thehm · HackerTrans

3 года назадdiscuss

This is a very rosey interpretation of Al-Fayed and glosses over vast swathes of fraud and misrepresentation. A more balanced view can be gained from the Guardian, itself no fan of the British establishment: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/02/mohamed-al-fay...

thehm

3 года назадdiscuss

Where I live, they can only legally be sold to people ≥ 18 years old. Maybe that should be more commonplace?

thehm

3 года назадdiscuss

Where can one buy an internet connection without being at least 18 years old?

To use your analogy, it is parents who are paying for the alcohol and then leaving it in a place where it is easy for their children to access. Responsible parents either teach their children about appropriate alcohol use or make it difficult to access, or both.

thehm

4 года назадdiscuss

Nice graphics, but the article misses what was the most interesting new (to me) idea in the books: the Droplets, which are made of "strong interaction" material so dense that miniscule amounts can destroy planets. I'd love to read more about this idea.

thehm

4 года назадdiscuss

The Dark Forest problem posits that in the time required to send a message to a distant civilisation, the sender could just as easily send something that would destroy the distant civilisation. Further, that it is not possible to know without communication whether a distant civilisation would have peaceful or belligerant intent. Therefore, any civilisation that knows the existence of another should pre-emptively destroy the other rather than risk waiting to find out if it is peaceful

If FTL communication is possible, it could be possible to establish the other civilisations intent before they could send anything destructive.

As for the Sophon's it might be that they require a compatible recipient to work and so first require matter to be sent to the distant location. It's a long time since I read the Three Body books, but I seem to remember them being based on quantum-entangled particles, which would fit with this.

thehm

4 года назадdiscuss

Those architectural decisions should be reviewed during the design and planning phase so mid/low-level devs don't waste time building the wrong thing in the first place.

thehm

4 года назадdiscuss

See also Subtract by Leidy Klotz, which examines how problems can often be more easily solved by removing rather than adding, contrary to our natural bias.

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