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Re:Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsear... by godelski on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @04:34PM (#28226741)
Here's my positions, but of course I'm open to other opinions. I wrote a big list and I realized I could distill a lot of my ideas. For one I'm a big fan of STAR and Approval voting. We've seen over a hundred years of ordinal methods in various countries (including America) and seen the failure. Time to move to what the experts are suggesting. Which brings me to the second point. Lots of these topics are extremely complex and contain a lot of nuance. Us non-experts can see a high level but sometimes these nuanced points matter a lot. So let's not be so aggressive in asserting how right we are. Also, we need to focus on unity. Mic drops and calling people names doesn't help us. We need nuanced and calm conversations. Our fellow citizens, no matter how crazy their beliefs, are not our enemies. Don't dehumanize people, that's divide and rule. Lastly, we need to stay focused. I think there is a new thing to be outraged about every other day. Let's talk about what the big important problems are and focus on those first. Let's recognize that doing so isn't dismissing the other problems. We only have so much bandwidth. Right now we have no such priority list, we're just jumping from thing to thing. Solving problems takes time (a thing we often forget). If our attention to the problem is shorter than the time it takes to solve the problem then we will never solve these problems.

Edit: One thing I wanted to add is that we can have different groups focus on different things. It's not a zero sum game. This is because not everyone is an expert in everything, and thus the utility they contribute isn't the same as every task they contribute to.

Re:Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsear... by ClayShentrup on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @05:56PM (#28295481)
Approval voting and STAR voting are the BOSS.