Adalast @ Adalast @lemmy.world

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Does my nose deceive me, or am I catching a whiff of yet another monopoly?

As a mathematician, I want to see this modified slightly (I will pair the original with my modification)

• Income up to $50k is untaxed
• Income up to $100k is untaxed (I have done the math, this would actually work with one of my other modifications)
• VAT tax for luxury items
• VAT for B2B sales based on the Value Added by their step in the production chain
• Remove sales tax
• Remove tax brackets - replace with a continuous function that has parameters to encapsulate the current credits and deductions, as well as new ones to encourage reasonable behaviors (green energy, having kids, not having kids, etc.)
• Addendum to the above: business taxes fall get the same treatment, with parameters for things like the wealth/income gap ratio between the highest-paid employee and the median for the company, % of employees who reside in the United States, number of subsidiaries, number of technology acquisitions made. Oh, and companies that make more than $1M/yr never get a refund, period.
• Require communities to cap rent, it is done by popular vote as a ballot measure, and the options are calculated based on local needs, cost of living, and median income for the town.

I have more, but I also have a headache.

Not any more than it does now. Ignorantia juris non excusat. Ignorance of the law excuses not. It is a primary doctrine in US law as it stands, I don't see why this case should be any different.

My personal flavor of this idea could down to this: if your company is found guilty of a criminal offense that would result in jail time for an individual, all board members and C-level executives are held accountable and face the same punishment as an individual would for the same crime. The only exceptions are:

• There was an intentional malicious effort made on the part of a subordinate to use the law to attack their employer.
• It can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the illegal activity was perpetrated on by a subordinate in a manner that would have expressly and reasonably obfuscated the activity from the notice of a rational, attentive observer.
• The illegal activity brought lethal harm upon the company (meaning that the activity directly lead to the complete and total failure and dissolution of the organization and all subsidiaries and shell companies were dissolved as a result)

Outside of those 3, they asses go to jail, assets get seized, and yahts go up in police auctions.

As a person with a functional understanding of government and economics, this looks like ethical social capitalism to me. Privately owned production funds government-allocated programs dispersing resources more evenly over the population while still allowing a high upper limit to wealth.

The issue with using the lunar cycle for timekeeping at night is that the moon is not always visible in the sky at night. It is also not at the same spot in the sky every night, so the math on describing the time based on moon position is actually pretty complex, and unreliable for a consistent overnight clock. You might think that tides could be used as well, but it that is even more complex. In fact, some of the first analog computers were created to do the calculus required to solve the question of timing and tides.

Unfortunately, in some cases, this would create negative feedback which would affect efficiency. As an example, Rudolf Diesel is currently rotating in his grave at approximately 2e6 RPM at the current implementation of the diesel engine, his invention. For context at his posthumous displeasure, the when tuned used properly, the diesel engine is the singular most efficient internal combustion engine. That proper use: steady, consistent operation at an invariant rotation running on a waste byproduct of the gasoline refinement process. What it is unquestioningly not designed for: operating devices which turn on and off frequently and require a variation in output power to operate, you know, like a motor vehicle.

So, with all that in mind, attaching a rotational corpse drive to him would generate immense amounts of power initially and push the vehicle and shipping markets towards EVs even faster, but as that happens, his ire will abate and he will begin to slow his rotation until it eventually comes to a peaceful rest, but the power deficit created by that would definitely cause economic and social problems.

Ooo, you touched on one of my favorite clock history tidbits, Maritime timekeeping. It is so fascinating. Like, the only reason spring-driven rotational oscillation mechanisms were invented was for maritime clocks. They were needed for accurate longitudinal calculations and really enabled the whole golden age of sailing. (yes, I am leaving out the Peloponnesian peoples, but they are a super awesome topic for another post)

Dubstep... It's all about that drop.

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My 15-year-old stepdaughter went on a 10-minute-long explosive rant about how conservative politicians are retarded and seem incapable of doing math at a basic high-school level which ended with her storming off to write a "book on how they can do better that she will send to the governments". I could not have been more proud. She has even started expressing frustration with the amount of advertising that is going on and is coming to understand just how much information is taken from us every day.

It's funny you say candle, because there were actually fire clocks that were very accurate. They couldn't tell you what time it was, but they could tell you very accurately how long they had been burning. If lit before nightfall and timed with a sundial, they were capable of rather precisely telling what time it was at night.

Similarly, sand clocks have been a thing for thousands of years. Think hourglass, but with different size holes and made of different materials with larger volumes.

I had some dude here trying to tell me, a mathematician and data scientist who is developing AIs for fun and is a holder of an MA in Visual Effects specializing in procedural design, who has worked on algorithmic video game development, what AIs are or are going to be capable of in procedural/generative/algorithmic game design "because he has played a lot of games" and argued for days with me, cherry-picking everything I wrote attempting to use my words refuting him to support his arguments.

Just... Infuriating.

It only has a negative connotation because it is generally an "animal" word and humans believe themselves special and somehow above and separate from animals. It is the same with referring to someone using an object pronoun. Call someone "it" in English and see how fast they lose their shit. Like, mother fucker, you warp spacetime and have volume, you are a fucking object.

I've been planning on doing like a 6 month short on it if I have the money because it is going to be tanked hard.

It wasn't even that. It was likely driven over by Prevost to function as advertising. After the shot they just drove it back to the dealership.

Bribery requires that the incentive is to illicit an action that is an official duty of the held office. Resignation is not an official duty. It is legally, under federal law, not a bribe.

https://www.newsweek.com/john-oliver-offers-clarence-thomas-million-resign-unlikely-broke-law-1871787

And here is the law. At a glance, yeah, there was no bribe. It was not corrupt, it was not asking for an official action, and even if it were an official action, it was not an illegal action. https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-18-crimes-and-criminal-procedure/18-usc-sect-201/

God I love this movie. True irreverent humor that I don't want to know if people contained about. Nude breasts that perfectly fit the MPAA PG nudity guidelines of "brief and non-sexual". So many quotable one-liners. The sight gags were on point and perfectly timed. I WISH movies like this could be made. Scary Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, and all the other parody movies are great, but do not hold a candle to the Airplane! movies.

It is that pesky 99.9% effectiveness. That 0.1% that survived did so because they had some minor resistance. Rinse and repeat a few hundred thousand times and you have forced evolution. It doesn't even take that long to happen in a population with the over-prescription rate we have had here. Something about the people in charge being undereducated religious ideologs who see expertise as a threat or fraud because experts make mistakes and learn from them.

That's not a malfunction, it's a feature.

I always play wildly different characters in my campaigns and like to mix things up. The other players knowing what I am thinking just means that I don't have to communicate my hair brained schemes.

If we are running someone that old, can we please run Dumbledore? Fought against evil his entire adult life, took steps to make education available to all witches and wizards equally regardless of if you were pure blood or muggleborn, taught forgiveness and understood that people could change, for better and for worse. Also taught his students well enough to fend off a full-scale attack from a hoard of adult casters, giants, and a fucking lich without needing his intervention.

(yes, I am talking about Bernie... The only old fuck that is still worthy of holding office)

I was contemplating the merits of botting with the current model with slight vectorization offsets so the data becomes prone to overfitting.

I would think it would alao work to post using valid, but non-standard syntax so it muddies the n-gram searches.