If you look at this as a one-shot game, sure, but it's not. If everyone votes no the buyout would be rejected and the prospective buyers would have to offer a higher price to get it approved.
The tricky thing is that shareholder voters exhibit very weird and irrational behavior (due to proxies, lobbying, the T Rowe Price craziness, etc.), so I'm not sure game theory is terribly useful to begin with here.
Did you consider simply skipping estimated payments and paying the interest? It's only 3% above the federal funds rate. (Historical real return on equities is usually computed to be higher.)
Or a hybrid (pay a reasonable amount in estimated taxes but don't put any serious effort into getting it exact).
Parent poster is being silly. It's trivial to withold some money for taxes. The pain is in calculating get your 1099 because the stock brokers get it wrong evey year, often more than once .
The stated reason for extending this to phones was so that they could reuse these models for inference purposes. I'm not sure what this post adds to that (the author seems to miss that point).
To be sure, all of science could reorient itself around your mystical drug experiences, but that could take a really long time. Wouldn't it be easier for you to ask those beings the two prime factors of a really big number? That would settle the question quickly enough.
That's only a fair test if ETs have the means of doing so. If they're as stumped by this problem as we are, they'll shrug their tentacles and tell us they're not willing to spend 20 years building a supercomputer capable of factoring large numbers for anything less than a ton of gold-pressed latinum.
And most of them have loopholes big enough to drive a truck through. (See payday loans, title loans, hard money loans, merchant cash advance, etc., etc.)
Earmarking is PR, it has little to no effect on actual education budgets (beyond setting an irrelevant floor). Money is fungible and budgets for education are never actually indexed to revenue from a particular tax.
The tricky thing is that shareholder voters exhibit very weird and irrational behavior (due to proxies, lobbying, the T Rowe Price craziness, etc.), so I'm not sure game theory is terribly useful to begin with here.