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by cwmma 8y ago
I think the idea of rating candidates vs voting for them could be less intuitive and feels more complex, though there isn't any reason you couldn't just change it to 'rank candidates in order of preference 1-5, candidates may
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Runoffs are something people understand, IRV is conceptually similar and makes intuitive sense to people, it's very easy to explain to people, 'if nobody gets a majority, eliminate last place and redistribute their votes, repeat&#
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For the record, rent subsidies are the thing that actually accomplishes the thing that rent control tries to do, but is often a much harder sell because the costs are much more upfront compared to something like rent control.
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Some of these seem like, leaps, e.g. is knowledge passed down for 15 millennia really the most likely explanation compared to say, meanings of words changing (like the name of the island used to refer to a promontory on the island before ch
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by cwmma 8y ago
Ladino comes from the word Latin and according to Wikipedia used to be the term for literary Spanish
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by cwmma 8y ago
I wonder if there has been a study on how effective the sikh turban is as a motorcycle helmet, I mean it's probably not as good a helmet, but it is basically a large amount of padding around the head so it's going to provide some
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by cwmma 8y ago
It's not just galaxies it's also the interactions between galaxies and while you can tweak gravity to handle galxey rotations it doesn't work for those bigger structures, though dark matter does work for both.
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A lot of these experiments start from a premise that the simulating universe has similar physics to the one being simulated and thus any short cuts might be noticed, but the outer universe could be be more have more complex (or just differe
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by cwmma 8y ago
For high school at least it's like applying to collage, you take a standardized test and send out applications which some schools (Boston Latin) being more desirable then others.
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by cwmma 8y ago
-1 means unknown projection, though for GeoJSON you can usually assume it's either going to have an EPSG code in there or it's 4326 (the only differences in GeoJSON versions is that in newer versions of GeoJSON it HAS to be in 432
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by cwmma 8y ago
also the encoding of the database is stored in a file that ends in `.cpg` which I'm pretty sure stands for code page. Source: I wrote a shapefile parser and generator.
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by cwmma 8y ago
The real annoying thing is that one of the reasons shapefiles are so bad, and so hard to replace is they fill a bunch of niches in a half assed way and no sane replacement format is going to replace shapefile in all situations. Need a stand
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by cwmma 8y ago
So the shapefile is from a pre-internet era, so it has a .prj file that describes the projection in a detailed enough way so that any program can just look at the file and figure out how to handle the data. (that being said it's a shit
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by cwmma 8y ago
one of the big things that news papers do is pick through various sources and figure out which are important and which aren't, if you go directly to the source and you aren't careful, you can get stovepiped[1]. More generally who
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by cwmma 8y ago
> It turns out when you design the system specifically not to be racist, it isn't racist. This is key, New Jersey went out of it's wait to avoid using anything that could be a proxy for race like zip codes. They also used big
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by cwmma 8y ago
yeah that's because their skin is basically soaked in urine, so it's a kind of niche market compared to the industrial harvesting of whales, a group of species known to be very intelligent.
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I forgot about geese, those assholes will fight you for fun
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> They’re certainly noisy, and they defecate on people and property with abandon (and in great volume—a pigeon produces a hefty 25 pounds of excrement per year), but you can say the same about lots of animals. No you really can't, I
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by cwmma 8y ago
Federation is not some sort of magic dust that would fix signal, you'd be just exchanging one problem (centralization) with another (spam). Plus in all likelihood even if they did federate, it would just be like email with gmail that t
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by cwmma 8y ago
I'm bit sure I've ever seen a man in the stroller division of a race I've been at.
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by cwmma 8y ago
I was taking a lyft to the airport in St. Louis a couple months back coming home from a geospatial conference and the driver heard me talking to my coworker about maps and mentioned that he too worked on geospatial data as he worked for the
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Reminds me of the effort to get people in Boston to map the neighborhood boundaries https://bostonography.com/2012/crowdsourced-neighborhood-bou... You've got a weirder situation in Cambridge, where there are &#x2
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by cwmma 8y ago
Taxi medallion owners not NOT drivers. Most drivers would pay a fee to the owner and rent the medallion for the day.
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> Not long afterward, Jacobson opened a package sent to him by mistake from a supplier in Hong Kong. Inside he found a set of the anti-tamper seals for the game piece envelopes—the only thing he needed to steal game pieces en route to th
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The interesting thing was that theoretically it was more then one person here because the prizes were in the tamper proof bags, the thing that really enabled him to do it was that extra package of tamper resistant seals that were sent to hi
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The article says that half of the nearby stars have these large close-in planets, which would suggest that even if there are biases in the detection mechanism it's still at least as common a type of system as ours.
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This is the idea...
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> The public benefit of a patent is that the information is public They cover that in the paper. More generally 'productivity' is being used slightly more abstractly here more in terms of general welfare, e.g. do patents serve
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your thinking of Alston Christmas which is September 1. Every lease I had in Somerville, Medford, Cambridge, and Quincy all were for September 1.
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Wikipedia has all the (undisputed) footage of a Thylacine [1]. 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AThyla...

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