>Fifty-three percent of adults report that grocery expenses are a major source of stress

What an absolute embarrassment. Income inequality will lead to societal collapse

So by your logic we should consider lowering the minimum wage in order to ensure employment.

Employment is not a means in itself, the point of being employed is to "make a living". If a job cannot sustain a person then it should not exist.

People deserve to live with dignity, earning a living wage.

>People deserve to live with dignity, earning a living wage.

Look, I get where that is coming from. But no one deserves anything, even clean air. Instead, you pay for things with other things (e.g. clean air in exhchange for slightly more expensive cars).

A (shitty) job is better than no job. Minimum wage should be lowered. You gotta help people with something else. For instance by allowing to build higher density housing.

> But no one deserves anything, even clean air. People 100% deserve clean air?

US != The World.

This analysis fails to realise that there are simply other countries with which to trade with.

Well a counter argument would be, how would you know if anything is changed? If you're not part of the editors for a newsrooms how would you know which stories are cut and which make the broadcast?

I think people are interested in local news, so the gap will certainly be replaced but by monied interests, e.g. Sinclair [1] or similar. Who will promote their narrative and further polarize the information landscape.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

When comparing two ciphertexts A,B a FHE sorting function will output a sorted pair of two new ciphertexts:

E.g. FHE_SORT(A,B) -> (X,Y)

where Dec(X)<Dec(Y)

But without decoding, there's no way of knowing whether X (or Y) comes from A or B.

Source: II. D of https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/995.pdf

It’s not that simple. The client has to send the server the comparison function.

To do anything practical the server usually needs to provide the client with gigabytes of per-client-key encrypted seed data.

What do you mean by homomorphic compression?

Given that the operations you can execute on the ciphertext are Turing complete (it suffices to show that we can do addition and multiplication) then it follows that any conceivable computation can be performed on the ciphertext.

Oh this is outside the context of encryption. My curiosity was, is there such a compression function that permits operations on the compressed data without first decompressing it?

One that is kind of in this spirit is that you can describe sparse matrices by omitting all the zeros and only describe the indices that have data. In this compression you can still perform normal matrix operations without having to unpack them into the “normal form”. Now this is neither encryption nor a particularly interesting compression, but it does prove that it is possible in principle ;p

Interesting! Can you provide some sources for this claim?

What makes you say that?

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