Anderkent

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1021.
by Anderkent 15y ago
Did you lose your house? If not, then I don't see the issue - I saw your house, copied it, now we both have one.
1022.
by Anderkent 15y ago
I decided not buy a coffee this morning. I've deprived the owner of his potential earnings! Must be stealing.
1023.
by Anderkent 15y ago
If I write random bits to a file and it turns out to be a Star Wars movie, did I steal it?
1024.
by Anderkent 15y ago
How would an internet-related act protect anything from any thief?
1025.
by Anderkent 15y ago
In a trade between freedom of information and Transformers 3 I will choose the freedom.
1026.
by Anderkent 15y ago
>"if guns were banned, then gun violence would go down!". No, it wouldn't. Those outside the law would get them in the black market, and those of us that abide to the rule of law would lose a valuable weapon (no pun intended). How does
1027.
by Anderkent 15y ago
From what I remember from physics lessons, going with more elementary particles might be possible eventually, but not in any foreseeable future - (most/some) atoms are fairly stable by themselves, while keeping a hadron-based structure stab
1028.
by Anderkent 15y ago
Do you actively not want to be happy, or just not really care about attaining happiness? This is personally interesting to me. I do not think I am depressed, but I find I do not care much about being happy. I admit the experience is pleasan
1029.
by Anderkent 15y ago
It would be a self-discipline problem if the affected people were showing less self-discipline than others. The author is saying that a rich person (that does not currently have the self-discipline problem) put into this situation would beh
1030.
by Anderkent 15y ago
Or you could choose a sane interpretation that does not require amendment every time a larger object is shown 'entanglible', but still preserves locality? See macroscopic decoherence.
1031.
by Anderkent 15y ago
Questioning a speaker’s motives is not only not a fallacy, it is a sign of healthy debate. No. If someone is wrong, you should point out how he is wrong, not question his motives for presenting the statement. His motives might be corrupt.
1032.
by Anderkent 15y ago
Alt-tab works, but alt-shift-tab does not - or at least did not work for me when I upgraded. Not wanting to waste time looking for a workaround, I just reverted to my backup and forgot about Unity.
1033.
by Anderkent 15y ago
That's a really weird way to draw a decision graph.
1034.
by Anderkent 15y ago
That's weird - works for me. Here's a cached copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jvGUABA...
1035.
by Anderkent 15y ago
Probably was supposed to be $10-15 on albums, since it's preceded by "I don't spend that much".
1036.
by Anderkent 15y ago
Or, you know, make the tax code simpler so that there is less room to game the system?
1037.
by Anderkent 15y ago
I was surprised The Star Diaries were not mentioned here. Definitely a recommended read.
1038.
by Anderkent 15y ago
The issue with using quotes is that Carrier IQ would just claim they are out of context and dismiss his findings thus. By posting the unmodified manuals everyone can verify it easily.
1039.
by Anderkent 15y ago
That part is not mysterious either - the collapse simply doesn't occur. Say you have a photon in a superposition of state A and state B - think position. If it is in state A it hits a detector, if it is in state B it does not. If the detect
1040.
by Anderkent 15y ago
That is very wrong. A particle doesn't 'know' it is being observed. However, when it interacts with other particles, the new state of both particles depends on the old states of both particles. For a better explanation than I could possibly
1041.
by Anderkent 15y ago
As many classical metaphors for quantum mechanics, your explanation is intuitive, convincing, and demonstrably wrong. There is simply no way to describe the underlying mechanisms of this world using classical physics. However, since our bra
1042.
by Anderkent 15y ago
MINOS is already working on reproducing it (see article), and if they succeed it will be strong evidence that we're looking at something new.
1043.
by Anderkent 15y ago
for example, someone could use the new system without installing anything, by trusting a Namecoin resolving server It is already possible - http://dot-bit.org/HowToBrowseBitDomains#Replace_your_DNS_se... . There are two traditional DNS
1044.
by Anderkent 15y ago
Many people play football without any hope for making money of it. Why does the fact that someone somewhere makes money from it matter?