... and real people: Operation Paperclip -> "Throughout its operations to 1990, Operation Paperclip imported 1,600 men, as part of the intellectual reparations owed to the US and the UK, some $10 billion in patents and industrial processes." (Wikipedia)
'"I'll pay you tomorrow," he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. "What I pay you," he informed it, "is in the nature of a gratuity; I don't have to pay you."
"I think otherwise," the door said. "Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt. You discover I'm right," the door said. It sounded smug.'
Quote: "Set in the distant future, Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is the horrifying first-hand account of a bureaucratic agent trapped deep within the subterranean bowels of a vast underground military complex. In a Kafkaesque maelstrom of terrifying confusion and utter insanity, this man must attempt to follow his mission directives of conducting an "on-the-spot investigation. Verify. Search. Destroy. Incite. Inform. Over and out. On the nth day nth hour sector n subsector n rendezvous with N."
My guess is that the breakdown of the relations within the feedback loop 'body movement' - 'perceivable outcome' may contribute a great deal to the condition.
Not exactly mainstream, but: "Open topics in physics, especially involving the reconciliation of gravity with quantum physics, suggest that retrocausality may be possible under certain circumstances." (wikipedia)
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fractional reserve banking
A more graphic term would be virtualizational banking, as it transfers the economy into a virtual domain (which is out of reach for real people).
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German rocket technology and science
... and real people: Operation Paperclip -> "Throughout its operations to 1990, Operation Paperclip imported 1,600 men, as part of the intellectual reparations owed to the US and the UK, some $10 billion in patents and industrial processes." (Wikipedia)
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All in all, everything happening now is a perfect recipe for chaos, and I doubt anybody will realize it until it's too late.
At least you did. Sadly, however, this only qualifies (P.P.S. and sig considered) for psychological treatment these days.
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there's no reason a paper shouldn't pass peer review
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""Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"
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everything in the universe, except perhaps a few edge cases like quantum physics and certain aspects of singularities) relies on causality
Sure? I am not.
Hint: Causality in complex systems
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The strength of any language is not in it's syntax, but in the libraries and frameworks.
Sadly, must compilers do not really do 'DWIM', even if you got it 'conceptually right'.
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That is true: the biggest "owners" are the governments and their subsidiaries.
My suspicion here is that a 'citation needed' seems appropriate.
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It's hardly "news for nerds".
This is patent though: 'on a computer' is where the magic is.
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'"I'll pay you tomorrow," he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. "What I pay you," he informed it, "is in the nature of a gratuity; I don't have to pay you." "I think otherwise," the door said. "Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt. You discover I'm right," the door said. It sounded smug.'
Phillip K. Dick, UBIK
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_Found_in_a_Bathtub
Quote: "Set in the distant future, Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is the horrifying first-hand account of a bureaucratic agent trapped deep within the subterranean bowels of a vast underground military complex. In a Kafkaesque maelstrom of terrifying confusion and utter insanity, this man must attempt to follow his mission directives of conducting an "on-the-spot investigation. Verify. Search. Destroy. Incite. Inform. Over and out. On the nth day nth hour sector n subsector n rendezvous with N."
Well
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Armies need generals, and generals need armies.
Now the question is whether humanity needs both.
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a social reaction starts
And those 'social reactions' have some epic highlights in France.
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ad 1st: and it is not exactly a new idea, I wanted one myself when I was still a child, see here
ad 2nd: but it is a stolen idea
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Or does someone have a patent on flying cars
e.g.
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Making a computing device modular? Who could have ever thought of that? (People in the 1950's, that's who.)
Computers were quite modular these days, just not exactly portable (or even moveable).
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is it considered as a non-native accent?
No, it is considered a metathetic mispronunciation.
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lack of exercising the distance
My guess is that the breakdown of the relations within the feedback loop 'body movement' - 'perceivable outcome' may contribute a great deal to the condition.
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I would have thought 'vision' would be part of the standard medical exam when they return from space.
Probably a 'blinded' ex-astronaut in the command chain had the 'insight' to enlighten the doctors to not include it anymore.
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This is not about statistics, this is about marketing.
These days, almost everything is about marketing (except for probably very small scale relations/communications).
If you generalize even more, you might argue that everything is about upstream transfer of 'wealth'.
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Retrocausality
Not exactly mainstream, but: "Open topics in physics, especially involving the reconciliation of gravity with quantum physics, suggest that retrocausality may be possible under certain circumstances." (wikipedia)
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the company should be punished
FTFY: The individuals who profited, aka shareholders.
However, this will not happen in these days of public risk and private profit.
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a commitment to keep MySQL open for another four years
If four years are rated a long time I wonder about the implications regards short term memory, assuming a universal scaling factor.
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