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by malkung 13y ago
It is much easier on your eyes. Having to scroll through code bloat is just physically painful.
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by malkung 15y ago
I once tried to identify the language in (supposedly) English-language Facebook posts. The second-most frequent language was Estonian. Looking at actual posts classified as Estonian, it turned out they contained text like "Soooooo nice". Be
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by malkung 15y ago
What is "weighted"? In which way was the percentage weighted? Why look at (weighted) percentage of turnout rather than at raw counts?
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by malkung 15y ago
Because bureaucracy has grown a lot under Putin, and those people might as well lose jobs if some other party comes to power. Also think about increases in salaries and pensions, before the elections, etc. But these do not count as direct v
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by malkung 15y ago
Another explanation is that people working in government bodies in Russia (including state-funded education, healthcare and military institutions) make up some 30 million, so United Russia gets a huge number of votes just from them. Moscow
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by malkung 15y ago
Chechnya usually votes close to 100% for Putin, simply because a lot of government money is poured in Chechnya, disproportionately more than in any other region of Russia,
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by malkung 15y ago
Interesting. Did you look at the polling stations at the irregular spikes? What is their number, rather than percentage. The absoulte number (even better, the number of voters in them) would indicate what effect hey had on the overall resul