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And who is to decide what constitutes "how much they contribute"? Are we talking money? agricultural products? art? inspirational writings? Great food recipes? Who is to decide what constitutes a good contribution versus what is ultimately bad for society? Philosophically this might sound good but I do believe that from a practical standpoint it is a non-starter. What you are basically doing is trying to figure out a formula to increase the influence of the population that you prefer to support. That is in the same class as gerrymandering and other political pursuits. The beauty of the constitution is that it lays out principles for representation that are supposed to be above this sort of thing, and much of the time it even succeeds.

So... OK I got bored + wondered how stable a torch battery is. I measured the voltage on my two bench multimeters over the afternoon. They both claim GOhm input impedances so they aren't drawing much current. 12:40 1.59115 1.59121 12:52 1.59114 1.59118 13:40 1.59112 1.59113 14:15 1.59110 1.59108 15:56 1.59101 1.59095 16:45 1.59090 1.59083 17:55 1.59081 1.59073 I guess the biggest effect is a change in temperature as the room warms up over the course of the day.

That’s an excellent point, OldChem. The subjectivity introduced by this “value” system opens up more space for corruption, not less... which is our goal. The constitution does, as you say, lay out core principles in a way that helps elevate us beyond human weaknesses. My core concern is those human weaknesses have instead found power in other spaces like a gerrymandered House, a filibustered Senate, an Electoral Colleged POTUS, and a partisanly stacked Supreme Court. My hope is that I’m being melodramatic and hyperbolic, that I’m wrong. My fear is that I’m being accurate and insightful, that I’m correct.

This is correct. Not entirely sure what you mean. I generated a fewf binomial probability mass functions, with odd or even numbers of trials. With an even number of trials the most likely outcome is an odd number, while for an odd number of trials the most likely outcome is equal between an odd and an even number. We will expect an even number of heads or tails every time we have an odd number of flips. This is a consequence of the combinatorics of the binomial PMF (the n choose k bit). Does this answer your question?

You must be one of the few who have never experienced wind or waves while out on the water. That the distance between the canoes must change when there are waves. Adjacent canoes will be at different heights, changing the distance between them, or forcing them to move laterally. This puts stress and torque on rigid components, or will make flexible components go slack and then taught. One obvious question: is it cheaper/easier to put a device on the ocean, or to move the salt water to a ground-based plant (passive or active)

First, do no harm

The evidence is obvious. Chimpanzees still live in the jungle and they walk on all fours. An experience is not convincing. When you meet a predator, it happens that when they are hungry, how many opportunities do you have? Don't say that you can successfully find threats every time. A snake in the grass will be deadly.