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by xvedejas 8y ago
What availability would those producers need to provide? Some quota of supplies? Low prices don't matter for much if there's a shortage, and there _will_ be a shortage of cheap emergency medicine if the companies that produce it c
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by xvedejas 8y ago
That's a good way to get _nobody_ operating as a pharmaceutical producer / seller in this country.
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by xvedejas 8y ago
I have heard it said that BART is still safer, despite these recent crimes, than walking the streets that BART travels under.
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by xvedejas 8y ago
They're not the ones deciding, nor the ones carrying out unethical actions. Employees working on technical infrastructure are not even enabling censorship or fake news, that's been possible on any centralized social media site for
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by xvedejas 8y ago
It depends on your situation. I live in a place where I am able to live without a car, for instance, so local gas taxes don't affect my decision making for whether to live here. Income taxes always will.
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by xvedejas 8y ago
This means that states without income tax (WA, NV, TX, TN etc) are yet still more enticing for most high-earning professionals. I agree with other commenters saying this doesn't do much except help the people who always were considerin
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by xvedejas 8y ago
I have a couple friends who work there. As far as I can tell they're not interested in all the political news about Facebook and are probably not aware of most of it. Their attitudes are typically "if the management messes up, but
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by xvedejas 8y ago
My city is already IRV. If I had any clue how to change that, I would.
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by xvedejas 8y ago
It is possible to have a quota in the range voting system I imagine. And, well, it's simpler.
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by xvedejas 8y ago
More voters voting in the same way (proportionally) doesn't affect the results of IRV.
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by xvedejas 8y ago
I worry that this provides a very strong tool for people to make arguments that "ranked voting systems don't work, since you're always confused by their results" and have a strong case to bring everyone back to FPTP.
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Restricting the number of votes each voter can cast causes the same problems as FPTP, the so called "spoiler effect". Ideally a voting system tries to get information from each voter about their opinion of each candidate. Why prem
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Yes, other posters have linked to an example of it happening in Burlington, VT. I recall reading it happens around 20% of the time.
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by xvedejas 8y ago
It's really all the mistakes that even proponents of IRV are making about how it behaves that really keeps me up at night. I'm not convinced voters understand the system well enough to vote optimally. This effect and how it result
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by xvedejas 8y ago
I kinda see range voting as the solution. To explain my intuition... Technically it's not condorcet, because a pair-wise winner doesn't always win, but if you relax the definition of "pair-wise winner" to allow for each
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by xvedejas 8y ago
The problem with difficulty to understand isn't a simple logistical fear. It's fear that voters won't understand what their vote means.
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by xvedejas 8y ago
My favorite for single winner elections is range voting with top-2 runoff, actually. But I at least find all of these to be acceptable. Whether or not the trade-offs of range / approval voting vs condorcet methods are better seems to d
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by xvedejas 8y ago
I would make the stronger claim that IRV is an even worse voting system than the one we already have. At least with FPTP voters can easily figure out the effect of their vote. With IRV it can be ridiculously hard to interpret, and relies on
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Sorry, I should have mentioned again the above link, which provides context: http://zesty.ca/voting/sim To paraphrase, this is a simulation which places candidates and voters on a two-parameter preference space. This i
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by xvedejas 8y ago
The way to turn ballots into results is just a simple division, numerator (sum of scores) over denominator (number of voters). Try to explain to me the function from ballots to results in IRV with 5 candidates in as simple of terms? It&#x27
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Here's the problem though; IRV doesn't really do the thing you want it to. It can actually make an extreme candidate win even when voter opinion is centered around a moderate candidate. It's very obvious in this visualization
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by xvedejas 8y ago
It's not obvious to me that all the information about your ranking gets percolated up to the final decision, especially since your middle rankings can disappear without warning during intermediate stages. If you can't do anything
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Voting systems like range voting seem to me, based on simulation, to have this property but much more well-behaved. Range voting is also much simpler than IRV. Approval voting is just a special case of range voting. I'm afraid people w
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by xvedejas 8y ago
The multi-winner system that appeals the most to me is either range (score) or approval voting, with seats allocated proportionally. Unlike STV, it would be possible to support or oppose as many candidates/parties as the voter wants si
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Well, if San Francisco's IRV races are to be used as an example, you end up with a one-party system. But more seriously, I think "clone-proof" electoral systems tend to better allow for more than two parties, or at least more
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by xvedejas 8y ago
I'm continually upset and confused by Instant runoff voting's popularity. IRV is, by my reckoning, a much inferior (and more complicated) system than other systems, like range voting or ranked pairs. And it has some bizarre proper
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by xvedejas 8y ago
There are many kinds of voting which involve the voters ranking their choices. The difference is in how those choices are resolved. You can get very different election results depending on whether you do instant runoff voting, or use a cond
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by xvedejas 8y ago
There are enough non-zero-sum effects in economics that this isn't plainly apparent to me. It seems like quite a claim, really. For instance, I find it plausible that cheap labor from overseas may actually help subsidize the creation o
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Sorry if I didn't make it clear, I was not trying to "attack" the article. I think my anecdote was relevant but my main aim was to share an event I experienced, not to win an argument or craft a straw man. I do think there wa
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by xvedejas 8y ago
I do appreciate your broader point. But in the talk I'm describing, it was the ethnicist who lacked the empathy and comprehension to understand the scientists' concerns about dilemmas in their own work. There was no discussion of

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