dskloet

If they remain bidenbucks when spent, why would any merchant accept them for anything?

> Because you can't?

You could make informal trades where you pay for something someone else would have already bought and give them a small discount. Or just buy something and resell it immediately.

> railcar switch dilemma

In case you tried to remember, this is generally referred to as the trolley problem.

Eventually this would be acquired by Google, and shut down 2 years later.

Are you the author of that extension? If not, why would you give full control over your browsing experience to a third party without any benefit?

I would have expected them to follow Zipf's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law

Vsauce made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCn8zs912OE

> The most important reason is that, when used correctly, it is already significantly safer than a person driving by themselves and it would therefore be morally reprehensible to delay release

Doesn't Tesla charge a large fee to have autopilot enabled on your car? Isn't that equally morally reprehensible?

Are you suggesting that time extends infinitely into the past? Because if it doesn't, there will never be an infinite amount of time, so there won't be any point in time when this -1/12 becomes relevant to physics in this sense.

> I guess my point is more that for a mathematician it would probably be obvious that when you talk about the limit of a divergent series it could be any imaginary or intermediary value.

I'm a mathematician and I might agree (not entirely sure what you mean). But -1/12 is a concrete value so it doesn't apply here.

That assumes details can be arbitrarily small, which Planck refuted.

How does an infinite sum of integers appear in nature (physics)?

I think something like this is needed for elections. If you want to vote for someone, you have to pass a simple quiz to prove you know what they stand for.

Looks like that didn't work either and you ended up with Object.create which is a fairly new function. I think assigning Person.prototype (instead of Person) to p2.__proto__ would have worked. Or is that already what you had before?

p2.constructor = Person;

Without that, the object also doesn't have the right prototype.

p2 is not an instance of Person. You also need to make sure p2's constructor is set to Person.

It's not the same. With integer division you know the division rounds down, so using <= always splits between the two points.

That said, it's always safer to compute the mean of two integers as

min + (max - min) / 2

to avoid integer overflow.