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  1. 6 hours ago, Trurl said:

     

    I realize that I didn’t use an official tax system. I just wanted to illustrate that tax compounded makes more for the government than the amount of money they tax.

    I choose sales tax. In high school we are taught this is the most fair tax. The more you spend the more your tax. And everyone pays the same rate. But like most taxes I think the more money you have the less the tax affects you.

    But imagine a flea market with dealers buying from one another. Each spends $100 on an item from the other dealer and pays $6 tax on every $100. The $6 is additive. You still need $100 to purchase, but you must add the $6 tax. The tax is subtracted from the individual buyer each time they spend. The $100 is constant.

    I am trying to illustrate that the tax has the potential to generate more tax than the original payment of goods. I don’t think this is new. I think it is inherent in taxes themselves.

    I would say the inability for governments to track transactions of cryptocurrency is why they want cryptocurrency to fail.

    I know if you have tax it takes away from the amount of money you have left. But money transfers it is never destroyed. I am not an economics expert, but somewhere somehow someone has mapped the movement of money between taxpayers and the amount of tax revenue generated.


    Sales tax is indeed regressive.

    https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regressivetax.asp

    That being said it's not a pyramid scheme or at least no more so than any other tax is.

    Crypto is trackable via the blockchain. Government's problem with it is that they can't increase the effective quantity to pay off their debts.

    3 hours ago, iNow said:

    It’s fungible. That’s the word to describe what you mean, but it can be “destroyed” in special circumstances. 

    Converts penny to souvenir coin. :)

  2. 5 hours ago, studiot said:

    You obviously know more about flicker frequencies than I do.

    But yes, that is why I said a rosetta stone is needed.

    Something to tie distance along the sound track to time, such as a musical beat or in my case the engine rpm.

     

    The  OP was wanting to analyse a sound track, but I can tell you more about the sf short story if you like.
    It has a very funny punchline, which you flicker frequency would be relevant to.

    Sure, sounds interesting.

  3. 5 hours ago, studiot said:

    Sorry I don't understand the question.

    Probably overanalyzing this, but a different species might not see it playing correctly at the original rate.

    The equivalent of a dog watching an early human film.

    List-of-upper-flicker-frequency-FF-thres

    https://www.researchgate.net/figure/List-of-upper-flicker-frequency-FF-thresholds-Hz-from-highest-to-lowest-rates-of_tbl1_23670287

    They randomly might be okay too though.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_threshold

  4. 9 hours ago, studiot said:

    By the way I once read a very amusing science fiction short story about aliens who did this, not for sound but for a film strip they found in the ruins of an old dead civilisation. They worked out that running the film through a suitable projector they created,  would produce a 'movie'.

    But they didn't know how fast to run the film.  That was when the fun started.

     

    Would differing flicker fusion rates cause issues?

  5. 2 hours ago, AIkonoklazt said:

    Physical damage isn't the only type of legal claim. Financial and even claimed "emotional damages" can end up in civil proceedings. It's absurd to process claims from an inanimate object, since a claim involves a linguistic referent.

    The only claims involved should be property rights, by the human owners of the tools, and not any purported moral rights of the tools "themselves."

     

     

    I don't see what that has to do with conferring moral rights to AI. Tools can be used without conferring any rights to them, except non-moral rights such as right-of-operation in a transport lane e.g. robot vehicles.


    Could be set up where it manages a Corporation. Would then, by way of the Corporation, have certain rights.

     

    What would convince you AI consciousness was possible?

  6. 3 hours ago, Sensei said:

    Reread it again. Dune is a sci-fi..

    So we will have recursion.. ;)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion_(computer_science)

    (this can lead to stack overflow ;) )

     

    While the example use case involves a sci-fi series, you can obviously do it with today's technology.

    Recursion is more an issue with the programming, rather than a hard limit. GPT will sometimes have to cut itself off too.


    Honestly Dune is a weird choice to use as an example, considering it's themes.

