dajon

Indeed, a single postcode in the UK will contain (on average) about 20 addresses and (usually) only refer to a single street.

In the UK, the spots are allocated to parties rather than candidates, and determined by past election (and to a lesser extent, current opinion poll) performance.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-rele...

> It didn't see the outcome of that vote yet though

The referendum was very explicitly non-binding. 'The outcome of that vote' was achieved simply by publishing the results.

Regarding your first point, there's a very relevant 2-minute sketch from the radio show 'That Mitchell & Webb Sound' that makes a similar argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E

I suspect this is fundamentally the same as Amazon recommending things you've already bought. Even if the likelihood of rewatching/repurchasing is small, that probability must compare favourably to the chance that their algorithm will select a 'correct' unseen item to display.

Recommendations are hard.

My only knowledge of Henri Bergson is from perhaps a less intellectual source, the Monty Python sketch 'Spot the brain cell':

Cleese: ... Well your first question for the blow on the head this evening is: What great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to physical states?

Jones: I don't know that!

Cleese: Well, have a guess.

Jones: Henri Bergson.

Cleese: Is the correct answer!

Jones: Ooh, that was lucky. I've never even heard of him.