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It's because of the sybil problem. If accounts are globally unique, then a bad actor can register as many accounts as they want, and can do things like e.g. reserve other people's …

Relativity already has the inability to distinguish between past and future states built in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity I have no idea how 2D time wou…

The conscious part of that system is the interpretation, not the bar itself. You have skipped directly over the observer, who is actually performing the conscious computation. Thin…

I like Scott Aaronson's response[1] to the argument: > So, class, how might a strong AI proponent respond to this argument? Duh: you might not understand Chinese, but the rule book…

xkcd did a What-If on this: https://what-if.xkcd.com/146/ TL;DR: It will not happen. You would need to throw on the order of a thousand Earth-masses to even get close to neutralizi…

27/30. You can tell the AI ones because they don't look like they were made with the same constraints as a human; they merge, distort, twist together lines, shapes, and colors, rat…

> xp I always thought the fact that Vim had automatic buffer copying and forced me to use "0p instead of p was really annoying. Looks like there is an actual reason for it after al…

My life may not be the most important time to other people, but it is the most important time to me. Importance is relative.

Infinite loops are considered undefined behaviour in C++.

For JSON pretty printing I generally use jq (`cat foo.json | jq`). It highlights and indents the output, and it's easy to add a filter.

Who's "people"? The state? A democratic vote? The individual? The problem with mosquito-borne diseases is that they're non-consensual. People have a right to live without mosquito-…

Well, if we're being pedantic here, raw RGB video as would be displayed on a RGB monitor does indeed take 3 bytes per pixel. Technically, YUV is either an optimization or a backwar…

Yeah, but the problem is that some doctors are not capable of doing things of this sort safely, and thus doctor regulations happen. There are definitely unnecessary regulations out…

> then they are taking real resources from actual humans. But who is "they"? If you copied them 10 times, it's not like they act as a collective; there are 10 unique instances havi…

Slightly OT, but if you want an official word for "USAn", you can try using "usonian".

So then I suppose the Earth flag will be for the people who are willing to share the Earth, and the non-Earth flags can be for those who do not wish to share.

Whether this specific problem is intentional or not, these kinds of problems show the issue with using a single centralized service for distribution of third-party dependencies. Bu…