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Re:How to Fix the Electoral College on Friday November 08, 2024 @06:55PM (#42091409)
In the EU there is already a similar system because, in the parliament, the number of MEPs is not really proportional to the population (Germany has 84,48 million inhabitants and 96 MEPs, so 1 every 880,000 people, while Malta has 553,000 people and 6 MEPs so 1 MEP every 92,000 people).

The difference is MEPs are appointed proportionally within each state (so if a party gets 40% in a state, it will get ca. 40% of the state's MEPs)

Re:How to Fix the Electoral College on Friday November 08, 2024 @02:00PM (#42089525)
Ok yes maybe "easy" isn't exactly the correct term, but the way to appoint electors in each state doesn't need a 2/3 majority in every house + 3/4 of the states as it happens with Constitutional amendaments. So it's definitely an easier approach
Re:How to Fix the Electoral College on Friday November 08, 2024 @01:37PM (#42089319)
Yours is a very good point of view actually. I initially hadn't thought about the tragedy of the commons situation where all the states agree to implement it and later one state decides to go back to winner take all system.

big-green-man wrote a good comment about that

Re:How to Fix the Electoral College on Friday November 08, 2024 @01:24PM (#42089209)
As stated in other comments, it would be actually easy to implement as it doesn't require a change in the constitution.

Anyway, as I told in another comment, I'm not from the US, so my intention wasn't really to say how to implement the proposal. I just had this idea and wrote it down in a blog post.

Re:How to Fix the Electoral College on Friday November 08, 2024 @01:20PM (#42089166)
Makes sense
Re:How to Fix the Electoral College on Friday November 08, 2024 @01:17PM (#42089132)
Yes, it's easier to show with an example.

- California has 38,940,231 inhabitants and 54 electors. That means 1 elector every 721,115 inhabitants - Oklahoma has 4,053,824 inhabitants and 7 electors, so 1 elector every 579,117 people.

Re:How to Fix the Electoral College on Friday November 08, 2024 @11:32AM (#42088124)
Yeah, spoiler vote brings to 2 parties (like the US). Although the current electoral college doesn't work well, I'm not sure the Americans would prefer to remove it completely and rather use directly popular vote because in the rural areas they don't want to be "governed" by the decisions of big cities.

What do you think about keeping the electoral college and use IRV instead?

Re:How to Fix the Electoral College on Friday November 08, 2024 @11:18AM (#42087999)
>It has other benefits too, like reducing the prevalence of 2 parties in the house

Could you elaborate further?

Re:How to Fix the Electoral College on Friday November 08, 2024 @11:13AM (#42087942)
I believe you're right, even if all the states agreed to make a similar change, this "equilibrium" state would be unstable. It would require an amendment to the US constitution to make it stable and that would require a huge majority.

Even if they decided to ament the constitution, you would still face another issue: now electoral system is written in the constitution, so it becomes even more difficult to change in the future.

What do you think about the system adopted by Maine and Nebraska instead?

Re:How to Fix the Electoral College on Friday November 08, 2024 @10:45AM (#42087695)
Hello, here is my proposal to improve the Electoral College. The basic idea is to allocate electors proportionally in each state with the Jefferson method (aka d'Hondt method) rather than using a "winner-take-all" system.

What do you think about it?

PS: I'm not from the US, so an American perspective on that would be extremely appreciated :)

Re:Hate Chatbots? You Aren't the Only One on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @05:46PM (#40505951)
> You could skip the generative part for the bot reply entirely

How could you remove the generative part from an LLM? (genuine question)

Are there any ways to show the source of the information retrieved by the model? For instance, the LLM forms a sentence and it points to a stackoverflow answer with the same or similar content.
Re:Has LA cracked the code for building affordable housing? on Sunday February 11, 2024 @07:09AM (#39334482)
If your dense housing leads to higher housing costs that's actually great news; it means that your city is enabling higher-productivity arrangements that boost local incomes

Take Milan as a counterexample. A single room in a shared flat costs around €700/month, a single-room studio €1200/month. Yet, people on average earn €30,000 a year, which means €24000 after taxes, or around €1800 per month. That's not what I would say increased salaries and productivity.

In Italy, there are serious problems with stagnating productivity and national, collective bargaining. Nevertheless, that doesn't mean rents do not skyrocket in big cities

Anectodically speaking, it has always been extremely helpful not only reading texts and solving problems/exercises, but also: 1) repeating topics out loud and, if there were some formulas, writing them down while doing that 2) explaining something to your friend if they didn't understand it
Re:Ask HN: Tips for Moving to the Valley? on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @12:29PM (#39206634)
It would be extremely helpful!
Re:Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android" on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:10AM (#39079725)
If you want, I made a similar project in Flutter called "Foldie". It's based on adb, so it requires a cable. https://github.com/FLopriore/foldie
Re:World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @11:05AM (#38545692)
It seems very similar to what we study in "Computer Science and Engineering" in Italy, which is a different degree from "Computer Science". The former is considered engineering, the latter isn't (pretty strange tbh, but that's how it works)
Re:Ask HN: Is React Native still popular? on Saturday December 02, 2023 @03:55PM (#38501953)
What about Flutter?
Re:Is Delaware the Cheapest Place to Incorporate? on Friday November 17, 2023 @12:56AM (#38300088)
Could you share the article you wrote about why Delaware is a corporate haven?
Re:Ask HN: What are you reading these days? on Sunday November 12, 2023 @07:13AM (#38239486)
Elon Musk's biography written by Walter Isaacson.
Re:LoraPaper: A Connected EPaper Device That Runs on Light on Sunday September 03, 2023 @08:34AM (#37369914)
Do you have any blog post, video or anything that shows how to build your project?
Re:Ask HN: Best books to learn web development? on Thursday August 31, 2023 @02:41AM (#37333326)
Thanks, I already know Python for basic scripts. This tutorial looks awesome to build simple web apps, thanks for sharing. I'm looking forward to studying "Designing Data-Intensive Applications", it truly looks like a gem
Re:Ask HN: Best books to learn web development? on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:40PM (#37328745)
Thanks a lot
Re:Ask HN: Best books to learn web development? on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:33PM (#37328637)
TBH I'm not a huge fan of results given by ChatGPT. I often found several mistakes, not only in programming. When you ask ChatGPT, then to check its answers you must google it anyway, I feel like you waste more time. In addition, I prefer fixing problems by myself. That's why I try not to use 3rd-party libraries so much when I'm learning a new language or framework. When I get familiar with it, I start using them obviously.
Re:Ask HN: Best books to learn web development? on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:25PM (#37328503)
OOP isn't a problem at all since I already know Java well. Thx for DOM
Re:Ask HN: Best books to learn web development? on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:23PM (#37328464)
> you need to build stuff as much as possible You're absolutely right, that's how you truly learn. I asked for some books to get a more "theoretical" perspective apart from building projects.
Re:Ask HN: Best books to learn web development? on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @02:14PM (#37326460)
Nice, I will take a look at both of them for sure
Re:Ask HN: Best books to learn web development? on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @02:13PM (#37326448)
Thanks a lot, that's definitely what I was looking for
Re:Ask HN: Best books to learn web development? on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @02:13PM (#37326436)
Yeah I've read some parts of those docs, that's one of my main online sources.

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