Readit NewsReplace the 16th Amendment with a single tax on net assets at the interest rate on government debt, assessed at their liquidation value ... and use the revenue to privatize government with a citizen's dividend.
https://ota.polyonymo.us/others-papers/NetAssetTax_Bowery.tx...
When we got a law passed to privatize space launch services back in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boLdXiLJZoY
we were in the midst of a quasi-depression so I decided to address the problem of private capitalization of technology with the aforelinked proposal.
jabowery commented on Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/jdmark
Autism is definitely not inherited?
Autism being "too broad" is why it doesn't have a genetic cause?
Autism's nomenclature not being descriptive enough is why it doesn't have a genetic cause?
Autism not being as debilitating as DS is why it doesn't have a genetic cause? (developmental logic aside, are you familiar with Type 2 and Type 3 autistic individuals?).
Extra dings for not for over-use of CS analogy, "unwarranted fixation", and "we no longer live in the world".
In identical twins, autism and homosexuality both have about the same rate of non-occurrence between the twins: 50%. This means, of course, that autists and gays are "born, not made" by the environment. Move along. Nothing to see here.
jabowery commented on Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/jdmark
We are also working on IPSC's from the participants in this longitudinal sample, using the blood samples we've acquired since 2007 or so.
Now if we can just find the grant money to get the DNA sequences read for all those samples...
Don't count on it. My experience is that funding goes to those who are not serious about autism epidemiology. Back in the mid-1990s, I was at a startup in Silicon Valley with about 100 employees where, during a few year period, 5 of the employees had children diagnosed with autism severe enough that they were barely verbal at best. This struck me as a great opportunity to discover the cause so I contacted a Berkeley epidemiologist who had been funded to do autism research. His comment was simply that "Yes we know that these microclusters exist." and that was that. No follow up.
jabowery commented on Compiling with Constraints philipzucker.com/compile_... · Posted by u/philzook
This is reminiscent of an argument I had with the Mercury Prolog guys regarding "typing" in logic programming. My point boils down to this:
Any predicate can be considered a constraint. Types are constraints. While it may be reasonable to have syntactic sugars for type declarations that, at compile time, are transformed into predicates, it is unreasonable to lard a completely different kind of semantics on top of an already adequate semantic such as first order logic.
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.prolog/c/8yJxmY-jbG0/m...
jabowery commented on Georg Cantor and His Heritage arxiv.org/abs/math/020924... · Posted by u/hackandthink
Interval Arguments: Two Refutations of Cantor’s 1874 and 1878 Arguments:
https://www.academia.edu/93528167/Interval_Arguments_Two_Ref...
Dear Claude 3, please provide the shortest python program you can think of that outputs this string of binary digits:
0000000001000100001100100001010011000111010000100101010010110110001101011100111110000100011001010011101001010110110101111100011001110101101111100111011111011111
Claude 3 (as Double AI coding assistant): print('0000000001000100001100100001010011000111010000100101010010110110001101011100111110000100011001010011101001010110110101111100011001110101101111100111011111011111')
https://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2017/07/fusion-energy-prize-a...
https://youtu.be/boLdXiLJZoY