I think it's best if I first clarify what I am proposing, what I think it might solve, and then how I feel the problems you raise may be voided. First, the problem I see which this idea would seek to solve is the problem that large differences in spending on sides of a case will inevitably lead to differences in the quality of the evidence and research that can be done on either side leading to the law not being fair. I believe wholeheartedly and very strongly that the law should be fair and everyone equal under it. The premise upon which my plan provides a fairness I feel from what I have heard is currently missing from the legal profession, is that it is far cheaper to find the truth than produce a lie. This is based on examples I imagine such as to report a document is cheap while generating a fraudulent one which is statistically consistent is expensive. The premise is that: “To build a convincing lie is expensive.” Based on this premise I postulate that if both sides have eq...

There are two thoughts here one is the thinking around the Bugzy Malone song about the gangster who shot his mother. The idea which isn’t well known but was mentioned in algorithms to live by about the idea that violence allows for less violence. It goes against the idea of violence begets violence. It is also mentioned in poverty safari. This is linked to the idea that perhaps there is a way to make small use of the legal system more accessible. A lot of petty violence happens from escalations of unresolved disputes. Waiting for a digital legal system is clearly not something that will help people in the near future. Even with large elements of legal discovery being automated law is still a very manual field. What if you could design a system which allows for automated conflict resolution but that would fit inside the existing manual legal systems. Clearly, this would only work for civil cases criminal cases would have to be left to the system proper. The idea I have for an automated ...

 There are a lot of engineering calculators out there and when the problem I'm dealing with isn't a simple product of units (for which I use wolfram alpha) I make good use of them. However, I recently came across a problem for which I struggled to calculate an answer and for which I struggled to find calculators. Given a reservoir of height h how thick a pipe is required to extract P power. The energy in the water is a simple calculation that comes from mgh (mass times acceleration due to gravity (9.81m/s^2) times the height the mass is raised). However, we don't want to take the whole reservoir we simply want to power something. Water through a pipe travels as a result of pressure differences between the ends of the pipe. Water pressure at a depth is independent of the total volume of water and is the same at the sides of a given depth as it is forcing downwards. This can be calculated by working out the weight of the water atop an area at a depth. The wight of a volume of...

  One of the benefits of Elon Musks' Starlink space internet is that it provides a lower-latency connection between points on earth. It does this because the speed of light in a vacuum is faster than the speed of light in fibre and so even though the beams have to travel slightly further* they travel that distance faster. Although this is great for long-distance zoom chats the real financial benefit of this is to high-frequency traders who make a living from the small arbitrage opportunities that exist between geographically separate exchanges. To that end, I conjecture that not long after the public release of Starlink and its proven utility to high-frequency traders, those trading firms will start to deploy their algorithms to servers in orbit. Why? To lower the latency. If the algorithm doesn’t need to send the signal to space before it executes then it can receive the signals from both exchanges in L/2 and after deciding to trade send the trading request at L/2 leading to a bli...

 I recently came across the following script which can be added in a gadget to remove the links from comments so that I don't have to monitor the comments and can instead let people comment without linking back to their site.

I have recently discovered that room temperature superconductors are a thing, just at a stupidly high pressure. This led me to the idea of what if you could create a vessel that could contain such a pressure. This should be a simple scaling up, for example an aluminium pipe with an internal cross sectional area of 1m^2 could hold the pressure required for a hydrogen sulphide superconductor if the outer diameter was on the order 20m. That is a very thick wall but the superconducting ability of the internal superconductor would allow for some really interesting projects. One of which comes to mind is the idea of a ring around the 50th parallel connecting a lot of the world's population to a shareable power source. That way when the wind blows in one location, or the sun shines in another, unwindy or nightly places can still get power. How much would this cost to build at current aluminium prices, only a couple trillion per ring. Given the ability to arbitrage solar energy prices betw...

 I like to use VIM as my editor. Alongside VIM I use TMUX to be able to have my preferred, keyboard-only setup (with the exception of googling for things which I haven't worked out how to do in the terminal yet). I have found that rather than the default prefix of ctrl+b for tmux commands I prefer to use the backtick or grave. The problem is this isn't always in the top left as it is on standard keyboards. On my MacBook keyboard for example its in the bottom left (not as easy a place to reliably hit) and it doesn't exist on my 75 key mechanical keyboard. This is fine, most of the time I remap escape on my mechanical keyboard to backtick and capslock to escape (This was the original location of escape when vim was first conceived). When using things in vim I can always use the tilda to convert a long set of lowercase to uppercase if needed so the capslock is an underused key when compared to how often I end up using backtick. The remapping on my Chromebook was rather simple,...