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by dane-pgp 4y ago
While we're offering troll feature suggestions, I have another: Add a calculation for how many person-hours such a ballot would have taken if carried out by hand (based on scientifically validated assumptions about how long one person
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That's a clever system, thanks for sharing it. What I appreciate most about it, though, is the explicit goal of "being easier to count by hand", which I think many advocates of voting-reform overlook. You even say "by s
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> I fear RCV is going to poison the well for any FPTP alternatives for a long time to come. Which, cynically, might be the reason it has achieved the level of adoption that it has so far. We at least have to consider the possibility tha
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Clicking through to the most recent (September 2022) draft, we can see it talks about needing an "Attestation CA"[0], saying: > In this case, an authenticator is based on a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and holds an authenticat
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Yeah, it sounds like a TTRPG doesn't it? "Does applying scorched earth musk to my zeitgeist weapon always succeed, or do I need to roll another D20 for that?"
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Then they should just start their own mobile carrier. /s
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I'm reluctant to risk my fake internet points, but I think you are being over-confident if you imagine there will be "zero attempts". I assume that to count as an "attempt" you would require there to be an actual v
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I believe that most jurisdictions don't take kindly to private individuals/corporations jamming mobile phone signals, not least because it blocks the ability to make emergency calls. As we don't know what frequencies a cheat
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> This seems to be a shadowban by possibly overzealous/incompetent ISPs. I suspect we won't get many people joining this discussion to say that private companies are allowed to do whatever they want, and it's not censorshi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I agree that Approval Voting would probably be an ever better reform than RCV, but I don't think it's quite as simple as you suggest. Implicit in the voting process is deciding what you think "support" means. For some v
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I completely agree with you, except I think the middle line of your comment is needlessly snide. One could equally say: "Protecting unborn (and newly born) humans is very inconvenient. They make all sorts of demands of you. (So mayb
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> buying Russian gas cheaply the last 30 years This is what people miss. What is the opportunity cost of over-paying for gas for 30 years? By not over-paying, Germany was able to invest in its own economy, and it is now in a position t
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> At some point in the future, Texans who visit social media sites might be greeted with a pop-up screen saying something like: “The content you are about to see contains graphic violence, white supremacist imagery and other objectionabl
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Just as´ examples of desirable properties are Unanimity, Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives. I'm aware of many desirable properties, such as the ones listed here[0], but "Unanimity" is not mentioned on that page. I
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> talk from one party about ending the filibuster Do you really think that if the GOP win the House, Senate, and Presidency, they won't scrap the filibuster to ban abortion nationwide in 2025? You're right that setting new prec
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That reminds me of the strange little piece of trivia that the last surviving US Civil War widow died in 2020: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/08/last-civil-w...
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
For what it's worth, most countries, including the US, are parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, of which Protocol II requires a ban on "the use of non-self-destructing and non-self-deactivating mines outside
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That's an interesting theoretical attack that I hadn't considered, thank you for sharing it. I think a possible rule to defend against it would be to mandate that any political party needs to have received at least 5% of the popul
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
For what it's worth, the US is at least destroying its remaining stockpiles of chemical weapons, and is due to finish the process by September 2023. Let's hope the country doesn't get involved in a large scale conflict betwe
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think candidates might be reluctant to do this, since it could be seen as an admission that the candidate thinks they might not win (although personally I would view a candidate as being arrogant and complacent if they couldn't imagi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Thank you for giving that very practical advice about how to engage people on the issue of electoral reform. I think that a lot of advocates for reform (especially on a site like this) tend to think of voting as a purely abstract exercise,
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Children seem to handle quiz questions like "rank these animals from smallest to largest" just fine. Do they, though? Does "largest" mean "tallest" or "heaviest"? Is a tiger bigger than a lion?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
RCV creates a path for new parties to form, while preventing existing parties from being taken over by extremists. This leads to parties becoming more representative of their voters (and gives more people a reason to vote). Term limits jus
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Asset voting gives no guarantees whatsoever I'm not sure what guarantees you require a voting system to provide. Do you not agree it is better than plurality voting? I suppose you could say that it's not "guaranteed&quo
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think that electoral reform advocates have started to accept that the public is wary of large changes to the voting system and the allocation of districts. Partly that's for good reason, since the public has seen how those aspects of
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The two needs aren't as orthogonal as the headline suggests, though. It might be possible, for instance, to start a third party that exists solely to pressure the Democrats into supporting RCV (first at the state level, then federally)
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We don’t need a third party. We need ranked choice voting(chicagotribune.com)
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
This is actually an interesting question. Just being granted citizenship doesn't mean you are automatically issued a passport. That requires a separate application process, where the government can probably refuse your request for an
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
To concede that cheating took place would mean that they had failed in their responsibility to stop it happening, and that somehow their method of detection only worked after the cheating was happening, rather than during or before. For t
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> of course it doesn’t prevent you from fantasizing about making it mandatory To be clear, it is a requirement of Chinese law that companies have CCP committees as "a way of installing a party representative within a company's

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