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> This just really isn't true empirically.

But it happens every time.

> For countries to get into the renewable energy game, for example, they need to subsidize local industry and put a good bit of government capital on the line to the get to a point where they're productive at globally acceptable levels.

If it was profitable to invest the capital, there's plenty of capital eager for something profitable to invest in. Having the government forcibly extract tax money and use it to invest pretty much guarantees it will be a lousy investment.

Currently, Washington State imposed a massive gas tax of $.50/gallon. The state is investing a big chunk of that into hydrogen electrolysis plants. The only people who are going to make money off of this are the contractors getting rich off of the construction projects. The state is pretty much guaranteed to get a negative ROI off of it.
Should we also get rid of filesystems? Databases? All form of RPC?
The distortion comes from trying to map R^2 onto the surface of the mesh, since they have different curvature, so they only "match" near the origin.

But the random-walk algorithm doesn't actually need to happen in R^2; I think it should be relatively straightforward to adapt to walk directly on the mesh.

Instead of tracking an "angle", you just need to track the forward tangent vector. And then walk in very small steps using the geodesic walk algorithm, turning the tangent at each point proportional to the derivative and normal at the new location.

It will probably be slower, but it means it will be distortion-free, since you're no longer trying to force flat coordinates onto a non-flat surface.

Dealing with intersection is more complicated, though - I think you could probably just use an octree structure for acceleration (like the spatial tree in 2D). Since the segments can be each placed (almost) exactly on planar triangle faces, you can just project onto one/both of the segments' containing faces to check for intersection.
And if the loan doesn't get paid off? That city/state is now in a huge hole, having spent money that could've been used to build schools and maintain roads on buying companies off their retiring owners.

In any case I don't see why you would need the detour via local government? A bank could lend the money to the group of employees just fine.
In the UK the police are generally armed only with a lightweight baton and cs spray. That forces you to deescalate.

There are specialist armed officers to respond to serious incidents, terrorism, guarding public buildings etc. In my view these are becoming far too common and visible.
yes, it only requires autotools. a build system so friendly that it spawned cmake and meson to replace it.
> derogatory

Not a legal term. You're looking for defamation, or even libel.

But these are public persons, and as such they have less protection from defamation and libel than private persons. I.e., that defense should not fly.
East Asia switched to free markets, which is where their prosperity came from.
Calculus has little to do with this kind of problem. You should study theoretical computer science, in particular computability theory, to understand the article. Many CS undergraduate programs will have courses with public resources you can follow.
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This [1] is a really accessible introduction to busy beaver numbers.

[1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
The BBC's "Slow Radio" series is also lovely for this, if you don't like to use your eyes while you're trying to fall asleep.
More like discrete math and automata theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata_theory or theory of computation.
Hopcroft & Ullmann's intro book is nice. But there's so much related stuff here, it's just a starting point.
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Oh, sure. I was just pointing out that the hardness is in determining the busy beaver number and that it didn’t matter if your algorithm halts iff ZFC is consistent or if it’s an algorithm that halts iff ZFC is inconsistent.
Finland's ChatGPT equivalent begins to think in Estonian as well
> Neither of which are happening any time soon.

You're right. And this is the reason why people desperately refuse to face the fact that inflation comes from deficit spending.
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Fantastic summary of why advertising is inherently immoral. And if they just stuck to the facts that would be that but they just can't help themselves on the manipulation front and it's so incredibly obvious that they are doing that. Guilt tripping people and making them feel bad about themselves is apparently perfectly ok if you are in advertising.
Detroit probably has more to gain from more efficient land use from a property tax perspective because of it's history of corruption and inefficiency
Did you even look at the content of the pages you posted?

From [1]: "The 15 fastest-declining cities from 2021 to 2022 and 2020 to 2021 were different, with major cities like Boston, Washington, D.C. and, most notably, San Francisco falling off the list."

San Francisco was #1 in 2020-2021 (i.e. the tech industry employee exodus at the beginning of the pandemic), and isn't even on the list for 2021-2022.

For [2]: while SF prices did decline, they are now at the level of Nov 2021 and are steadily recovering. (Not dissimilar to cities like Las Vegas or Austin.)
I was an AWS employee for 5 years, launched a new AWS service, and don’t have that. I guess my dreams are crushed without the Solutions Architect Associate credentials, lol.
I understand why Bluesky doesn't let anyone create an account just yet, but why don't they make posts publicly visible without needing an account? I think this is important for many news and governmental organizations to take Bluesky more seriously.
Sure, but sometimes you have to make a decision.
> For one, it doesn't introduce the problem of needing to define 'vacant land'.

But it introduces, unless I'm completely misunderstanding, the need to establish a theoretical value for a plot of land that's unrelated to any sale or use value we can objectively measure today.

