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by jostylr 6y ago
I remember Pi in the Sky by John Barrows very fondly. It has more of a focus on geometry and logic. A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics by Jeremy Kun is wide ranging and appropriate if there is also interest in programming. Natu
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by jostylr 6y ago
Let's say that you did not have to work. Imagine being free for decades. What do you think you would actually do for all of that time? Most people do seem to need to decompress by doing nothing useful for a time; I find a month per yea
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by jostylr 6y ago
Competition for the money is what keeps inflation down and also having it be a modest floor. For housing, health care, and higher education, the money floating around is specifically for those sectors. When coupled with limited availability
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by jostylr 6y ago
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide 7th edition (2020) by David Flanagan is well worth a look for a thorough understanding of the language that includes fundamentals. Not sure if a total beginner should look at it (I got started with 5th editi
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by jostylr 6y ago
It is explicitly about wealth redistribution, one in which there is no skewing of paying people to be in a certain state other than alive (which welfare systems are doing). Of course, no money needs to be taken; inflation can do that for us
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by jostylr 7y ago
20 years is natural lifespan of a cow. Supposedly 2030 is some kind of limit for climate change.
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by jostylr 7y ago
Here is a question I would genuinely like answered. Isn't there a major tension between the environmental point of view and animal rights point of view? The environmental viewpoint seems clear and reasonable; keeping large animals aliv
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by jostylr 7y ago
A few ideas: * Guesstimation:Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin. Math is a tool. Start using it with some simple arithmetic and scientific notation. Once it becomes something you can use and play in that cont
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by jostylr 7y ago
Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics by Edna Kramer. If you love history and mathematics, this is a good combination from what I remember, sort of alternating between historical placements and biographies with actual mathematical content
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by jostylr 7y ago
Here is a study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X1... Their chosen highlights: >Highlights >The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) has provided UBI averaging $6600 US (2015)
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by jostylr 7y ago
The real downside of Yang's plan is not including children in it which is odd because he talks a lot about a UBI funding the work of parents staying home with their kids. The ideal scenario in my mind is a property tax, of some kind, t
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by jostylr 7y ago
There is a Native American example with UBI (North Carolina, casino-based UBI) and it sounds like it immediately improved outcomes and did not impact working: https://thecorrespondent.com/4664/why-do-the-poor-make-such-
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by jostylr 7y ago
The main difference is that money specifically for something, like tuition, disappears if it is not used. The UBI money can be spent on anything or not spent at all. For example, imagine a government subsidy for smartphones that gives up to
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by jostylr 7y ago
> "points on the screen" is the only reason we have to believe in particles There are also the cloud chamber paths. But more generally, I would say most people's experiences correspond closer to stuff having well-defined l
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by jostylr 7y ago
Yes, that article is what I meant. I read the article you cited. While enjoyable, it does not make its case for me. It very much feels like presuming the wrong ideas of what a particle theory is. --- First, double slit. Points on the screen
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by jostylr 7y ago
What EPR and Bell's arguments showed is that if you have definite results of experiments at the space-time locations where/when we think the results happened, then there has to be something non-local going on and a foliation is th
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by jostylr 7y ago
I wonder if the Peter Norvig comment mentioned in that article about the different pathways is what led to my idea of stepping past literate-programming and into a concept I call pieceful-programming; I had just had back surgery when I read
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by jostylr 7y ago
A big hope of the UBI movement is that it will "pay" people to take care of one another in a way that our usual monetary transfer for services rendered simply can't handle well. That is, someone taking care of their parent is
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by jostylr 7y ago
If you have the option of a Sudbury school nearby, you may want to look into that for your kids. The students and staff run the school jointly and students get down to the business of living life instead of doing bs work. Students are part
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by jostylr 7y ago
That’s what Sudbury schools are for.
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by jostylr 8y ago
Presumably you could. It is money granted to each person without strings. Not sure how you could avoid it. A better questions would be whether the courts could impose UBI garnishing similar to wage garnishing. I would presume not and hence
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by jostylr 8y ago
Re: Cost. Here is one attempt to describe how to pay for it without raising any income taxes: https://medium.com/economicsecproj/how-to-reform-welfare-and... My personal preference, very different from the above articl
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by jostylr 8y ago
I've begun working on doing a setup like this as well. I am in the process of setting up a development environment on Digital Ocean (least powered is fine for me), using blink on iOS for its mosh support. I was going to go the vim+tmux
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by jostylr 8y ago
To link the two approaches, it can be useful to understand the wave function as an object that takes values in a tensor space of C^n. In particular, if we had two particles, both spin-1/2 (C^2), then at the position configuration point
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by jostylr 8y ago
Quantum Mechanics, An Experimentalist Approach: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/110706399X/ If one wants to get into some of the philosophy about it, then try: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: An Explorat
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by jostylr 8y ago
In a perfectly mathematically coherent version of Everett: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.2211 , the idea is to integrate out the wave function to get a mass density on 3 space. This mass density on 3-space is a mess at an
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by jostylr 8y ago
I never said that there was a contradiction. I simply said that theory is suggesting a reality at odds with my experience. That does not mean it is a contradiction. It means that my experience is not a faithful representation of reality. An
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by jostylr 8y ago
Everett's theory categorically tells us that the results of experiments differ from the results in Bohmian mechanics. In Bohmian mechanics, a typical experiment will have one result. In Everett, experiments have all possible outcomes h
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by jostylr 8y ago
The Bohm interpretation is quite simple. It does start with the idea that the world is made of particles and that we are satisfied if we can make correct predictions of where stuff is. In other words, I have a computer in front of me and a
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by jostylr 8y ago
I take his piece to largely be about self-identified bullshit jobs. While many of the jobs he describes, such as transcribing boxes on a form into a system that is never consulted by anyone or hiring someone to guard an entirely empty room,

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