Funny you should mention that. Did you know that a distributed computing hobby and a drug farm can look exactly the same under infra-red? Haven't had it happen to be personally, but I can assure you it's no fun to have a SWAT team bust in simply because you're trying to find a bigass prime number.

Sandboxing a sandbox game? Play it in a sandbox and it's a sandbox tri-fecta. Sandboxes all the way down.

How does someone's beliefs influence whether or not there's a hell? Do human beings have a superpower I'm not aware of? Can I make my broccoli taste like chocolate by simply believing hard enough?

Your beliefs don't change reality, they just change how you respond to reality.

Wait, we can decide which morality system judges us? Wouldn't that mean that only conceited people get saved and the humble would suffer eternal damnation?

What about the fact that an action movie with a hundred murders generates about a hundredth the outrage of a triple X porno? How does that make sense?

Which is worse, a hell, or a heaven that doesn't meet with your approval?

(that's a general question, it's not specifically aimed at Limekiller42)

Obviously, it would suck if you only had the one train, but what if it worked like a highway and trains could get on and off? So you could have multiple trains sharing the same track.

And, yes, I know, people think it wouldn't be in vacuum anymore, but pumping out air could simply be an intermediate step after people are already on the train, like waiting on a runway for a plane to actually take off.

But when you invest in gold, you're trying to avoid the huge ups and downs of the stock market. Correct me here, but gold value tends to increase in a recession and decrease in a boon, and in a boon you can simply get a job to recoup the losses. To me, it's a choice of being safe or _possibly_ rich.

But I have schizophrenia and live with my parents, so it's sort of a moot point. :)

Inflation is bad when it's caused by people because those people then have power over you. What gives you the right to decide someone's money should lose value simply because they want to sit on it and not invest it?

So you're saying there was no economic growth back when everything was either bartered or money was precious metals? That's so fallacious I'm not even going to bother trying to Google proof.

Currency exists so that powerful people can fuck with you. Period. If it's not backed by gold or something else, but simply on someone's reputation it doesn't deserve to be trusted.

Bias and objectivity are very similar. Objectivity is simply approved of bias.

It's like prejudice, we have to have prejudice to survive but it can get out of hand. People say prejudice is wrong, but if someone decided to make a fashion statement by wearing a cloth stocking over their head, there aren't a lot of people that would approve.

You could also maybe use this type of information to figure out how to magnify the effect in people. How many intelligent people are actually smart enough to know the pitfalls of eugenics experiments?

My dogs are so stupid they don't know how to open a door that's left ajar.

My little dog will bark his ass off at me, then stare at me through the opening in the door because he's too stupid to put his paw in there and pull it open.

Change the packages to water balloons and you'd have makings of a viral video.

Reread the summary. The 10km number is just for the initial example. It later goes on to talk about Plank length and how much energy it would take to store the locations of objects down to a Planck length.

The most interesting thing I get out of this is that the universe apparently fails to use compression to store the locations of things.