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  • In the Dutch parliamentary system we do have a two-house structure (i.e. we have a Parliament and a Senate), while also having proportional representation.

    • There is a national election every four years that determines the make-up of the national parliament. The result directly proportionally determines the seat division (150 seats total).

    • There is also a provincial election every four years. This directly proportionally determines the seat division of the respective provincial houses.
      But it also indirectly determines the make-up of the Senate. The provincial houses hold their own election and vote for the seat division of the Senate (75 seats total for 12 provinces).

    It is traditionally seen that Parliament proposes, argues and passes legislation, while the Senate checks the passed legislation for constitutionality before giving it their sign of approval.
    Another view is that Parliament is the direct representation of the people, while the Senate is the national representation of the provincial houses.

    I think it is worth keeping in mind that an electoral system doesn’t have to be exactly like the theoretically pure version. You can mix and match elements to something that would suit your situation best (for instance in terms of achievability)










  • Personally I use Enpass.
    It’s both my password manager, but also the place where I keep track of notes about devices, accounts and software licences.

    I tried to change over to Bitwarden a few weeks ago, because that is what my office wants us to move to, but the limitations are not really bridgeable for me. Bitwarden seem to me to be very specifically a password manager and not much else.




  • Lemmy is still relatively new, and you grow the audience you nurture.

    A lack of moderation means that racists, bigots, general assholes, etc, will find an easier time settling on this platform.
    And I’ll be honest, if that would be where Lemmy is headed I’m not sticking around to see it turn into that cesspool

    I’m personally quite happy with the level of moderation I’m seeing on lemmy.world. It’s not overly heavy handed, but it seems to generally be applied where it makes sense to apply. Essentially the “don’t be a dick” rules of the forum days of old.




  • Humanius@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldNot everyone needs to have an opinion on AI
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    People who have a more in-the-middle opinion generally don’t talk about AI a lot. People with the most extreme opinions on something tend to be the most vocal about them.

    Personally I think it’s a neat technology, and there probably exist use-cases where it will work decently well. I don’t think it’ll be able to do everything and anything that the AI companies are promising right now, but there are certainly some tasks where an AI tool could help increase efficiency.
    There are also issues with the way the companies behind the Large Language Models are sourcing their training data, but that is not an inherent issue of the technology. It’s more an issue with incorrectly licensing the material.

    I’m just curious to see where it all goes.