At best, it seems the assesment will be very wrong often. At worst, it'll be a political tool for local government to drive out whoever they want by overvaluing plots on purpose.

A lot of the land around Detroit is nearly worthless given the blight. Will it be taxed at $0 or will they say that in an alternate universe someone could build a skyscraper there so it's worth millions? Even though nobody would actually fund that work.

Taxing based on sale price isn't perfect, but at least it is much harder to game since it's based on a concrete market-clearing price that isn't up for debate.
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> So the government has boosted demand for groceries, thus causing them to be more expensive?

Increased demand results in price increases. The Law of Supply & Demand. Crazy, I know, but it is The Law.

> How did more money get into the hands of consumers aside from that one-time $1500 paycheck?

The deficit money got spent into the economy. It first flows into the hands of the voters being bought with it. Then, those people spend it, and it flows into the rest of the economy. It's like dumping a barrel of paint into a pond. It takes a while for it to spread out evenly.
Love that onion!!
At least it could be additionally guarded by a system setting or something like that.
Curious what the crowd favorite Webb image now is, if you exclude the first batch..
The history of property tax involves quite a bit of taxing "intangible property" such as corporate stock. It has obviously evolved dramatically from its original purpose.

Similarly, the income tax in the US was started to pay for the Civil War. It wasn't until the early 1900s that income (both corporate and individual) got federally instituted.

In essence, the tax history of the US reads "At first there were only excise/consumption taxes, and then the government granted itself powers it never gave back. And now here we are."

As such, my expectation is that the notoriously-super-high-integrity government of Detroit won't do anything that isn't in the best interest of the people. Surely.
Right, we don't know the value BB(748), and moreover, "knowing" it is not enough, we would still need a proof that a certain number matches BB(748). And such a proof is not easier than a direct proof of ZFC consistency, I presume.

BTW, a value can't be uncomputable, only a function can.
Sadly the people they confront in those european countries are significantly less armed than your average american.
> A lot of inflation is profit taking on the corporate side.

How do you explain the zero net inflation from 1800 to 1914? Were corporations unaware that they could just raise prices? That sounds far-fetched.
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Not at all, and any property assessor will tell you this (e.g. property assessments usually already separate land vs improvements). Nearly all houses are insured, so it's easy to calculate land value as sales price - insured value, basically because insurance only covers the cost of the house.

Plus, nearly all locales either have empty lots that are sold, or if there is no more room have houses that are sold as teardowns, and in either case that gives you an unambiguous land value.
Error in the article: you don't need to scrape StackOverflow. The data is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike anyways.

Edit: and at least some time ago, they provided dumps.
As a user and programmer, I care about the implementation of the software I use. I might want to hack on it someday.
One time. Also, I think that could be removed with some care.
Its funny how physical systems of vastly different scale and physics get visually mapped by our brain into images that feel somehow "familiar" (wispy clouds).

In fact truly "alien" imagery is not easy to come by. Star fields and galaxies are too abstract, they dont generate a sense of place. On the other hand most inner solar system images are startingly familiar, the sense that you could be walking there is palpable.

One exception I recall is the high resolution images of Jupiter clouds on its polar regions. A magical cauldron where bizarre formations are the norm.
crap, i definitely meant to write `printf(...)` there !

my typical usage for such scenarios i.e. when i know that callee might alter errno etc. is to

int save_errno = errno;

do_foo(...);

if (errno == ...) {
...
}

wrapping libc into something that (maybe) does better seems like such a sisyphean task to me.
Not only that, but even if I don't think my manager is the best guy ever, there's usually no point in giving them bad marks on those forms. It doesn't cost me anything to give good marks, and helps them play their own game.
Honestly sometimes I think the answer is yes. Imagine how happy we could be, and how many fewer problems we would have. Add printers to that list and you're describing a paradise.
I totally agree.

In corporate environment, people really must be fooled by two numbers: head count and budget. This is true for other walks of life, too.

I initiated and lead a platform in Financial Service Industry which lead to massive productivity gains. Through standardized processes we could use an inhouse build No Code editor instead of individual app development. Costs went down from 1.5 Mio to sub 10k USD, time to market from 4 1/2 month for two dev teams to a couple of hours for a non-developer per app.

Reaction: "Dude, you are destroying careers. We get paid and promoted by budget and head count. We artificially inflate budgets and projects so that we get promoted."

I was stunned. We could do so many other things with the free capacity or help build value for the company.

Lesson:
People are sometimes able to comprehend abstract stuff ("Software can be used to automate processes and can scale. It serves 1000+ customers worldwide 24/7. We have 10 people employed."). Mostly decision makers sadly prefer power ("Woooha, your company has 1.000 devs?! How cool, you must feel like superman!")

