I wouldn't worry about it. You'll never know what stuff. You might die and find out* you'd actually been doing all the stuff God didn't want you to do.
* Although I'm not sure how if all your cognitive bits are rotting in a coffin, or cinders in an urn.
Presumably it isn't illegal to have the checksum values of child pornography. Couldn't the police issue these to Google, so that if their bots crawl illegal content, those sites can be removed from their search results. The URLs for those sites could then be passed back to the police.
This wouldn't be a "magic button" though. Content can easily be hidden.
Can't say I'd prefer a binary-duodecimal-sexagesimal-binary watch over a quadrovigesimal-sexagesimal-decimal or binary-duodecimal-sexagesimal-decimal one. A purely binary watch would be more interesting, although less practical.
IANAL, but ifaik you can use lethal force if it's reasonable to do so in the prevention of some crimes - such as murder. For example, if you killed someone that was apparently trying to murder you, you wouldn't commit murder yourself if your actions were reasonable in the circumstances.
The wavefunction tells you exactly what state a system is in.
Consider a quantum dice. You can perform a roll-operation on it which sets it to a rolled-dice state. You can also perform a result-operation, that also sets the state, each characteristic state of the roll-operation has a value associated with it (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6). You can look at the result without altering the state after the first result is found (it's a projection operator in other words). The first difference with your explanation is that you can roll as many times as you like without altering the state after the first roll. That is, when you roll a quantum dice, it is in a unique state. Rolling it again will not alter its state!
These two operations do not commute. The rolled-state can be written as a superposition of the six result-states - and it keeps that state no matter how many times you re-roll. When you use the result operation, that rolled-state collapses to one of six result-states. Which state it collapses too is random.
The maths of Quantum Mechanics is mostly linear algebra. If it was just practical statistics there wouldn't be so many disagreements about its meaning. Nevertheless, it's QM that agrees with reality.
The inch is a metric unit. As a consequence of the yard being defined as 0.9144 meters, the inch is exactly 25.4 mm. The Open Rack server slots will be 5.334 meters. Maybe they should round down to 5.333... meters.
Another benefit is access to games like Portal 2 without needing to spend at least $100 on an OS. I'm wondering how many people this would benefit though, as a lot of people will either already have Windows, or require it for other software. I'd guess that people with second machines they'd like to play games on would be the biggest beneficiaries.
You could use a different representation of course. Decimal floating-point or even a base-60 based representation would handle some numbers better. However you'll not be able to represent as many numbers exactly in the same storage space (98% as many for example). However if the numbers you do want to use are better represented, it might make sense.
I would say that the only 'inconsistency' you tend to find is that you discover the reality of where you live turns out to be more complex than your original occam's razor based theories postulated.
...and the theory that explains that is even simpler. Which somewhat contradicts what you're saying.
Only one: that we live in a logical and consistent universe. In other words, that if we reproduce the conditions under which a phenomenon was observed, then the phenomenon itself will be reproduced.
Not sure that rings completely true when Quantum phenomenon includes random events. Although it doesn't contradict what you're saying.
...things would be true and false at the same time, and any claim that could be made would be true.
Things are true and false at the same time in Quantum theory (particularly energy values;). However you're essentially correct: Logic still applies.
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I wouldn't worry about it. You'll never know what stuff. You might die and find out* you'd actually been doing all the stuff God didn't want you to do.
* Although I'm not sure how if all your cognitive bits are rotting in a coffin, or cinders in an urn.
In that case, it doesn't matter in this life, if God exists or not.
Presumably it isn't illegal to have the checksum values of child pornography. Couldn't the police issue these to Google, so that if their bots crawl illegal content, those sites can be removed from their search results. The URLs for those sites could then be passed back to the police.
This wouldn't be a "magic button" though. Content can easily be hidden.
IANAL: Why don't the big fish provide help to these little fish, to stop these precedents being set, and to, ultimately, defend their own position?
