The integers are totally closed under multiplication. They lack an inverse under multiplication that's why they aren't a field.
I wrote a Javascript visualization of this (using React) some time ago: http://mperdikeas.github.io/stack-piling-and-tumbling/index.... (click "start dropping grain" to start) Github repo:…
The problem with chess is that what makes it so addictive is the effect of memorizing openings. Opening theory adds strategic depth, flavor, and a landscape to what would otherwise be a dry, abstract, overly tactical…
Economists started using mathematics purely out of Physics Envy. I am obviously not talking about financial products which require some statistics and complex probabilistic models due to the way they're structured. All…
In your database always store time as seconds since the Epoch (or milliseconds since the Epoch if you need more precision). Forget about SQL date/time types, they are useless. Then convert to "civilian format" only in…
It gives me a very warm feeling to know that those simpletons now have you to care for them and prevent other people from taking advantage of them. I do hope they show some appreciation for your efforts on their behalf.
I know very well what these systems are and, more importantly, I also know what they have in common (with German National Socialism, Maoism and Arab Islamism too): contempt for the rights of individuals and belief in…
The US did it by virtue of it being a lot more homogeneous when it was first created. Last time I checked they didn't need any translators when they were debating the constitution, nor is the US constitution printed in…
It most definitely is and it takes a very starry eyed sort of person to expect otherwise. The idea that 20 or so different people with different languages, religions, mores, histories, frames of reference, economies…
For a man, a brothel operator, a private detective, or a drugs purveyor would make more sense for blackmail. How would a waiter in a nondescript location gain access to information that would allow him to blackmail?…
Scarcity, fungibility, divisibility, durability are not societal constructs. Plus all metals have some inherent value. On top of that you have desirability which you could perhaps explain as a societal construct…
Bitcoin fails to satisfactorily answer von Mises' regression theorem. It also has no scarcity since it can face competition by an infinite number of similar conceivable algorithms / block-chains / virtual currencies…
People will not be amazed, at least for more than a day, by anything that's widely shared. Never had, never will. Human beings, being what they are, a few enlightened souls excluded, derive happiness by the advantages…
I am not convinced that the Egyptians could build watertight channels at this scale, especially those shown climbing up the slope of the pyramid which would have to be watertight at the top too, and under great…
Maybe it can't buy happiness but it can definitely buy off unhappiness, some of it anyhow (adapted from a line in "Psycho").
Perhaps, in a broader sense. One particular account I've read in a autobiographical book by a person who fought in a distant civil war and had been on both sides of the table, so to speak, recalls how he felt the same…
There's physics and there's metaphysics. That's known since the times of Aristotle and Plato. Attempts by physicists to solve the "hard problem of consciousness" are doomed to fail. Different tools are necessary for…
Spot on! I skimmed it very quickly and I also got the feeling that portraying "shiny metals" as something that, in the beginning, only "a few crazy ones" liked to possess (attempting to draw a parallel with BTC's…
The passage above should be clearly be understood as "No good can be employed _for the long run_ ...". Otherwise various local currencies that have risen and died over the years (e.g. "Ithaca hours") could also have…
All other fiat currencies are similarly backed by a government that enjoys monopoly of legal force over some geographical area. That's why when governments die (lost war, revolution) the value of their fiat goes to zero…
I get: No such schema 'com.canonical.Unity.Lenses' when running the script, and a few lines below: E: Unable to locate package unity-lens-shopping
Inability to hold educated conversation on Wittgenstein should not be taken to reflect badly on anyone's intellect.
I 'm not convinced. Such a "media" for thinking the unthinkable already exists. It's called "written language" plus maybe a drawing here or there. Has been used for millennia and once internalized by a mind willing to…
Bitcoin is fiat, it's not backed by anything of real value and doesn't have a government or a strong (and I mean national-government-kind strong) player behind it that is willing to devote actual resources to prop it up…
Nope, that's from the Hobbit. And there's no "much" if memory serves right.
