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  1. The roman culture of old surely did. I don't see anyone trying to claim the temple of Jupiter anymore?
  2. But anything more than 1 vote assigned for your usage is quid pro quo (since you will get to enjoy policies that you "paid" for) when others only get a single vote.
  3. How does one get readings from large antennas? Are the streams public?
  4. There is another way. Irrationality. People spend a lot on religion. Like a whole lot.

    What if there was a faith system of ultimatley going to interstellar medium. You have faith, you automatically pay, like the rest of the people and you dont question it. You get tax breaks. It will help you in the end of times or something.

    Just decide the ultimate goal to be interstellar medium touching in all directions.

    You are a farmer? Well now you continue to farm to feed budding spacers. You are a game dev? Well, people are going to get bored in space, continue developing games for the ultimate goal.

  5. I think there is one more thing that sort of works. ASCII art is surprisingly hard for many llms.
  6. If you go at light speed across the universe, the scenery would also not change, until you collide with something.
  7. "Is this what you can conjure Saruman?"

    I have a strong belief that new mathematical tools and methods can be developed that can make it "easy" to break a lot of modern cryptography primitives without ever using a quantum computer.

  8. I guess massively is the relative word. But I will stand by the claim that we can discover/invent new mathematical methods that can aid in cryptanalysis, if not directly by cryptographers, then by some adjacent field.
  9. I think cryptanalysis as a discipline is not massively funded. All of the cryptography is only as strong as the collective failure of all human intelligence so far to break it.

    Most people consider cryptography as a "solved" problem, but I don't think it is. I am sure if enough cryptologists try algorithmic methods and are well compensated for it, they will likely find algorithmic weaknesses (and invent new kinds of mathematics) that can bring down complexity of solving such schemes, even before we have real and functional Shor machines.

  10. DirectX12 is still much better to use than Vulkan.

    Natively supports Xbox and PC. Can run on Linux with Proton. The Playstation API functionally resembles DX12.

    Vulkan is extension management hell (but has gotten much better, I concede)

  11. Do pure logic machine use some kind of higher order prolog, which currently does not exist?
  12. Hannibal determined that Rome received strength through the Socii, the allied city states of Rome. He wanted to isolate Rome and bring terms.

    However, he 1) Failed to turn most of the socii to his side. 2) Ignored the western roman allies who were slowly eating away at Iberia.

  13. This reminds me of the excellent CEPL library (https://github.com/cbaggers/cepl). You can write live shader like programs with cepl with an OpenGL backend.
  14. Bilbo crossed the Misty Mountains back during the spring.
  15. Most of the developers of the microcomputer revolution era programmed in Non-Unix environments.

    Even in workstation space, the cool lisp/smalltalk/... developers hated unix, but the small market was filled with unixes.

    Even today, most of the native developers use windows!

  16. In turn I will raise you the following: Why are GPU ISA trade secrets at all? Why not open them up like CPU ISAs, get rid of specialized cores and let compiler writers port their favorite languages to compile into native GPU programs? Everyone will be happy. Game devs will be happy with more control over the hardware, Compiler devs will be happy to run haskell or prolog natively on GPUs, ML devs will be happier, NVIDIA/AMD will be happier with taking the MainStage.
  17. A slope has two ends, even when it's slippery. People want to claim submarines swim, but they do not.
  18. > There were a million Doom clones, none of which were as good as Doom

    Sure, but there were some "Doomlikes" I would still rate as better than doom; like Build Engine games Duke Nukem and Blood/Blood 2 and other IdTech based games like Hexen.

  19. Always think from the users perspective. For a lot of applications, when a user does something, it should happen with minimal latency.
  20. On paper. But it is easier to get influenced by intelligent "Subject Matter Experts" and they usually know how to nudge the public representatives their way.

    This is a known and accepted flaw of rotating leadership in democracies.

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