Voting Systems

Voting in politics and in software applications isn't as simple as it may seem. Here you can read discuss designing some basic voting systems and analyze their intricacies, pros, and cons.

No voting system is perfect, but the design of the voting system has a huge impact on the winner of the election. Our most common voting system - Plurality voting has a set of serious flaws. It can create spoilers, is least expressive for voters, bad mathematically, predicts higher regret values.

Approval and Score voting add a huge value over the rank-based voting systems.

Read Voting Systems by Preet Shinh

Four-day working week would slash UK carbon footprint, report says

The introduction of a four-day working week with no loss of pay would dramatically reduce the UK’s carbon footprint and help the country meet its binding climate targets, according to a report.

Advocates say reducing working hours would create jobs, improve people’s mental and physical health and strengthen families and communities

Read story by The Guardian

From one of the comments:

I find these claims skeptical because commuting pretty much completely stopped during COVID and carbon emissions barely changed (reduction of 7%). The COVID induced WFH environment has shown that Industry is the chief polluter on a global level and people choosing to commute less or eat less meat is not going to get us to the proper levels of emission reductions.

Leaked documents reveal the special rules Facebook uses for 5.8M VIPs

For normal users, posting “nonconsensual intimate imagery” triggers a straightforward response—it is immediately deleted, and the person’s account is deactivated. Instead, Neymar’s video remained up for more than a day. Regular moderators couldn’t touch it, and by the time it was taken down by the XCheck team, 56 million people had seen it. The video was reposted 6,000 times, and many commenters bullied and harassed the woman. Neymar denied the rape allegations, and no charges were filed. But despite posting what Facebook itself called “revenge porn,” Neymar’s account was not deleted.

Read it on ArsTechnica

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