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Let's not forget this was the general sentiment pre WWI and WWII...

Cool, I am indeed interested. I read Aaronson's "Quantum Computing Since Democritus" and enjoyed it, but that's the only source I read concerning computational complexity.

Yes! I read a great comment here (I forgot by whom) that said something like

    It's hard enough to prove that a computer program will
    actually *do* something, forget about proving what the
    program *will not* do.

He was arguing against the idea that Turing complete languages should be used in smart contracts. The person mentioned that it's not trivial to even assign a complexity category to the question asked, let alone getting an answer (if you can).

Well if there is a bug in the Ethereum software itself, it would be different. In the sense that miners could decide which branch they want. To be honest they could do this with the current proposed forks as well.

The huuuge problem I see here is that it is the Ethereum Foundation, and Vitalik Buterin himself, who are proposing the fork as a remedy. They should simply say "well duh, fire burns."

    assuming the entirety of centuries of civilization has no
    clue what they were doing

This is a common assumption in these circles, unfortunately.

It's a complete aberration that the Ethereum Foundation is even considering pushing a fork (hard or soft). There will be a fork, that is people leaving "Ethereum" for its new shiny successor.

If you want the protection of a big brother, why not invest in the regular stock market? Lots of neophytes trying to get rich quick are now crying for help after realizing they made a mistake. It's really touching.

I wouldn't call it 'little-known', it's become quite "famous" in my academic circles at least.

Just make sure you look up the DOI on libgen.

Yes, absolutely. But that's the trick, we don't know :)

I really want to try modafinil again. I had two tablets over three days: half, half and whole. I could not see a difference between half dosage and whole dosage (200 mg). I couldn't figure out what the effects were, either. Until about the end of the week, when I realized I hadn't taken a sip of coffee in three whole days! That was pretty unusual for me.

What kind of welfare/poor are we talking about here? How much money do you make in a month on welfare?