Jesse Ruderman

yeah it runs on stovetop timers, github commit history boxes, pure css, and pregnancy tests, but you have to draw the line somewhere

Is there some hidden justification, grounded in some actual experimental study, for the bank websites that want you to add special characters in a password, and reject "correct horse battery staple"? Answer only if you have knowledge, please. Don't make up "possible" answers.

@willieboag @StatisticUrban twitter.com/apollyoncomes/…

@StatisticUrban Why do these borders have so many squiggles?

A map of 48 hypothetical US states centered around the 48 largest urban areas, such that every point in a state is closer to its urban core than to any other. This is called a Voronoi partition.

We’re about to realize just how many processes were only functional by injecting tiny little bits of friction into many people’s lives

A stringly-typed program? In the JavaScript JIT factory?

When your JavaScript code forces a bailout from JIT to baseline interpreter:

@TheOmniZaddy Thanks to the electoral college, Americans get fifty shots at this per election year

What is the highest/most prestigious elected office that has ever been decided by one single vote?

@breadspeaks @USA_Polling Which forms of welfare do you hope will displace social security for old-age retirement?

@USA_Polling Not to diss SS, obviously for the time it was created it was significant but it’s got serious flaws 90 years later and there’s been proven more effective forms of welfare yet it’s basically untouchable across the spectrum…

Last one is a really good punchline in the form of data visualization

@notkavi Even if the ideological effects cancel out, we still have the damage to democratic legitimacy that comes from some presidents being elected against the will of the majority

80% of both criticisms and defenses of the EC are clearly just discourse on the Senate haphazardly applied. The main issue with the EC is the state level rounding leading safe states to not matter. The 2 votes per state thing basically always cancels out

MYTH: heaven is blissful because of its direct rule by god REALITY: god is great ofc but mostly heaven is about selection effects

@HarrisFanaroff Try to figure out what the kid hates: could be high chairs, noisy places, crowded places, seeing other people eat while he has to wait

~18 month old boy toddlers at a restaurant. He screams the second we put him in a booster seat or high chair. We have 567,328 toys and he throws them all. Won’t sit for a book. We go on 5 walks before the food comes. Do people just stop going out to restaurants? Someone give me something that worked for them.

I support this, but I'd also support a $10 fee on all outbound calls. Together, we can defeat the telephone

@xsphi P*pulists

we desperately need a slur for people who don't understand markets

The Cass report seems incredibly stupid, but I don't think it's transphobic, just pseudoreplicationist "we don't have RCTs of this stuff" well no shit Sherlock I would *hope* you're not randomly fucking with people's gender Go find a regression discontinuity or something

The lack of public bathrooms makes me so mad We’ve totally failed as a society on that front

@LinkofSunshine @sodiumPen The interviewed a NIIMBY

@sodiumPen last time i watched local news they interviewed someone who said "i support immigrants, i just dont think new york is the place for them" and turned it off

I genuinely do not understand the convention bump. What type of person watches the DNC, decides to vote for Democrats from that, and then changes their mind back after two weeks

@T33K3SS3LCH3N @EYoto32 @LinkofSunshine @sodiumPen Guy who identifies as a “50th percentile voter” to escape the stigma

@EYoto32 @LinkofSunshine @sodiumPen This is why 'median voter' has become an effective insult.

@gmiller My suggestions for societies that want to increase birth rates:

@gmiller Side channel benefit: grandparents who are still youthful enough to contribute energetically to their grandkids’ lives.

Abortion ethics question: If you're an atheist who believes that abortion is (sometimes, usually, or always) wrong, unethical, and/or immoral, what's the most persuasive (non-religious) argument in support of your view? (I'm genuinely curious about this topic.)