bannus | 7 years ago | on: Air Pollution in Our Homes
Wow, you beat me to posting this exact quote!
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bannus | 8 years ago | on: An impossibility theorem for gerrymandering
For an improvement on the "1 seat for every 10% of the vote you get" system you mention, take a look at the system Cambridge, MA uses for their at-large city council election [1]. Citizens cast ranked-choice ballots, and through an iterative process each of the 9 councilors are elected if they receive over 10% of the vote. (Excess votes for winners and votes for candidates below a certain threshold are transferred in each iteration.)
[1] http://www.fairvote.org/cambridge-massachusetts-elections-a-...
bannus | 10 years ago | on: An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat)
From article:
> so I made pie charts from the parsed data and traced and colored them in BMF kitchen.
bannus | 10 years ago | on: An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat)
Gmail makes it very easy (via the "Filter messages like these") to filter all messages from a mailing list. You can apply a label and skip the inbox so you just browse the list when you need to.
bannus | 10 years ago | on: Supercomputer quietly puts U.S. weather resources back on top
For the similarly curious -- I assume this is referring to Rock Reef Pass:
http://www.jessstryker.com/national-parks/everglades/rock-re...
bannus | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
Lots of city apartments don't have bicycle storage. Lots of bikes in cities get stolen when left outside.
bannus | 12 years ago | on: 2048 – multiplayer
There's some bug ending games early, so this is pretty much a button mashing contest. Also, when games end early, it doesn't properly declare the winner. I assume something's broken in detecting if the board has no moves: http://i.imgur.com/4XBGCzI.png
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