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In America. My country, and 90% of the world, was noticeably behind, and "mp3 players" reigned.
*Asterisk because EU is big and diverse, and I don't know every country rules.
I remember there being whole research groups trying to formalize a single (real world, as opposed to undergraduate) proof, and I remember reading that formalizing something like FLT is currently completely unfeasible.
In short, no, lean was not a tool to discover new math.
I heard US healthcare, rather famously, spends more per capita than any country in the world, despite still being rather terrible. Maybe the solution is actually reforming it in an European way (including universal free healthcare)? Your other points are very interesting to me, especially negative feedback loops of austerity - I never thought about that before.
As an European it's pretty funny to read this thread. "Your party debt was reckless and incompetent. My party debt was necessary and caused by your party anyway". Seriously, having just two parties looks like nightmare for democracy.
Having said that, before I get crucified as a centrist, there are bad and worse, and Trump is clearly worse.
>Mochizuki and a few other mathematicians claim that the theory indeed yields such a proof but this has so far not been accepted by the mathematical community.
Proof can't be understood, proof doesn't matter.
If the point is to let independent people verify the full build chain, then there is no "trust from yesterday" to reuse.
Even worse, if every release N depends on trusting release N-1, then you need to do a full rebuild of everything in the whole history, instead of just building the current release. This doesn't sound reasonable, or at least sounds incompatible with the project goals.
And get I often get websites and ads in the language of the country my IP points to
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I think the problem is that modern brain is overloaded with information. We can't care about everything fully, or we'd go insane.
I agree this is true for the economist readers, but I clicked the link thinking this was about how Dropbox (in a company) is an obvious target for privilege escalation (for red teams and hackers), which also sounds plausible and interesting.
But I don't mind, after a few seconds of loading my mistake was obvious.
Like comments? ;)
Longest? Yes, they actually use actual wall clock time. I don't think this metric makes any sense. I don't know about the others, I stopped reading at this point.
The difference is that nowadays people can just skip the research part and copy-paste Llama. No value added.
Serious "hackers" are usually state sponsored now, or members of mature groups.