The coins proposed are all prime, which makes sense to me intuitively. You'll always need a 1 coin. I'm curious if it's generally true that optimal coins for any given range starting at 0 will be primes?
I take issue with the assumption that you always need a 1 coin.
If we're going to go to such great lengths to minimize the number of coins, even at the cost of making real-life transactions more complicated, we could totally forgo the 1 coin and just have 2 and 5. If an amount ends in 1, you pay 5 and get two 2s back. Now you can have a coin system that is entirely primes!
If you have a database server and an application server, then move your application on the same machine as your database. That's basically the use case of sqlite server-side. You can easily fit 250TB on rack (or 64tb on an ec2.) That's a lot for non-blob storage: 750KB per us citizen
Who has "an" application server though? Those of us who came up through PHP/Rails/Flask and even much of the modern microservices world were taught to do stateless, probably load-balanced application tiers with shared DB, maybe cache, maybe message queue. Both for scalability and redundancy.
Redundant SQLite is not impossible [0] but it is definitely less mature and well-known than replicated MySQL or Postgres.
This is pretty spot-on for where I live (suffolk MA.) Note that there's no saving category, so the 190k/year with 3 kids dual income is to get by comfortably but never retire.
Housing 40th percentile is a pretty good metric for living wage. What would your metric be, 20th percentile, 10th percentile, something else?
Transportation is the true cost of mobility, including insurance, gas, motor oil, basic maintenance of vehicle.
Civic Engagement category isn't what you think it is and the methodology spells it out:
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey, Table 1400 (Entertainment: fees and admissions; Audio and visual equipment and services; Pets; Toys, hobbies, and playground equipment; Entertainment: other supplies, equip., & services; Reading; and Education)
I mean sure, cross that category out completely, but humans can't live on bread alone and this is exactly what this is measuring: living wage, not depression wage.
You can argue about whether median is a good measure, but the fact that this living wage allocates 0 dollars towards retirement and holidays, for me, is still not truly living wage. Any adjustment to the categories you take umbrage to is washed out by a basic savings plan for retirement.
I wonder what the probability model is for the rest of the season. Is one big hurricane early in the season really that ominous for the entire rest of the season, or are we just comparing it to 2005?
The evidence pointing towards this season being particularly destructive doesn’t stop at “one early hurricane;” meteorologists have been raising the alarm for months now over warm Atlantic temperatures and low wind shear. These are attributed to el nino transitioning into a la ninya and local warming due to climate change
I think it's more nuanced than naivety. Germany was willing to turn a blind eye for the cheap energy their powerful industrial economy relies on. I don't think it's wrong to take the cheap energy knowingly from your enemy -- you just can't lose sight of it.
Fundamentally it's ok to arbitrage with your opponent if it means more prosperity for you -- it gets complicated when you're doing it on the back of large deficits, and do it for long enough that you forget it was a gambit to begin with and now it's a dependency. Oops.
Most certainly, but not for the public to see (although we all know relatively where different countries are.) I recently read kill chain which is jarringly accurate for a 4 year old book, and it goes through what you're indirectly alluding to: US military ppp is not only too high, but the 'kill-chain' is too slow.
https://notes.benheater.com/books/web/page/multipart-forms-a...