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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's not trying to say either of them.

It's just guessing what word to say next, given the previous words in the context.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago

Had they just used some punctuation - "The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Thursday, announced", it would have made it easier to get. Even, "The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders, on Thursday, announced" would be doable.

How do these feel?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

graph of binding energy per nucleon for stable nuclei

And gives some energy (and building material) in the process? Yeah, it's just kinda hard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

Having rules, means we need to be sure everyone follows it. And having a condition in which everyone wants to and strives to follow it, is also something utopian.

So even if the rules turn out to be desirable, a deterrent would be required. Now of course, for the thoughtful, the deterrent would be the possibility of losing long term stability, but for those who only think of immediate gains, you either have to band up (which eventually causes formation of communities and states) or they band up (= bandits) and eventually become kings (the problematic kind).

And then these things come into play:
Cooperation game Pretty good linking of thoughts by Veritasion

Then comes the most important point (or at least what I consider so). Technological progress. Science is very much viable in Anarchy, with most scientist-scientist interactions not really requiring a state in the first place. You just need an incentive structure that is good enough to make maintenance (including prevention of loss of knowledge) and further improvements, a desirable endeavour. And science can take a lot of resources, while not showing any return for a long time.
Depending upon the case, this might incite frustration in those, investing in it for those working on it.
And stagnation is not a possibility. Any attempts at that will just cause a slow downfall.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I used to say, "I don't like novels." until I read Foundation

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

You just gave 2 links to places on the internet where people have mentioned it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

So I just invented a game.
I kinda like it a bit.
Of course, I'm not going to tell you its name or its rules, or I will have mentioned it on the internet, which will make it a paradox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Any chance you’re a lawyer?

Physicists come pretty close too, and guess where you are

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, we are yet to make sure that the drones run on the same OS as the Teslas.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

I get it. There's probably 100's of sites with you on them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Over here, it's pretty rare to have a car that causes a lot of noise.
A few days ago, there was a car crossing me that was quieter than my cycle's hub. And it was an ICE.
Only the "sports" cars and bikes tend to be loud and thanks to petroleum prices (and the vehicle's price itself) are much less in number.

But loudspeakers and fireworks, I cannot bear.

Air pollution? Mine is a smoker's country. People like me are lucky not to be handed the Darwin award.

 

Until he actually had to use it.

Took 2 hours of reading through examples just to deploy the site.
Turns out, it is hard to do even just the bash stuff when you can't see the container.

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