     

  7. For current UK Prime Minister:

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    Hello! While winning an election involves various strategies, focusing on effective communication, addressing key issues, and connecting with constituents can be crucial. Consider crafting a compelling vision for the future, engaging with the public through various channels, and staying responsive to their concerns. Additionally, building a strong team and staying informed on current issues will help you connect with a diverse range of voters.

     

    Is a few years behind the times too. Could probably provide a better answer, if it were up to date on current events.

  8. 18 hours ago, AbstractDreamer said:

    Why would we expect to see blueshifting?  We theorised space expansion from the discovery of cosmological redshift.  Not the other way around.  If cosmological redshift had some other cause, it wouldn't change what we measure at all.  It would change our theory.
     

     

    Would just expect to see a more typical distribution of directions in the first place. Some apparently headed towards us(blue), some away(red), and others approximately keeping pace.

  9. 3 hours ago, AbstractDreamer said:

    My point is not about refuting kinematic interpretation of redshift.   A phenomenon of space expanding would certainly cause the cosmological redshift observations that we measure.   This does not mean cosmological redshift observations are entirely and completely explained by space expansion.

    If we measure a redshift of 3, why must the entirety of that redshift be caused by space expansion and nothing else?   What evidence do we have that nothing else causes cosmological redshift?

     

    Biggest for me, is that you would expect to also see some blueshifting, if it had some other cause.

    It's also tied to distance. The further something is, the greater the recession velocity. Not what you might expect from a random sample.

  10. 5 hours ago, swansont said:

    1. I don’t see how Jesus is in any way connected to the movie.

    He's talking about the Loki series on Disney, still no sign of Jesus though.

     

    Was pretty epic. Without spoiling anything, involves Yggdrasill and Ragnarok.

    They haven't ruled out us seeing the character again. Could see him serving as a guide or similar in the future. Happy Tiw's Day everyone!

  11. I'm thinking if the one Kennedy is still running, he will pull votes away from Trump, giving Biden the EC win.

    10 minutes ago, exchemist said:

    My sentiments exactly, Doctor. I hope to God @toucana is right about Trump being behind bars before the election. If the US gets taken over by an authoritarian personality cult, we get worryingly close to the power blocs of Orwell’s 1984, turbocharged by the surveillance state, internet disinformation and AI.

    On the plus side, we apparently finally adopt pure metric.

  12. I'm thinking chances are low that it would have been stored in ideal conditions and not lost due to fire in all this time.

     

    What are the odds this old wooden cup I found on vacation there in a bog next to an olive grove, is worth anything?

  13. 1 hour ago, StringJunky said:

    80 is old, however you spin it. Why do SC judges and politicians get a pass to retire when then like... are they immortal?


    For SC, they were concerned Justices' opinions could be swayed by pension concerns and didn't anticipate people living so long.

    https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-71-80#s-lg-box-wrapper-25493471

     

    They really didn't think some things through. The loser of the Presidential election becoming the Vice President was another big one.

  14. 7 hours ago, CharonY said:

    I mean sure, there is also that, because who needs representation when you can have a convoluted system that based on 200 yr old considerations. But as a whole not only the mechanism is silly, but also the fact that folks have a choice between someone old and unexciting and someone old and on multiple criminal indictments. 

    There's other parties and candidates. Typical FPTP result though 😐

    We've tried to reform the EC periodically, but many of the same concerns behind the original compromise persist. Were it different, could win the Presidency by only focusing on the concerns of 9-10 States.

  15. 3 hours ago, studiot said:

    I sincerely hope the labour party will not take 'control'.

    And look at their planning record.

    Their man is "Going to build 5 new towns in the next couple of years to solve the housing crisis".

    How ? 

     

    This will be after radically removing the 'planning' from the planning process, instead of changing that process from a bureaucratic game of rules and hurdles and hoops and obstructions to nothing at all.

    How will that ensure that what we actually need will get built ?

    I just mean they'll probably have a majority of seats.

    I understand don't want to see more waste, but think at this point you're all going to have to build like mad fiends.

    Have both a high demand for housing in general and increasing asylum applicant backlog contributing to ongoing government costs(hotel rentals).


    I don't know about whole new towns, but it's at least something. Hopefully government uses the chance to tackle root causes and other issues.

     

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