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by level3 11y ago
Your analogy is clouded by emotion, since it appeals to the notion that we shouldn't be able to pick some arbitrary number and then be able to compare the quality of universes. Comparison of universes is multifaceted, so it seems nonse
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by level3 11y ago
The whole point of picking a value for R is that it essentially transforms the game from "guess whether A is smaller or larger than B" to "guess a number between A and B." Regardless of how A and B are chosen, if your R
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by level3 11y ago
Few comments are about the solving because few commenters are actually cubers. If you look at discussions of this on actual cubing forums, then you'll see that the differences between competitors are actually significant. Edit: As a di
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by level3 11y ago
I believe WCA officially uses StackMats for the timing. Timer starts when you lift your hands from the touch pads and stops when you return them to the pads. This isn't perfect either but it doesn't rely on someone else's rea
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by level3 11y ago
The two records were actually on different scrambles (i.e. different initial states). It's one thing if there was a particular scramble that everyone was solving faster than usual, but that wasn't the case here.
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by level3 11y ago
You hit the nail on the head here. In particular the points about changing the English text and about different contexts resulting in different translations. I also feel that the gettext approach assumes everyone speaks the same base langua
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by level3 11y ago
It seems like the foreigner residence cards are only superficially similar. For example, the ID number on the residence card is not a permanent identifier over your lifetime (your number will change when you renew your card). In general, th
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by level3 11y ago
The main difference is that the My Number system is basically the equivalent of a U.S. Social Security Number, in the sense that the number will be potentially integrated with things like taxes, pension, bank accounts, health records, etc.
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by level3 11y ago
That makes sense. I'm probably underestimating the amount of cycles saved by your swap method.
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by level3 11y ago
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by level3 11y ago
Very interesting! But I don't quite see why you need to bother with tracking pieces and swapping them. Can't you just go by the convention that pawn 0 is the first pawn you find when scanning across from a1 to h8, pawn 1 is the se