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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I guess the issue is that, assuming a turnout of 60% for simplicity, the undeserving third category you mention only makes up roughly 30% of eligible voters. Which means 70% of eligible voters are deserving of what's coming to them (according to you). I acknowledge that throwing the whole country into the same bucket is not a fair and helpful simplification, but it's becoming increasingly harder to resist the urge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

But who would lead the executive branch then and how would you ensure that they are reasonably separated from the legislative branch?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Haha, I was actually joking, I didn't think it's really true. This is hilarious!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Maybe they're talking about themselves in 3rd person (dragonfucker)? 🙃

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

I recently read an interesting article proposing to get rid of the current peer review system: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review

The argument was roughly this: for the unfathomable (unpaid) hours spent on peer review, it's not very effective. Too much bad research still gets published and too much good research gets rejected. Science would also not be a weak-link problem but a strong-link problem, i.e., scientific progress would not depend on the quality of our worst research but of that of our best research (which would push through anyway in time). Pretty interesting read, even though I find it difficult to imagine how we would transition to such a system.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Wow, these guys are even more awesome than I thought then...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is Google Chrome fighting uBlock country-specific? I use Chrome on Win 10 with uBlock and haven't seen a YouTube ad outside of the mobile app in ages. For me, uBlock never stopped working in Chrome and I watch YouTube videos every 1-2 days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

An axiom is a statement that is accepted to be true, usually to serve as a foundation for further arguments. I assume OP meant that NGT would often make general statements without much justification and OP perceived these statements as not nuanced / "true" enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

A few bad things in code for which we have fairly consistent evidence:

  • high nesting depth
  • meaningless or single-letter variable names
  • lots of code duplication
  • very inconsistent formatting
  • very complicated Boolean conditions with AND and OR
  • functions with a lot of parameters
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

As a software engineering researcher, I strongly agree. SE research has studied code comprehension for more than 40 years, but for that amount of time, we know surprisingly little about what makes really high-quality code. We are decent in saying what makes very bad code, though, but beyond extreme cases, it's hard to come to fairly general statements.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's a great analogy via movie quotes if I've ever seen one! Need to rewatch that movie... :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm confused about this as well. Why is this trial happening before one that would bring criminal charges for the insurrection to lock him up? If he lost such a trial, he would be automatically banned from running, right? Or is the required evidence different for this one and that's why they go with it?

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