Forty years ago, a Soviet officer named Stanislav Petrov did not wipe out the human population. Please join us this Saturday to acknowledge the importance of not causing nuclear holocausts, and reflect on the fragility of life. Also to hang out and eat food and just general fun social-gathering things.
Please RSVP so we know how much food to get
Details:
When - Saturday, October 1st, starting at 3pm, until approximately 7pm-ish. The official ceremony will be sometime between 6pm and 7pm
Where - 660 S Lakeside Drive, Raleigh (google maps)
Who - If you're reading this invitation, you're invited. This includes people who haven't attended a meetup before
What - A party at Wil's house. Food will be... (read more)
All are welcome! And there's free pizza :D
This meetup cancelled due to someone pressing the red button at our Petrov Day event. Regular meetings resume next week.
Join us at Ponysaurus in Durham for free pizza and good conversation
This is the megameetup/schelling point meetup/"meetups everywhere" meetup, so we expect a crowd
The question is ill founded. You can in fact recover all of the information about log x from its Taylor series. I think TurnTrout is confused maybe because the Taylor series only converges on a certain interval, not globally? I'll answer the question assuming that's the confusion.
If you know all the derivatives of log x at x=1, but you know nothing else about log x, then you can find a Taylor series that converges on (0,2). But, given the Taylor series, you now also know all the derivatives at x=1.9. Writing a Taylor series centered at 1.9, you get a series that converges on (0,3.8).... (read more)
The idea that the landlord has to make payments to the bank (mortgages and debt payments) is ostensibly fixed by lowered interest rates and bailouts, same as any other business who has lost their revenue stream.
The question is whether landlords are considered essential or non-essential businesses. If they are essential, like grocery stores, then we need to make sure they continue to function. If they are non-essential, like barbers, then they should go into stasis and take government money/loans to service any overhead they absolutely can't shut off (like the barbers should be doing). The confusion is because shelter is essential, but landlords don't actually provide shelter (they only steal shelter from those who can't pay). Landlords can go into stasis like a barber and yet keep providing their essential goods like a grocery store. This logic proves too much, since I've never understood why we permit landlords to charge so much money without providing any services that I can discern, so I retreat to Chesterton's Fence.
I'm just commenting to make sure the person who RSVP'd is alerted to the cancellation.
Hope this isn't too inconvenient, and hope to see you next week. (It's possible people are going anyways, maybe check the Discord.)