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by obelos 5y ago
Also in Oregon, Wings & Waves is an indoor water park where the four big slides start out in a jet mounted to the roof: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.2042334,-123.1495756,172m/da...
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by obelos 5y ago
I think it may ultimately be more useful to think of mask mandates as an effect rather than a cause of reduced disease spread. Communities that are culturally predisposed toward prosociality don't actually need mandates to produce coll
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“Stop discriminating,” by itself frequently doesn't cut it, though. And when it doesn't, playing to the numbers is another tool to use to attempt to reach a just equilibrium. It gives the minority gender a means of establishing ne
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by obelos 5y ago
There are some extreme but isolated examples of people who are disposed to this opinion, but more commonly the objection to fields being dominated by one gender or the other is because those workplaces, as this study points out, can't
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by obelos 5y ago
> It shouldn't be hard to imagine the shoe being on the other foot and some energy company paying professors to testify that some new environmental law is asinine. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but this is
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by obelos 5y ago
Yes, really. State schools are public institutions. Their employees are public employees. As public institutions, they are not legally permitted to enact policy that infringes 1A rights. A private school could have more leeway on this—subje
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by obelos 5y ago
Organizations that aren't the government. State universities are public institutions, not private ones.
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by obelos 5y ago
It is none of U of F's business whether or not their testimony is politically biased.
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by obelos 5y ago
I'm no mathematician, but Arrow himself said he was speaking of ordinal methods: “And in my theorem I’m assuming that the information is a ranking. Each voter can say of any two candidates, I prefer this one to this one.”[1] That'
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by obelos 5y ago
Correct. Methods that use “rating” instead of “ranking.”
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by obelos 5y ago
Using cardinal (score/range) methods instead of ordinal ones avoids the constraints of Arrow. It only applies to ordinal methods.
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by obelos 5y ago
I suspect there's also value in avoiding showing some forms of persuasive/propagandistic content to those who are unlikely to be amenable to it. This allows the content to circulate with less suppressive feedback from a target&#x2
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by obelos 5y ago
Is there a name for a cognitive bias that predisposes one toward favoring iconoclastic positions solely for their novelty? Because that seems fairly endemic in the tech industry.
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by obelos 5y ago
Wednesday is the planetary day of Mercury, who is more cognate with Odin.
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by obelos 5y ago
Just last year all the living former Secretaries of Defense penned a letter addressed to those serving in the military reminding them of their duty to the Constitution, not to any political figure. That these experts thought it necessary an
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by obelos 5y ago
They weren't required to get any other vaccinations when they enlisted?
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by obelos 5y ago
How can we be 18 months into a global pandemic and so many people still not understand that diseases are contagious and “healthy” people who manage to avoid dying from the disease still spread it and also take away healthcare resources from
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by obelos 5y ago
What animal tests? Are there even any hypothesized mechanisms by which an mRNA therapy, as a general method, would produce long term consequences? It's fragile and decomposes in the body over the course of a couple weeks, leaving no tr
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by obelos 5y ago
The CDC study doesn’t control for behavioral differences between the two studied populations, though, which weakens their conjecture that there is a clear causal relationship that confers more immunity to those who’ve had Covid+vaccine comp
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by obelos 5y ago
I haven't been to Phoenix in twenty years, but it's hard for me—as someone who is not a civil engineer—to grasp how this is the case. I remember walking around there in the summer and being shocked to see a higher concentration of
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by obelos 5y ago
Mixing multiple purposes into a single commit not only makes the initial review more difficult, it makes later review very taxing when, for example, trying to sort out the “why” of a particular change when troubleshooting. If you have to lo
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by obelos 5y ago
This drove me crazy for the longest time, but I discovered there's a payments page[1] that lists each individual charge with a link to the order it's associated with. This has made reconciliation in YNAB much faster and reliable.
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TurboTax Maker Intuit Opts Out of IRS Free File Program(news.bloomberglaw.com)
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by obelos 5y ago
Another benefit of Approval Voting ballots is you basically cannot spoil them. You can't rate/rank the same candidate more than once, and marking multiple candidates is valid.
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by obelos 5y ago
Isn't that just a score/range system, then?
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by obelos 5y ago
It's simply not accurate to say that IRV isn't particularly strategic. It removes strategy from basically one case: two viable major candidates and one or more nonviable minor candidates. As soon are there are more than two viable
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by obelos 5y ago
I just don't see any evidence that IRV can be considered a stepping stone to truly better voting methods. Looking empirically at the matter, the places that adopt and later repeal IRV don't adopt better methods. They revert to cho
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by obelos 5y ago
People voting for the only candidate they want just doesn’t strike me as a failure. The failure comes when someone has to vote for someone who is not their preferred. That said, the 2016 Dem primary doesn’t seem like a useful example for te
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by obelos 5y ago
Another downside is that while it does prevent spoilers, RCV doesn’t prevent other forms of vote splitting. It keeps an unlikely outlier candidate from tanking the consensus candidate, but it doesn't prevent splits between three or mor
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by obelos 5y ago
This is what happened in Burlington, VT that prompted them to repeal IRV/RCV: https://electionscience.org/library/irv-and-core-support/

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