On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Pavitra wrote: > On 01/30/2012 05:00 PM, omd wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 4:31 AM, 441344 <441...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> #################################ELECTIONS################################# > > > > On each election I vote conditionally for the candidate whose name is > > closest to the first word of the primary headline on > > http://www.nytimes.com/ immediately before the end of the voting > > period, using ASCII. > > As I interpret this algorithm, if the election ended now, the first word > is "Syrian", and the asciibetically closest candidate would be G. for > Herald (4 < G < S), Murphy for IADop (4 < M < S), and Yally for > Registrar (Sy-Mu=6:4; Ya-Sy=6:-24).
As the headline's changed a couple times since you sent this, the real question is whether the scrolling datestamps are reasonably available to the Assessor; we shouldn't require em to check in a narrow window of a few hours, so we'd need to consider whether it's available to someone within the generally-reasonable time-frame (4 days?) later. Of course, if someone publishes the headline here immediately after the voting period ends, this point is probably moot. -G.