The integers are totally closed under multiplication. They lack an inverse under multiplication that's why they aren't a field.
I wrote a Javascript visualization of this (using React) some time ago: http://mperdikeas.github.io/stack-piling-and-tumbling/index.... (click "start dropping grain" to start) Github repo:…
The problem with chess is that what makes it so addictive is the effect of memorizing openings. Opening theory adds strategic depth, flavor, and a landscape to what would otherwise be a dry, abstract, overly tactical…
Economists started using mathematics purely out of Physics Envy. I am obviously not talking about financial products which require some statistics and complex probabilistic models due to the way they're structured. All…
In your database always store time as seconds since the Epoch (or milliseconds since the Epoch if you need more precision). Forget about SQL date/time types, they are useless. Then convert to "civilian format" only in…
It gives me a very warm feeling to know that those simpletons now have you to care for them and prevent other people from taking advantage of them. I do hope they show some appreciation for your efforts on their behalf.
I know very well what these systems are and, more importantly, I also know what they have in common (with German National Socialism, Maoism and Arab Islamism too): contempt for the rights of individuals and belief in…
The US did it by virtue of it being a lot more homogeneous when it was first created. Last time I checked they didn't need any translators when they were debating the constitution, nor is the US constitution printed in…
It most definitely is and it takes a very starry eyed sort of person to expect otherwise. The idea that 20 or so different people with different languages, religions, mores, histories, frames of reference, economies…
For a man, a brothel operator, a private detective, or a drugs purveyor would make more sense for blackmail. How would a waiter in a nondescript location gain access to information that would allow him to blackmail?…
Scarcity, fungibility, divisibility, durability are not societal constructs. Plus all metals have some inherent value. On top of that you have desirability which you could perhaps explain as a societal construct…
Bitcoin fails to satisfactorily answer von Mises' regression theorem. It also has no scarcity since it can face competition by an infinite number of similar conceivable algorithms / block-chains / virtual currencies…
People will not be amazed, at least for more than a day, by anything that's widely shared. Never had, never will. Human beings, being what they are, a few enlightened souls excluded, derive happiness by the advantages…
I am not convinced that the Egyptians could build watertight channels at this scale, especially those shown climbing up the slope of the pyramid which would have to be watertight at the top too, and under great…
Maybe it can't buy happiness but it can definitely buy off unhappiness, some of it anyhow (adapted from a line in "Psycho").
Perhaps, in a broader sense. One particular account I've read in a autobiographical book by a person who fought in a distant civil war and had been on both sides of the table, so to speak, recalls how he felt the same…
There's physics and there's metaphysics. That's known since the times of Aristotle and Plato. Attempts by physicists to solve the "hard problem of consciousness" are doomed to fail. Different tools are necessary for…
Spot on! I skimmed it very quickly and I also got the feeling that portraying "shiny metals" as something that, in the beginning, only "a few crazy ones" liked to possess (attempting to draw a parallel with BTC's…
The passage above should be clearly be understood as "No good can be employed _for the long run_ ...". Otherwise various local currencies that have risen and died over the years (e.g. "Ithaca hours") could also have…
All other fiat currencies are similarly backed by a government that enjoys monopoly of legal force over some geographical area. That's why when governments die (lost war, revolution) the value of their fiat goes to zero…
I get: No such schema 'com.canonical.Unity.Lenses' when running the script, and a few lines below: E: Unable to locate package unity-lens-shopping
Inability to hold educated conversation on Wittgenstein should not be taken to reflect badly on anyone's intellect.
I 'm not convinced. Such a "media" for thinking the unthinkable already exists. It's called "written language" plus maybe a drawing here or there. Has been used for millennia and once internalized by a mind willing to…
Bitcoin is fiat, it's not backed by anything of real value and doesn't have a government or a strong (and I mean national-government-kind strong) player behind it that is willing to devote actual resources to prop it up…
Nope, that's from the Hobbit. And there's no "much" if memory serves right.