Can somebody explain peertube for me? It sounds like it should be a federated video service, but either the federation doesn’t work very well or there’s nothing on it.

3yo cars are pretty much always less than half. ICE or EV

It resulted in voters receiving a ballot paper asking them to rank over a dozen candidates and the response to this by voters was quite negative because they felt that the process of intelligently researching and comparing that many candidates was unnecessarily laborious and people found the electoral system confusing.

I doubt that was really the public speaking. It’ll be politically active people who fear the change. People just need it explained to them a couple of times.

Ranking 12 people is well within most people’s grasp when parties are also involved. Most know their preference of paries, so that gives you gross blocking and then if you have particular knowledge of individuals you can apply it. The main thing is to make it clear they are voting for N winners.

You need to have randomised ballot order though. If somebody is just voting along party lines they will write 1-2-3 down the page for that party. If everyone does this it skews things.

That’s a separate question.

STV with a single winner is like holding multiple elections where the biggest loser gets eliminated each round. You can vote for your favourite uncle first, because you’d really like him to win, but because you’ve put other people at 2, 3 and 4 you still get a say who wins even though your uncle only got 7 votes. Your Single Vote gets Transferred to your next preference when he’s eliminated.

STV with multiple winners is the same but you stop eliminating people when you’re down to however many you need.

STV with multi-member constituencies.

• No ranked list of party members that parties can put their best buds at the top of. All candidates are equal, party affiliated or not.
• Ranked voting system, so people can express their preference with no need for tactical voting.
• All takes place with a single vote.
• Members of the public will have a choice of representative when raising concerns with them. Better chance of talking to someone who simpathises with your issue.
• It’s still representation on a local scale.
• Whilst it’s still an approximation to full PR the margin of error compared to FPTP is massively reduced.

I think it gets discarded because “it’s still not PR” but I think the advantages outweigh this.

It’s the beginning of reality biting for sure.

I think the big one will be when companies like openAI and anthropic have to file audited books in order to IPO (which they both want to do).

The fallback argument for the social media ban is that it’s better than nothing. But with results like these, it may be worse than nothing, given it potentially creates new problems. Children will remain online with arguably less supervision and support, new privacy and digital security vulnerabilities seem to have appeared and the worst aspects of social media lay largely unaddressed.

I wish more people understood this. Changing something can mean you’ve caused harm unintentionally, even if you haven’t identified it yet. Too many people seem to have the thought process “We have to do something! This is something. Let’s do this.” without ever considering the harm they might do.

WHAAAAT?!?! Educating people is better than telling them what to do?

…but who taught her to flop off the couch? That sounds like an aunt or uncle.

That’s just a savings account isn’t it?

It’s a hell of a moment when they can out perform their parents, isn’t it?

We Brits use Czar as a colloquialism for “person in charge of…”.

So the head of the water regulator might be referred to as the water Czar (and they deserve a similar fate).

Should never have been in the browser anyway.

The rationale for bail out the banks previously was that the retail arms (what you and I use) were so intertwined with the commercial arms that allowing the commercial part to fail caused the loss of everyone’s money. Regulation was introduced (at least in the UK. I don’t know about elsewhere) that ring fenced the two from each other, making future bailouts unnecessary. The commercial arm would shoulder the risk of its own investments.

Doesn’t stop corrupt politicians bailing them out though.

No. Pretty sure it’s true of patents too. Might depend on which court you’re in.

It can’t be completely circular. There is an end customer that will expect something for their money eventually. Right now it’s driven by huge amounts of debt, but you can’t be on that forever. At some point it unwinds

5 year patents should exist IMHO. I think that’s a reasonable chance to monetise an invention. Short enough to remove the use of patents as munitions between companies.

After that it’s open season and you’ve allowed society to use it in any way in return for that 5 year protection.

Which is a damn good point. If you don’t protect a patent in a reasonable time frame I believe you lose the right to protect it. If Dolby has had this patent for a long time, and allowed it to become part of a standard, it may be a quick dismissal of the case.

Not sure Sony manufacture flash memory themselves. They probably just buy it and package it into memory cards.

Except that it seems a lot of these trades are on-paper, and not involving the actual transfer of goods. The data centres aren’t getting built. The servers aren’t going in them. The power isn’t being supplied. The tokens are not being generated. At least… It’s only a fraction of what they are all saying.

Some auditor is going to have a field day.