I wanted more details on how this works. For those interested, I found an English pdf describing the full system [1]. The interesting part is Article 110, which discusses how the adjustment seats are allocated. Here is…
> So the entire system is biased away from local representation and towards party policy decided on a national basis. > That policy is in turn heavily weighed towards the interests of geographic areas Forgive me if I'm…
It is possible! But with more than two dimensions, you have to allow deviations from perfect proportionality to guarantee a solution exists. The more dimensions, the worse it gets, until eventually proportionality…
There's been a big push to develop modern standards in the IndieWeb community [0]. There are two important standards: - WebMention, a W3C standard that is basically the equivalent of @ing someone on Twitter [1]. It is…
The last part is not true. Blockchains are used for currencies like Bitcoin precisely because no one, not even the creators, can steal from someone once the money has been transferred, unless the new owner does not…
You cannot prove the null hypothesis; you can only disprove it. The p-value is the probability that the null hypothesis is true. So if the null hypothesis is that there is no difference, and there is a low probability…
No. This is something entirely different entirely. Mining a cryptocurrency goes something like this: spend a ton of money investing in a state of the art server farm, hook server farm up to mining pool to earn Bitcoin,…
In theory, a miner could try to manipulate the hash of the future block to change the outcome. It is much more difficult with Bitcoin, where valid blocks are more rare and produce a high income, but with Ethereum blocks…
I wanted more details on how this works. For those interested, I found an English pdf describing the full system [1]. The interesting part is Article 110, which discusses how the adjustment seats are allocated. Here is…
> So the entire system is biased away from local representation and towards party policy decided on a national basis. > That policy is in turn heavily weighed towards the interests of geographic areas Forgive me if I'm…
It is possible! But with more than two dimensions, you have to allow deviations from perfect proportionality to guarantee a solution exists. The more dimensions, the worse it gets, until eventually proportionality…
There's been a big push to develop modern standards in the IndieWeb community [0]. There are two important standards: - WebMention, a W3C standard that is basically the equivalent of @ing someone on Twitter [1]. It is…
The last part is not true. Blockchains are used for currencies like Bitcoin precisely because no one, not even the creators, can steal from someone once the money has been transferred, unless the new owner does not…
You cannot prove the null hypothesis; you can only disprove it. The p-value is the probability that the null hypothesis is true. So if the null hypothesis is that there is no difference, and there is a low probability…
No. This is something entirely different entirely. Mining a cryptocurrency goes something like this: spend a ton of money investing in a state of the art server farm, hook server farm up to mining pool to earn Bitcoin,…
In theory, a miner could try to manipulate the hash of the future block to change the outcome. It is much more difficult with Bitcoin, where valid blocks are more rare and produce a high income, but with Ethereum blocks…