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100 sats \ 8 replies \ @SimpleStacker 14h \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
A joke I made to my programmer friend in 2020
I'm not 100% sure about python performance with this, but it'd likely be faster if you drop the
else and make the recursive call through a default return, like so:def count_votes():
if biden.votes > trump.votes:
return declare_winner(biden)
return count_votes()
or maybe even like so though I hate this notation because it's a headache when reviewing:
def count_votes():
return declare_winner(biden) if biden.votes > trump.votes else count_votes()
ahahah. That looks familiar, but I can't place the context.
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To me, this remains suspicious til this day. The explanation was that the jump was when highly democratic large urban counties were counted.
But if that was the case:
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If it's because the county is large, you'd expect to see a jump in both the red and the blue lines, even if the blue jump is larger
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If this was a good explanation, you'd expect to see similar jumps in other states and in previous elections (which there may be, but I haven't seen any evidence of)
It happened all overnight too. I went to sleep thinking Trump had won and woke up to this new result.
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For real, that's odd. There also seems to be a spike for Trump that's about a third of the one Biden got.
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Yeah, and the suspicious thing is that these jumps only happened in two battleground states where Trump was leading, and these jumps reversed it, Michigan and Wisconsin IIRC.
I didn't see similar jumps in other states, even though those other states also have large urban areas that are heavily democratic.
I wouldn't go as far as calling myself an election denier, but as someone who works with data for a living, these fact patterns are pretty suspicious.
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Sayin' 'suspicious' is the least a reasonable person should say!
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