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Semi-corollary to Arrow's theorem: There DO exist voting algorithms that will occasionally elect the candidate that absolutely nobody wants.
Proof: my homeowners convention yesterday. We need more money for repairs. Three suggestions were made: small increase in our monthly deposit, medium, and large. Suggestions *need* to be put up for voting individually, apparently, to pass, they need a majority. All three failed, no way to re-poll. Result: not enough money for all repairs, many got delayed. No disaster, but still.
Best bit: without the medium suggestion, the large increase would probably have passed (it was not exuberant). Next thing the guy who made the medium suggestion does? "Please vote for these 200k roof repairs so my flat does not get constantly wet!"
Proof: my homeowners convention yesterday. We need more money for repairs. Three suggestions were made: small increase in our monthly deposit, medium, and large. Suggestions *need* to be put up for voting individually, apparently, to pass, they need a majority. All three failed, no way to re-poll. Result: not enough money for all repairs, many got delayed. No disaster, but still.
Best bit: without the medium suggestion, the large increase would probably have passed (it was not exuberant). Next thing the guy who made the medium suggestion does? "Please vote for these 200k roof repairs so my flat does not get constantly wet!"
bert_the_turtle wrote:Semi-corollary to Arrow's theorem: There DO exist voting algorithms that will occasionally elect the candidate that absolutely nobody wants.
Fun fact: The discrete math guy at UNR was a student of Arrow's, and did a post-doc with Shapley. I kind of wish that I had time to take more game theory...
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So, just got out of Iron Man 3
It was... very meh.
It's not a bad movie, just a very hollow one. Which is a pity since it got a strong start with lots of interesting possibilities, but then the points that could lead to interesting character development never really come into play, and starts throwing loads of minor twists, none of which are surprising, and all of which only make the movie less interesting (not by their presence, but because a non-twist version would genuinely be more interesting), frankly they throw out so many twists I'm pretty sure they started repeating them at one point.
It's forgettable fodder for a lazy sunday afternoon.
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It was... very meh.
It's not a bad movie, just a very hollow one. Which is a pity since it got a strong start with lots of interesting possibilities, but then the points that could lead to interesting character development never really come into play, and starts throwing loads of minor twists, none of which are surprising, and all of which only make the movie less interesting (not by their presence, but because a non-twist version would genuinely be more interesting), frankly they throw out so many twists I'm pretty sure they started repeating them at one point.
It's forgettable fodder for a lazy sunday afternoon.
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And don't forget, watch Downtown Abbey, only on PBS.
I had to change my phone number due to technical problems. Previously my and my dad's phone numbers were exactly the same except for the area code, and my mom's stone age phone apparently couldn't handle that.
So now it's (Area Code)-NEATNIT
I feel stupid but it's so easy to remember that I don't care.
So now it's (Area Code)-NEATNIT
I feel stupid but it's so easy to remember that I don't care.
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