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Have a care: you could be responsible for a lot of people dying of laughter.

That's not actually what the announcement says:

When submitting review articles or position papers, authors must include documentation of successful peer review to receive full consideration. Review/survey articles or position papers submitted to arXiv without this documentation will be likely to be rejected and not appear on arXiv.

(my emphasis). They're still accepting preprints of research papers without prior peer review.

Are you old enough to even remember--when people actually looked forward to a new Windows release?

I remember Win 3.11 but I don't remember anyone ever telling me they were looking forward to a new release of Windows.

Is this in any way relevant to an article about people wanting to unionise in the UK and Canada?

Or take pain medication with opiates as an example.

That's quite a bad example. The long-term effect of not treating chronic pain is that your nerves become so used to transmitting pain signals that they keep doing it even after the actual cause has resolved itself. It's a lose-lose scenario. I've tried both paths (no medication in my 20s when I had a serious carpal tunnel inflammation; opiates in my 30s when I had a damaged disc from a traffic incident) and although the opiates didn't fully remove the pain I would choose to take them again.

You haven't made drastic enough changes to fix it. A proper fix needs to distinguish social media (the "first era") from antisocial media (the "second era").

it contains a rigorous proof that significant parts of the observable universe are uncomputable

Where? It claims

Thus, Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem asserts the strict containment $Th(F_{QG}) \not\subseteq True(F_{QG})$ [41,42], guaranteeing the existence of well-formed $L_{QG}$-statements that are true but unprovable within the algorithmic machinery of $F_{QG}$. Physically these Gödel sentences correspond to empirically meaningful facts e.g., specific black-hole microstates that elude any finite, rule-based derivation.

but I see zero attempt to justify the claim that the unprovable theorems correspond to meaningful physical states. If we posit for the sake of argument that the Collatz conjecture is true but unprovable, does that mean that it corresponds to a black-hole microstate?

(Turing seems to have proven this point.. or it's widely accepted to be the truth.. I don't remember)

This is the Church-Turing hypothesis, which argues from the equivalence of lambda calculus, mu-recursive functions and Turing machines that these all capture the notion of effective calculation. Since then many other models of computation have been proven equivalent, but it's probably not possible to prove that no (oracle-free) computational model can be more powerful.

Based on this assumption Godel proved that there are things that algorithms cannot compute.

Since this is /. I won't apologise for pedantry. Gödel proved that in any sufficiently complicated axiom scheme there are theorems which cannot be proven. The incompleteness theorem isn't really about algorithms, although the proof technique of diagonalisation was borrowed by Turing for the proof of the halting theorem. Church restricted the term algorithm to what can be computed with a Turing machine, but modern computability theory makes heavy use of oracles, so it's important to be clear about the computational model. The paper under discussion probably rules out simulation in a context without oracles, but if we're speculating about the existence of a superuniverse in which this one is being simulated then "It cannot have an oracle because I can't imagine, based on the physics of this universe, how one could exist" seems to be presupposing the conclusion.

Multiple choice question? If that even enters your thought process, are you sure your own college experience wasn't high-school level?

Do you still print paper copies of your boarding pass?

Mathematicians had conjectured every convex polyhedron would have the Rupert property.

The sphere is not a polyhedron.

Dude you can literally just Google the phrase which pesticides are allowed for organic farming.

This document? I'm surprised to learn that gelatine is permitted in the production of organic wine, because I would have assumed that wine was vegan, but it's hard to guess which permitted insecticides you're worried about.

We mocked Dubya for his "war on tourism", but Trump's taking it literally.

The case wasn't brought by a judge. The tribunal is ruling on the case presented by the claimants against Apple. If you were harmed by Sony exploting a monopoly then you can bring your own case against Sony.