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So something like the super-dysfunctional political systems of Israel or Belgium or Italy or South Africa? Fixing first past the post voting is not some magic cure-all.
We use the MMP system in NZ and it seems to work quite well, though needs a bit of fine tuning as currently you need 5% to get into a coalition and that is slightly too high.
This doesn't "collect" anything, it's just a python package wrapped on top of a sqlite database. If you choose an arbitrary website that doesn't have information in said database you just get "website not supported". There's not even any logic to guess a website's RSS feed URL... And in the end it's just an RSS feed reader?
Though thousands of ppl found it useful
This article is just a promotion for a commercial service. Shame on you.
How does it work internally? Is it downloading the news from a RSS or is it crawling the content of the website? Or is the content coming from an external service?
How are the feeds selected? Can we add more? who is maintaining them (in case the data is crawled)?
Thanks!
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Seems like a terrible idea to me. The two sides are at war, and if the way you sample them is by going 50-50, that encourages them to be more extreme because that will skew the average in their direction. We already see this in the media. You have the host and two people. Lets hear what person A says, lets hear what person B says. Who's right? Impossible to tell, otherwise you must be biased. And no mention that pers…
Educating yourself about every topic out there is absolutely impossible. Thats precisely why news businesses exist in the first place.
Nah. My view is that news exist for entertainment. That might not be their stated goal, but it's why people consume them.
This seems really cool! How does it work internally? Is it downloading the news from a RSS or is it crawling the content of the website? Or is the content coming from an external service? How are the feeds selected? Can we add more? who is maintaining them (in case the data is crawled)? Thanks!
The package itself is nothing more than a SQLite database with RSS feed endpoints for each website and some basic wrapper of feedparser.
This seems really cool! How does it work internally? Is it downloading the news from a RSS or is it crawling the content of the website? Or is the content coming from an external service? How are the feeds selected? Can we add more? who is maintaining them (in case the data is crawled)? Thanks!
For any news junkies heres, I've built https://maagnit.com which gathers both Left and Right leaning sources for any story and displays them altogether on one page. My approach has been, if we can't get neutral/objective coverage, getting comprehensive, 360 desgree coverage is a good alternative. These days, news bias is not only in the way a story is covered, but also which stories are covered. So, maagnit automatic…
Seems like a terrible idea to me. The two sides are at war, and if the way you sample them is by going 50-50, that encourages them to be more extreme because that will skew the average in their direction. We already see this in the media. You have the host and two people. Lets hear what person A says, lets hear what person B says. Who's right? Impossible to tell, otherwise you must be biased. And no mention that pers…
If you read garbage publications, of course you will get garbage arguments and opinions.
US news channels are a horrible example, they pick someone to represent the most extreme views and have them fight on TV to entertain viewers.
But reading two articles on the same topic by two sources on different ends of the political spectrum and with decent quality and can be very enlightening. (emphasis on quality)
For any news junkies heres, I've built https://maagnit.com which gathers both Left and Right leaning sources for any story and displays them altogether on one page. My approach has been, if we can't get neutral/objective coverage, getting comprehensive, 360 desgree coverage is a good alternative. These days, news bias is not only in the way a story is covered, but also which stories are covered. So, maagnit automatic…
Self-Plug: https://www.hvper.com (Official Successor of popurls which more or less started the single page aggregator craze.)
That pink bar takes up almost half of my screen on my iphone 11 and makes the website defacto unusable. Not to be unkind, but you should fix that. Instead of being incentivized to pay you, my only instinct was to close that page asap.