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It's been a bit over a year for me, otherwise this would be the answer.

Oh my god, that's amazing. I'm getting on something that can be rooted posthaste, but in the meanwhile...

Mentally make the background foreground, if you can, so the bottom corners are something like legs.

I’m not sure what you mean about the sombrero potential only being partially observed. It is a principle only, and you could observe it fully by simply making a sombrero shape and putting a ball in the middle and observing how it falls multiple times.

You can see the model do that, but not the actual quantum fields. The transition is supposed to have happened irreversibly once in the instants following the big bang.

The difference is that supply & demand is presented as a foundational and ubiquitous law to high-school students, whereas the sombrero potential is presented honestly.

It was never taught where I went, but that could be. High school teachers should knock it off, if so. It seems to work exactly as theorised in most sectors, bulk commodities being a common example, but there's definitely other sectors that are broken, some of which I mentioned.

I'm a fan of regulation to address that. So are both orthodox and most heterodox schools, to various degrees.

Either they don’t exist, or your story about that isn’t complete.

I'm sure someone is dumb enough to try it, but I'm actually not convinced it's widespread. In Canada, we literally just don't have enough houses for a first-world nation of our population - which has been measured - and all of our tradespeople are swamped. (Sorry if I brought that up already, this has been a long-running thread)

However I’ve never heard of a scientific discipline where there is an “orthodox” school, except in economics. It’s the orthodox school that I have a problem with. Supply & demand is just emblematic of that issue.

Hmm, now that is a good point. There's various small offshoots of anthropology and psychology, some of which are questionable (there's people that still use Freud), but nobody really divides it up like that. Alright, you've sold me on economics probably having especially bad lab politics.

Well, not by that name. There's other sorts of legal agreements for shared buildings, though. People complain about condo boards up here too, but it sounds like the American HOA is particularly nasty. I don't know why.

Yes, this is the unappreciated other end of shitty small-scale power tripping. Normal people don't want to do jobs like internet moderator or HOA president, because nobody appreciates them and it's boring. So, people who get a different kind of value out of it take their place, and around we go.

I've heard it's actually more comfortable in really hot conditions. If its metal, the whole thing can be a cold spot I guess.

Anyway, I'd like to flex about all the rough sleeping I've done. It's not usually braggable.

Yes, when bootstrapping, tuck in your bootstraps.

To add a bit of detail, it comes down to circles being nice, simple geometric objects, and an assembly of metal with contact points being capable of way more accuracy than you'd first expect.

Bootstrapping the first lathe is harder; most likely some historical elite master craftsman was able to make one freehand, and future ones derived from it. We still have the one Vaucanson made that way, although it sounds like it was a one-off. David Gingery wrote a book on the topic, but he still assumes you have a power drill and a ready-made threaded rod.

Yeah, it would be hard to get a vote that the sky is blue by 96%.

Boeings that don't get built are safer.

Smelting metal (as opposed to just heating already refined metal) is a non-average skillset, though, and knapping is quite hard to master.

Fun fact, some cultures don't use pillows, and instead have carefully shaped head stands.