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2016-12-02 Thread Eric Smith
This seems right to me, Pamela, It also seems appropriate to learn the history of Weimar better, and I don’t know very much about it. A key point seems to be that the Germans didn’t suddenly wake up in the 1930s and decide to adopt a totalitarian state and exterminate millions of people, drivi

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2016-12-02 Thread Eric Smith
Roger, hi, It isn’t a databse of local governments, but there is such an effort for local NGOs which grow out of thoroughly-understood problems, and which have non-nonsense urgent motives to solve the problems. Paul Hawken has a book summarizing part of this, and I believe there is a database

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2016-12-02 Thread Roger Critchlow
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 2:56 PM, glen ☣ wrote: > > We could try a parallax approach, though ... divide the whole into parts > by multiple (different) methods (state, county, demographic, ...) and use > something akin to Kullback-Leibler to constrain a set of "common models", > perhaps in the conte

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2016-12-02 Thread glen ☣
I'd agree. Like with Gillian's recent comment about basic needs satisfaction, a common problem in all of this is the [in]accuracy of self-reporting. This video states it well enough: Why Socrates hated Democracy https://youtu.be/fLJBzhcSWTk "I cause you trouble and go against your desir

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2016-12-02 Thread Marcus Daniels
"Regardless (unlike typical proportional representation systems), the ways should be based on data taken (via methodologically well-founded measures) from the world, not arbitrarily justificationist ideas farted out by our minds." I reckon that states' rights are really about allowing for more a

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2016-12-02 Thread ┣glen┫
It still seems clear to me that the problem lies in the (overzealous) attribution [*] of systemic properties based on flimsy or nonexistent patterns in the collection of individuals. The (false) attribution of consensus is similar to that of a political mandate after winning an election. This