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Structure is not entropy though unless I am missing what you are saying. The arrangement of macro level objects like a supercluster has less to do with entropy and more to do with …

I was thinking about this the other day actually and I believe consciousness serves a higher purpose. If you think about it without any consciousness in the universe, nothing would…

Entropy IS always increasing. Water is always gonna flow downhill. Its not possible to go from maximally ordered to even more ordered, except in some kind of highly localized pheno…

Also the didn't the human team have full control over what characters were used? Doesn't say much that the bots weren't able to strategize late game when they weren't allowed to pi…

It's not about stealing jobs it's about jobs offering less compensation and benefits than what they would normally because they can exploit the inherent risks of immigrating to loc…

You'd be surprised how much overhead a compiler adds even for something like C. Also you can do things in pure assembly that you just can't do in C (w/o inlining assembly haha).

Exactly just think about the current platform this comment is hosted on. There's no reason hacker news couldn't function as a decentralized platform. In fact it pretty much does co…

Reagan Youth and Dave Rubinstein come to mind as well.

Orange County (if that zoning bill ever gets passed), Austin, Salt Lake City? Probably Portland.

But its not really a social network...BBSs were/are great too! Plus BBs let you actually manage content versus just chat and link. IRC is great and always will be but a social netw…

Nor does alcohol mix well with heavy machinery, but just because someone may drink alcohol at some point in the future doesn't mean they will before they operate deadly machinery. …

I wonder how a combination of aggressive immunotherapy and "sickness" counteracting effects of cannabis (for the nausea, fever, sweating) would do in making the immunothrerapy more…

I was thinking the other day. What if there was a browser extension that pulled in reddit/subreddit comment threads a la Alientube for the site or article you were viewing/searchin…