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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-length hexadecimal strings to would be approximately:
68.72 x 10^9 strings/ 28.1 x 10^6 hashes per second ~= 2450 seconds. The hash starts with 0 so the calculation would have been much shorter i.e. just around 2 minutes.
This can probably be explained in terms of the birthday collision problem.
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 regularly.
This would work out great !!! Except - you know - for the hotel bookings, car hire and the museum tickets you bought in advance.
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 is city land. Most of city land and the buildings on that land are private property so they cannot be auctioned “every year”.
Singapore and Taiwan lease blocks of state-owned land for (high-rise) residence buildings for a duration of 99 years. This land is auctioned to developers, who then build houses and high rises, then sell them to individuals. The land lease ends after 99 years, so the land can be reused. This obviously does not capture the increase in the value of land over 99 years, but the value of land at the time of the sale.
So both states have taxes on land - a property tax in Singapore and a tax on the increment in the value of land in Taiwan, showing that it’s feasible to estimate the value of land and tax that (value of land = total value - value of improvements).
> 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 someone who isn't willing to sell that's the real order of things). However, if someone bids on the land for that price you must sell.
Some people have very strange misconceptions about LVT & Georgism.
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 just have shifted distribution around, and would not have made more doses available. Every vaccination done in the US or the UK means one less vaccine dose for Europe.
And that is not "ducking responsibility", it is basic logic - as one cannot fit 10 pegs in 9 holes, one cannot vaccinate 10 people with 9 doses.
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.
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 the middle of the article:
"...von der Leyen's press department has been energetic in its defense of the Commissions actions. After all, the EU has secured rights to 2.3 billion doses of vaccine, they have pointed out, with 760 million of them from BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna.
But what use is that when the availability of the vaccine will remain so limited for the foreseeable future? When the producers are unable to deliver what they have agreed to – or can only deliver much later?"
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 humans for resources (including by changing laws in their favour). These things we've been building are called corporations, and they're certainly smarter than any individual, richer than any human can become and are now working hard to figure out how their humans can be replaced by more reliable components.