by adamjb 5y ago
>who also uses MMP (like Australia) Australian federal lower house elections are single member IRV, upper house are multiple member STV. MMP isn't used anywhere in Australia.
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by adamjb 5y ago
>These 4 countries have 4 different voting systems but what they have in common is a parliament where seats are assigned proportionately to votes (there's no winner take all). That is wrong. Australian lower house seats are single m
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by adamjb 5y ago
Interesting tidbit from the first person account linked as a reference >Some years after the incident, my hidden fears of high speed flight came to the surface and I had to spend two periods in hospital. I had not come to terms with the
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When graphs are a matter of life and death(newyorker.com)
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No, it's 25%. It doesn't matter what the first word is as long as it's the same as the second.
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Active Grandparenting, Costly Repair(harvardmagazine.com)
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This deserves to be shouted from the hilltops >In human relationships we can't optimize without becoming greedy selfish unethical crooks. And in commerce we prefer relations to transactions, ready to support the local butcher becaus
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by adamjb 5y ago
They've updated it to >North America (Ashburn (BWI), Ashburn (DCA), Ashburn (IAD)), Europe (Amsterdam (AMS)), and Asia/Pacific (Hong Kong (HKG), Tokyo (TYO), Singapore (QPG)).
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From TFA >In places where globally standardized time is enforced, some still rebel, like in China, where the entire country is under one time zone, BST (Beijing Standard Time). In Xinjiang, nearly 2,000 miles west of Beijing, where the s
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by adamjb 5y ago
It filters to ways with the "highway" attribute, which has possible values including "footway", "bridleway", "steps", and "corridor" in addition to the ones you'd expect with the Americ
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The Protagonist Problem(uncannymagazine.com)
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The font used by the Biden campaign and presidency was inspired by watch typography. https://www.typography.com/fonts/decimal/design-notes
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If you're going to bring averages into it, the average 18 year old has ~9 moves remaining in their life, meaning that they'd only move an extra 3 times. https://www.census.gov/topics/population/migration&
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by adamjb 5y ago
You only need a lexicon of about 700 words to get a resolution of 50m with four words, which I reckon would be good enough for rescue work (i.e. the one niche w3w has managed to establish itself in).
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That's a surprisingly eutopian vision when you put it like that.
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Calculating flow in winter reroutes around the Alps
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The Dassault Falcon 900EX doesn't have enough range to get from Moscow to Bolivia. It might've had enough fuel to get across the Atlantic, but only if they were planning on refueling in the US or Canada after making a large deviat
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Boy's gotta eat >Now, I've added another channel: Medium, where I'm part of a group of paid writers who contribute a mix of original material that's exclusive to the platform and syndicated material from elsewhere. h
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>Malay / Indonesian is one of the world's major languages, with up to two hundred million native speakers. Actually, though, it is not one language, or even two, but a family of languages with about as much
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by adamjb 5y ago
...are there really places in the US that are considered suburbs where the nearest place to get groceries is 10-15 miles away? That's appalling.
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The person was who runs this occasionally pops up around here https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ahaucnx
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by adamjb 5y ago
>Politicians will never win votes by promising to reduce govt debt. Huh, what? Promises to balance the budget or run a surplus are practically a cliche at this point.
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by adamjb 5y ago
Are you on mobile? I find that twitter can be quite uncooperative to those who aren't logged in on mobile.
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That is in fact what the UCI regulations say.
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How is it possible to separate DALYs lost from high BMI from DALYs lost from low vegetables and/or low physical activity? The author never fully explains the methodology behind the graph.
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Easy rerouting is also a disadvantage: no one wants to rely on a service that can be effortlessly taken away.
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Yeah of course there's a wealth of difference between Haussmann and Corbusier, 70 years will do that. But if someone had that it was Haussmann that dreamt of "cleaning and purging cities of disorder" with "calm and power

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