So, what do we talk about then? Humans are pretty bad at multitasking so when speaking generally to a public you want to focus on one issue at a time.
I'm saying be more specific not less
Readit Newstruckerbill commented on San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time sfstandard.com/2025/02/08... · Posted by u/NaOH
truckerbill commented on The number line freaks me out (2016) mathwithbaddrawings.com/2... · Posted by u/mananaysiempre
You seem to misunderstand the concept of countable infinity
Haha oh you're right, was misframing in my head the word countable as meaning finite.
I even provide the definition of countable infinity in my counterargument without realising it, though maybe that too is a misunderstanding.
truckerbill commented on The number line freaks me out (2016) mathwithbaddrawings.com/2... · Posted by u/mananaysiempre
> Since the set of all English sentences is countable
Is it? Where can I read a proof? I have a feeling it’s uncountable set but would be happy to see a proof one way or another.
You are right because you can recursively add clauses.
'Buffalo buffalo...' or 'This was my dad's dad's dad's...'
If you think you have a full set you can always add one more
truckerbill commented on San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time sfstandard.com/2025/02/08... · Posted by u/NaOH
> but noone is framing that situation as the problem.
I think yimbys are framing that situation as THE problem.
I meant here, though I think there is also tendency in general
As a side note I think the state of current discourse has shown that anything other than concrete language presents too much opportunity to talk past each other. So I don't think talking about yimbys is specific enough (and its too tempting to strawman). Same for magas and libs, they are broad labels for a broad spectrum of people
truckerbill commented on San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time sfstandard.com/2025/02/08... · Posted by u/NaOH
I mean yes. When engineers making six figures can't afford a flat in the bay area thanks to nimbyism, then you can't expect the government to either.
That's kinda the whole point, but noone is framing that situation as the problem. They would rather think that homeless people are innately inferior and thus deserve to suffer, rather than victims of circumstance in one way or another.
truckerbill commented on List of 200 UK companies that moved to 4-day working week future4days.com/list-of-2... · Posted by u/timermore
It always amazes me that, for example, shops are open when everyone is at work.
In my town, the shopping high street closes at 5pm. So when I finished work, I'd be back in my town at 6pm, where everything is dead. The only way to do any shopping is to drive to a supermarket that’s open until 10pm or shop online.
It's like everything is catered to people who don't work.
It never changed from the single-income household era.
And people wonder why the high street is dying.
truckerbill commented on US pauses all federal aid and grants bbc.com/news/articles/c77... · Posted by u/miohtama
By that logic I am better off with lower taxes, since the government is a trillionare and moving the money to billionares is progressive.
The government is accountable (in theory). The government is a different kind of entity with different behaviour to a single human, or even a corporation.
Your argument is a semantic one and was not made in good faith I think...
But if the government acted more selfishly , like a corporation (it's heading that way), then yes you are also competing with the government in certain areas. It partly depends if the billionaires in question and your semi-fictional idea of government are colluding directly. In which case you would be competing with a n-trillion dollars of capital for things like housing, some of which is controlled by billionaire beneficiaries. Essentially government monopolies are what you might be worried about, which do exist.
In reality the government also spends some of its money on infrastructure and other common-goods, which creates common wealth. The government (with central banks) also creates money so the idea of direct competition (which makes no sense to me outside of something like sovereignty over large amounts of land / mineral wealth / taxable subjects ) isn't so relevant.
truckerbill commented on US pauses all federal aid and grants bbc.com/news/articles/c77... · Posted by u/miohtama
Sure maybe? but more important to me is to lower my own tax burden
If you are competing for resources with billionaires, who's taxes also go down, you are losing money.
I'm writing a book on computer graphics, I would love to have a list of in depth topics people are interested in :) let me know if you have some requirements
Compute shaders from a high-level pipeline perspective. How data moves from CPU and between shaders to accomplish a task.
Plenty of people might disagree but choose to keep their mouth shut.