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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
  2. I’m a devops engineer. I personally haven’t written code to do this, but it isn’t something that hasn’t been done before. Just take all possible combinations of candidates and use thier answers to compute the percentage that answered a given way for each question foreach combination. Do the same with the voting results. Then compare the % of the population to the % of each combination to get a set of differences for each combination. For small states you probably need to increase the number of seats to some minimum like 20 or more. For big states you will probably get a match with a tolerance of +/- 1%. For others you will have to iterate the tolerance up until you get a match.

  If you want to get a better match, you could make the number of cadadites selected dynamic. And personally I support having a larger number as it reduces the power of anyone individual. Then the reps from the state can vote on any issue, and the states votes can be distributed to represnt the votes of the many representatives.

  The idea is a group that actually represents the views of the people they represent istead of special interests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  1. I disagree that answering the questions have to be harder. They don’t have to be so specific that they require a solid grasp. They should be more like do you agree with doing X. Not “choose the best way to solve the homeless crisis”.

  2. You’re overthinking it. You take each question and determine what % of the population answered each way. Then you choose multiple cadadites such that together roughly the same % of the cadadites answered the same way as the people. So yes you should end up with representatives on opposite sides of the issue if people voted that way. The idea is that the representatives as a whole accurately represent the people. And like I said, in a small population state that may be a challenge. But there are ways to work around that.

  3. I don’t think a direct democracy is better. In a dd, money determines what gets voted on. And there are less things voted on in general, so money can sway the people a lot. When the number of questions is higher and all at once, money has a hard time focusing a message on them all. And even after that, the answering of the questions chooses a rep who is able to learn enough aboutvit to be less likely to be swayed by money. A large part of that is that they need no campaign, so they don’t have to serve the money to get reelected.

  I’m not saying it perfect, but the general idea is to get people who represent the opinions of the people, not popularity contest winners. And to reduce the money connection to poloticians votes. Also, you don’t need a “party” at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  1, it is actually less complex for the voter. Right now they don’t kniw much about who/what they are voting for because all the info they get is marketing. But a question about homelessness or crime they probably feel more confident in thier answer. Plus many people don’t vote because thier options are all liars. The reps in this case don’t have to be popular, so they don’t have to lie. 2 in very small states it might be tough, but an algorithm can find the closest match by simply trying all the combinations. For a computer that will be a very simple task. And it could even print them all out for anyone to validate. 3 this for sure is the hardest part. Probably some kind of public proposal and polling combo would be needed. Btw, at work we were told to use numbers instead of bullets because it makes referring to a point much easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What if everybody just votes thier opinion on a set of issues. The cadadites have to declare thier opinion on the same set. When the voting is done, the percentages are calculated for all the issues. Then a computer program picks a list of cadidates such the they together match the distribution of the voters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  CEO = Marketing with a different title. Trust the words out of their mouths the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am saying sex need not occur before love because they aren’t connected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, for guys, love and sex simply aren’t connected early on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A boating ticket from the 1950’s. “No lights on boat. No beer on boat. Only one blonde.”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait so was he in trouble because he should have had beer on the boat? And should have had more blonds?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeasty⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So how do you get rid of old dough?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well think of it like this. I keep an amount in my checking account (basically no interest) to cover the credit card bills. Extra I move out to an online savings account that does have a ddcent interest rate. By having a date when the CC bill comes due, I can check once a month (7 days before due) and move money if needed to cover the bill. So while the checking has practically no interest, I was getting close to 5% on the savings for a while. Still a far stretch from the 12% cds I got as a kid, but it’s something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You mention other cars overriding your input. The most common is the auto breaking when it sees you are going to hit something. But my understanding is that it kicks in when it is already too late to avoid the crash. So it isn’t something that is involved in decision making about driving, it is just a saftey feature only relevant in the case of a crash. Just like you don’t ram another car because you have a seatbelt, your driving choices aren’t affected by this features presence. The other common one will try to remind you to stay in your lane. But it isn’t trying to override you. It rumbles the wheel and turns it a bit in the direction you should go. If you resist at all it stops. It is only meant for if you have let go of the wheel or are asleep. So I don’t know of anything that overrides driver input completely outside of being too late to avoid a crash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Never said they weren’t wrong for lieing. Just that this case seems a poor match for showing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These 5 Co-Op Games Are Dominating Steam Right Now⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know in split fiction I saw at least one area with a bunch of things to interact with that were just there to explore. Before that there seemed to be just random things here and there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a tough one. Yeah they sell it as autopilot. But anyone seeing a steering wheel and pedals should reasonably assume that they are there to override the autopilot. Saying he thought the car would protect him from his mistake doesn’t sound like something an autopilot would do. Tesla has done plenty wrong, but this case isn’t much of an example of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I will say that the urge to share an opinion rather than listen is not really based on sex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And we can’t have a good commercial alternative because google bought them up and destroyed them for competing. Enshitification…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you really do swear them off, you will have dodged the next many bullets. They have made a solid pattern of killing off things we want. Generally, things we want don’t make them enough money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Prowlarr has had a thing to do this for a good while now. No AI needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m almost 50 and still don’t know. The best advice I can give is to try lots of things. Very few people just know, and even they didn’t know until they tried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience it can, but it has been pretty uncommon. But I also don’t usually ask questions with only one answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The people who make them don’t really understand how they work either. They know how to train them and how the software works, but they don’t really know how it comes up with the answers it comes up with. They just do a ron of trial and error. Correlation is all they really have. Which of course is how a lot of medical science works too. So they have good company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easy, just ask the AI “are you sure”? Until it stops changing it’s answer.

  But seriously, LLMs are just advanced autocomplete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are all the successful "red cities"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats a pretty good read. I often think about a lot of that. But I never come up with a way to help the rural population much. Thier way of life is dying, has been for a few hundred years. But it is still essential. They don’t like handouts or even assistance. So how do you help them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then maybe AI “programs” aren’t a good product. Next it will be, “we can’t be expected to make a good murderbot without murdering some people”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no law or rule or anything that says you have to list all jobs. Leaving off jobs that don’t matter makes the resume easier to read. And if rhey do somehow find out and ask, you will know they are pretty meticulous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The bering strait is probably doable. The ol land bridge is underwater there somewhere. Just build a bridge on top of that. If it keeps getting hotter, we are all going to want to move to alaska.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor guy 😭⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m thinking he is about to make bank in the divorce. Assuming he doesn’t already make bank, his prospects likely just improved. That said, when you marry someone who is a C suite type personality, you are usually the type to “hold on loosly”. Cause ambition is strong in such people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are password managers secure to use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think, based on the question asked, this is a bit more complicated than OP is interested in. Just saying. But bravo for your dedication to keeping info out of corporate hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I choose for interior doors?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some things to consider… kids. The hollow doors are easy for them to break when fooling around or angy. The solid ones slam much louder. The better sound dampening of the solid ones can be good if you don’t want to hear thier music. But bad if you want to be able to yell “dinner” up to them. Also, if you knock, you may not be able to hear them answer as easily.

  And bonus advice, if you have the interior walls open, put insulation in the walls between the masterbed room and any other room. It reduces sound transfer through the wall, which is nice for a variety of reasons…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They still both “could” be true. Though more likely something else was a foot. Maybe the earnings target was set poorly such that the payout was more than the increased earnings. You would think in general that such a clause would be mutually beneficial, but clearly one side didn’t think so.