Lesson still not really comprehended, but somehow ingested.
I fully agree with what you've said, but it's worth pointing out that there are a bunch of different movements all using the "defund the police" moniker. That leads to a lot of disagreement about what it means, and the most extreme types (who really mean eliminate the police) use it too. I stopped using it to avoid confusion after the anarchists adopted it, and would encourage others to do so as well.
I think it's the same in Windows, right? Can't use the syscalls underneath the hood, everything through the standard libraries. Maybe I'm wrong (I know very little about Windows other than how to use it to play games, and WSL)
Either anonymous feedback, or leaving the team or even company.
Thanks for your feedback. It's brave to judge a moral position as wrong, as that implies the judge is some sort of omniscient god :)

Thinking more about it, in my case it's the number of people what would push me to take action. I feel 5 lives vs 1 is not worth enough for me to change destiny. If it was 100 lives vs 1, I would definitely take action (sorry fat man). I'm not still not sure about 10 vs 1. I guess in the moment I'd go with my intuition.
I agree, 68F is the perfect night temperature. 77 is a bit too high, at 80 I am sweating even with no sheets.

I grew up without AC somewhere where it was regularly over 80 at night and I could never sleep. My sleep greatly improved by moving somewhere with a more mild climate.
Funny. I always want to put my head down and write code, but because I actually know how systems work and help everyone else out to accomplish the basics, every job ever pushes me into infrastructure roles and I end up being the organization's Brent all the time.

It fucking sucks.
A long time ago, but AFAIK the fix was “use the system's libc”.
A passkey for one account is independent from a passkey for another account, by design, unlike passwords that can be shared across multiple accounts.
ha, I don't know how dance turned into stay. Brain decided that was better than dancing I guess.
My guess would be that it's not a high priority and they just haven't gotten around to it yet. I think it was just a week or two ago that they added the ability to change your registered email address.
The British Prime Minister needs to be an elected MP. She would need to be elected and then "promoted" for it to be an analogy.

They are not just "appointed", all the elected MPs get together and have a popularity contest as to who is going to represent them. That's all the PM does, they are not the head of state.

She is closer to the House of Lords, where people can suggest bills, and no one votes for them and even if they decide to be evil, it's virtually impossible for the people to remove them.

The House of Lords is also a terrible institution that is designed to remove power from those who vote.
Other people value the land too, if he values it more than them he should pay for it, right?
Yes even in the West Country tasers are routinely carried and in cities firearms are very visibly carried. Seems like quite a change in the last ten/fifteen years.
Are you referring to Regularization?

https://www.kaggle.com/code/sid321axn/regularization-techniq...
Dude was literally petitioning his government for a redress of grievances, at a public meeting exclusively meant for that.
It is called propaganda and it exists on both sides.
Link to the actual catalog: https://wholeearth.info/

In a lot of ways, it seems our simulation truly began in 1970.
british prime minsters are chosen as the head of the party, by members of the party. This thread seems to not understand that members of the british public can vote for the leader of the party they wish to vote for.

We do not vote on individuals, but on a group at election time. That group is democratically elected, and within that group the leader is democratically elected by its party members (whoever wishes to join).

The EU by definition is anti-democractic (any centralization of power without accountability results in loss of democractic influence). The most important thing to understand is that the public do not have the same level of influence on the direction of the EU that say the public has in in the UK. With that said, the position of the UK and its dealings is irrelevant to the matter at hand. If we are are discussing an anti-democractic group we don't make it democractic by finding someone equally or more so anti-democratic.
The political solution is way too fragile.
Disagree on the surplus military gear point. Are they fighting a war? No, they are serving a community. I think they would do well to split the police and tactical response forces into different concepts entirely.

Citizens are armed and that complicates things. But there are still two different tasks being done, one is supporting the community on a local level, and the other is exceptional uses of force to apply law. You shouldn't have the same forces doing both, which is more like how police were prior 9/11, if I had to put a date on it.
This matches my experiences. On my ~10th FOIA lawsuit against gov agencies and I don't expect to stop anytime soon. They just keep going, seemingly under the reckless guise of "risk management".
The smartest thing I read about the question "What does it mean to be a good man?" was that the question was wrong - it should simply be "What does it mean to be a good human being?" In my opinion, it's a much easier question to answer.
I find it interesting to travel in such country. Take a train and when it approaches a city look at all the buildings passing by. All the lights in the windows that show that people live there. The eletric heating of many of those homes. All the electricity any of the people living there ever spends. All the factories, farms you see on the way. Massive greenhouses. Server farms. All those electric cars stuck in traffic. The train goes for hours and hours. Everything you see combined uses less electricity than bitcoin. Millions of people can run their lives and build all their businesses using less energy.

