winstonewert

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by winstonewert 11y ago
You really think the problem is that men don't know the raping is wrong?
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by winstonewert 11y ago
ok, yes. They'd also have to figure out my keywords. Still less secure then having to steal my encrypted passwords.
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by winstonewert 11y ago
This strikes me as less secure then a password manager that stores passwords. Here, if someone gets my master password all is lost. With stored passwords, they'd have to get both my master password and the encrypted passwords.
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by winstonewert 11y ago
What? What makes you think that one of the candidates will get 50% of the vote? And what makes you think that allocating the other voters differently will change that?
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by winstonewert 11y ago
The USA has had changes of party systems, but never in a way that resulted in a lasting third party. Certainly there are places like the UK, or my homeland, Canada, that have had three relevant parties for a while without changing the syste
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by winstonewert 11y ago
Yes, but the page in question is arguing that approval/rank voting is better because it doesn't always elect the majority's first choice.
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by winstonewert 11y ago
For what it's worth, voting system changes typically result from a two-party system splitting: http://repositori.upf.edu/handle/10230/506 . When countries end up with more then two parties, those parties sudde
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by winstonewert 11y ago
I don't think the argument presented there works. Consider the example with A, B, and C at the end. It claims that approval voting would probably elect C, but why? If the voters apply perfect strategy, B supporters won't approve C
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by winstonewert 11y ago
I'm sorry, but you've completely missed the point. Nobody is talking about the "disparity in your happiness based on whether you knew the best strategy." Obviously, if the honest approval ballot give me 9 utility points,
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by winstonewert 11y ago
I get where you are coming from on Approval Voting. The simplicity of the system is very attractive.
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by winstonewert 11y ago
I don't think that works. Polls tell you the levels of support of the candidates, they don't give you the probability of each candidate winning which is what you need to figure out the expected value of the winner.
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by winstonewert 11y ago
Actually, that discussion is about an honest score voting ballot, not an honest approval ballot.
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by winstonewert 11y ago
Sorry, I tend to think of FPTP as being so messed up it doesn't qualify as a voting system. I was comparing approval voting to alternatives like Ranked Pairs/IRV/Borda etc.
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by winstonewert 11y ago
I don't think other system require "playing the game" in the same way as approval voting. You can game any voting system by voting strategically, but approval voting seems unique in actually expecting people to have to vote s
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by winstonewert 11y ago
I didn't intend to suggest someone wouldn't vote because they are "paralyzed by indecisiveness." My concern is that people will vote sub-optimally due to poor information about other voters preferences and poor understan
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by winstonewert 11y ago
Actually, neither candidate got a majority in 2000 election, either nationally or in Florida.
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by winstonewert 11y ago
Here's my problem with Approval Voting: Let's say you are left-wing, and there is a left-wing, centrist, and right-wing candidate running. Do you approve the centrist candidate? If you approve the centrist candidate, you may block
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by winstonewert 11y ago
That's a view put forward by some libertarians (as far as I know a minority), not a party policy.
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by winstonewert 11y ago
It sounds to me like you need to stop abusing mocks in your tests. I usually find such tests result from using mocks poorly.
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by winstonewert 11y ago
Democracy has failed. Nobody likes what's going on here, yet, somehow despite democracy we cannot produce change.
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by winstonewert 11y ago
To be fair, its not clear from the article that the book itself says that he nailed the thesis to the door.
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by winstonewert 11y ago
Sure, it only affects you. The problem is that changes to superclass can now break your code. For example, perhaps right now the function looks like this: def get(self, url, method='GET'): ... def post(self, url
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by winstonewert 11y ago
Did he ever publish the complete description of his method?
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by winstonewert 11y ago
In my experience, getting good at math requires first that you accept that your intuitions suck. Your natural intuition will constantly lead you astray mathematically. People who struggle with algebra are often people who are trusting their
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by winstonewert 11y ago
My thought would be to set up an account on something like Digital Ocean. I think it would be pretty hard for the machine to take over the managing account. Even if it did, well, all that's lost is a Digital Ocean account.
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by winstonewert 11y ago
As another Google engineer, I have to concur. The author has no idea what he is talking about with respect to what happens at Google.
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by winstonewert 11y ago
He mentions getting rid of cursors, but I'm not clear how he would replace the modification side of cursors. i.e. I can see how a system like he describes supports nicely querying data, how do it help a component that needs to trigger