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Selective Truth is the primary form of misinformation today.

Respectable outlets have to generally tell the 'truth'.

But - they can chose the stories they want to highlight, and leave out facts entirely.

A neat example I like to use is the CBC's coverage of the 'trail of tears' story - which is the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous women from the 1960's to 2000, about 3000 went missing, somewhat higher than the norm. for Canada.

What they never highlight in coverage, is that 1) about 8500 Aboriginal Men went missing during the same time and 2) that almost universally, the assailants in attacks against against Aboriginal Women are in fact, Aboriginal Men.

When I bring up the facts, which I had to research myself - people seemed to be shocked and dismayed as though 'Men's deaths don't matter' - just because they happen to be a part of a group where others are committing violence, and, that somehow the fact that the violence seems to be entirely focused within the community is 'of no concern'.

In reality, most CBC watchers (Canadians) would be enlightened by the fact 'even more' Aboriginal men are dying that they deserve our sympathy in that regard, and especially that the troubles are focused within the community which is incredibly relevant because it helps inform solutions.

Imagine growing up and spending 25 years being exposed to '1/2 truths' like this?

It's surprisingly more common than not in many media outlets covering anything remotely sensitive to the point where I've developed a 'Spidey Sense' and frankly spend only 1 minute on Google to uncover highly relevant facts that should have likely been included.

I feel that this kind of thing is more important than the nature of propaganda highlighted in the article, because for the most part, classical propaganda is not nearly as common as those presenting a form of 'leaning bias' on sensitive issues.

The Government isn't very good at most propaganda these days, and I think we all know that Corporate advertising is 'propaganda' at least by this definition. We are mostly not aware of how consistent the bias is in the press, and how narratives are created there, which is why maybe it deserves more scrutiny.
>who also uses MMP (like Australia)

Australian federal lower house elections are single member IRV, upper house are multiple member STV. MMP isn't used anywhere in Australia.
People with ADHD have a hard time starting and then completing even things they do want to do. Everyone with ADHD has a dozen unfinished recent projects they adore, but will probably never finish.

Hyperfocus gets them started, and they go REALLY far with the project, and then it wears out, and the project is neglected thereafter. Even if the person still adores the project and hopes to finish it. Without the hyperfocus, nothing gets done.
Thanks! That is bigger than I thought!
You're welcome. Someone should justify the imaginary boogeyman people cry about, it's no fun otherwise.
If you want some great material on no code I'd check out Makerpad.co, I just came across this community and its awesome.

For myself, I just built a website with UMSO, newsletter with GetRevue, and public knowledge base with Notion and Super.so

My newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/alfiemarsh
My website: www.alfie-marsh.com

Public knowledge base: i actually stopped using Super.so because it didn't show databases well - product still has some work to do

I'm also looking into Circle for a membership community and Bubble to create apps.
video from the past were amazing, considering it is just in couple of decades after invention of transistor. ( I think that is because before invention of transistor, we already had mathemetical foundation of computation almost ready. ) in current era, do we have something that needs to be invent ? ( i.e. different part of the science can predict it, but the actual part of the science is falling behind ? )
Oh, neat. I'll have to give that a look.
Out of that list, the only two bangs that DuckDuckGo doesn’t support are:

- !d (it’s already DuckDuckGo, so !d is “dictionary”)

- !mj (it’s !mojeek)
> it's impossible to completely eliminate strategic voting. No matter the method: ranked vs. cardinal vs. anything else you dream up can't help.

I think this comment is a defeatist at best and deceitful at worst. Just because there is no global optimization does not mean that all optima are equal. We can in fact have optima that are better than one another (including all optima we know about!). This is a common feature of highly dimensional solution spaces.

The big issue here is that not all criteria are weighted equally, by desire of effectiveness. So we find an optima where we optimize features that have a large weights and care less about optimizing features with small weights. By doing this we can compare systems in their desirability and select the best ones. This is not cause for throwing up your hands and giving up.

As an example: cardinal systems, when compared to ordinal (ranked) systems, are more resilient to strategic voting and simpler (both for the voter and for the people tallying the votes, aka transparency). The cost? Slight decrease in maximal VSE. BUT if we look at the min, mean, median, or modes of VSE given different strategies cardinal system outperform ordinal (aka, desirable). You can see this by comparing with this chart[0]. For example with STAR0-10 we have maximal VSE of .983 and minimal of .912 (actually this makes it strictly better than plurality!). But if we look at our best ordian, RP, we see RP has a maximal VSE of .988 and minimal of .870. So on terms of maximal there's a 0.005 difference but on minimal there's a difference of 0.042! We can easily tell here that STAR is much more resistant to strategic voting than RP (Shulze is even worse!). Doing the same for IRV we see .07/.115 (max/min comparison of STAR0-10 vs IRV on VSE).

