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I really don't think he means it in the deep philosophical sense of unique personal identity but more the fact that if the situation has been different whoever his grandfathers descents were (if any) would have radically different options in life.

Its not loss of revenue per se since apple doesnt sell licenses for the OS. And presumably you are making the hackintosh because you DONT want the exact hardware apple sells.

Also probably the same machines that are installed for crowd control already a lot of military installations (microwave emitters) can do this already.

To be fair the V2 rockets never hit anything useful prinarily because the British had turned every german spy and were feeding them false information about the results of the attacks.

Lucid dreaming - https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/

Because that would make voter suppression harder.

I like the ram only aspect but I wonder if the risk of losing all that data in a power disruption is worth it? Seems like it would make a temptimg target for "accidents" in areas where many people vote a certain way and some group wants to disrupt this process. Voting in the US is already a huge ordeal of waiting in line for hours, a lot of those people probably can't / won't come back to revote if the volatile memory erases the machine data.

Wrong. In the book they build the bunker stations behind Jupiter but NOT in orbit of jupiter or its moons and even that station keeping takes a tremendous energy.

Have you checked the wayback machine? a few of my very embarrassing geocities pages made as a tween are there.

Instead of cost being the authenticator of the signal academic performance \ intelligence could be like it is in some european countries wherw college is low cost but admitance is based on high school performance.

What makes you think its unintended? Someone profits from all the student loans issued.