anonytrary

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   by anonytrary 9y ago

   You speak as if a human being shown Pacman for the first time and figuring out the controls doesn't require a ton of data. There's so much data that goes into that. You have tens of billions of photons entering your eye during tha
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   by anonytrary 9y ago

   Yeah the aesthetic argument is one I can't really argue against. I also like cemeteries for aesthetic reasons, but there's no reason why we couldn't preserve a forest and then plant monuments there, followed by cremation. Are
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   by anonytrary 9y ago

   Human death is an industry and cemeteries are some of the players. Cemeteries would be obsolete if all humans had evolved the habit of cremation instead of isolated burial. Cremation costs zero units of space, isolated burial costs a finite
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   by anonytrary 9y ago

   It has to do with the combinations of states in the observable you are measuring (in the photon polarization example above, it would be spin or angular momentum). You have to have some way of setting up the system in the entangled state tha
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   by anonytrary 9y ago

   Yes it is, it's up to the people (i.e. the crowd) whether or not they want to crowdfund something. Free market should do the rest.
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   by anonytrary 9y ago

   I would go further and say 3b is an order of magnitude too large. Bots aside, If there are only 3 accounts per user, our estimate is at 1b. Now, we take into account malicious agents like bots and spammers, easily carrying a bloat factor of