"Minor form of tyrannical government" sounds like an oxymoron to me :) In general, though, indeed - completely unregulated systems are typically less efficient than systems with some form of

The path to clarity and enlightenment lies through thick fog of confusion!

Yes, you can do the same in OpenOffice as well. Go to Tools ⇒ Macros ⇒ Organize Macros ⇒ OpenOffice Basic..., create a new module under your current document, and paste the following, slightly modified,

I did not understand the question, but feel free to ask for specific advice here, for example.

That's for you to figure out :)

Thanks for the appreciation!

Yes, this is Python (take note of the main category of this post ;) You may do similar kinds of things in R as well, however if you are just starting to get acquainted with the field and have the luxury

Thanks for the positive feedback! Feel free to resteem if you believe the post could benefit from additional exposure :)

Of course you can also add logic to recalculate the sheet automatically at regular intervals. One way to do this could be to add a new module with, for example, the following code: Private Running As Boolean

Yes, on an abstract level it is correct as well, although you kind-of loose all of the technical magic and some concepts do not fit this intuition (e.g. you can encrypt a message with someone's public

Thanks for the kind feedback! The concept of private and public keys was indeed left out of the exposition here, as it is a slightly separate topic and covering it would make the text too messy and

The code is written using Jupyter notebook. It is not a "GUI" in the conventional sense. It is an interactive shell.

This is a sophism, i.e. a seemingly reasonable proof of a wrong statement (check other sophisms in the series to see what I mean). So, don't take it too seriously. Although this particular sophism is humorous,

All the diagrams are produced by the presented Python code. Demonstrating all the steps necessary for producing these diagrams is the whole point of this article series, after all.

Of course, Steemit does not care for who is active and who is not. The plot of cumulative inactivity would be interesting. If no one cares to make one earlier, I'll add it to the next post in the series.

As I mentioned in another comment here, a "dead fish" account is not necessarily "dead", it just has been inactive for 7 days. Most of them are probably totally live, just on a small

To get started with the code you need to install Anaconda Python as well as the pymssql package. The notebooks themselves should work on any OS. If you finished the codeacademy Python course, your next

I see. That makes sense. Let me update the post a bit.

The "dead fish" classification is a fairly arbitrary choice of the steemitboard site. From the perspective of the "raw blockchain" all accounts are equally good, of course, and in practice

The text of this blog post uses 66 different characters (excluding spaces). Its total length is 5161. The total number of occurrences of the most frequent 14 characters is 4137. In other words, 14/66=21%