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glaber

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  • Spain wants exemption from NATO’s 5 percent defense spending target

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  • Spain wants exemption from NATO’s 5 percent defense spending target

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  • Good, I wish NATO would disintegrate and European defence return to the competences of the European Union. I don't want my taxes to benefit the United States neither economically nor strategically. They've proven time and time again they want to go it alone. They want to be bosses of the world and everyone to answer to them. Fuck them.

  • WhatsApp is officially getting ads

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  • New Zealand passes record suspension of lawmakers over haka

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  • And, in 2025, the Pākehā keep deciding what happens to indigenous land and indigenous resources, without letting Maori have any voice in it. Toitū te Tiriti!

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  • Slrpnk.net outage (resolved)

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  • Yeah! It's definitely worth adding to my list of migration contenders now that lemm.ee is closing and I have to jump ship

  • I'm going to miss lemm.ee.

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  • Wherever you guys migrate, please stop concentrating the userbase around lemmy.world, that's exactly what we're trying to avoid with Lemmy to begin with. The best thing you can do is go to https://join-lemmy.org/ and choose a server that's not in the top 10 or so. This will also help avoid things like the admins/mods burning out

  • LinkedIn lays off 281 workers in California, including many Bay Area engineers

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  • Do they have any Spanish instances?

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  • You jest, but I've already seen "AI-powered" toothbrushes on shelves. Let's give even more health data to corporate giants!

  • End of 10 — Windows 10 is reaching the end of its support. Time to make the switch to Linux.

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  • Eurovision accused of ‘encouraging manipulation’ after Israel’s near-win [Spains RTVE and Flemish VRT demand investigation into voting system]

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  • Being very pedantic, small parts of Georgia and Azerbaijan are within the commonly agreed borders of Europe (the Georgian parts that fall on the Terek river basin and the Azeri Quba-Xaçmaz region)

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  • I think you missed the part where I said that it can happen, but that it’s rare and hard to predict.

    Yea, sorry, my wording wasn't the clearest. I meant to say that it is actually not that rare, and hoped that the linked source would help support that claim. From the same website:

    We can [assume that] "all votes [are] equally likely except that the probabilities that A,B,C will be middle-ranked of the three in that vote are 30%, 30%, and 40% respectively" where C is the 3rd-party candidate. Then in IRV as #voters→∞, C's probability of winning is probably exponentially tiny so that Joe Voter is justified in assuming C only a very tiny [...] chance of winning. Indeed C only has a tiny chance of merely surviving the first round.

    However, Joe reasons, if Joe and friends by honestly-ranking C top do manage to make C survive the first round, then that will almost certainly happen only at the cost of eliminating Joe's second-favorite candidate A. If the A votes then transfer equally to C and B (which in "1-dimensional politics" with C A B arranged along a "line" in that order, seems likely) then C will almost certainly still lose, and will have deprived A of victory in the process.

    The idea then would be that the behavior of mid-ranking the 3rd party candidate would be self-reinforcing in IRV: an assumption of a slight bias that way like we just made (40% versus 30% [...]), then leads to it being strategically wise for Joe Voter to do it, leading to a larger bias that way, etc. – positive feedback, self-reinforcing 2-party domination.

    Approval Voting is bad because of the simple fact that it doesn’t let you express any preference.

    I agree and that's why I support Score Voting over it! The mechanism to express that one candidate is better than another one is to just give them honest scores! And there's studies proving that's the reality is, the vast majority of people are at least somewhat honest when filling out a Score ballot

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  • New technology could reduce radioactivity in nuclear waste by up to 80%

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  • ISO 8601

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  • Here they are! Orange represents my Leapweek calendar and blue is Gregorian. The Y-axis is deviation from the tropical year and the X-axis is the year number. It's a 19200-year cycle to allow for both Gregorian and Leapweek to do entire iterations of their 400-year and 768-year cycles, respectively.

    The Gregorian rules are, as you already know: if a year is divisible by 4, it is a leap year; unless it is divisible by 100, when it is a common year; unless it is also divisible by 400, in which case it is actually a leap year.

    My Leapweek rules are: years divisible by 8, are leap (short, with 360 days instead of the usual 366) years, as are years divisible by 768 (after subtracting 4 so as not to clash with years divisible by 8). Just two rules as opposed to Gregorian's three, but they result in almost perfect correction: it takes 625 000 years to fall out of sync by 1 day, as opposed to Gregorian's 3 216 years for the same amount)

    The catch is that Leapweek falls out of sync by up to 5½ days either way in between 768-year cycles, and up to 2½ days either way in between 8-year cycles. But they average out.

    About the lunisolar I'm afraid to say that I ran into the same issue. Lunations are a very inconvenient duration to try and fit into neat solar days and months.

    I wish it weren't as theoretical, because I really like this calendar, but yea. It's one of those things that will be impossible to change even though there's arguably better options. It's too arbitrary yet too essential and it goes in the same box as the metric second/minute/hour, the dozenal system and the Holocene calendar.

    Here's a challenge though: try and devise a Martian calendar! That one is not standardised yet. I had good fun trying to match the Martian sol and year to metric units of time and maybe giving some serious use to the kilosecond, megasecond and gigasecond

    As an extra, here's a 1000-year version of the graph at the start of the reply, with the current year 12 025 of the Holocene calendar :^) in the middle

  • Lemmy needs more donations

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  • Wouldn't be many users, but would having a separate version on F-Droid be a way to be able to reach some of them?

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