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You made me suddenly aware of the fact that I do not actually know how other people use their phones.

People are OK with frequently booting their mobile devices to temporarily "fix bugs", which can take up to tens of seconds, but waiting a moment to boot a desktop device? Nuh uh.

Of course there might be some market advantage to be had with faster booting and it's a plus for the whole UX. And optimisation is definitely cool, though I think many more problems would be solved if people were forced to think once in a while, whether it's while waiting for the bootup sequence to complete or a train to arrive.

Is there any name for this puzzle? I've been thinking about this for a while now.

Cloning the particles (and their states) that make you up would most likely produce a separate mind, as I think would teleporting where v1 is destroyed and v2 consisting of different particles, although in the same configuration. But what about separating said configuration, transporting them somewhere else and putting them back together? Cryogenics is in my opinion the only possible way to give a chance in preserving an original mind well beyond natural human lifespan without actually extending it.

Not only can't others tell a clone apart from the original: the hypothetic clone, as I understand it, couldn't do that either. Now what if this process, due to cellular regeneration in the brain, happens constantly? Your mind is not the same it was a minute ago: that mind is dead and gone. Would it even matter?

USA to ban too difficult math problems?

Doesn't this mean their citizens would be less safe from foreign (and domestic) spies than foreigners are from their spies? Doesn't this mean that foreign businesses who actually care about their security would abandon their software and IT services? If they can crack it, others can, or will learn soon to, crack it.

Books and video games have really helped me not to think when that's needed.

"Worrying about misfortunes that will never happen" is also called "risk analysis" in securityspeak. Sure, a neurotic mind can find you those bizarre edge cases but it can also become a burden when you're needed to reset and tackle a new problem.

In Finland, wearing a helmet while bicycling is required by law, but there aren't any penalties set for not complying. Maybe this appeals to people whose moral includes unconditional law-abiding.

Slpmiy jnilbumg the iennr cretcarahs tlsuhy rrednes tihs "ooitavresbn" qlbanoitseue, imo

edit: 'Simply jumbling the inner characters thusly renders this "observation" questionable, imo'

That is iff you use the shorthand declaration-assign: https://play.golang.org/p/6uGmPZIu4S

Slam-fire shotgun can be built, in a day and in total secrecy, by a 12 year old with some loose change in any modestly equipped garage. It is extremely easy to conceal and carry, you can reach 30+ shots per minute with little training and, sadly, ammunition for it is probably less time (read: resource) consuming to acquire in many countries than the knowledge of electrical engineering sufficient to build a working railgun of that scale.

Without that broken upvote button I couldn't even tell who's replying to who. http://i.imgur.com/yHki0zO.png

polystyrene foam on the other hand might do the trick

Many of us see the USA through your "Hollywood window", media reports and statistics. Imagine how easy it is to be worried about your personal safety.

The reason I do not plan to visit is because of that image about gun-totin', mentally unstable nation out of touch with reality with bizarre and secret laws which are in the worst case enforced by trigger-happy people with less than 5 months of training. Terrifying. But you aren't actually safe from them in a different continent either: attending to a wedding in Mid East can be lethal...

Of course time passes. My point was that in a way, in that situation you are paying with your time and your existance, as opposed to a "normal" imprisonment where you only pay with your time. I also meant to raise the question whether the loss of your existance holds a higher value than your awareness of time served as a crime-paying currency.

Death sentence is considered harsher than imprisonment for life, right? It includes paying for your crimes with all your time and your existance.

What if, in the future, it becomes possible to serve a x year sentence in a chemically induced coma or such, in a way taking away your existance too temporarily? Wouldn't that be a milder punishment because the element of "serving time" is no longer there?

Why can't Electr detect unit K form "10K + 200"? It's the only unit present in the equation.

Why kilo-ohms are denoted with "K" while milliamperes are using the proper SI unit "mA"? Why not to use "Ω" and "kΩ"? We have that symbol in high ASCII.

Probably just my ignorance of programming language design speaking but I really have to ask.

"Fishes" is the word used to describe different species of fish.

Edit: late for the party. "Deeres" and "sheepes" follow the same pattern, I presume.

And considerably lighter. Good for logistics.

I also find it fascinating what Google has to say about itself https://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=Google.com