He probably doesn’t play chess against bots that have the entire game’s move set memorized either. Its his game, he paid for it, its not selfish to deny you a kill, you’re just trying to insure a supply of fodder for the way you want to play. Get a life.

When you grow up, you’ll realize that you don’t have time to…

Why yes, not enjoying the pointless squawking of adolescent ego-stoking IS boring. How astute of you.

Dammit you owe it to us to get on line and let us kill you and teabag your corpse you ungrateful wretch.

It shows we can build one if you get enough unobtainium to create regions of negative energy density while not breaking the causal structure of the universe. In other words, it doesn’t. It shows how the knowledge of your banging two large rocks together is communicated to the rest of the universe.

You can have anti-gravity as soon as you are also able to reverse the flow of time.

Not recognizing the problem with the math is an honest mistake. The real sin is to think that not only are they right, but they are the first and only person to come up with this amazing idea and THAT FACT doesn’t give them the slightest pause to double-check their numbers.

Quidditch doesn’t exist JUST so that Harry Potter is able to be the best at catching snitches.

I tried to think of a more first world problem. I failed.

You know, this seems misguided. The people investing in guns are not *buying the guns*, and the guns won’t cease to be bought if you don’t invest in them - someone else will simply buy those shares at a slightly cheaper price. If you dried up all demand for those shares, because there was no one ANYWHERE who wanted to…

That’s funny, but a real scientist says ‘I wonder if that happens every time the lever is pulled, I’m going to need a team of graduate students to pull the lever 24 hours a day for weeks at a time, and a grant from the DoE to fund it.’

I am reminded of an Asheron’s Call bug, where because they were hashing player account names, it was entirely possible to get non-random behavior in combat resulting in characters that were stormtrooper-like in ability to be killed by mobs.

I will totally add this to the list of things I’m not even slightly concerned about.

#10 is a bad example. Investors don’t necessarily check their portfolios in down markets because it’s a bad time to sell any of their holdings; they would just be wasting time and scaring themselves into exiting their positions at the worst possible time. Down markets are when you go bargain hunting, not wound…

How did I know that we couldn’t have a thread where some moron didn’t try to defend the policies of West Fuckistan because they are actual fucked policies that can be interpreted in overly broad and racist ways, to intimidate and ‘make a point about who is in charge’ to a child.

If a white kid built a clock, he…

This child has learned a valuable lesson about how great America actually is.

Usually a beta is more-or-less feature complete. You’re saying it exited alpha.

Dennett is a brilliant, down to earth thinker. He’s hardly a lunatic, and you discredit yourself by starting off with an ad hominem attack on a person whose ideas you don’t like.

Thats funny, every time you pre-order 30 things, I decide to wait until they are in the bargain bin instead of buying them immediately after launch.

Pre-orders are how you get bad software. You’re contributing to consumer unfriendly practices and low quality products. There is no reason to pre-order something that can be downloaded digitally on day one, when stores will have the items in stock the moment they open with no danger of running out, except that you…

Your choice of the words ‘encode’ and ‘store’ is ambiguous - you have not made a clear distinction as to what you are using those terms to mean, the human brain is not a serial computer where one can say ‘this stores, this decodes’, and you clearly do have some idea where memories are stored if you can say…