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by ggggtez 6y ago
Incorrect. From the article you discussed on wiki (Burlington 2009 mayoral race) > In IRV, there is no tactical incentive for a voter withhold or falsify their second choice. We can get into the weeds about mathematical details like Mono
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by ggggtez 6y ago
When talking about argument against RCV, you'd need to come up with a way to create a "spoiler" effect. While it's trivial to create a spoiler in the current system ( Bush v Gore v Nader ), trying to create a spoiler in
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by ggggtez 6y ago
It has the opposite effect that you described. Consider the 2000 Gore v Bush v Nader. Bush won with a minority of votes. But if they used Ranked Choice, and Nader voters are generally assumed to have the preference order (Nader > Gore &g
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by ggggtez 6y ago
No there are no real valid arguments against ranked choice voting. Ranked choice has the benefit that the there is no point in "gaming" your vote, so your optimal strategy and nash-equilibrium is to provide your real candidate pre
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I recently watched a 30 minute video on a non-adblocked browser. There was 2 ads every 3 minutes. It's kind of crazy that this is likely the "normal" experience for millions of people. And that's even without considering
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by ggggtez 6y ago
It's also the kind of story that can break someone's journalistic career. Even Fox News wouldn't run the story because it wasn't supported by facts. And last I heard, there still has been no concrete evidence of wron
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Spoken like someone who hasn't thought much about the speech laws in the USA. In the USA, people are routinely arrested for the same kind of thing, although usually by the FBI, and only after they've made concrete plans for their
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by ggggtez 6y ago
The person will get a trial, but I don't think you're being particularly honest when you throw out unsupported arguments that the "weapons" the police confiscated were "butter knives". You're just inventin
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Because the people who "like" calls to genocide and murder, and stockpile weapons... are the kind of people that you don't want running around in society? It's not like they are arrest everyone who liked this photo. Ju
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> journalists looking at Twitter and either a) using that as a stand-in for 'this is what the public think' or b) making it the story itself. I'm surprised that you say that the main culprit is the main stream media. I se
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> says person commenting on a news aggregation site This story didn't contain anything actionable that changes your decisions either, and yet you still read it and spent the time to comment. I don't see a substantive difference
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> left-leaning sites like Mother Jones It's not clear if they are quoting the engineers here, but that sounds like an individual publisher to me.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I have no idea what this guy is talking about to be honest. I can't really discern even what claim they are trying to disprove in this 10 year old blog post by another author referencing another discussion that I don't have backgr
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I get the feeling that QAnon is pulling in people in the western world, that would have similarly been pulled in by ISIS. A grand narrative of global elites that are cheating you. Promise that there is a figure who is working to stop them a
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by ggggtez 6y ago
No, apparently timelords just play the Towers of Hanoi. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3DHlYgfSdY2RlXkS2K... .
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>It's exhausting having to constantly second-guess every application you want to run. Maybe try to have a sip of coffee before jumping for that $3000. Let's not pretend that this is just ToS fatigue. The only reason they instal
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> gets evaluated by multiplying the color against all the weights. That wasn't what I was expecting This is literally just the definition of a 1 layer neural network.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I think the Google example looks better. As someone looking at the chart, I want bold colors that quickly stand out. Another complain of mine is their statement to use yellow instead of green. But green has the connotation of "good&quo
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I disagree with about half of their decisions about which chart is better.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>Wives/husbands/family are good attack vectors. Not much you can do here to begin with. But you want things locked down to at least friends of friends. Fun doxxing trick: 80% of the time your "first-friend" on social
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by ggggtez 6y ago
This is a key point missing in your original post. If being politically active using your real name or real face is required, you'll need to just accept that people will be able to tie your name and face together eventually. You can ad
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by ggggtez 6y ago
1) Promptly stop saying anything interesting under your real name. Opt out of all social media except to post messages like "Congratulations on the baby!". This will prevent you from making any enemies who know your real name, and
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>we would not need passwords Hahahaha. You don't really think that all "hackers" are literally psychopaths do you? That's rather an amazing way to view the world, to be honest. Does it make it easier to go to sleep at
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> Even if you decentralize society and put as much power as possible in the hands of small communities, there will still be plenty of things that need to be coordinated, from running railroads to deciding on directions for medical resear
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I've never used this service, but let's play along for a moment. Let's say that 100% of the servers were bastions of hatespeech. It seems like the folks in this thread would be against banning it in that case. But I think t
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by ggggtez 6y ago
The last one is only good if you actually read it. I might end up seeing the first clause, assuming the entire line is irrelevant, and moving on without seeing the "Otherwise". Prefer declarative statements: "If you are 60 or
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Or you could just bring some lock picks, and then you don't even need someone with the original key.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Just one idea on what might have happened. If you look at it from the manager's point of view, it is probably something like: Employee told a potential customer that he will make a home-visit, for free. There is no way that the Apple S
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Sounds to me like this guy's job is to do repairs. He may even have access to tools/hardware as an Apple Employee that he doesn't have externally. If he used corporate hardware to do the data transfer, then it doesn't ma
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> 36 of 50 states require some form of voter ID [1] The key thing here is not that any voter ID law is necessarily voter-suppression. Some may argue that any ID law is, but most people would evaluate these on a case-by-case basis. For

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