The website says that your vote is last-write-wins. I think the idea is I could sell my vote and vote for A, then later re-vote for B. Since you can't trust that I won't just re-vote it won't be worth paying for.
But if you held a gun to my head and made me vote at 18:59, with polls closing at 19:00, then I guess it would work. Hell, if you held a gun to my head and had me vote a week early and then blew my brains out, that would probably also keep me from voting again.
So it's not complete, but neither is the current system. You could hold a gun to my loved-ones head and tell me to go vote for B in our current system. I could photograph the ballot from the box, cellphones are small these days. Or if I vote by mail I could easily prove to you I voted for B so you would let the hostage free.
So I guess it actually is an improvement over the status quo.
To op, the following is my thoughts on this whole thread, as well as a few other unrelated threads I've seen since starting to catch up on ui dev/web dev. It's not really related to your project at all.
This is like when I first started programming, all the made up words are overwhelming. Is it a language, a library, a framework, an approach like MVC. Except in web world instead of a ton of 3las (or 3lis to be precise) you also get fun made up words.
Hey guys, I made blurgheq it's an open source version of a cbkeorf. Cool, but what's the point of open source if you use vlurfirrb. Vlurfirrb is optional, you could use garblewch. The important thing is that now ffbtjfuf is available to all. True but it's only really useful for shfjrjr and I usually use ehgrrheyyyu for my shdhwss needs. Oh, well version 3 of eiueyed does frbtjfuf really well.
How do you add value to an economy? Someone is paying for something.
If I had a magic box that made widgets out of thin air, I'd still have to sell them to people to realize any value. If I sold $4.4T of them then yeah, I'd make $4.4T, but I'd be taking that money from, you guess it, the Global Economy.
Unless my magic box generated actual money, I don't understand how you add $4.4T value to the global economy. With enough inflation I suppose you can skim from the overall inflation rate. But otherwise I'm not understanding what they're talking about.
Maybe they're saying the total net value of the global economy is static, but the amount that goes to generative AI will be $4.4T. I guess that's what they're saying.
I think there is a point here if you ignore the grumpy old man delivery.
For example, even python which is dynamically typed, is strongly typed also, so you now have to not just know the distinction between statically typed and dynamically typed but also between strong and weak. Then stray away slightly from vanilla python interpreter/runtime to any of the other flavors and you now have to reason about compile time, runtime, interpretation time, bytecode, interop with jvm etc. So there is a point that the language is a way of expressing something and the implementation is where the devilish details lie. You can argue jython isn't python or whatever and that's all well and good, but you can't really discuss all of this with other reasonable humans without getting into the details of implementation. Sure, for a leetcode level of understanding it doesn't matter much, but try to do something sufficiently complicated like build an os extension in python that interops with your c++ based api and you'll have to think about the implementation of the projections, and then port it to arm and you'll have to think about it all over again.
Once upon a time, Marty McFly went back in time and people didn't know what a re-run was.
Fast forward back to the future and it's now 2023 and I ask my 15 year old niece if she knows what a re-run is and she doesn't have a clue.
It's wild to think that things that dominated every day life to the point that not knowing about them would be comical in a mainstream movie have now become unknown again. She also didn't know about yellow pages or AOL cds, but she knew of VCRs and has seen but never used a floppy disk.
These organisms dominated life and we didn't even know they existed. I wonder what AOL CDs existed in the 1800s or 1700s or 300s or -1700s. We see their tools and clay tablets and jewelry and crap, but what games or toys or other things are just gone after being ubiquitous?
Anyway, it's neat to learn about a whole world that once existed on this same planet.
A good analogy is gps navigation. Imagine if instead of telling it where you want to go and having it generate a route with turn by turn directions, it reacted to every press of the accelerator or brake pedal and every turn of the steering wheel to guess what you wanted to do based on what others who braked or accelerated or changed lanes at the same point in the road did. It might be useful if you were completely new to the city and trying to go to the airport. It would guess that you're on this stretch of freeway to go to the airport and would JIT plot that you take exit 7 and get into the airport traffic. But if you're actually trying to go to a different location and just driving past the airport you'll have to reject that suggestion and then it would say, oh, you must be going to the arena, take exit 8!! And you'll have to reject that too. It's annoying as shit.
Oh, but it will learn that you're driving to work and will be able to prioritize that above the airport and the arena? Oh yay, so when I drive to someplace I drive to 5 times a week it can give me directions I don't need, but when I drive somewhere I haven't been before it can only tell me how to go to a bunch of places other people went on the way.
