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>What do I think about them? Well, first of all, they're not events. The mass of the sun doesn't occur at any point in time, nor does its output energy.
I'm not sure to translate correctly... and then what about solar flares? the phenomena are without energy ( to see it, photons are modifying captors... photons are light energy, no ?)?
>"This is just an excuse not to think."
This seems a little harsh... I believe more that at this time in our knowledge, humanity doesn't have found tools permitting to approach this event...
I agree with your Pascal wager...even it's 4 hundred years old...and it doesn't imply stopping research...

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I agree more with this definition but
>" "creation" of coordinates at t=0 would imply the creation of information; which violates 2nd law of thermodynamics"
I have questions :
- about the creation of information or coordinates : how's that ? (coordinates are mind things only, no?)
- about the notion of the second law of thermodynamics : this is about reversibility ? Our universe is a system closed ?

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I'd bet more sexual activity yields more offspring overall.

I know I prefer females that are up for anal at least sometimes. I wouldn't consider a long term relationship (long enough to raise offspring successfully in a dangerous world) with a girl with an anal hangup. No way.

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]]> /sci/res/15084.html#15092 >>15084

backup your porn and put it in a vault

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>At some point someone started buying cheap discs, and the 60-70 year lifespan of cdrs turned out to be more like 7-10 years.
Seriously. Optical discs can go suck a dick.

Myself, I've found that internal HDDs connected to a dock via eSATA have the best reliability/speed/price-per-GiB relation, as long as you only turn them on once in a while.

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>joke version

I regret to be the one to have to inform you, but that's no joke. That table is part of a real roleplaying system, and is quite likely to actually be referred to in a game of FATAL.

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>the programs are still stuck on traditional mechanics.

Because programmers are still figuring out the possibilities and requirements of the new architecture.

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Oh yea, it's been so long since we used em, I forgot about the waiting...

But we just threw out a pile of tapes that were unrecoverable because sometime between 1994 and now, the hvac went out. Optical media wasn't a whole lot better. At some point someone started buying cheap discs, and the 60-70 year lifespan of cdrs turned out to be more like 7-10 years. :/

We're a mid-size architecture firm, so what works for us might not work for you. We now utilize a selection of online services for collaboration & backup, depending on the type of the data, though each computer also saves delta backups locally to ext HD's (themselves backed up across the network at night) for general data and our windows VMs, simply via the built-in Time Machine software for quick recovery & version tracking.

If you're an individual, using Dropbox is probably the most bang for your buck. Try that & see.

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Their biggest problem is, as mentioned, them being linear devices. This is great if you want to store rarely accessed information but if you want to access multiple files on it you have to wait ages for it to wind back and forth finding them.

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shame, what system do you use now? im kind of curious as to alternatives for optical media and HDD for backup purposes

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We finally chucked our last tape backup system last year. Good damn riddance. Finicky drives, tapes that don't age well, etc... no thank you.

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>1.6TB storage capacity, 240MB/s write speed, not even £20
jesus fuck, could somebody please explain to me why magnetic tape storage is considered obsolete again, and why its not in greater use?

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Without proof, though, its all conjecture. The only way to be sure is build a very good neutrino detector to gain more knowledge (neutrino decoupling was around t=10 sec i believe) of the early universe and try to do something with that.

Also; "creation" of coordinates at t=0 would imply the creation of information; which violates 2nd law of thermodynamics and since it is entropy that determines the direction of time flow, usual time progression ideas would not be valid anyway.

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power off, power on, the computer is made of bamboo and there's an electrical fire

the coin analogy is correct therefore

you wanted abstract, you can have abstract

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