tristynalxander
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- Comment on I took this today in San Francisco 14 hours ago:
This is dystopian as hell…
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 2 days ago:
If all the politicians on you ballot corrupt, you can rank the lottery option higher than the politicians on your ballot. The net ranking is determined by summing the ballot option relations. You fill seats starting at the top ranked and work your way down, but any candidate equal to or less than the lottery option is tossed. If there are remaining seats, the a citizen lottery is held. There’s no opt-in. We pick a random citizen, ask if they’ll do the job. They can reject, and we re-roll the lottery until it’s filled.
You lose the technical expertise of politicians if you choose this option, but it’s extremely good for preventing political entrenchment. You also tend to get people who care deeply about their community accepting the job. Some people claim you’ll end up with uneducated people (especially in the short term), but that’s both kinda classist and fails to question: what system lead to “so many” uneducated people in the first places? There will also be people who put the lottery option first out of principle. This is good because it means politicians have to have even wider appeal to beat the lottery option (i.e. 70% approve, but 10% those put lottery first out of principle, so only 63% rank them above lottery, beats lottery – 55% approval with 10% above lottery-firsters puts them at 49.5% above lottery, 50.5% below lottery, so lose to lottery).
It’s basically a populous anti-corruption mechanism.
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 4 days ago:
The United States is not a democracy. Power does not rest with the populous.
Electoral Democracy has four required mechanism: Ranked Voting, Lottery Option, Recall Mechanism, Randomized Districting. Neither the United States, nor any of it states, nor any of its cities or counties to my knowledge qualify as a democracy. The vast majority aren’t even on the democratic spectrum. Top to bottom, we are electoral oligarchy. When you lack democracy, you lack consent of the governed, and your governments are not legitimate. They are both inherently and demonstrably corrupt.
Move to install these democratic mechanisms in your local governments. Entrench democracy.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 6 days ago:
Even that radically over estimate’s his popularity since a large portion of those voters would vote for any republican against a democrat.
It’s really important to remember that America isn’t a democracy. We don’t have ranked voting or a lottery option – The voters don’t have a functional ‘none of the above’ option. Add to that the lack of a recall mechanism or randomized districting, and it’s pretty easy for a coordinated elite to install someone widely disliked for long periods of time.
- Comment on Younger generations are biologically aging faster than their older counterparts, possibly contributing to the rising prevalence of early-onset cancer 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, no shit we’re stressed the fuck out. Stress causes aging this isn’t a mystery.
- Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human 3 weeks ago:
Integrate all into one app, and it’s close enough functionally that it could compete, and that’s all you really need.
- Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I’m not in networking so maybe you’re right and I’m totally out of touch with the basics. Downloads don’t even need to be instant. People scroll and save videos to watch later all the time. Maybe I’m ignorant, but it seems like the technology (torrent networks) already exists and this just requires slapping a pretty interface on top of it.
Honestly, it sounds more like a marketing problem than a networking problem.
- Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human 3 weeks ago:
Creating an infrastructure that could potentially ingest terrabytes of data per second, and then processing it into multiple resolutions, is a massive ask.
Yeah, but that’s a bad approach.
A website that just hosts links, a torrent to video script, and a like-button that’s a magnetic link is all you need to set up a youtube competitor. The creators can host their own videos, and their fans can help them. Sure there’s a lot of quality of life stuff that integrating a torrent client and browser would help with like automatically using file selection to host only the resolutions you watch up to, but the underlying system is functional. For steaming, do whatever peertube is doing.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 2 months ago:
The United States is a Electoral Oligarchy, not a democratic republic.
- Comment on What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels? | Quanta Magazine 2 months ago:
You should post this on biophysics too.
- Comment on I have a plan 3 months ago:
Mega churches, billionaire bunkers, pent houses, suburban mansions, … trucks with testicles
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