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Restoring my faith in the SN dev team by searching for a cure to the zombie apocalypse.
Posting more frequently than once per eight hours is probably counterproductive...
Date: Fri Oct 31 00:42:15 2025 +0100
Halloween (#2614)
- Show biohazard icon if infected
- Infect users on zap
- @anon as patient zero
I got reminded of the days in which we had to input our own wallets, learn the difference between CCs and sats, and familiarise ourselves with the rules of engagement of a platform unlike no other. Is it any wonder that we like it here?
wait a moment
are you from the future?
thank you for contributing your arguments towards the skeptical side, Tom; and even including the acknowledgement that some of the opposed opinions could someday be considered towards sane complicity with the robopocalypse!
Before I weigh my words against exponentially deflationary discouragement against talking too much for free...
Why did you not use the Poll feature, posting only a Discussion instead?
How about this: calling Knots a DoS is like calling the teaching of English grammar to teenagers an attack against free speech.
DoS is quite a rich accusation; this reminds me of a scene in a scifi book where the protagonist refuses to sell his sword to the owner of a pawnshop, and subsequently discovers that there's an ordnance in the city requiring anyone carrying valuable artefacts to at least entertain offers, rather than declaring them priceless.
Nowhere in any holy scripture or founding document is it written that people who find signed checques on the sidewalk outside the bank must hang on to them until the branch opens and make sure some teller places them in the correct tray for eventual verification.
After peaking at sixteen by rediscovering some absurdly profound intuitive overinterpretation1 of the most abstruse theoretical principle2 while feeling sorry for myself after sleeping through my morning alarm enough times to not even bother showing up for AP Physics3, I began deliberately cultivating the habit of wasting neither energy on perfecting skills beyond practicality, nor resources on causes beyond salvation.
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the best intuitive description of anything close to it was published about a decade before my gloomy revelations, in Ted Chiang's infamous Story of Your Life ↩
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there's aready the predictably encyclopedic article about the practical mathematical technique for attacking the various forms this principle takes in different physical theories, although it doesn't touch upon any of the metaphysics that crystallise the intuition. ↩
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I ended up dropping the course, probably for the best; studying physics in the university, after semesters of calculus, also at the university, was still eventually possible. ↩
You are assuming humans are evolved far beyond where they actually are, and your inability to engage in respectful reasoned dialogue and debate are proof of that.
You're guessing my interpretations of human morality and evolution from, what, fifty kilobytes of text rambled out in the weird hours of a life you probably don't know much about?
That one line of yours has won you my personal derision, and I should probably save up the efforts to have respectful dialogue with people who don't think their telepathy works as well as yours apparently tells you.
please consider paying separate fees per question; if you're worried about the exponential blowup, save the drafted questions in some file on your computer, preferably on the desktop where you'll remember what drafts you didn't post yesterday next time you boot up.
Thank you for sharing this.
I think lots of people don't realise all the additional benefits of worrying about accessibility; they might think it requires extra costs because they only think about their own time spent learning, and completely miss considerations like the ludicrously high power requirements of the modern media fashions.
Reducing the power requirements of your communications benefits everyone, regardless of whether they suffer from any recognized disabilities...
In this case, I'd probably name the SN post something different than the article, especially considering that the entire original title fits within the link and would thus still be visible in the resulting page.
whether the moneyness of the zaps really matters. That is, does it matter that zaps are real money? Or would users be responsive to these micro-incentives even if they were just points on a scoreboard? (i.e. Reddit reputation, etc.) It's plausible that they moneyness doesn't matter, and that people treat SN as a game to earn points. But it's also plausible (and more likely) that the moneyness does matter. This may be hard to test
is any of the data about CCs vs Sats publicly readable?
Governments are the primary drivers of the wealth of nations.
Setting aside the quoted hilarious tautology; most of what you wrote is an overgeneralisation. Modern "government" lumps together lots of different organizations, and part of the neverending effort of participating in politics as a libertarian, rather than just darthing out into the wilderness, is to privatise or "factor apart" the monolithic structures into ones that are both less mutually dependent and easier for individuals to navigate.
In many cases, corruption is synonymous with lack of transparency.
Let's take the document renewal example; if that excuse were true, and someone showed up with money [or even the raw materials], and were given priority in the line, would people still scream corruption? They definitely would, if there was no explanation given of why someone suddenly got serviced out of turn.
In your specific case, the increased transparency [given by your explanation] shows that "corruption" is too general a term, and the specific social force at play here was nepotism. While nepotism definitely doesn't explain away all instances of corruption, it is a much older and more fundamental social force than financial bribery, and might help show that the various forms of corruption are probably older than history and maybe also older than money.
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