George Rebane
Happy St Pat’s day to all even if you’re not Irish!
Wrong answer to an interview puzzle. The website Medium regularly publishes math puzzles that it lifts from entrance tests for various university STEM programs and some supposedly given to applicants during their interviews. Here is a treasure hunt problem that requires some noodling about the given solution that unfortunately is wrong. Can you figure out why the presented solution will not work, and provide an alternative that has a chance of working or show why no feasible solution exists?
RR reader (scenes 810am in the 8mar25 Sandbox) gives us a timely reminder. “The US Left appears to be fueled by good-boy points, mobs built on top of upvotes and praise from within the group. I wonder if a Nazi operated that way? Probably. Scrabbling for acceptance is a strange thing. The whole point of shouting with signs is group solidarity, not convincing others.” (emphasis mine) It is, of course, hopeless to tell anyone on the Left that their “shouting with signs” will convince anyone else save the talking head idiots on CNN, MSNBC, et al.
[18mar25 update] Naifs Propaganda Radio. We wake up to NPR’s local CapRadio (KXJZ 90.9FM) news to get the spin from the other side. NPR is one of the acknowledged leftwing lamestream national news outlets. They are currently having their spring pledge drive in which they feature sound bite testimonials from listeners about how much they all love CapRadio because it is there that they can get their “unbiased news”. These little endorsements are broadcast throughout the day and again attest that the Democrats’ constituency is made up of people ignorant or terminally naïve.
[22mar25 update] RR reader and commenter Barry Pruett writes ‘Reliance on government: a reflection of distrust in humanity’ in the 21mar25 Union. It’s an excellent piece worth your read. In it Barry compares and contrasts the performance of government vs the private sector in ministering to the needy. And in the argument establishes how dependence on government to fulfill such social needs gives rise to and maintains “an implicit lack of faith in humanity’s ability to care for itself.”
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