A two thousand dollar laptop computer today is vastly more powerful than the most expensive supercomputer was in 1975. Great advances have been made in the...
A two thousand dollar laptop computer today is vastly more powerful than the most expensive supercomputer was in 1975. Great advances have been made in the...
The reason why the gains of technology have not produced a society in which all people share in those gains is that the automation, robotization and...
The blog article suggests that compensation reflect production value to society. It is proposed to measure this value by comparing the loss to society of one...
I agree in general with the points made here, and also with the general thrust of the cited article. I've also written about co-ops, tho mostly about worker...
Terrific idea, very well presented. Along similar lines, I have suggested that we also outsource conventional economists, particularly those specializing in...
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Feb 14, 2012 5:12 pm
Since the topic comes up periodically, and actual use of splitline will require recognising discrete shapes, I thought I would have another go at a definition....
Hi, I'm new to the group, so forgive me if I cover any well-trodden ground. I often try to tell people that they already use range voting on a daily basis –...
... [...] ... Myself, I prefer PR too -- especially as I live in a district that is heavily Democratic whether you look at Congressional or state legislative)...
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Raph Frank
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Feb 15, 2012 4:24 pm
Another option is to define a split that causes non-contiguous semi-regions as an invalid split. So, instead the algorithm is just the standard one except that...
Any attempts to manage district shapes that do not account for the transportation network, will be susceptible to effective gerrymandering. Making them...
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Raph Frank
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Feb 16, 2012 9:37 am
... Erm why? As long as you have reasonably sized blocks (as small as is practical), then gerrymandering should be unaffected by things like transportation. It...
... --Vaguely speaking, you are suggesting something like: 1. find for each candidate, not just their average score, but indeed a "confidence interval." 2....
... I did make a concrete suggestion – use the lower bound. ... People might vote unknowns zero, but that is unknowns on the ballot – it seems like more of...
... --well, the aggregation can help and can hurt. For example, say you have blacks (13% minority) & whites, with opposed interests. So if you segregate the...
... agreed ... That number was from before the last two congressional elections; it's come down since then, though it's still too darn high. Jameson [Non-text...
President Barack Obama trails three of the four Republican candidates in head-to-head match-ups if the election were held today, according to a new Iowa Poll. ...
You guys from back east have no freak'n idea? Do you? "Go around a mountain." Please examine the road distance between Mammoth Lakes CA and OakHurst CA....
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Raph Frank
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Feb 20, 2012 10:22 am
... In theory, you could take that into account. However, the more complex you make the algorithm, the harder it is to prevent loopholes that can be...
... -- http://www.distancebetweencities.net/oakhurst_ca_and_mammoth-lakes_ca/route Indicates the road distance is about 3 times the crow-fly distance. There...
Our dismal voting system Sacramento Bee editorial Posted: 02/19/2012 11:03:47 AM PST Approximately 24 million, one of every eight, active voter registrations...
I find your goal of creating districts that are statistically likely to be party neutral is worthy. But its not the only goal. Districts will by uniform...
One of my pet causes is antibiotics put into animal feed as a matter of course by the ton. The govt should ban that, as everybody has been saying for...
Warren created 2 classes of examples of dramatic IRV pathologies. 1. The IRV winner is top-ranked by exactly 2 voters (out of 2^k +1 for any k>1). For every...
--Steve, these are very nice examples. ... --optimistic... --also, while many IRV problems do occur with pretty large probability, I am dubious that this is...
Mitt Romney accuses Rick Santorum of `dirty trick' robocall By Philip Rucker, Washington Post LIVONIA, Mich. -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney...
N=43623575184339996059537425773119366447006380455838\ 696504055889999185302903791148393125043181272726633463298672436846034128 and N+1, both are "smooth",...
... Classic Bucklin allowed equal ranking, as I recall, in any rank but the first. I see no reason to prohibit equal ranking in Bucklin. Count All the Votes. ...
