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by SideQuark 4y ago
Inflation rescaled money, so you'd expect new records for everything with "RECORD PRICE IS X!" stories. This is nearly a non-effect since wages also increase (with lag) to follow inflation, and, as the story notes, the increa
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by SideQuark 4y ago
It's a good thing we have plenty of needed jobs, even when the everyday person doesn't understand reasons for those jobs, to the point of confusing their own ignorance with misguided malice to the workers doing jobs they don'
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by SideQuark 4y ago
>No, natural law is that which would exist without a government monopoly on violence Governments don't have a monopoly on violence. There's plenty of that without governments, even in civilized places. Governments help lower th
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by SideQuark 4y ago
>property rights robbed individuals of a natural inheritance There was no such magical right. You have more right to land than animals, or worms, or the soil itself? When someone uses the words 'natural' or 'fair' or
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by SideQuark 4y ago
>Eventually there simply won't be enough work to do for 100% of the population to do something People always claim this, yet with ever increasing population, we continue to find work for people to do. Who would have guessed when the
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by SideQuark 4y ago
No, before they actually owned the money, and could do anything they wanted with it. Once it's given in this format, even if they're on the board, the money is now legally owned by the charity and must be used for that purpose. Th
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by SideQuark 4y ago
The "tax free" way costs them 5 times as much. It's cheaper to pay 20% tax than to give away 100%. This is title is designed to feed a narrative to people that don't understand taxes. Also, how is giving away 3 billion g
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by SideQuark 4y ago
I dislike the articles misleading people about taxes to foster more misguided populism. A company giving away 100% of some value to avoid 20% in taxes is not theft from the people in any manner whatsoever. It's more costly to the compa
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by SideQuark 4y ago
>Sometimes quality of life is better spent not working when you can lean on family and friends Or your own small retirement fund. And then when enough do, and the result becomes a lifetime of un/under-employment, then they want the
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by SideQuark 4y ago
>I mean, have you seen how much pay has gone up in low-skilled jobs? There are signs at all the local businesses in my area offering $15+ an hour for cashiers and fry cooks and whatnot. The same kind of jobs I worked 7-8 years ago for $8
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by SideQuark 4y ago
So instead of "barely middle-class" jobs, they choose no job? That will turn out well for them.
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by SideQuark 4y ago
Can a salesman leave and take all his clients with him, even if there were given to him by the company?
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by SideQuark 4y ago
Thinking on this on my drive, I recalled another puzzle you might like with another error corrected solution. The puzzle is related to the game 20 questions. If you can ask only 20 yes/no questions, you can differentiate 2^20 items. Fo
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by SideQuark 4y ago
>It is not clear to me how we would get a negative number. Use base 3 with 'digits' -1,0,1. It's useful and interesting to note you can uniquely encode and decode any integer in any base with 'shifted' digits. If
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by SideQuark 4y ago
There's a few hundred sets of numbers that work, but none are the sequence 1,2,..,12 or so, due to needing balanced left and right weighings. To see this, write the base 3 values for 1,2,..,12 as columns, and count the number of each d
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by SideQuark 4y ago
You might be right. I didn't check as carefully as when I did it decades ago. This is all from memory, and the matrix above I sketched out over dinner by hand :) The idea works. When I solved it before I cider it up to test
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by SideQuark 4y ago
Just took a stab at recreating my older solution. It goes something like this Number the balls 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 Then do three weighings according to rows like this: 0 1 -1 0 1 -1 1 -1 0 1 -1 0 1 1 -1 -1 -
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by SideQuark 4y ago
I was pulling the problem from memory. Add the requirement boths sides are same number of items.
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by SideQuark 4y ago
Ah, problem is in memory. Probably also needs two piles of equal number of items :)
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by SideQuark 4y ago
All subsets requires 2^12 weighings. The beautiful thing about error correcting codes is finding a minimal set of spanning items. And in this case, binary will not suffice, since you can only distinguish 2^3 = 8 items. The third position, o
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by SideQuark 4y ago
It's not out of the box when I apply error correcting codes to a massive range of problems ;) If you like cool problems, here is one I have not found a simple solution for, but I once saw it in a place where a simple solution should ex
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by SideQuark 4y ago
The traditional solutions do things like: 1) split into 4 piles A,B,C. compare A,B on the balance. 2) If they balance, bad coin in 4 in pile C can easily be found. 3) If they don't balance, you know the 4 in C are good. At this point
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by SideQuark 4y ago
No, it does three. The "four" is a typing mistake. And it's provably optimal from the theory behind construction of minimal error correcting codes.
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by SideQuark 4y ago
I once made a cool solution to this problem using information theory, in particular coding theory. The usual solution uses the fact there are 3 places to put items: left scale, off scale, and right scale. Then those solutions do if/the
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by SideQuark 4y ago
>Why cite anything to you when you cite nothing? You are absolutely wrong in all of your assertions Ok, I'll provide you citations and solid evidence: > It is mystifying how one could think the legal definition of a labor union i
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by SideQuark 4y ago
A union provides a monopoly on labor. This is both the standard economic definition, the legal definition, and the practical definition. Without being a monopoly, the employers could simply hire outside or exclude the union workers. The law
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Every workers union is a labor monopoly designed to transfer money from those outside the union to those in the union. Thats why the laws allowing unions specifically exempt them from antitrust laws.
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by SideQuark 4y ago
Adding 250,000 lines of code to render fonts to an 1100 line functional gui library is bloat no matter how you slice it. If someone want that renderer, it's not that hard to wire it in. And if you in particular want it, fork them and m
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by SideQuark 4y ago
This one is 1100 lines of code, nice for embedded project. A nice font renderer is orders of magnitude more code, e.g., harfbuzz 25,000 lines of code with or FreeType with 245,000 lines of code. Many projects do not want that kind of bloat.
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by SideQuark 4y ago
I listed one good place for evidence - Zuckerberg's interview. I also have done consulting on such projects for a few of the players. All the big players have extensive groups working on this. For example: Microsoft has bought AR and V

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