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Comment Re:It's teh googlezzzz!!!! (Score 1) 142

Correct, they are not the same thing.

Tagging can contain the structure of a folder system with inherant deduplication of data. 1 tag per foldername contained in path. Done. Then you can add the file to another "folder" by adding a tag. Search for your regular foldername and you have your "folder" without browsing an entire hierarchy of foldernames.

That being said I don't really tag my files - I use folder hierarchies and don't worry about dupes (this is /. after all). I can see the expanded utility of tags though especially from a "searchable data" perspective.

Comment Re:Perhaps not (Score 1) 458

If you were to create a world AND place yourself* in it, then yes you would be subject to its laws.

*yourself in this context could be a digital brainscan or equivalent representation as long as the representation has what you posess-free will(maybe) consciousness etc ...

Comment Re:Cool science coming... (Score 1) 136

First off IANAP.
To throw some variables out there:

As I understand it the conjecture under review is:
M(rest)=M(grav)=M(inertia)

Implicit from Einsteins field equations,
R_mu_nu - (1/2)g_mu_nu*R + g_mu_nu*GAMMA = (8pi*G/c^4)*T_mu_nu

somewhat like the next layer beyond E^2=m^4c^4+p^2c^2 (lorentz invarient form iirc?)

I wont see it in my University courses for a few years but from online lectures and pdfs i have a bare understanding of the implications if the conjecture is false:
1. The dark matter problem 'could' go away if the conjecture is found to be false. Not too likely imo

2 If the different masses are NOT equivalent then here there be dragons! i.e. new interesting physics underneath-perheps leading to new propulsion systems.

I'm sure someone will pipe up and correct me if i'm wrong enough.

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