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A comment on Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts with Genetic Algorithms. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts wi... by specialist on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:22AM (#23614251)
I've been trying to dream up ways to use general purpose strategies like this to mitigate regulatory capture. Applicable to two party systems with no clear obvious third party to forge a balance of powers, a durable trilemma.
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Re:Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts wi... by klyrs on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:13PM (#23620371)
There are fair algorithms for multi-way division... but yeah, it's going to be real hard for a third party to break in when the two ruling parties can conspire to block them.
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