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by oh_sigh 3176 days ago
> Our paper proves that in some cases, it’s impossible to get a small efficiency gap without drawing bizarrely shaped districts.

Italics mine. Is there any reason to believe that any real life situation would fall under their impossibility? The key is to get a system which is good enough to prevent gerrymandering for the world that exists, not for any possible world.