So we can compare. We can select better methods. But is there a ''perfect,, solution? No. But don't let the lack of the ability to create a perfect system detract from the ability to compare systems. Not all is lost.

[0] https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/vse.html
Website of Iranian news network seized by US Government
And then every object has one more state.
Grinding attacks aren't a problem if you include secure verifiable randomness in the protocol. E.g., Algorand's VRF-based sortition, or Ethereum 2.0's verifiable delay function.
there's a site called focusmate that helps you find accountability buddies (https://focusmate.com). it's really helped me.
I don't see how you can justify throwing away the original intent of the author with that reasoning without that also justifying throwing away the work entirely.

Surely the intent of the author when they were writing the piece, and the piece itself are both worth considering when analyzing the text?
Don't Build Your Own Lisp provides some harsh—and IMO totally justified—criticism: https://gist.github.com/no-defun-allowed/7e3e238c959e27d4919...
The book skips major components of a lisp implementation - garbage collection, macros - as "bonus projects" to be implemented by nhe reader.
> That they have negligible impact on member welfare

That is some -really- strong hyperbole, especially against teacher and police unions as the parent is referring to.

I would argue that the benefits teachers get and the relative job security of police offices is a good indicator of a strong labor union for both roles.

Sure, pay sucks, but teachers would probably be treated worse than amazon workers at this point if they didn't have them.

Source: worked for ed tech startup that supported teachers. Also dated a few.
Call me a negotiation noob if you like, but despite the clickbait I found this article to be concise but useful.A far cry from comprehensive but still seems like a few solid pieces of advice.
I think it’s because most often advocates are not promoting a specific methodology but a broad set of possible electoral reforms. Even people who study this in depth (like the article author) get substantially different results based on what they value and measure, and by methodology. That’s not something a civics class is going to address for people who want more fair choice at the ballot box but can’t possibly know the outcome of one approach or another without seeing it in situ.

Edit: I’m saying this from the perspective of someone who’s spent a lot of time reading on the subject and wouldn’t dare pick a favorite for my country (US) or locality. I just want the opportunity to try systems that are likely more fair.
Since you enjoyed this essay, DFW’s essay on Federer ‘Roger Federer as Religious Experience’ is a must-read. As someone with no interest whatsoever in tennis it managed to get me fired up and watching highlights for an hour afterwards. It’s spectacular.
If you were paying for a mortgage, gardening, repairs, property taxes and whatever other costs there are you would just be paying for the house. Many people cannot afford all of those expenses or do not want to deal with all of that which is why they rent in the first place.
What aspects of parliamentary systems make it difficult to apply lessons from their voting systems to the voting systems used to elect representatives to the US Congress?
> On the flip side...

Also, when that hyperfocus runs out, that absorption is lost, possibly forever. Onto the next fleeting thing.
It may have caused some increase in the price, but it would still be out of price for many people. That is why I said $500k instead of $1m which is quite common throughout California.

There are other issues like zoning laws which causes increases in housing pricing which wouldn't be solved by getting rid of landlords.
Probably not in the current state. The site looks like a banner ad fundraiser.
Considering their ads are opt-in this argument makes no sense. Which class of person both wants to “protect themselves from ads” and opts in?

Brave isn’t a browser I use but you guys are not even reading the comments you’re responding to.
Could be worth a try: did you open it and blow some compressed air through the heat sink? I did this when my MacBook was some 5 years old for the first time, and it helped with temperature and the fans would stop revving up during normal use.
I got turned on to gut bacteria a couple+ years back after reading a feature article in the NY Times Sunday Magazine.

While it didn't say so directly, a theory I took away from that article was that gut bacteria affects longevity. That is, couples live longer because they have more robust gut bacteria; pet owners much the same.

Might there also be an emotional component to a longer and healthier life? Absolutely. Humans are complex systems. Nonetheless, the science and data seem to also be saying The Gut plays a significant role as well. It will be interesting to see how pandemic isolation (as well as ongoing WFH) affects long term (gut) health.
A democratic society, where all votes are equal, benefits when everyone votes, even without a testing how well-informed they are. It encourages personal ownership of collective problems.

