If you play game to "accomplish" something, you might want to reevaluate reasons why you pay to play the game to fake-accomplish stuff.

If you are instant L90 you have ... freedom.

Want to go to sightsee zone X? You can.

Want to try dungeon Y? You can.

Want to do quest Z? Sure, go ahead.

Want to...

There is so much you can do besides watching stupid pointless number to go up. Maybe you can try that sometimes.

- light cone is not a good optimalization: Things out of our light cone can and do affects things inside it.

- best computer would be to create actual universe.

First, Plack time and Plack length are not minimum units. There are thing smallers/shorter than that. They are in no way special limits. We have so far not discovered lowest instant.

Things in low scales are not random because of inacurracies, but because they start to be more like fields - fields that actually have "peak" location. If somehowe it was caused by underflows, we would see very clear patterns and aliases.

In any case, it is very trivial to simulate sub-frame things in our computer simulations.

Seccond, you can not measure speed and position at same time not because of some weird universe limit, but because you effect particles by measuring them - usually in unforeseen ways. There is no hint of optimalization.

Third, collapses do not work like that. From point of view of universe, everything is observed eventually and anyway. And actually computing whether something will be observed sounds like too much work to be considered a optimalization.

Simply put, pop sience descriptions of our understanding of universe are doing you disservice.

There are also too many programers who think that they will do better job at writing several utility methods even thou existing library has all corner cases covered and provides standartized way of solving problem that other developers will understand.

Lazy developers creating dependency hell is another issue. But hell of all-custom implementation of well standartized libraries cointains even more pitchforks.

Especially when it starts as five lines of code and ends up as reimplementation of half of library in shittier and less dependable code.

Are you sure that 5 lines you yourself will write are really going to be correct?

Libraries have one advantage - they are usually very well tested for what they do by usage in lots of projects and handle corner cases that you might not know even exist.

"If... you were Holder and Obama, what sort of deal would you try to strike with everybody's favorite secrets-leaker?"

I'd offer him pardon on almost everything, leaving only a trivial (1-2 months) jail sentence left over. Then I'd have him murdered while he was in prison.

The intelligence community is happy because I've sent a clear message of what happens to whistleblowers, and I can continue to play innocent and act pro-whistleblower as I have for ages, letting accusations of it being an assassination fade into conspiracy theory while most of my voting base continues to ignore the problem or is glad I got rid of another "terrorist lover". Seriously, what are the pro-privacy advocates going to do? Vote against me on this issue by voting for a Republican who wants to peek into their bedrooms to make sure there's no sinning going on? Ha!

What? It's not what I personally want to see done, but then I'm not hypocritical, power-hungry, interest-beholden, and immoral enough to ever want to be President. If I were President, obviously that would not be the case.

You do NOT want to fiddle with white powder on airport, nor do you want to carry a bit of it on you when travelling.

Oh come on.

This is about someone who just could not put down recoding device in enviroment in which it is big issue. And tries to use novelty of said device to his advantage.

Police, etc... they are used to being recorded on cellphones or dash cams or security cameras or by eyewitnesses. This is nothing new for them. They do dislike it - but everyone does.

There is another side of coin: The more footage of every person there is, the more opportunities you have to find something incriminating or blackmail worthy. I am not afraid of cops getting free pass on some assaults.

I am afraid of future where anyones life is easily pieced together from footage gathered from hundreds/thousands walking cameras, analyzed for weaknesses and exploited. Anytime you run afoul of little pointless law, anytime you do something that can easily be taken out of context to villify you, any secret you might want to keep secret.

That is future "glassholes" are working to bring and it is freaking nightmare.

I am not afraid of cop dropping "resisted" or "was unccoperative" on me, I am afraid of some nice man visiting me with dosier on my life and explaining dozen different ways they can easily ruin various parts of it if I will not cooperate or if I will resist.

And if you pass real thing off as a joke?

People bearing the cost will be dead victims. Good luck with that.

How much time has passed since marathon bombings, pray tell? I kinda wish you were in charge, recieved warning and ignored it as you suggest is such good idea.

When you are in charge, rational thing to do is to take threat seriously amd act on it.

Why? Because if you are wrong about it being hoax, you are the one who has been responsible for preventing any and all deaths or injuries related to bomb going off.

Your life would be instantly ruined - you failed to do your job and people died. Media and Internet would make sure everyone knows for year (up untill your deaths).

Best thing to do is to do your job properly and when someone tries to abuse that, kick the fucker in the nuts enough so that it is not worth it for him.

Did you not go to high school?

There are thousands of jet aircraft in the air above the U.S. at any given time. There are satellites taking pictures of my house, cameras on many stoplights, in every police car and on everyone's phone. Dozens of planes overfly my house daily on takeoff or landing approaches. I don't see that delivery drones erode my privacy any more.

As for the capability, I bet it could use some refining, but in our lifetimes we're going to see automated flying become more prevalent. Already pilots of modern planes going to/from large airports don't *have* to do much. They can punch a few buttons, turn a few dials and the computer can perform takeoff, level flight, maneuvering and landing all automatically, and more smoothly than most pilots. If you have a bumpy landing it's probably because the first officer wanted some practice. I figure increasingly the pilot will be there just to make the passengers feel good, and in 10-20 more years you can put a flight attendant there instead and save some money on the pilot training. I don't know how long it will take for people to knowingly and willingly ride drones, though.

Hmm, I'm losing my steam and getting distracted. Point is, stop freaking out over delivery drones. They won't be 100% everywhere all at once, and fuck yeah I'd take a pizza from one.