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Leaving aside questions of how this works for noncash assets, this would be precisely equivalent to an inheritance tax paired with contractionary monetary policy.
December 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The complete adventures of the philosophical children lost in the snow
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Are there any good children's books where the protagonist brings war to peacing kingdoms?
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
However, your smoothie example just seems like a nonlinear goodness function defined on the nonnegative subset of a Euclidean space.
September 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
-Topological spaces: even more general than metric spaces; we no longer have distances between points, just an abstract notion of which areas are close or connected to which other areas.
September 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Directions at different points may not match up consistently.
-Metric spaces: a set equipped with a function that tells you how far apart any given pair of points are. Hence there's some geometry, but no concept of "different directions". A manifold equipped with a nice metric is called Riemannian.
September 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
What you call "space" mathematicians would call "Euclidean space" or slightly more generally a vector space. There are other kinds of spaces that work differently, such as:
-Manifolds: spaces that locally look like Euclidean space, but globally may have some more complicated structure, and...
September 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Hybrid and Revolver have losses and a bunch of close wins. I don't think they belong in the same category as Fury.
September 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Is this real or another pump and dump scheme?
April 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Wait, why is he so worried about heavenly bodies?
January 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
That's how I found you and it's still my favorite. The perfect blend of funny and wholesome
January 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It's easy to generate 3-SAT instances from a value for each variable:

1. Pick a true literal at random
2. Pick any two other literals at random
3. Permute the three literals randomly to produce a clause
4. Repeat until you have enough clauses

I think the issue is making a hard instance of 3-SAT
January 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM