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by bradbeattie 17y ago
I'd argue that Agricola isn't deterministic. The cards dealt out at the beginning are done so randomly and often lead to asymmetry. Beyond that, I don't recall any chance. One feature of Agricola I don't like much is that it's difficult to
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by bradbeattie 17y ago
If you find yourself enjoying Settlers, take a look at BoardGameGeek's top 20 list of games: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame While Settlers is a nice gateway game, there's a fair amount of chance involved that can be frustra
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by bradbeattie 17y ago
An internal memo put on a publicly accessible blog ceases to be internal. It becomes part of PR.
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by bradbeattie 17y ago
Range voting is one of the few systems that requires strategic voting with only two candidates. This isn't a good thing. :/ Demographic A (10 voters): Candidate X valued at 40, Y at 60 Demographic B (3 voters): Candidate X valued at 1
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by bradbeattie 17y ago
People generally don't understand how their household appliances work. They only care about understanding the interface (e.g. open fridge door, put stuff in, stuff stays cool).
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by bradbeattie 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrows_impossibility_theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbard–Satterthwaite_theorem
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by bradbeattie 17y ago
Boo. Approval sucks. Schulze method for the long haul. Majority criterion is fairly important, yeah? Approval (aka restricted range voting) fails that. On a side note, I've been working on a JSON web service to calculate election winners in
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by bradbeattie 17y ago
Either way, it's a win for WebKit.