Comment Re: Well it's lacking some malware (Score 1) 220
That doesn't seem to be in the Debian repository. (I don't have my Algol documentation anymore anyway, but once upon a time...)
That doesn't seem to be in the Debian repository. (I don't have my Algol documentation anymore anyway, but once upon a time...)
But I meant Algol-60, which was the only version that was ever widely used.
Well, when I went looking for an Algol compiler, I didn't find it. But perhaps I just needed to look outside the repositories.
What about "Don't write your stuff while wearing a plaid shirt."?
If the rules can't be enforced honestly, they shouldn't be present. And rules against AI can't be enforced honestly unless you hold the contest in a sealed room with no remote access.
The problem is that the context of the pre-2020 works will become continuously more dated. I can't stand most Victorian fiction, even Sherlock Holmes is weak outside of the short stories. Historical fiction really needs to be written from a viewpoint assuming the current context...which means it becomes dated. And this also works, though less powerfully, in the realm of fantasy.
IIUC, the human variant of that gene (FOX P2) is NOT shared with other extant species. But it also seems true that there were lots of other changes associated with it.
Saying it "gave us our next-level language abilities", but it does seem necessary for them. I really doubt that it is sufficient. (But we could insert one into a Chimpanzee or Bonobo to check.)
That one can probably be handled (temporarily) just by using a longer key. Which can give you time to do the switch.
The problem is that there's a lot of stuff already recorded that can't be protected that way.
That said, what quantum computers should really be good at is material design, quantum modelling, etc. But they need to be quite a bit stronger. (OTOH, DWave sells a specialized quantum computer that's reported to do a decent job in it's particular niche. It's just not a general computer. IIUC, it only handles relaxation problems.)
FWIW, people for the most part evolved without cooking their food. We've been evolving since long before the dinosaurs.
OTOH, they didn't actually decide that "burnt food kills you", they decided that it increased some risks. I've never seen any evidence that this was wrong.
I think it was actually a reference to Revelations, though IIRC, that was supposed to be a mark both on the forehead and on the wrist.
YOU might think of it as a boycott, but I think of it as "self-protection". I avoid Musk's products for self protection...that I also hope it harms him at least a trifle is a minor additional bonus...and it doesn't matter if it doesn't.
However, Florida is a small enough part of the global problem, that what they do locally will have essentially no effect. They couldn't fix the problem with local actions, and they also probably can't make it measurably worse.
Note that the US is not such a small part. That's a large enough fraction of the problem to make a measurable difference. Scale is significant.
Most of Virginia doesn't get all that cold. 30 kids in a room with limited air circulation should suffice, even without lots of insulation. Air conditioning, however, might well be a different matter.
IIRC, there's a decent link between registered gun ownership and the suicide rate. However, a lot of gun ownership is unregistered, so that's probably not reliable.
I might well agree that the current administration is worse, and scale does, indeed, matter. But judging scale when one side is crippling state governments and the other side is removing individual rights isn't clear. The events are too different.
One can say that "morally the crippling of state governments to enfranchise the disenfranchised" is better, but it's still a centralization of control.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.