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by gs17 4mo ago
> People who have no time to camp, no botting tools or skills, etc can exchange their money instead. But they only need to do that because of the scalpers! The scalpers aren't adding value, they're adding friction and expecting
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by gs17 4mo ago
I want to agree, but it's hard to figure out what's fair, and I doubt Valve has enough verified data to make it fair right now even if we had a good rule for it. Each way I can think of (account age, gameplay time, games owned, pa
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by gs17 4mo ago
> Until earlier this year, Tools for Humanity offered new participants the option to claim tokens of Worldcoin. I'm surprised they gave up on that entirely. It seemed like the only reason anyone would willingly get involved with thi
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by gs17 4mo ago
I think it wasn't so much that ties aren't possible, but that ties don't mean "no one wins". If you make one district safe and three districts are a coin toss between your two rivals, one of them has much more power
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by gs17 4mo ago
I live near plenty of them, they still require to you merge with traffic after. You do "queue and wait for your turn", but immediately after you have to find a gap to insert yourself into before you run out of road.
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by gs17 4mo ago
Plenty of the ones near me are just a concrete blob, unless a little pole with reflectors counts as an art piece.
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by gs17 4mo ago
> What makes it seem crazy is cars entering have right of way. I saw that on either Top Gear or The Grand Tour and was convinced they were just making fun of the French. It's really odd to not have changed it when everyone else lear
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by gs17 4mo ago
"American drivers are too safe" is a new complaint to me.
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by gs17 4mo ago
It's much better when there's no traffic. When there's traffic, it often doesn't stop for you when it exits the roundabout (even if it technically should) because everyone is busy going around the circle as fast as possi
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by gs17 4mo ago
What they're talking about is basically a small concrete circle (sometimes it's not a circle, but a round-ish shape vaguely near the center) plopped down in a standard residential intersection (sometimes with a lot of stuff in it
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by gs17 4mo ago
I live by a bunch of these, but worse IMO is the "four way intersection with no signs or circle or anything" where you just kind of hope no one comes fast and hits you (I imagine on a bike where you wouldn't stop if there was
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by gs17 4mo ago
The buses will at least have an easier time, they should be all trained for how to navigate it if it's on their route, and there's much less traffic on the bus-only part.
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by gs17 4mo ago
It's more a poor place for a roundabout. It was a very busy intersection in one direction, where the switch to roundabouts meant there was no longer a break in traffic. What it needed was a light with a sensor to let the very sporadic
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by gs17 4mo ago
I don't think it's an easy task in reality, but they were claiming there's "countless humanities graduate programs that do nothing but produce and spread left-wing propaganda" outnumbering the important grants and
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by gs17 4mo ago
I've seen clear discrimination in favor of foreign students, but it was specifically because of those abusive conditions. I know of professors who exclusively tried to recruit specific foreign nationalities (their own, typically) becau
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by gs17 4mo ago
Then it should have been easy to cut only those grants instead of the "real science", right?
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by gs17 4mo ago
They're talking about PhDs, many of which are funded by grants.
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by gs17 4mo ago
> The problem is that at intersections the normative behavior of American drivers is to queue and wait for your turn. Roundabouts assume a different behavior based on jumping the line. I don't think it's that different from tur
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by gs17 4mo ago
And as a pedestrian, drivers going around a circle aren't necessarily going to see you until they're already exiting, even if the city didn't put something large in the center that entirely blocks their vision. Plus, you lose
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by gs17 4mo ago
I almost like them, but my commute long ago involved one that revealed a frustrating pathological case. Constant traffic flow in one direction can make an entrance entirely unusable. It makes the average trip more efficient, but the worst c
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by gs17 4mo ago
> But you advocated approval voting solely. Yes, because RCV has issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_squeeze . Voting for your favorite candidate in RCV can help cause them to lose! STAR is okay, but approv
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by gs17 4mo ago
That still requires the options. The next election for me is a primary, with only one race that both has more than one candidate and is competitive AFAIK. The two viable candidates (who will both move on regardless) are similar enough tha
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by gs17 4mo ago
No, approval voting effectively solves spoilers. For example, the Green Party can't be a spoiler for the Democratic Party as people who like both will simply vote for both. RCV has its own novel form of spoiler: https://en.w
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by gs17 4mo ago
Yes, but it specifically ends the "vote for a candidate you dislike instead of the one you do like" type. Strategic approval voting is simply setting a higher/lower threshold on your approval. Your favorite is always included
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by gs17 4mo ago
The ideal is that anyone can run, but it's not that easy to just start an independent campaign that has a decent chance of winning. Local races are the most realistic "anyone can run" arena, but once you need a lot of travel
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by gs17 4mo ago
> The whole idea of "third-party voting is a complete waste in the US" is incredibly dumb because a vote for someone who loses isn't a wasted vote. Yes, but with a caveat, if you had a strong preference between the top two
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by gs17 4mo ago
I don't see how it's a "feature" if it only makes it pleasant if you're fully able-bodied, the weather is nice, there's no traffic, etc. People want to be able to get places. Having to add an hour to every trip
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by gs17 4mo ago
You also need the option to vote for "less-bad" people. Where I am now, my vote doesn't matter, even if it means the "less-bad" people win with no competition (as opposed to where I moved from where things were skew
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by gs17 4mo ago
It identifies as Fable 5 for me, but it could just be Opus with the Fable system prompt.
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by gs17 4mo ago
Oh, I missed the word "also". Thanks for pointing it out!

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