For every apathetic member who is voting based on ignorance, there is a zealous member voting based on dogma. The more votes we collect, the more accurate is the representation of the whole.
I've had this in my bookmarks for awhile, intending to work through it. I think I can probably even do it solo without the guide, at this point. After years of programming, and learning (or at least playing with) many languages, I've come to a philosophical conclusion of sorts:
C and Lisp should be the two languages all students start with, in my opinion. Probably SICP style Scheme education, and classic simple C89. C is the barest of the high level, the least abstracted, the most work. Students should build their own data structures, memory management, improved string handling, etc. I think this gives a really solid foundation of what other languages' features actually do, their benefits and trade offs. Then Lisp, to show what metaprogramming can do, and demonstrate the power that a language can have.

From there, sure, learn C++, Java, Rust, Go, Node.js, whatever toolset matches your industry. Start with the fundamentals, though.
An Updated Comparison of Four Leo Satelite Broadband Systems [pdf]
> My family and I are all sound sleepers who sleep on our backs

Serious brag right there
You are assuming that your rental payment > mortgage payment based on current market value of the property. That's absolutely not the case in the majority of situations (which is why people choose to rent vs. own: you can live in a property that you would never be able to afford to buy, if you choose to rent). Rents are often a good deal because the landlord does not want to sell, but have a source of passive income, have the house be occupied and close to cash-flow positive while it grows in value over decades (a nice nest-egg) etc.

You truly can not determine if you can afford to buy a place until you take a multitude of factors into account, and they vary for each person and each property.
As far as I know, the label RCV as it's commonly used in the United States (and advocated most prominently by FairVote) usually means the same thing as IRV. Perhaps there are some minor differences in terms of specifying exactly what happens if a ballot doesn't rank all the candidates, or ranks two candidates equally. Perhaps using RCV to mean an exact system rather than a whole category of voting systems is imprecise, but I think that ship has already sailed.

It's also sometimes called alternative vote, and the Australians call it preferential voting.

I've wondered if IRV couldn't be substantially improved by using Borda count for the elimination step rather than eliminating the candidate with the least first-choice options. (I think there's an actual name for that system, but I don't remember what it is.)
I respect the perceptual acuity of Daniel Kish. But I don't criticize blind people who aren't Daniel Kish for being bad at riding bicycles. In fact, I think people who criticize blind people for being bad at riding bicycles are assholes. So are people who think Daniel Kish shouldn't ride bicycles because he's blind.

Criticizing autistic people for making social errors is similar to criticizing blind people for being bad at riding bicycles. Some blind people learn to ride bicycles, but most of them are bad at it. Some of them, like Daniel Kish, are really good at it. Some autistic people learn to interact fluently in neurotypical society. Some of them are really good at it.

But some of us aren't, because of our autism, and a lot of us never even learn to speak.

So, fuck you. I hope you die in a fire. People like you have intermittently made my life miserable since before I learned to speak.
Soho House S1
> Luckily, we only need this for untrusted code. What really peaves me is that trusted code is now having to run slower as well.

Realistically though, most userland software falls into that category nowadays:

- JS-driven web apps like GSuite

- Sandboxed "App Store" apps on mobile and even desktop

- Potentially any other desktop app that is exposed to content originating from the web or email (e.g. Acrobat, desktop Office, etc.)

I wonder if security models need to become less black-and-white, with a middle tier of trust for apps or domain names that should still be sandboxed but are trusted enough that we're willing to trade some risk of timing exploits for improved performance?
One thing I want to add is that we have also decided the pandemic created morally superior distraught people. Millions of people have gone in and out of credit card debt, but we have never ever considered them worthy of a bailout.

We believe the pandemic to be an emergency, and we believe college education to be noble, so people that take on this type of credit are more … noble? We don’t question that maybe some of these people took on an apartment that takes way too much of their budget monthly, or a degree that costs way too much for room and board and poor upside in the economy. But, we are totally willing to say ‘hey you know what credit cards are, you deserve what you get’.

Any of these people taking a bailout willing to take a hit on their credit report or the impact bankruptcy can have on you forever? Are they willing to move to public housing in exchange for the relief? Probably not, right?

No, sorry, this is the sins of the upper class spilling into the upper lower class, where there is a ‘noble’ group, your too big too fails, your white collared too good for jail, or in our lower ranks - ‘too good and decent to fail’.

We are expanding the pattern of the wealthy, and two wrongs don’t make a right.
> I'm currently looking for jobs to relocate, so technically I can move anywhere. In fact, one of my goals is to move to a place with a good local college.

I suppose I'd choose a major city with a strong intellectual culture (well-educated population, fine and performing arts). There you will find many colleges and universities; many schools that specialize, such as art schools; and most of all, many people in the community who can teach, who you can share your interests with, learn from, get tutoring from, etc. - communities of people who love this kind of thing.