The scale is mind boggling.
SO was also hideous also because mods were excessively zealous in futile things.

They would edit your posts and replies, changing your tone, for unnecessary reasons.
Sounds like what could be the setting for a Wes Anderson movie.
The only way SponsorBlock will become popular is if a huge fraction of YouTube users switch to 3rd-party clients. I have a really hard time seeing that happening; that would be like most Mac and Windows users all switching to Linux.
Trader joes ironically is the US branch of aldi nord. (Aldi süd owns aldi US)

If you like TJ, aldi ought to be pretty similar.
> Simple taxes that are difficult to avoid (such as LVT)

Can you explain how is it simple? Who gets to set the theoretical value of a plot of land, disconnected from all current uses? Since it's theoretical, it's very subjective. Who do we give this power to make or destroy the owners based on purely subjective speculation on what it might be worth? How do we guarantee that this entity won't abuse the power to set arbitrary tax valuations?
Defund and Re-allocate. They really need to start saying the re-allocate part. No one can take them seriously without it.
Isn't the easier proof that BB(n) isn't computable something like

- assume BB is computable

- there exist a TM called X that computes the function

- it has K states

- X(K+1) produces BB(K+1) but from the definition of BB our machine cannot produce a result higher than BB(K).
If you still have one, I’d love to finally get in! Been on the waitlist for months with no luck.

Edit: thank you SO much!
As soon as the war broke out and there were problems with internet connectivity to Israel according to netblocks.org there was a huge drop in anti-Christian/Christianity is Jewish threads, India hate threads, lolicon threads, and furry threads on 4chan. I have seen many attribute these provocations to JIDF in the past. There is a full time Israeli team dedicated to messing with people online. I have no idea who actually bankrolls these guys or if they are volunteers.
Banks use different security measures, ones are better at it, others really superficial to the extent it's scary (seen with my own eyes). There's no standard what they need or must have - rather depends on the size of the risk, resources available at their disposal. Which often is a result of whether they have ever been hacked or not. A lot of banks never have been and feel they are invincible, and that shows in their security/redundancy measures.

"where the money is stored".. that one. In a nutshell, 99% of people (HN crowd including) do not understand, what is money in a bank, imagine it like some kind of electronic vault, which you as a client can access securely and transfer it (semi physically). Money in a bank does not exist. An IT guy would say "it's bits and bites, nothing more". A finance guy would say that it is a web of collaterals and liabilities. Simple example: 100 clients each open accounts with a bank and deposit 100 EUR; bank has 10'000 EUR assets and 10'000 EUR liabilities (it owes 10K to its customers); bank deposits that money, say, with TARGET2 interbank gross-settlement system (which again has accounts with other banks), so its clients can make/get credit transfers. So, as soon as money is deposited, it gets transferred to other parties, pledged, lent or invested - it is almost never "in the bank". So there's little to steal. Even if you do, the trouble is that somebody's asset is typically another party's liability (and vice versa), i.e. stuff is recorded by different actors - and all that can be traced back, you can't hack into all of them. Hence, stealing bank's funds without a trace is close to impossible. Keyword - "close" ;)
> That ambiguity doesn't exist here.

The bar is much lower than whether or not the court thinks the speech is protected or not. The court could unambiguously believe the rule is unconstitutional and the speech was protected, but if they believe there's any room at all for 'reasonable disagreement' on the matter among other judges, then the officers and officials get immunized.

> The municipal liability is just much clearer.

This would be nice, assuming courts agree, but until officers and officials start getting held personally liable for these events, they will never stop happening. If the PD and officials are shielded from liability but the municipality isn't, then all that happens is that taxpayers will continue to pick up the tab for police misconduct.

> In this case, the town's law is itself being challenged. Again, much clearer.

Well, he's seeking damages from the mayor, officers, and municipality first and foremost; the council rule has actually already been removed. I hope you're right that he might get something from the municipality, but I doubt he'll get anything from the mayor or PD.
Spread out rural housing does not mean less transport to bring in outside resources, but vastly more because most goods are still "outside resources" even if you literally live on a farm, and most people don't.
If you use your land for something useful it will be providing rental income (or equivalent utility) to you year over year, which wouldn’t be taxed under Georgism.
That they can arrest people with no cause.
Fewer cops, more detectives.
Like some other comments, I am intrigued to hear other examples where LVTs have been set arbitrarily high.
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Almost nobody are or want to be "fairly self sufficient". The proportion of people even trying are a rounding error.
Managers in most companies are already not doing much HR. Especially in companies with a competent HR department.
Trader Joe's is pretty good. They have good nut selections and the 1 pound chocolate bars are very tempting.