Ben Goodman

Mostly stupid jokes. Maybe math, ultimate, and whatever else catches my attention.

[Ben Goodman @benpgoodman]

@ellelledeell Close, but actually nobody naturally owns them and the government allowing creators to profit by temporarily coercing other people to not instantiate certain patterns is a matter of pragmatism, not generosity

[Ben Goodman @benpgoodman]

@ellelledeell There is no distinction in principle between discovery and creation. Every pattern of information existed in potentiality long before Disney or whoever else came along. Allowing the first person to physically instantiate a pattern to squat on it in perpetuity is absurd.

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@MasterTimBlais The line about Greeks bearing gifts is attributed to Laocoon, a priest whose death allowed the horse to move in, just like in the chess tactic.

(Technically he was a Trojan priest rather than a Greek one, but close enough.)

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@fawwazanvilen Ultrafinitist: I will die before I acknowledge the existence of 2^100

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@myhandle @Spencer_Gray But socialists rarely claim to be acting in the best interests of rich people, and similarly for white nationalists and Muslim immigrants. Are they off the hook?

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@MasterTimBlais Only because we've concluded that ex-gays are lying to themselves and bihackers were probably bi all along

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

It will be a very slow process hitting what we need, but NYC is building 39k apartment units this year

From 1970-2020, we averaged around 12k apartment units

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@KelseyTuoc I would not be shocked if the entire age 6 difference were explainable by boys being more easily persuaded than girls to aggressively squeeze a device to demonstrate their strength

[Ben Goodman @benpgoodman]

@KelseyTuoc I was wondering if this is even true for 6 year olds. It looks like average grip strength at least is detectably higher for boys than girls at age 6, but the distributions are very similar. It takes until 14 for mean boy to be stronger than a +1 stdev girl
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it’s almost like paying people to compete for attention makes the site shitty

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@RichardMCNgo I don't think Social Security recipients are really taking the government's opinions into account in deciding what to buy, and the decision to give them so much spending authority to begin with was largely made by dead politicians, not managers capable of any active steering

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@VibesBankRate @jdcmedlock Instead of a balanced budget constitutional amendment, we need a "no tax cuts when the budget isn't balanced" amendment

[Ben Goodman @benpgoodman]

@jdcmedlock That's just an accounting issue. If your employer added "tax policy analyst" to your titles, your productivity would go right back up without any behavioral change

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@GreenPlusAnE The nature of exponential growth is such that future generations absolutely will get to borrow $36 trillion they never have to pay back, unless something catastrophic happens.

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@johnholowach @jdcmedlock People turning 85 this year were born in 1941, when lead was still plentiful

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@Ghhkkjds @pfau Maybe we should drop the cutesy generation names and just group people by decade of birth

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@CletusCornpone @as_per_ushe There is a correct utilitarian argument for redistribution and a wrong populist argument. This thread is debating the populist one.

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@NoahTopper Every function uniquely extends to a linear map between the vector spaces freely generated by its domain and codomain, so any computable behavior can be reproduced much less efficiently with just matrix multiplication

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@watchUFAtv @empireultimate Per game, should be 0.00877 for Jagt and 0.0303 for Atkins (or slightly lower after tonight's game)

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@StelioKontos67 @olivertraldi That guy took office via dialogue and political process