Opera - Naked Joy of Surfing
Aamuli writes:
Yes, yes, I gladly admit that this idea is stolen from Pornzilla project which claims that "Firefox is the best porn browser". I beg to differ so I present to you: Opera - Naked Joy of Surfing!
Bug madness: Halloween edition
- 267209 - Halloween nightly disk images are ghosts of their former selves.
- 267445 - More options to Windows Users - Firefox with IE control.
- 107162 - Release Pornzilla 1.0.
- 266199 - Figure out RV for Firefox 1.0 release.
- 132534 comment 12 - "The dreaded cyndilauper bug"
- 255245 comment 2 - "This got to be the fastest bug fix on a module I've ever seen."
- 96232 comment 30 - "Patch: Added some kung fu death grips."
Winning an election with 22% of the popular vote
A presidential candidate could be elected with as a little as 21.8% of the popular vote by getting just over 50% of the votes in DC and each of 39 small states. This is true even when everyone votes and there are only two candidates. In other words, a candidate could lose with 78.2% of the popular vote by getting just under 50% in small states and 100% in large states.
The optimal set of states to take (the one that lets a candidate win with the smallest popular vote) is not the N states with the smallest population. It's also not the N states with the smallest value for (population/electors), which would be optimal if you could get exactly 270 electoral votes that way.
The optimal solution happens to get exactly 270 electoral votes. In this solution, the winner takes DC, the 37 smallest states, the 39th smallest state, and the 40th smallest state. (The winner takes Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.)
Read on for my assumptions and algorithm.
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