It's practically useless if your knowledge of your codebase and language is better than 0.
It's probabbly useful for languages and crap you don't use a lot or where you'd end up copypasting 90% of it anyway, like crappy webdev. (Good webdev is a different story)
I'd rather use it to explain what the fuck I was thinking when I wrote this shit 6 months ago, or what Nate was thinking when he seemingly fucked it all up (or maybe he fixed it). And maybe, maybe, playing the analogy back in reverse, it will get to where I tell it I'm trying to go somewhere specific and it gives me turn by turn directions, instead of arbitrarily suggesting shit that I drive past. Like I could say I'm trying to extend this to accept triangles and not just squares and it would say, oh use the visitor pattern and here are the places to change it, or something. But right now it would just flip it's shit and start suggesting triangle, polygon, stars, circles or something like that. Do you want to reverse a linked list of triangles? No, clippy. I know better than you how to change this shitty code. Thanks anyway.
It's not just that they are native, it's that they are unique to that location. You are not going to get many people - other than the idealogical zealots like you - to agree that things that can eliminate a species from the planet are a good thing. You probably side with the Rhino Poachers too, because the invisible hand of the free market values boner powder.
brittlebrush and globemallow are beautiful native plants. Same with the "weed" version of Arizona sunflowers. The 'weed' version of dandylion is pretty gross, but even that I'll sometimes just replant to the desert near me.
But these little yellow ball things are pretty obnoxious. They're easy to identify and pull early though. They're pretty so people are defending them, but I'd rather have native flowers for the native butterflies, bees and humming birds.
Of the approximately 5,000 different species of bees in the United States, around 1,300 live in Arizona, meaning Arizona contains the most diversity of bees in the country, and perhaps the world.
People in these comments think sahara when they think desert. Truth is Arizona is more diverse than most states with their same 5 trees everyone else has and their stupid grass everyone else has.
As for this plant doing anything good, I appreciate your optimism, but I don't think it lives through the summer so it's just a wham bam spread then catch on fire disaster. If we had more rain maybe it would be not so bad. But when it dries out so much and then this is laying around waiting to burn, it's bad news.
It seems that you couldn't do a better job burning the desert down if you wanted to. This literally puts tinder all over the place. You can't rival that even with blowtorches and napalm. You could firebomb the desert and in the absence of this stuff, those fires would burn out in between sections of growth. But with this stuff, one cigarette or lightning strike can take out hundreds of acres.
This weed is growing in the low valley, not where junipers are growing.
There are about 4000ft of difference here. The article shows Carefree AZ as an example of infestation, which is at 2400ft. Junipers grow at 6000ft.
I can't believe you're really trying to make the argument that this plant is great because it will burn saguaros or barrel cactuses and we burn juniper on purpose so that must be good for saguaros and barrel cactuses. Don't get defensive. I'm not upset at you. Just think about this argument. It's not a logical argument.
You're saying that if X is good for Y and B causes X' for Z, then B is good.
But you have not established that X' is good for Z, and you haven't established that B causes X for Y.
So if this plant doesn't cause fires for Junipers, and if fires aren't good for desert plants, then how the hell are you arguing this plant is good because it causes fires for desert plants?
Don't take my word for it. Ask ChatGPT if this makes any damned sense. Maybe the matrix can convince you that this is an illogical argument.
It is damaging. The Sonoran Desert is home to plants and animals not found anywhere else on earth. The desert is alive. It is not just some sand in between freeways and stucco houses. These plants spread rapidly and cause more frequent and hotter fires than any that the native plants have evolved with. Just because sometimes fire is good for some life forms does not mean all fire is good for all life forms. I can't believe I even have to explain this to someone. Damn. Some of you just want to argue to argue. Go ask chatgpt to argue with you, or ask google maps for directions and then drive somewhere else. leave the rest of us alone. damn.
But if you held a gun to my head and made me vote at 18:59, with polls closing at 19:00, then I guess it would work. Hell, if you held a gun to my head and had me vote a week early and then blew my brains out, that would probably also keep me from voting again.
So it's not complete, but neither is the current system. You could hold a gun to my loved-ones head and tell me to go vote for B in our current system. I could photograph the ballot from the box, cellphones are small these days. Or if I vote by mail I could easily prove to you I voted for B so you would let the hostage free.
So I guess it actually is an improvement over the status quo.