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RCV is also extra-bad in e.g. 3-way elections since the centrist is almost always squeezed out if everyone votes honestly, leading to much higher regret for the side that didn't strategically vote for the centrist

The problem is the voters don't have to overthink it, strategists within the campaign pass along the optimal strategy to allied news outlets who then publish strategic rank orders for their readers to copy

you're into walkable mixed use urbanism because of some dutch youtuber

i'm into it because

During COVID, the rock climbing gym closed, so built this free-standing climbing pillar in our backyard

The classic look is part of the appeal to me! Very nostalgic for my uncle's lakehouse study that had them.

I just got a $50 on Amazon that looked good

LED bulb, works great

can't recommend enough getting a banker's lamp for your office

increased my IQ by 5 pts

the vibe of working late completely changes

erudite, scholarly, sophisticated

We’re in a country where Trump won the popular vote

Anyone to the left of those people is, by definition, left of center

Leftists do more than point it out, they call for her to be primary'd by a leftist who will then go on to lose

All the leftists in WA attacking Marie Gluesenkamp Perez need to hear this message

Left of center dem representative in a district Trump won by 7 points and they want to destroy her

At a cafe and two ~60 year-olds are telling each other about their physics "research"

Both clearly cranks whose "research" is flux capacitor quantum dimension type stuff

Men will literally invent fake physics before telling their bros they just wanna hang and chat

if i ask GPT to list the countries on the Danube river

sometimes it includes Moldova, sometimes not

decided to get to the bottom of it

probably training data with and without it included due to this weird history

You can get up to speed surprisingly fast with YouTube

I built our dining table as my very first project ever

Built this record cabinet

Sapele mahogany + white maple accents

You don't understand, this is peak beach use

When I worked at AWS I actually got to test the prototype for them a year or so before release — just some android phone running a proof of concept app with the camera — had no idea what they were for till they showed up in stores

I know letting Amazon have my palm scan so I can pay with my hand at Whole Foods is probably The Mark of the Beast

But it’s just soooo convenient

Hope Bezos doesn’t wind up being the antichrist or I am cooked

worked on a codebase once where the author had abbreviated all instances of the word "parameter" to "parm"

made me want italian food every time i touched that repo

honestly we’re so blessed that god made 2^10 so close to 10^3

allows estimating thousand = 2^10, million = 2^20, billion = 2^30, etc

when i was in china in 2010 i heard lots of songs that sounded like

_ _ bao
_ _ zhao
_ _ dao
_ _ lao
_ _ yao

like every line had the same number of syllables & ended in the same vowel sound — too easy

There are some languages that are *too* easy to rhyme in and it affects their music

Spanish and Chinese come to mind

It's too easy to write songs with trivial/elementary rhymes, don't have to work for it

the elites don't want you to know this, but you can trivially pop out the crappy plastic wheels of your office chair and replace them with insanely smooth-rolling skate wheels

honestly probably the best < $20 home office upgrade there is

One of my favorite geography trick questions:

You're traveling in the Panama Canal from the Caribbean to the Pacific

What direction are you traveling?

People say West, but it's actually East

Panama is more squiggly than people think

An interesting trend is that hardware is still improving exponentially, but the population of earth isn’t growing much

So services that scale with the number of humans will become increasingly trivial

In 2045, run all of Facebook on a single server, tinyurl on a raspberry pi

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wish i was born earlier so i could get some trivial greedy algorithm named after me

As a 90s kid with a stutter I was just glad to have some representation in cinema

This little criminal tried to chase the mailman, only to be captured by grandma