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Given that the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X can compute around 28.1 million SHA-256 hashes per second, the time required to calculate the hash of such a proposition including all possible 9-l…

Two obvious problems: the fractional part of the price is not uniform over [00..99] and the system has 5 coins, since in 2021 minting for the half-dollar coin was restarted.

Standard eBooks has nicer covers...

Yes, that's what ChatGPT says: Assuming that a tail is a leg does not actually make it a leg. Dogs have four legs, regardless of the length of their tail.

Has anybody reproduced this in… Firefox (on iOS of course)? Asking for a friend who has Safari search suggestions disabled (so Safari does not crash) but encounters Firefox crashes…

What is a “duty” ? - https://youtu.be/A-brgkkjnHc

This would work out great !!! Except - you know - for the hotel bookings, car hire and the museum tickets you bought in advance.

Yes - I am sure this would work out well - like it does with car reservations. https://youtu.be/A-brgkkjnHc

I think you should start by reading Progress and Poverty - here is a short review: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr... The land with the highest value i…

> One way to organise it is to ask people how much tax they're willing to pay, from which the land value can be derived (as that's the real point of assessing land value for someon…

The South Park model is surprisingly accurate. See Ray Dalio’s model here: https://www.bridgewater.com/research-and-insights/how-the-ec...

In regular taxis, you will get more money if you drive the longer route i.e. there is a very strong incentive to be increasingly dishonest.

Gentlemen, the hole is due to the fact that no company has the large scale productive capacity for the newly discovered COVID-19 vaccine. Ordering earlier and paying more would jus…

Besides her parentage, you forgot to mention that she's a German woman and mother in a position of power, to fully "justify" your ad hominem attack.

The Russian scientists have first discussed Sputnik V with EMA (EU's medicine agency) 5 days ago: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/europe/top-stories/russia-files-sp... ; Hungary, which i…

Non-sequitur, but true: this is a political hatchet job from delivered by a center-left newspaper to a center-right politician. The key to this crisis and article can be found in t…

It's low orbit pollution with high speed space junk by any technological civilization,resulting in an inevitable self-interdiction of space flight: https://www.economist.com/scienc…

Question 2: This is better left unanswered. We've been building superhuman AIs for at least 300 years which are exploiting reality to their advantage and have started out-competing…