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by trendia 9y ago
> To judge whether an efficiency gap is disqualifying for a map depends on what other maps might be drawn This is false. Efficiency has been applied by the Supreme Court to mean precise mathematical equality, rather than an approximate
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by trendia 9y ago
Geography does matter within the Constitution. But also consider a counter example using a third party: California, which has 53 representatives. If 5% of the population votes third party, then there is an efficiency gap (since 2 - 3 repres
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by trendia 9y ago
Thanks for posting this. The efficiency gap completely ignores geometry.
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by trendia 9y ago
The efficiency gap fails to guarantee or even optimize compactness, yet many gerrymandered districts are "thin slices" or strange shapes. (one simple defition of compactness is the ratio of perimeter^2/area) What the author f
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by trendia 9y ago
A similar question I had (and found on NCBI): "Which BPA-free plastics have effects similar to BPA?" Answer: nearly all of them
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by trendia 9y ago
> the news media really only seems to report anecdotal stuff with a random smattering of actual facts thrown in without any context There just isn't much money in journalism to do in depth work, which results in poor quality articl
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by trendia 9y ago
Are you saying the switch from paper ledgers to computerized ledgers was the result of economists? If so, I'd argue that the switch is the result of convenience and accuracy.
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by trendia 9y ago
If anything, it turns the CEO into a victim. "No CEO would be able to withstand a targeted attack from such a motivated adversary!"
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by trendia 9y ago
We should probably stop calling them "loopholes", too. The two biggest policies that reduce a wealthy person's taxes are: 1) capital gains is lower than income 2) there are deductions for almost everything 3) tax-free retirem
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by trendia 9y ago
You can get any job, but it's going to be harder and you're probably not going to be compesated as highly [0]. [0] https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21646220-it-dep...
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by trendia 9y ago
From the reddit comments: its not remote its local to your machine ff.kis.scr.kaspersky-labs.com resolves to 127.245.107.154 which is a private non-routable address Still suspicious (since Kaspersky could intercept
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by trendia 9y ago
By no means do I agree with much of what is on the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS). However, from a purely algorithmic standpoint, their website has content that should rank very highly: 1) Much of their content is original (i.e. not copy-p
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by trendia 9y ago
On what grounds could they get a warrant? They made the mistake, not you.
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by trendia 9y ago
Could you be more specific? (what policies were implemented, who implemented them, and how did they affect the polulation?)
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by trendia 9y ago
It had the opposite effect for me -- now that everything gives me a notification, half the time I see the red dot on the corner I assune it's something stupid.
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by trendia 9y ago
> The fact that we still handle dependencies in 2017 by literally copy-pasting files into each other with #include macros is obscene. Historically, C++ used includes so that it could be compatible with C. In the future, modules can be us
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by trendia 9y ago
> He's in jail because the prosecution got a fortuitous decision that says they can hold him as long as they want until he coughs up a password. You call it a fortuitous decision, I call it precedent.
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by trendia 9y ago
As always, the best way to get a big company to help you is to make it a public relations problem.
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by trendia 9y ago
Refuse to pay the ransom? The credit card numbers are still worth a lot. You're only reducing their payoffs a little bit. If anything, posting the ransom increases the chances that the FBI can track them (since it's hosted on a To
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by trendia 9y ago
Misdemeanor trials cost $20,000 in an exemplar US county [0]. And that's only for the prosecution... take into account the salaries of court employees (judge, steganographer, etc) and utilities and things add up. Whether that is cheap
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by trendia 9y ago
I hear reports of Google shutting down people's accounts with no recourse to get it open again. They have no way to access their emails or files and no way to speak to a human at Google. File Stream no longer downloads all of your file
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by trendia 9y ago
I'm not sure why you're criticizing that 3D pie chart -- big companies pay lots of money to consultants from IBM to get a chart that good.
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by trendia 9y ago
I love how Bolt.io tore down a pair of Beats headphones and came to the opposite conclusion -- that they were a ripoff and that the components inside in no way justified the pricetag. But, take a look at the quality of the internals of Juic
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by trendia 9y ago
Does this data really provide a monetary benefit to companies?
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by trendia 9y ago
One such example: With ranked-choice voting, if 45% voted Trump-Johnson-Hillary, 45% voted Hillary-Johnson-Trump, and 10% voted Johnson-(either)-(either), then Johnson would have won, despite lacking wde first-choice approval.
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by trendia 9y ago
Maybe, if the alkaline diet reduces acidity of the brain. However, if the acidity is the result of increased energy production or a failure of the cleaning mechanisms of the brain (as one of the study authors suggests), then the alkaline di
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by trendia 9y ago
> Instead of facing the truth: the game is stacked against you, you may just not be that good etc., it is far easier to devise some sort of massive conspiracy or pseudo-science to justify your prejudice. I suspect that you do not see the
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by trendia 9y ago
It's pretty amazing to watch the news responses to his article, because so many respond to what they wanted to see in his article rather than what he wrote. What he wrote: "Men and women have different interests." What everyo
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by trendia 9y ago
Monopsony requires mutiple sellers (e.g. Walmart can buy potatoes from tens of thousands of farmers) Pharma patents prevent this.
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by trendia 9y ago
How do you determine whether a price is "price gouging"?

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