The sandwich theorem would normally refer to this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze_theorem

I immediately thought of the ham sandwich theorem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem

Of course, but not by "hanging out outside the venue selling tickets".

So if not seeing them there means the problem is solved, this problem is in fact easy to solve.

The only way that could possibly be true is if the price the scalpers charged was the face price they had to pay.

In that world, there wouldn't be scalpers.

Are you unaware that scalpers are set up to hoover up as many tickets as possible before an actual person that wants to visit the event can get one? Because it seems like you are?

I'm aware. But I'm also aware that in the absence of customers, the scalper's prices will fall to zero.

If the scalper has enough customers that he can sell out the show above the face price of the tickets, the existence of those customers is sufficient to make it "practically impossible to get a ticket at face price" whether the scalper exists or not.

> the issue is that this isn't happening at compile time in Python, because it's not getting compiled ahead-of-time

What are those .pyc files for?

That was the pedantry that they were trying to preempt.

Fun fact: this same process is how Vietnam got its name. Their earlier proposal of Nam Viet had fallen out of use, but still couldn't get approval.

I don't get the relevance of "major cities grew rapidly". That can only mean that demand for wood spiked. There's no way it can cause local wood to become less competitive with imported wood.

It sounds contradictory but it often does. When a part of the economy booms, it may make other parts of the economy less able to keep up because they cannot increase profitability at the same pace (so people will seek jobs with larger salaries, or investments will go different ways). Moreover, increase of demand can drive seeking cheaper sources of a product, which then overtakes the previous ones due to being cheaper (while before this increase due to regulations or lack of certain network/supply chain it may not have been possible or profitable enough to seek these sources).

It does: Cheap rural workers could get better paying jobs in the cities so wages increased in rural areas to

> There's no way it can cause local wood to become less competitive with imported wood.

But isn't that what we're seeing around the world? Be it cheaper labor, political control or whatever else, imported goods can be cheaper than locally produced goods.

Sure, imported goods can be cheaper than locally produced goods. But the locally produced goods don't suffer from the fact that their market is expanding!

If I had to guess - lumber costs might be dominated by labor costs? If they don't have guest worker programs it might not be cost effective anymore as wages go up

It required imported wood come what may, which opened up regulations and economies of scale that would have made importing wood expensive.

When you price in externalities (landslides, replanting, etc.), and others don't is easily turns the scale. Especially if others are selling illegally cut down trees... (Not alleging anybody in this specific case, but have some examples from my closer neighborhood)

Technically, that's only one kind, because it's written in the standard that anything not mentioned in the standard is undefined behavior.

One kind, but two different classes of undefined behaviour.

> I don't think the Chinese had presses like Gutenberg invented. Type was set in a frame, inked, and the paper pressed over the inked type manually.

The Chinese printed extensively, but they didn't emphasize movable type, since it had no real advantages to offer. They did block printing.

> The printing press froze the written German language before natural language evolution had a chance to simplify the declensional system.

If natural language evolution had any tendency to simplify the declensional system, German would have been born with no declensional system. There was plenty of time. That just isn't how language change works.

Data point: Icelandic and Lithuanian are very conservative Indo-European languages; Icelandic and Lithuanian are grammatical nightmares.

Chinese was traditionally written top-to-bottom, and I can see that making it more a matter of taste which hand you painted with.

Today it's always left-to-right, though.