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Re:Ask HN: 2 karma minimum to lock out spam bots by cperciva on Friday April 24, 2009 @11:23AM (#577607)
Computers are good at simulating Turing machines. Computers aren't good at determining whether Turing machines halt; in fact, it is impossible for a computer to determine in the general case whether a Turing machine will halt.
Re:Ask HN: 2 karma minimum to lock out spam bots by rythie on Friday April 24, 2009 @12:09PM (#577680)
Fair enough, though it might have the effect of not letting humans in either ;-)