[tomalpha]

The yahoo link you reference in [1] notes “All numbers in thousands”

I think you might be off by 3 orders of magnitude and google could “afford” to pay every homeless person a thousand times more than you’re suggesting.

I further think that undermines your argument about the problem being fundamentally intractable due to the scale.

[johnsonjo]

That is true it says all numbers in thousands also I noticed I accidentally was on years and not quarters. So 11k a month for example is the new number for a good year [1] and 5k a month is the example for a bad year [2]. So yes now it seems more tractable than it was before, but my argument was just supposed to show one reason why it was intractable there could be many other reasons, though my argument fell flat for that one reason there are still many other reasons it could be intractable.

So the question still remains is it tractable? The answer given my above argument is still up in the air, because the honest truth is there are many underlying assumptions in my argument so again it doesn’t really say much about it being tractable. It was only trying to say it was intractable which again it fell short of doing. For example in the per month. After Google dumps all or even some of their profit into that for even one month it is somehow going to still reach the same profit margins the next month the proof for that is up to someone trying to prove it’s tractable. There are too many other variables like this that exist and it really needs a much bigger burden to show that something like that is tractable.

[1]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2870+billion+%2F+12%29... [2]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2830+billion+%2F+12%29...