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  • We should use sortition to get the money out of politics. Modern cryptography allows us to generate verifiably random numbers. You should be able to put your name into a lottery that gets drawn from using calculations from said random numbers and if your name gets drawn, you have some period of time to study up and prepare to serve a term in congress. No elections, just pure and truly representative legislature.

  • I wish I had an autocorrect that just wouldn't change anything if I put an actual word. I like autocorrect because it makes me type a lot faster when I don't need to go back and fix as many mistakes.

  • The easiest way would be to say 117 billion is ~237 because 2[7, 10, 20] are 128, 1024, and about a million (1024*1024), so multiplying those all together gives a little over 128 billion, which is pretty close to 117 billion. So, 242/237=2^5=32. Pretty close, all mental math. Granted, it does require you to either memorize or compute powers of 2 up to 10.

  • I'm on SwiftKey too and switched from Gboard for similar reasons. The only reason I'm not running one of the open source ones is that typing with one hand is unbearable without being able to to swipe, and I use my phone in bed a fair bit.

  • Oh, I see. That makes total sense. Mobile keyboards have truly wrecked the general population's ability to use proper grammar. One thing I've noticed a lot is that they also tend to insert unwanted apostrophes. For example, typing "its" always corrects to "it's," which is very frustrating.