If we're doing short stories, I have two recommendations:
- Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others.
- Kurt Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey House.
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Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for explaining it further. It does sound like a very nice system.
I don't understand how SPAV fixes gerrymandering in this case. It seems like the re-weighting operation is meant for a pool of identical ballots. When you have district-level elections that differ between ballots, how is this meant to work?
Edit: Ooooh you meant for selecting the redistricting committee, not for running the elections. Gotcha, makes sense now.
The script doesn't go away when you replace a helpdesk operator with ChatGPT. You just get a script-reading interface without empathy and a severally hindered ability to process novel issues outside it's protocol.
The humans you speak to could do exactly what you're asking for, if the business did not handcuff them to a script.
I think it's what they've been calling "statistics".
I'm curious what issue you see with that? It seems like the project is only accepting unrestricted donations, but is there something suspicious about shopify that makes it's involvement concerning (I don't know much about them)?
It's only double counted in a situation where you're actually counting both sides. This is a Canadian study published by a Canadian outlet about the impacts of Canadian policy.
They're not trying to balance the books, so to speak, they're evaluating transactions on a single account.
404media is doing excellent work on tracking the non-consentual porn market and technology. Unfortunately, you don't really see the larger, more mainstream outlets giving it the same attention beyond its effect on Taylor Swift.
Right concept, except you're off in scale. A MULT instruction would exist in both RISC and CISC processors.
The big difference is that CISC tries to provide instructions to perform much more sophisticated subroutines. This video is a fun look at some of the most absurd ones, to give you an idea.
Okay, fair enough.
Basically valve do not stop other companies from competing
So is there something you didn't understand that I can clarify, or are we in agreement that Valve needs to discard the PMFN policy?
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Definitely better to charge an EV with clean energy. But it's probably better to charge an EV with dirty electricity than it is to keep using a combustion vehicle.
IIRC a gas vehicle is something like 20% thermally efficient, whereas a coal/oil power plant can be up to 60%. So even if my EV is charging off oil or coal, I'm getting 3x the energy per unit of emissions compared to a gas vehicle (though who knows how that translates to miles of range).