Wait, but if Taiwan is a part of China, wouldn’t it be China getting the weapons?

So why are they mad, Bart? Why are they mad?

They really missed calling this Cokies ‘n’ Cream

Not sure about the artist, but these are characters from the game Persona 5 (Haru and Futaba)

Just as we rejected slavery

Bro, you have a confederate flag hanging above your bed.
Oh, you rejected slavery because you’re the party of Lincoln? Tell me, what was the flag that Lincoln actively fought against?

Funny, since the conservative overlord Donald Trump seems to love Kim Jong Un…

“I thought we were having a smooth interview?”
“Oh no, I said DDoS! That’s what I call a smooth interview.”
“You call a smooth interview a DDoS?”
“Yes! It’s a regional dialect.”
“Uh huh, what region?”
“Uh… Bay Area?”
“Really? Well I’m from Oakland and I’ve never heard anyone use the phrase ‘DDoS’ to describe a smooth interview.”
“Oh, not in Oakland, no. It’s more of a San Francisco expression.”
“So you’re calling this a DDoS despite the obvious fact that the rest of your website was fine and not affected at all?”
“Y- Uh… you know, the… the one thing I should… oh look it’s back up!”

Casual complacency when faced with actual dictator rhetoric? Bold strategy.

Oh I totally missed that. Thanks for clarifying!

This might just be my computer-focused life talking

I’m a software eng too, but I have broad interests. Like I said, the philosophic use doesn’t really have a place in this discussion and I messed up by bringing it in. The only way it would be relevant is if the universe is a simulation because, as you guessed, then free will itself becomes part of the equation.

I also don’t know why predictability would be solely based on the numbers that came before

There’s a miscommunication happening here, and I’m wondering if I’m not explaining myself well. Election predictions use polling as their dataset, and there are no calculations that really go into predicting the results other than comparing the numbers within those sets. That’s why they’re notoriously garbage (every single pollster had Hillary winning in late October 2016, for example). Also, there aren’t any calculations that go into a CEO/Boardroom’s intuitions on how shareholders will react to policy changes, so I’m not sure about the relevance here. In the case of pi, there is no dataset that you can use that tells you what the next unknown number in pi is. The only way to get that number is to run a very complex calculation. Calculations are not predictions.

You misread the number of grams in the milkshake, I think.

As I said, you can’t predict the next number simply based upon the set of numbers that came before. You have to calculate it, and that calculation can be so complex that it takes insane amounts of energy to do it.

Also, I think I was thinking of the philisophical definition of “deterministic” when I was using it earlier. That doesn’t really apply to pi… unless we really do live in a simulation.

There’s no way to predict what the next unsolved pi digit will be just by looking at what came before it. It’s neither predictable nor deterministic. The very existence of calculations to get the next digit supports that.

Note: I’m not saying Pi is random. Again, the calculations support the general non-randomness of it. It is possible to be unpredictable, undeterministic, and completely logical.

Note Note: I don’t know everything. For all I know, we’re in a simulation and we’ll eventually hit the floating point limit of pi and underflow the universe. I just wanted to point out that your example doesn’t quite fit with pi.

Yeah, but your number doesn’t fit pi. It may not have a pattern, but it’s predictable and deterministic.

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I left reddit for good a year ago as well and I haven’t looked back.

The only thing I miss are the creepy askreddit threads, but I found that a lot of youtubers love curating and making videos on them, so that’s filled that hole pretty nicely.

Honestly, the social proof of “I was somebody Taylor Swift thought was worth dating” would get you a second look from a lot of people.

No one really talks about Matty Healy tho, except for how much of an asshole he is

Started happening for me too. Reddit can pry my data out from my vpn’s cold, dead fingers.

When Playstation reads a disc, it looks for a special sequence on the disc that tells the Playstation “hey, this is a Playstation game. You should load it.”

That sequence is proprietary and isn’t on burned copies of games. This is anti-piracy protection, and makes sense from a monetary standpoint.

When you put Alien: Resurrection in the console, which has that sequence, the Playstation is told that “hey, this is a real Playstation game. You should load it.” The game loads, then you can put in the cheat, which tells the game to stop loading from the disc momentarily while another disc is loaded (think “please insert disc 2 from final fantasy”). At this point, you can pop in your burned copy of the game, then press a button to continue loading from disc, at which point the game tells the system “hey, this new guy is with me. Let him through”, and the Playstation loads the new game from the disc.

It’s called Predictor, so it’s probably predicting the birth gender of the baby and not a pregnancy test.