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If there are US fabs, and China invades Taiwan then Taiwanese fabs are destroyed, and China loses access to advanced chips, but the US and the west do not. This puts China at a maj…

Silly Question: It it a good experiment to put the medicine in one eye and the placebo in the other eye? What could be other consequences of such a thing?

That is a good point. But all these had racist reasons at their core. Can this be better implemented today? With extensive supervision and scrutiny. For example, teenagers routinel…

I sometimes think, one way to break this cycle is to send the all the kids to boarding school or military school. It could put them in an environment free from their background cir…

Don't manufacturers do that already? Take into account the probability of a costly failure, and increase the price to account for it. And compensate victims to a certain extent, bu…

Also, bribing voters is a thing. It would be far cheaper to pay 2X to buy X votes where each of the bribed voters keep half the money and buy a vote with other half.

I don't think that it is misleading. The severity of a disease is relative to the current situation. For example, it could be the case that Omicron is actually less infectious than…

Ok that makes sense. But I wonder why doesn't this problem also arise in the current Proof-of-Work system. A sufficiently well-funded group, with about 20% hash-rate can try to ext…

I always understood the security of block-chains as a race between the good and the bad agents. Both are extending their respective chains as fast as they can. A bad-agent, who wis…

The external reward in "useful" PoW is given to all miners, good and bad. So everyone is equally incentivized. In fact it should actually increase the participation in the network,…

Can you explain why the security guarantee disappears in more detail? I thought that the security of a block-chain comes primarily from the difficulty of rewriting the chain of blo…

> Additionally, it is the universal part of UBI that people struggle with. If everyone gets it, do prices just rise to meet that reality and soak up the "free" money. Think about t…

The above is a great answer. To expand on this (from some googling). All of this requires root. 1) Create a sparse file (actual size depends on usage) truncate -s 100G /home/zzz/Dr…

How about: "Kids who grow up in households full of gym/sports equipments, grow up to be muscular/athletic". The quality of this research may indeed be poor, but the "tall pants" an…

The free market cannot suitably address the "tragedy of the commons". If all companies currently follow expensive but environment-friendly processes, a rouge company can undercut t…

All dynamic programming algorithms are recursive. They are essentially a (constructive) proof by induction. For clarity, perhaps one can include a "proof of correctness" of the alg…

> Investors would be choosier about speculative opportunities because the yield on the risk-free asset would be much, much higher. It won't help how choosy investors are, or how we…

A simple argument is as follows. Without inflation, i.e. fixed money supply, it would be impossible for a majority of loans to be repaid with interest, or give a positive return to…

Isn't this just like paying insurance premiums ? Whenever you are sick, the doctor / insurance company loses money curing you.

This is perhaps a stupid question. But, even if we had a real oblivious DNS, can't the ISP figure out what website I am connecting to by a reverse-dns lookup on the IP-address ?

This is true only for erasure RS-codes, but not for general RS-codes. In erasure RS-codes you must specify which points are corrupted and the decoder discards them. For general RS-…