lemmington_steele

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[–] lemmington_steele 6 points 11 months ago

I'm pretty sure he was involved with the liberation theology movements in Argentina before the previous pope clamped down on it (in his capacity as a cardinal)

[–] lemmington_steele 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure late unification is necessarily the determing factor here. e.g. look at Italy

[–] lemmington_steele 2 points 11 months ago
[–] lemmington_steele 10 points 11 months ago

something so sexy needs to be marked as NSFW

[–] lemmington_steele 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

you can model the tax on the supply or the demand. in most simple models the outcome is the same

[–] lemmington_steele 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

technically yes, but the proof would usually show that this works by constructing the bijection of [0,1] and (0,1) and then you'd say the cardinalities are the same by the Schröder-Berstein theorem, because the proof of the latter is likely not something you want to demonstrate every day

[–] lemmington_steele 1 points 11 months ago

even if that's not how you can write it, one gets the same issue in yours subtracting infinity from both sides

[–] lemmington_steele 1 points 11 months ago

it's actually Vulcan

[–] lemmington_steele 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

ah, but don't forget to prove that the cardinality of [0,1] is that same as that of (0,1) on the way!

[–] lemmington_steele 4 points 11 months ago

no, there aren't enough integers to map onto the interval (0,1).

probably the most famous proof for this is Cantor's diagonalisation argument. though as it usually shows how the cardinality of the naturals is small than this interval, you'll also need to prove that the cardinality of the integers is the same as that of the naturals too (which is usually seen when you go about constructing the set of integers to begin with)

[–] lemmington_steele 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

actually you can for each real number you can exhaustively map a uninque number from the interval (0,1) onto it. (there are many such examples, you can find one way by playing around with the function tanx)

this means these two sets are of the same size by the mathematical definition of cardinality :)

 

For example, anyone could use Let's Encrypt to get a trusted certificate, so what makes this trustworthy? Or why not trust everyone that signs their own certificates with a program like OpenSSL?

 

In a similar vein, why can we not use the technology of RAM to prolong the life-cycle of an SSD?

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