Yes.

Could be fun to turn these into initial conditions for Game of Life

How would anyone be able to afford anything if all their possessions were under hardened magma

It wasn’t magma, it was 4-6m of ash and pumice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii

Romans were known to take poor people and make them slaves, that's one solution

Why would apple ban this? Seems like a great way to increase sales!

The sensor was only needed to park spinning disks when the laptop was in free fall. Without the spinning disks they no longer fitted the sensor.

applecare abuse

Seems like the solution is right there. "Your claim was denied because we found and app installed on your device that promotes physical abuse."

Do you mean a browser with a HN comment section open?

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The idea of Pages/Tabs would be useful to me. I'm a bit of a scratch-pad hoarder. I currently have 200+ notepad++ documents open.

The mindset I use is to believe (without evidence) that a solution exists. That allows me to see solutions faster because I'm not fighting with myself.

Put yourself into the world where the solution exists.

Another thing to consider is that while a utility function may exist, completing as fast as possible may not a requirement. Waiting until biological life is no longer feasible before proceeding to fully optimize the utility function would allow us to both coexist.

How about this.. China tries anything, and we repatriate Chinese-owned real estate in the western world, and give it to the displaced Taiwanese people.

maybe gang members make great cops, you don't know.