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Re:0.999...= 1 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @05:22AM (#23028990)
Obviously not.

Which is the point in using the word obvious, obviously. Namely, using it to feel superior or to not provide a better argument.

Re:Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing on Thursday April 30, 2020 @05:18AM (#23028963)
I think you are being silly.

What's moral or amoral is dependant on whatever he is feeling at the moment. I very much doubt he has defined it.

Re:0.999...= 1 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:41PM (#23012454)
Obviously saying it is not obviously true is false if 0.999... == 1.0
Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:35PM (#22241241)
Alternatively, learn not to accept death and start that life goal of making it something that is a sad, rare event instead of part of the human nature.
Re:How the Finnish survive without small talk on Friday October 19, 2018 @08:28PM (#18261027)
If it’s a protocol, there should be an option to just drop the incomming packets and go on with one’s life.

This. Now if any of those influencers could start a campaign to make a short signal socially acceptable for "drop communications".

I vote for making an X with your index fingers.

So:

30 guns fired / 10.10^6 people vs 1 000 police murders / 325.10^6 people.

3.10^-6 guns fired per capita vs 3.10^-6 murders per capita.

Couldn't find the Swedish police murders stats. I'd estimate on their police murders per capita to be 2 or 3 orders of magnitude less than the USA.

Alternative: The actual universe has so much computational power that having thinking beings inside a simulation is low cost.

If you are inside the simulation, you don't know the actual universe's rules. Thinking beings being more likely to be in the real universe is just the kind of thing a thinking being inside a simulation with limited computing power would say.

Just half-joking, of course.