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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by namaemuta on Thursday June 23, 2016 @06:53AM (#11960059)
Multiply your rating system by 2 and you won't need half stars :)
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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by sullyj3 on Thursday June 23, 2016 @09:22PM (#11965596)
This makes subitizing much more difficult though.
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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by alanh on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:47PM (#11973337)
This comment taught me a word. Separately, you are completely correct and this is extremely valid in the design of rating systems.
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