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by snakeboy 5y ago
How about those at the margin? I'd guess most policy proposals don't seem productive when you condense a population down to a scalar "model" subject and ask if he would change his behavior in light of the new policy. T
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by snakeboy 5y ago
> When approval voting advocates oppose IRV in jurisdictions with plurality voting, however, it just splits the effort and leaves FPTP in place. Sounds like we are in need of some voting-reform voting reforms!
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by snakeboy 5y ago
I suspect the people who are "virtually guaranteed" to need payouts are a small population compared to the majority of people that live somewhere in the gray zone between the two extremes. Then, to quantify the people in that gray
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Well the hotel has [countably] infinite-many rooms, so the nth guest moves to room n+1.
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by snakeboy 5y ago
In general, floating point error can accumulate in iterative algorithms where you are feeding the result of one calculation into the next step.
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by snakeboy 5y ago
I didn't say it harms scientists. I said this example doesn't progress science. Curious laypersons are well and good. I would recommend they start by reading the linked Quanta article :)
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by snakeboy 5y ago
I wonder which political variable could have left office between then and now to explain that?
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Yes, but speculation about the most obvious questions from someone who hasn't done any work to investigate whether it's already been addressed doesn't progress science either. Here's the 2nd paragraph from the linked art
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by snakeboy 5y ago
> interest/resources/profits It doesn't seem like Microsoft should have any of these issues. At most "interest", but even that should be a pretty easy sell for a service as massive as github.
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Personally, I do - but I accept that the commonly-held definition has shifted to diverge from mine in the last few years. I don't think "bigotry" has had that shift. For example, I think "naive" is a similar word i
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Good video, and you have a fair point. Thanks for sharing. I guess my real issue with the OP's language is that "bigotry" is a pretty charged term that necessarily crosses into a "who they are" conversation.
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by snakeboy 5y ago
So if in your opinion the designer is both racist and a bigot, why do you hold back from calling them a "racist bigot" ?
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by snakeboy 5y ago
To be fair, the article is tagged "racism", and you explicitly refer to the design as "bigotry". > They just designed, built, or perpetuated a system which was exclusionary. I understand that this is an accepted defin
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by snakeboy 5y ago
How about providing infrastructure, a stable economy, peaceful society, etc. ?
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by snakeboy 5y ago
The internal monitoring and codified repercussions also grow at the same time, I'd hope..
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French startup Shift Technology raises $220M and becomes a unicorn(boursorama.com)
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Agreed on curfews. The police effectively corral all the aperos and picnics from open-air parks into tiny overcrowded apartments every evening. Though the French government has already announced plans to gradually lift restrictions through
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by snakeboy 5y ago
In France it's currently illegal to go outside after 7pm, all gyms, museums, cinemas are closed, and all restaurants and bars are take-out only (not even outdoor dining). Of course a mask mandate indoors and outdoors, but I agree that
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Was Michael Lewis personally calling Trump's response racist and xenophobic? If not, then what does that have to do with what Michael Lewis has to say now?
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by snakeboy 5y ago
> Sometimes people and ideas and practices are simply wrong. Of course, and I agree with you on this particular issue. All I mean is that if we can act today to chip away at the problem rather than just talking about the ideals, that&#x
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by snakeboy 5y ago
You can laugh all you want, but killing fewer innocent people is in fact a good thing. If you can't see the value in that, then politics is not for you :) I think we should celebrate that kind of incremental progress so long as it&#x2
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by snakeboy 5y ago
That's called a compromise, right? Reducing the pain involved and increasing the burden of proof required are both concrete, positive reforms, even if it doesn't completely resolve the issue.
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Setting the clock BPM to minimum sets a calm working pace, more like a video game soundtrack or something. Awesome project!
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Those who add irrelevant comments trying to shame people for using popular, harmless slang aren't admirable people either. (Neither are the schmucks like me who are baited into responding, but whatever)
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Wow, I had never heard of the 2014 case in Peru[0]. from the article: > Global Witness has said 164 environmentalists were killed worldwide in 2018. About half were killed in Latin American countries including Brazil, Chile, Colombia an
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by snakeboy 6y ago
If we're just choosing our personal favorite countries, we can also discuss France, who is still in lockdown (albeit weakened) with ~1450 deaths pM. :) > The data couldn't be more clear I don't mean to be rude, so please t
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Both the EU average deaths pM and Sweden deaths pM are pretty similar, around 1300. I'm not sure why you consider Belgium cherry-picking but not Norway, Germany, and Finland. You could make an argument for Finland and Norway as more cu
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Why doesn't this reach a better equilibrium though? Consider store A who brags about disinfecting everything every half hour, and store B down the street who does the bare minimum to pass government regulations. Shouldn't store B
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Probably better to give them a placebo vaccine so we don't waste the good stuff ;)
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by snakeboy 6y ago
As this is a purely creative endeavor, it's your prerogative to turn those feelings into inspiration for your own attempt - nothing sad about it :)

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