Yeah but, did she resign? Too soon?
Don't worry she's still on the voter rolls and will be voting for Joe by mail in 2024
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Re: Dianne Feinstein has died
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Also see FDR...
And Woodrow Wilson and Strom Thurmond and Fetterman and...
wait, what exactly gives you the impression that Fetterman isn't all there?
this is an interview he gave within the last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldqgtCYMs0
Re: Dianne Feinstein has died
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Putting it on your radar: Approval Voting Has many advantages over RCV / IRV (Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff Voting). For one - no need to change ballots; educating the public is a single sentence rather than a more-complicated explanation. https://electionscience.org/library/approval-voting/
Doesn’t seem to allow people to express their natural feelings. RCV does. I absolutely have a favorite. And I want to be able to encode that. I also have a 2nd choice, and so on. Imagine a case where I really really want one guy, and between the remaining two I have a strong preference for one over the other. RCV lets me express that. Approval would have been stuck. Should I mention the 2nd guy? I do want them if it…
this is a common intuition-based fallacy. i'm an expert with almost 20 years of experience working in this field with various phd's in political science, math, and game theory. i explain this here:
https://medium.com/election-science/expressiveness-6ef8c034b...
tl;dr - for any two candidates, X and Y, the voters who approve only one of them express a "ranked preference" between them. and because those voters are, on average, a good statistical sample of the X-vs-Y preference of the entire electorate, approval voting turns out to measure voter preferences very accurately.
whereas instant runoff voting can actually have much bigger problems in preference detection because it only looks at one layer of preferences at a time. for example:
35% left center 33% right center 32% center
in this example, center is preferred to both the left and the right by a LANDSLIDE 2/3rds majority, yet is the first candidate eliminated. this happens because of "vote splitting" (spoiler effect) between the two more partisan candidates. so it might _feel_ like you expressed your preferences better. but you didn't really.
and what about STRATEGIC VOTING?
if right wins, then the left supporters will wish they had strategically voted for center to prevent that. and if left wins, then right supporters will wish they had strategically voted for center to prevent that.
approval voting satisfies the "favorite betrayal criterion", which means it cannot possibly hurt you to support your sincere favorite candidate.
for these and many other reasons, approval voting is vastly superior to ranking. https://electionscience.org/library/approval-voting-versus-i...
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Another system similar to this but with more information is STAR voting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_voting They all have different strengths and weaknesses. We should be trying to move to more optimal systems.
A major, important difference between the two is that a median HN user can read the Wikipedia page on STAR voting and come away not fully understanding it and have further questions (do score difference magnitudes matter in the runoff? Or only which is higher?). Meanwhile approval voting is exhaustively explained by "vote for as many candidates as you like. Candidate with the most votes wins." A "more optimal" voting…
cardinal (rated) voting methods are better than ordinal (ranked). so score voting, approval voting, and star voting are all good.
approval voting is just score voting on a 0-1 binary scale. star voting is score voting on a 0-5 scale, followed by an "instant runoff" between the top two highest rated candidates.
> public understanding and trust make a voting system more optimal.
star voting: score the candidates from 0 - 5 and the winner is the majority favorite between the two highest rated overall.
there's no risk with public understanding here. i've worked on this subject since 2006, and conducted exit polls with score voting ballots within months of getting into this issue. people understand it just fine. it's radically simpler than ranking.
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Literally not how things work. The last time states tried to secede a little thing called the Civil War happened and we determined that no, actually you can’t just leave the US whenever you feel like it.
There is nothing in the constitution that says states can't secede. Just because some people in the 1800s went to war over it doesn't mean people in 2100's have to kill each other. Peaceful secession is always an option.
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I ran for a city councilmember: 1) You opponents campaign manager will lie about their candidate without qualms. 2) Donors will give money to a scoundrel, as long as they think the scoundrel will win. 3) Voters are actually good at picking up bullshit - in aggregate. 4) Rich white liberal female voters will not vote for a man. 5) Plenty of Black, Asian, and Immigrant voters are conservative, but many reflexively vote…
That doesn't sound even the tiniest bit fun. I'm genuinely curious about what made it fun, presumably something you didn't mention?
I grew a lot and made a lot of friends in so many communities, and I learned from immigrants about the values my great grandparents also had.
I'm conservative and found that I have so much in common with so many people that I'm sort of pissed that our culture has done it's best to keep us apart.
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Could you add a bit more context here? What sort of engineer and approved by whom?
If you work in engineering at a bank, all your personal account trades probably have to be pre-approved by your supervisor. You're almost certainly restricted on the products you can trade - like, maybe even "you cannot trade single stocks". You probably have to keep your account with an approved broker, who will then send your account statements to the compliance team at your firm. If you try and trade a name that's…
Thanks for the reply. That clears up a lot!