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Well basically it's just a 'magic number'. If you ban all of those many programs will either break or at minimum suffer sever performance degradation.
I'll remember this as I eat my sausage egg mcmuffin for breakfast
It's similar to an early chapter of snow crash by Neil Stephenson
So you are guessing about society 7000 years ago?
Where is it not true?
Most likely you are correct
People don't think that way.
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I know I shouldn't work for evil Inc but I need to pay rent next month.
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Yeah but that won't be an issue for many years so I'll be far past dead and it's someone else's issue.
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If I can set it up so my children control the last source of fresh water in the area they will be powerful and envied. My lineage will continue far into the future.
Yes working cooperatively would be beneficial but most people prioritize themselves.
Granted. A lot of stuff would be different or break if the earth was flat. Op's point was it was a good enough approximation. I was saying that might be true in some cases but it also shows a lack of critical thinking and that's the major issue.
A racing game where you deliver pizza. It's in a city with cars driving around doing their own thing. Issue is, you are a poor pizza delivery person and gas is expensive so you don't have a car. You have a skateboard and a electro-magnet harpoon gun. You shoot it at cars which pull you behind but have no control over where they go or how fast they go. They could stop randomly and you slam into the back. When they take a turn you could retract the cord and get closer for a tighter curve but less time to react to anything around the corner. You could extend the cord but risk slamming into the building on far side of the intersection or ending up going head first into oncoming traffic.
There are no "tracks". There is a starting point and a ending point in a city. How fast can you get there? Do you go most straight path there? Do you take the highway for safety but have to loop back to destination? What if the car dragging you takes a turn you didn't want? Do you just follow or release and try to coast till there's another car to pull you?
The fact that the earth is round vs flat doesn't really matter in everyday life, that is true. But it shows a lack of critical thinking and a lack of desire for knowledge. That's the problem. We should encourage critical thinking and encourage understanding how the world works.
Reminds me of the final scene in that "beyond the curve" documentary on the flat earth series. Thus group designs their own experiment. They run their experiment. They get the exact result they stated would prove the world was curved. Their response? "something must be wrong with our equipment". Thinking like that is the issue. You can have a theory but when tested and proven false you should disregard that theory. If other people share knowledge which proves your theory wrong you should disregard that theory.
Reminds me of a codebase I used to work on which we had 899 variable limit and we couldn't name them, only number them. These were limitations of the language.
Each variable had to be assigned a 3 digit number but 1-100 were taken by internal stuff so only 101- 999 was allowed. So let's say you wanted to check if power was between 50 and 60 you would end up with like
#301 = 50;
#302 = 60;
#303 = powerSignal;
If #303 < #301 || #303 > #302: Display error
Continue process
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I know there is a similar scene in there. I just want a game version with personal agency. If there is something else similar please let me know