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by akg0 15y ago
In advance, sorry about the late reply. > The hardness of the n-body problem isn't necessarily an expression of fundamental randomness rather than technical uncertainty. But one way or another, aren't they both an expression of the same
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by akg0 15y ago
How is the system in an unstoppable slide towards feudalism? Is this the same feudalism I studied in European History, with the land-holders and vassals and all? If not, why are you using that word?
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by akg0 15y ago
I don't see how. "Not predictable given what I've observed so far" is a long way from "not predictable".
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by akg0 15y ago
It's an observation about the universe. Yes, things about the size of his brain appear to to have deterministic behavior, but so do mountains, oceans, moons, planets and stars - which are, needless to say, nowhere near the size of his brain
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by akg0 15y ago
No - my point is that RMS isn't.
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by akg0 15y ago
I don't think it was anywhere near offensive, but once people start loudly complaining about how offended they are, the conversation inevitably focuses on their feelings instead of our freedoms. In the end, they will win. Either RMS will
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by akg0 15y ago
First, non-determinism would have to be demonstrated.
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by akg0 15y ago
> Instead of being a 35 billion dollar company, they'd be a 3.5 million dollar company. So if I'd said 100,000 servers, you'd argue that Oracle would be a $350,000 company, with maybe two employees? Heaven forbid they be 8-core servers
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by akg0 15y ago
> One answer is to say "they wouldn't!". From there, you have to ask: would they still create? Probably, yes, but in a much more limited way. We're already limited by IP. The proposition of IP is that the best way to encourage people
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by akg0 15y ago
Because you can cancel your service.
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by akg0 15y ago
I did look at the readme. The client-side issue isn't a real problem. The fact that it's easy for computers to solve, on the other hand... I get that it's a proof of concept, but it's a concept that doesn't work . You can't make recognizin
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by akg0 15y ago
Hell, in it's current form it's entirely client-side; hardly seems like it should even count as a CAPTCHA. $(form).attr("action", $("#mc-action").val()) and you're done. Even with server-side validation, it's still trivial to break; it only