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by lkrubner 4y ago
If we look at the evolution of legal action in the Western democracies over the last 60 years, especially comparing nations like Germany to USA, we can generalize a bit and say that every society has some conflict, and can choose to deal wi
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"everything is a bit oversold right now on negative emotions" No!!! The Fed is raising rates. That is reality. That is not an emotion. That is absolute economic fact. Inflation is high and will remain high for at least a year (may
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"The current generation of senior leaders" I work with a lot of startups. I was recently working with PairEyewear.com, founded by 2 people who were 26 years old, and who are now 28 years old. They go to the office 4 days a week. I
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by lkrubner 4y ago
Thomas wrote: "But what's really happening there is that there are in fact very well-defined Latino neighborhoods in Chicago, and the earmuffs capture a bunch of them neatly: Pilsen, Little Village, Cicero, Belmont-Cragin. If you
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Should voter's votes combine on a per-issue basis, rather than per-candidate?(demodexio.substack.com)
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There are different ways to measure a bad economy. For instance, there are formal measures, such as GDP, and under that measure, the economy formally shrunk in the USA in Q1. Which is bad, but not catastrophic. There are some informal measu
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Environmental activist: we must cut back on the use of fossil fuels, or climate change will be catastrophic CEO of Shell Oil: What? Why? What is wrong with fossil fuel? Why are you attacking me? What evidence do you have that lets you use w
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In terms of making assertions from personal experience, I do emphasize that what I've seen is limited to New York City. If you live some place else, your experiences might be very different. Perhaps I should repeat this point.
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Thank you.
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Ask HN: Is there a list of all the embeddable databases?
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This also has implications when we discuss workers who want to "work from home." I reference Coase in "What work can be done from home? What work needs to be done at an office?" While I think this piece is carefully rese
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Yes, good example.
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So, one limit that I face is that most people won't read an essay on the Web if it is longer than 3,000 or maybe 4,000 words. So it is impossible for me to repeat every idea in every essay. But I did recently (this week) write suggesti
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"Sure there is: in these cases, there is no single well-defined all-encompassing goal, and it may not be possible to define one." I was referring to Thomas's goals. What does Thomas want to do? What is he trying to achieve? W
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Are you describing the state you live in?
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"You said to have them incorporate their own city. This seems different?" Everyone in a polity (a town or region or nation or perhaps special district) should be free to vote for every candidate running for that polity. The polity
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by lkrubner 4y ago
This is the only reason to study STV, to look at the interesting patterns. Likewise, I'm fascinated by a knowledge-graph pattern (I'm not sure if it has a name) where we use something like k-means clustering to discover less popul
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You actually remove the possibility of accountability if you are drawing the maps so that a party that behaves badly still has a 50% chance of winning.
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"where subject matter experts can actually improve things" How to correctly mobilized the talents of subject matter experts is a complex issue, and no one is certain of the correct answer: https://demodexio.substack.com
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Author here. Some people, who wrote comments in response to this essay, were focused on the intentional dishonesty of gerrymandering, and they wrote things like this: "You can easily get rid of gerrymandering simply by proscribing an a
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by lkrubner 4y ago
Are the 5,000 people on Slack in leadership positions? I'd bet that when a decision needs to be made, it is made by smaller groups.
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Can you say why you were prefer STV over simple approval voting where the top 5 vote getters win? Substantial distortions are still possible with STV, and it is complicated. By contrast "50 candidates are running, the voters get 50 vot
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I am not a very powerful money interest.
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From the essay: ------------------------- Hmm, okay, so what would be fair? Perhaps we want to give each party a fighting chance in each election? Isn't that fair? 2 districts each hold 100,000 blues 8 districts hold 50,000 blues and a
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by lkrubner 4y ago
From the essay: ------------------------- Hmm, okay, so what would be fair? Perhaps we want to give each party a fighting chance in each election? Isn't that fair? 2 districts each hold 100,000 blues 8 districts hold 50,000 blues and a
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by lkrubner 4y ago
My proposal is to have no geographic sub-districts to any polity. Everyone in a city should be free to vote for all candidates for city council, everyone in a region should be free to vote for all candidates for the regional assembly, every
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by lkrubner 4y ago
I think I was clear. My proposal is to have no geographic sub-districts to any polity. Everyone in a city should be free to vote for all candidates for city council, everyone in a region should be free to vote for all candidates for the reg
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by lkrubner 4y ago
I agree and I don't understand why some people are drawn to to STV. Among its problems is the simple fact that it is complicated. By contrast, simple approval voting (given 50 candidates, vote as much as you want and the top 5 candidat
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Many democracies vote for parties, not representatives, and many have no geographical subdivisions that are represented at the national level. But I agree with your point about groupings on other dimensions. I call that demotmimata. The USA
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Another approach is to incorporate that neighborhood as its own independent city. I think we should think about these issues creatively, while sticking with the idea whatever the goal, we should approach it directly, rather than achieving t

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