It's like foveated rendering for the whole damn universe.
Zink
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"Just vote" is kind of an election day strategy.
The whole part where the actual work happens to put a decent person on the ballot instead of corporate drone n+1 is right now!
Well now I absolutely expect to read a future story about somebody working their way into ICE to do some good. But then before they knew it they were hauled out into the desert and told by masked men to execute a Mexican detainee like some kind of fucked up gang initiation ritual, to prove their true loyalty.
After doing a bunch of carpentry this year, now I have metric and imperial sets of nice long hex bits for my high torque impact driver.
Something is gonna move, one way or another!
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That's right about observation events. They are often called interactions instead.
But the wave-particle duality applies to literally everything at the quantum level, per the standard model and quantum field theory anyway. And that's a model with an incredible track record.
Looking at a particle as a wave is usually in the context of that particle by itself moving in a straight line through a vacuum. There isn't really vibration and temperature; there aren't even atoms! You just have the particle's energy in eV.
Whether we can subjectively compare the packets of energy in quantum fields with the waves of energy through matter, I have no idea. The math is solid though.
With "bears" being plural, I think it's very possible you score one pet on one bear but do not find time in your remaining days on earth to get your hand(s)/stump(s)/organ(s) into some scritches on the second one.
Therefore I must, with the utmost politeness, disagree with your assertion!
And I just know this is a great metaphor for some manufacturing defect or race condition I've investigated at work, lol.
Speaking of which, in that analogy the "remaining days on earth" would definitely be stored as a double precision floating point and not an integer. I mean obviously, lol.
Yeah that sounds about like the line of reasoning I'd expect from conservatives in my family. The problem is that you gave them something at all. They made you a sucker. Stop helping people. etc.
They'd just terminate the thought there, and not move on to wonder if it could it be some other problem the system could help them with other than today's cart of groceries. My goodness, they might accidentally save a life and not even know it!
I LEARNED IT FROM YOU, DAD!
The whole concept in quantum mechanics of a particle's wave function collapsing into a single point due to an observation event is just weird enough, and feels just enough like some otherworldly programmer's hack to save tons of resources, that I am not sure I will ever be fully convinced that we are not in a simulation.
I'm not asserting that we're in one, and I don't know of any reasons to believe that we are in one, but I think I'll always have that little suspicion.
I agree with everything you're saying.
And unfortunately as a life-long resident of white suburban america, I know how comfortable life still is for so many people, and how the culture of "ignore that problem and we'll be fine" continues to pay off for people with a little privilege in their life.
I think these days the PC value argument is a lot more about longevity and versatility than price.
Like in my case, I want to have an old fashioned LAN gaming setup in my house. I've already managed to find four PCs stored away, and they are all going to work great. Three are already set up and have linux installed and everything. So they cost a decent amount in their day, but now they're kind of just free extras.