Can't say I'd prefer a binary-duodecimal-sexagesimal-binary watch over a quadrovigesimal-sexagesimal-decimal or binary-duodecimal-sexagesimal-decimal one. A purely binary watch would be more interesting, although less practical.
"Downloading films is stealing" (IT Crowd)
IANAL, but ifaik you can use lethal force if it's reasonable to do so in the prevention of some crimes - such as murder. For example, if you killed someone that was apparently trying to murder you, you wouldn't commit murder yourself if your actions were reasonable in the circumstances.
The wavefunction tells you exactly what state a system is in.
Consider a quantum dice. You can perform a roll-operation on it which sets it to a rolled-dice state. You can also perform a result-operation, that also sets the state, each characteristic state of the roll-operation has a value associated with it (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6). You can look at the result without altering the state after the first result is found (it's a projection operator in other words). The first difference with your explanation is that you can roll as many times as you like without altering the state after the first roll. That is, when you roll a quantum dice, it is in a unique state. Rolling it again will not alter its state!
These two operations do not commute. The rolled-state can be written as a superposition of the six result-states - and it keeps that state no matter how many times you re-roll. When you use the result operation, that rolled-state collapses to one of six result-states. Which state it collapses too is random.
The maths of Quantum Mechanics is mostly linear algebra. If it was just practical statistics there wouldn't be so many disagreements about its meaning. Nevertheless, it's QM that agrees with reality.
Request a copy (or as many as is required) of the computer. Run it. The simulated version will run slow.
However this doesn't imply that objective reality is provable, just that computers can't simulate reality perfectly.
The inch is a metric unit. As a consequence of the yard being defined as 0.9144 meters, the inch is exactly 25.4 mm. The Open Rack server slots will be 5.334 meters. Maybe they should round down to 5.333... meters.
It's still stuck on version 2.6.12 for Windows. It's a shame they don't support a (binary) Windows download.
Another benefit is access to games like Portal 2 without needing to spend at least $100 on an OS. I'm wondering how many people this would benefit though, as a lot of people will either already have Windows, or require it for other software. I'd guess that people with second machines they'd like to play games on would be the biggest beneficiaries.
Yeah. The story went something like this:
1. Alcatraz survives destroyed sub ...
2. Alcatraz gets nanosuit
3.
4. Prophet!
If we can work out how to generate those numbers we can send messages backwards in time!
I was excited when I read the BBC's headline until I'd read the story. Ettore Majorana's disappearance is more interesting.
So I occasionally get photos of giant hummingbirds and huge spiders emailed to me. It was a little unnerving at first, but I have gotten used to it.
Disadvantage? I was wondering if I should get a security camera and this has sold me on the idea.
e^(tau*i) + 0 = 1
No it doesn't. BST is always GMT + 1.
You could use a different representation of course. Decimal floating-point or even a base-60 based representation would handle some numbers better. However you'll not be able to represent as many numbers exactly in the same storage space (98% as many for example). However if the numbers you do want to use are better represented, it might make sense.
6-sigma represents random errors. You can have 6-sigma, and also have systematic errors in the results.
Now for the Bible verses that prove that the Bible is not against knowledge
You've cherry-picked those. I expect some bits "prove" the opposite.
I would say that the only 'inconsistency' you tend to find is that you discover the reality of where you live turns out to be more complex than your original occam's razor based theories postulated.
...and the theory that explains that is even simpler. Which somewhat contradicts what you're saying.
Only one: that we live in a logical and consistent universe. In other words, that if we reproduce the conditions under which a phenomenon was observed, then the phenomenon itself will be reproduced.
Not sure that rings completely true when Quantum phenomenon includes random events. Although it doesn't contradict what you're saying.
...things would be true and false at the same time, and any claim that could be made would be true.
Things are true and false at the same time in Quantum theory (particularly energy values ;). However you're essentially correct: Logic still applies.
The world is flat - locally.
Would you want your (true) medical history to be public knowledge?