I guess I'd choose New York most of all. The amount of talent and interest in the things you're interested in is incredible. It attracts people like you. And of course the local resources are unmatched, maybe in the world: Schools (from Columbia and NYU to the New School (I would definitely look them up if you aren't familiar - if they have programs that suit your schedule, they could be perfect), to City College and Brooklyn College, to many more. For the fine arts, there are the incredible museums (which probably offer classes), galleries, and the artist community itself. Also the world leader in theater, in finance, publishing, etc etc. It's a fantasy world for the intellectually curious.

Others: Bay Area and Boston. Philadelphia is affordable and has excellent resources.

It's trendy now to trash major cities, but don't forget what makes them so special; that is unchanged by political winds that blow right and left.
They may not have bought a smaller house. Sometimes people buy a larger house because they have kids. When their kids move out they may rent out the rooms. While moving to a smaller place may make good financial sense in some ways, some people don't like to move. They like their neighborhood and house and all.

You just sit on your computer programming or whatever you do. That is just getting paid for typing which is not real work. Maybe you should stop being greedy and just type for free.
> To the extent an HN reader's offspring is more likely than the gen pop's to increase the quality of our species, I'd say do it. While your circumspection is a good for parenting, your narcissism and long-windedness are not.

Fair enough mate.
> Other theories on dark matter support the idea that crossing through dark matter could increase the temperature in the cores of planets, leading to increased seismic activity.

Source? That’s fascinating, almost beyond belief, and I’d love to dig into related research.
Of course you would say that. You're a mostly fucking bunch of mostly old mostly rich mostly white mostly racists.
So, again, which gay rights protests has this happened at recently?

Or is this that thing where shop windows are more important then lives?
> I thought Gibbard-Satterthwaite (or maybe just Gibbard's version) applied to cardinal systems as well.

Correct, but it is also a weaker version of Arrow's (also as Clay points out, Arrow's isn't really about voting[0]...)

> This seemed likely to me for some reason, as if an ordinal method could approximate any particular cardinal discretization by just including "ghost" candidates that can be packed (ordinally) between your actual candidates.

Okay, but this just adds complexity. Cardinal is already simpler than ordinal systems (both for voters _and_ for those counting the votes). There's absolutely nothing wrong ranking candidates in a cardinal system (it's actually pretty unlikely that you'll have the same preference for multiple candidates so this is going to naturally happen). The difference? In cardinal you can better express your preference of one candidate over another (I give an example here[1]). So now we've added "encoding efficiency" to the added benefit of cardinal systems.

Cardinal systems are better than ordinal systems in almost every single way (the only thing I can think of ordinal systems doing better at is that RP and Schulze perform better on maximal VSE, but as I discuss here[2] that is pretty limited as well as unlikely considering strategic voting and the ability to manipulate people exists).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27598975

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27599324

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27600248
Pick up a book. Read it.
Many of the land trusts form because the tenants get so pissed at their landlord that they make their landlord's life miserable, until the landlord gives up and sells the building to them for a land trust. Peace is a lie.
> tired

I haven't been involved in all this tired Sim City discourse, I guess I missed it the first few times around. I found the article interesting.

> activist

The article is about a computer game (that was originally marketed as "realistic" but isn't realistic at all) somehow ended up being used for actual education about cities, and that might not be a good idea. That's some real radical stuff, man!

> SimCity is not merely flawed, it is flawed in a way that is ruining society, as is most everything else.

The article didn't say anything like this. It says that Sim City isn't very realistic as a "simulation", because we can't represent all the nuances of the real world as a tidy automaton. It also says that spreading it around as if it were realistic can therefore lead to and/or perpetuate misguided ideas about how cities and societies work, or about how they ought to work.

The exploration of the differences between the map and the territory is precisely what is interesting about the article.

> Ah, but it is mere tit for tat! You play by the deconstructionist rules, then I am allowed to play by them against your own deconstructions.

Sounds more like hypocrisy to me, but suit yourself.
I feel like STAR in practice ends up being approval voting with more complexity. I just learned about V321 though - interesting concept for sure and also holds the important property perhaps as approval voting if I understood it - can be counted by hand once and you can figure out the results.
FDA say about 50% of infections come from contaminated food.

https://www.fda.gov/food/people-risk-foodborne-illness/toxop...

I remember a prior study said about 30% of beef and 24% of venison would test positive, but don't see it now. Also, that's just a positive test number. Transmission numbers could be lower, but likely rise over time with repeated consumption.
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