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> Oh sure. I didn't expect an immediate answer to the question. I do hope you get back to me on this, though. :)

Sure, I can do that off of HN if you contact me via email or twitter. My contact info can be found on that site I linked you to.

> This gets even more complicated when such a person exercises their option to perform zero-effort secession.

Who said anything about "zero-effort"? No need to interpret my words in the most absurd way to make it easy on yourself. ;)

> I spent an hour or so digging around for those stats in my opening comment. I've spent probably another hour or two reading your comments and typing up all of my comments.

People do not need to be green on the issues they choose to vote on. Having prior knowledge and expertise is what makes an expert an expert.

Liquid democracy, from every indication, appears to be vastly superior at fairly selecting experts to vote on issues than the silliness we're using right now. Since experts can have legitimate philosophical disagreements it's only part of the solution. A mechanism for the establishment of city-states to create a market of legal systems is one of the other important pieces.




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