Classic penny-wise pound-foolish. People have difficulty grasping negative value. I sold the silverware, look how much money I made.

You don't appreciate the discreet nature of different frequencies interacting. There have been plenty of tests from various tech sites using different methodologies that show that you can not only objectively measure the difference between even a 1k poll and 8k poll on even a 144hz monitor, but that the difference is something perceptible as "smoothness". The human perception is great at picking out anomalies. This is less an issue for keyboards as mice, but it is objectively real, even if most people wouldn't benefit.

I was watching one of my fav youtube PHD physics people and they mentioned that our measurements of Dark Energy might be wrong because we might be located in an anomalous area in the observable universe, which would result in heavily biased measurements.

My state uni dealt with tenure issues by removing that professor from high end classes, taking away most of their research, and sticking them in entry level courses.

What kind of crap insurance do you have? Mine covers fertility treatment. Even covers the birthcontrol of my children, if I had any.

Fertility and sex function is already covered by decent health insurance. 100 pills of Viagra or Cialis covered at 100% per year. Health insurance isn't just for physical health, but mental health. Hell, we have 100% coverage for unlimited access to therapists to deal with stress, anxiety, marriage. USA here.

This could be useful for a one-off throw-away project that needs to do a single simple thing. This happens a lot when supporting large complex systems where something went wrong and you have to clean up the mess.

I already have this problem with real humans. Few people truly understand their code. It's common for me to get pulled into a project complex enough that a team of people can't figure out a problem, and I take a read through the code only to find more bugs than what was found from code review, QA, and testing put together. And I consider our company above average.

Make it pass these unit tests? Then all you need is someone who is good at writing unit tests. I could see this as a net win.

1. Programmer makes analog computer
2. Programmer codes bits directly into a digital computer
3. Programmer create a language
4. Programmer creates a standard library
5. Programmer creates AI
6. Programmer tells AI what to code
7. Programmer tells the AI what problem to solve
8. Programmer identifies areas for the AI to improve
9. Programmer monitors AI
10. AI is self monitoring

It's going to take a bit before getting rid of programmers. Phase 10 is a weee bit out. And until phase 10, the output of the AI will still need to be audited, which means someone still has to understand the produced code.

The bar will raise over time, but there is a lot of yak shaving that could benefit from this. Coding it the act of defining a problem in a complete and unambiguous way. Libraries and frameworks have cause the abstract level at which we code to go up, but until an AI can identify a problem and implement a solution to it entirely on its own, there will always be a "programmer".

Time is more fundamental than space. The spatial dimensions are measured in time. If you're going to question the measurement of time, you have to do the same for space. You can do this, but you can't just throw out time as being impossible to measure without saying the same for distance.

Probably not. Because the universe is expanding faster than light, we're essentially in an open system. Entropy is not static in an open system. And the definition of entropy becomes a real issue in such a system. Some definitions are based on the number of ways the system can be arranged. As the size of the system and the amount of stuff in the system keeps changing, you can't really pin down a definition based on a closed system.

Freenet has been trying to do this for over a decade. It's a quasi-academic research project. Turns out anonymity is a difficult problem when you assume the platform is itself an adversary. Signal is the most practical protocol right now, but it has its limits.

tldr; Provable anonymous systems with bi-directional communication is still an active area of research

They've been doing this since forever. This is why they have their transparency report. Ignoring a court order makes you a criminal. Hard for a criminal to run a legitimate business where the operation of the business is the crime.