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Ah, Hm. So you did get what i was suggesting, though? The idea was that maybe you could think of particles exactly the same way as you do orbiting planets that eventually return to an original configuration. I am saying you could (possibly) think of entangled particles as kind of like billiard balls. You wouldn't think about bouncing balls, though, you would think about particles and the guaranteed force between them. The thought is that if the universe is just a wave system, then if you take all nondeterminism out of it, it's just gonna loop forever right? I mean if we think about gravity and basic bodies, like a universe of just two bodies, it's just gonna loop i think. The particles will eventually end up where they started, just like a pool table.

So maybe if two particles are entangled, they phased together in some way at one time and must phase together in that way until the end of time, unless you bump it wrong again.

I dunno.

I don't know much about entanglement, but does this now explain why it happens? If we think of the universe eventually returning to some kind of steady state (i'm not sure precisely what i mean by steady state), and if there are certain limited ways for two 'entangled' particles to 'reunify' (again, i don't know much but i'm assuming in some final state everything would cancel out), then wouldn't it make sense that we can only see these particles in specific restricted states?

I think it works out fine here. You have one path through all lives, you can't be adam and eve at the same time but you can interact with yourself as either of them at some point in your path. Of course i think original sin should come pretty early in your path ;)

Yes, discussing yesterday, exactly. I missed that discussion when it was gone.

The point is the same whether you were joking about addiction or not. Preemptive forced action based on subjective reason like labeling makes for unwarranted control of human beings by other human beings or systems. I can just imagine a set of RAS checkboxes similar to stop and frisk for mental illness and homelessness. None of these are ok and the fact that we are supporting systems like this means we are headed backwards instead of forwards.

Harming others is a separate issue and is always a problem.

Sounds like a possible psychological issue. This might lead to a problem for society. We might want to get you some preventive treatment for that before you have a chance of harming someone. Do you think prison might work well here?

Going out on a limb here because this does not make sense to me either. But maybe this has something to do with the fact that the valley built all of the software used to support this, quietly invested in it all in 2010 for undisclosed amounts at least in the tens of billions and approaching or exceeding 100 billion, and the money doesn't want it on the front page of one of the most popular news sites?

By money i mean this money that keeps its actions shadier than the NSA: https://angel.co/emc https://angel.co/emc-ventures

Why is this on the second page of news right now? Older stories with way fewer points are currently ranked higher. This story is 22 hours old with 1495 points. There are stories with 264 and 305 points that are older but are currently ranked just higher than this story, moving it to the second page of news

Stop "Stop Xing" everything

It's also possible (more likely?) that life on any nearby planet discovered would just be a failed attempt of our own. If this is the case, then its discovery would actually be good news, it would mean we can continue in the face of catastrophe. I don't think the author touches on that.

We already know of at least one catastrophe we are rebuilding from, there's also no reason to think we weren't already rebuilding from earlier (possibly much larger) catastrophes.

Following this, there's nothing to say that we haven't already had some major effect on our surroundings (intentional or not) in some previous, possibly more complex or larger-scale growth. Our influence on our surroundings could be huge. Lack of life or anything that seems anomalous in our immediate vicinity could be our own doing. A seeming lack of evidence for this might be explained by scale, or the nature of the catastrophe, or (if it was intentional) by design.

Yes, which 'rock' (point of origin) did the first human-scale single-celled organism on earth launch from? In this line of thought, the fact that we got off of that rock, grew into the ecosystem that we are today, and are now well on our way to doing it again is hopeful in itself.

Also, when thinking about this, i don't think we should discount the possibility that we have already discovered and merged with other forms of life, especially during explosive growth periods over previously uncharted territory. Maybe some forms of life we know of today were actually independent in origin.

But i definitely like this kind of intelligent design by self angle more than any other.

Aww no parallax on iPad

There is about a 750ms delay for scrolling on my lastgen macbook air. I am going to upgrade my machine for this site.

edit: Actually it's more like a 50ms delay followed by some mollasses

But ignoring all of the ways RFCs could be better, this site is significantly better than the alternatives (the ietf site, plain text on some random domain, or that shitty purple one i always seem to end up on...)

It seems a little noisy, but it does filter out forks and the dates are nice. Is the user language percentage also a new creation here?

I think it's cool to come out and say this. I have also had extremely positive experiences with drugs as a geek.

I get a bad gut feeling when i read posts like this. It is the same feeling i get when i watch MTV or elimidate or something.

The MTVification of Entrepreneurship! That sums up the feeling i get when reading this article and many others like it.

It just feels really... hollow. Like you are building an RPG character based on the "What We Look For Article". Spent all your points on naughtiness.

Seriously, yuck. Stop it.

Everyone stop ruining April fools by expecting it

Sorry, i meant to deliver that last line with a superfluous emoticon. =).

My two cents as an American: fake smiling and fake tone of voice are equally annoying, apparent, and dishonest. It creates a really unpleasant feeling to see people expressing themselves in a way that's inconsistent with their current feelings. It's logical to be wary of the person. Who knows if they might deceive you in other ways?

/me purchases a one way ticket to Russia.

A UIApplication method (registerForRemoteNotificationTypes:) negotiates with apples servers using device information to obtain a 32-byte push token unique to a given device/app pair. It is likely based on the device's global id (UDID) and the application's appid and certificates. Someone should figure out the exact network handshake.

Any app developer is capable of collecting UDIDs using their released apps (the UDID is constant and visible across all apps). Note, having the UDID does not necessarily mean you can obtain the push token. But you may be able to derive the push token from it and from information contained in the app.

Assuming you could figure out someone's push token, you could to cause a push to show up in the name of the app whose certificate/key you've obtained!

You can try condor http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/

My contribution would be my research, if it ends up being any good. But i don't want to be a slave to researching just so i can receive funding and continue my studies, I want to be self-sufficient and research exactly what i feel like, independent of others.

Public internet ok, no coffee, no ammo. Cookies sometimes but not all the time. And milk for the cookies.

I just mean that i can't be a celibate monk unless i can also stop being a celibate monk when i feel like it.

Yes, this all stems from realizing the only reason i want to "get rich" is basically so i can live the life described. I want to do only the things that i want to do all the time. And the things that i want to do are extremely simple. But i am willing to give up some time to do other things. Yes, I would consider trading and selling involuntary activities.

The only voluntary activities are reading, writing, thinking, and communicating. I guess eating, sex, and shitting can all go in the voluntary slot, too.

Do the Amish accept new members?

I have to sleep somewhere that is legal and that doesn't annoy people, and also to not be dependent on others. This means no panhandling, etc.

So is $100k and whatever you already own the minimum you would say this it's possible to do this with?

Hm, it looks like property taxes are amazing in louisiana. Does anyone know the net cost of getting set up with a crappy katrina cottage?

Again, I'm sorry as the title is a little misleading. I don't really care about being isolated or roughing it in the wilderness. I'd rather not spend time learning any survival skills whatsoever, or even how to farm. I want to minimize involuntary tasks. It could be in the middle of NYC for all i care. But no roaches or bedbugs are allowed.