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Okay but how is this useful to humanity (since thats part of the prizes condition)? Its cool that we can detect them but...now what?


How can we make neutrinos useful to us? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0HQp2nBFhI

What are neutrinos good for? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6iyyM5XRx4


If it moves, we can communicate with it. Your mobile phone's neutrino signal will not lose a single bar, wherever you are on Earth, or in the solar system, or in the galaxy.


And now we come to the Macroscope.


> what's our actual ROI

In San Fransico Car Breakins dropped almost immediately by 50% and 75% in the long run since Flock cameras were introduced


https://abc7news.com/post/san-francisco-car-break-ins-histor...

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/car-brea...

I found some news articles that seem to back up this stat. It wasn't all attributable to the cameras though. It also included targeted enforcement strategy with bait cars and what not.


I haven't validated your statistic (and it's unclear what "in the long run means" since this is a point-in-time thing), but assuming it's true, how do you determine it is causation and not correlation?


Source please. This does not sound credible. How does scanning license plates stop people from breaking into parked cars?


Rosenow is a municipal (around 32km²) and in there is a district also called Rosenow. So the sender just specified his current position a bit more.


akin to "New York, New York" (as in NYC, NY)


I want to be a part of it.


Truly a concrete jungle where dreams are made of


Ah, thank you! That makes sense.


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What if those games are the only games they and their friends play together? I wouldnt want to stop that.


Having to give over time and money to a video game company to maintain friendships sounds more like a symptom than a cure.

When your grandkids ask you what you did with your finite time, is "I pwned noobs" the answer you want to give?


> When your grandkids ask you what you did with your finite time, is "I pwned noobs" the answer you want to give?

You are being ridiculous. First, unless the person was a professional gamer they would probably answer with the time they spend at work and time time they spend raising their family. But let's assume the grandkids specifically asked what they did for entertainment.

The answer would then be something like "I got together with my friends and we played the popular online games together". They would probably also mention any other things they did a lot of entertainment, too.


> Having to give over time and money to a video game company to maintain friendships sounds more like a symptom than a cure.

Sure, let me just quickly hop on a plane to australia to meet with some. I assume youre paying?

> When your grandkids ask you what you did with your finite time, is "I pwned noobs" the answer you want to give?

Yes? What kind of question is that? Youre just gonna start talking about the value you created for shareholders or your business?


> What kind of question is that?

The question is what value are video games. The answer seems to be "not much".

They look much more like addictive distractions than anything valuable.


Wow, you really dont understand the concept that people are different and have different opinion do you. You are entitled to think what you want, but why tell other people they are wrong in what they think and like?

Feel free to list out all of your hobbies and what you do in your free time and we will all critique it for you.


This can literally be said of any entertainment.

Ultimately, everyone spends their time on what they enjoy; there's no award when you die for doing more x than y while you were alive.

I enjoy playing games, gardening, and riding motorcycles. My cousin enjoys socializing at bars, playing games, and doing woodwork.

Is one of our hobby sets more legitimate than the other's?


> Is one of our hobby sets more legitimate than the other's

How are video games a hobby? Is playing slot machines also a hobby?

What's the difference between video games and slot machines? They look real similar to me.


How is Exapunks[1] anything like a slot machine? Or Slay the Princess[2]? Or Minecraft? A blanket statement like "video games = slot machines" just doesn't work. I won't deny that there are many games that are predatory/mindless, but video games are such a broad medium.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1989270/Slay_the_Princess...


Playing slot machines absolutely is many peoples' hobby, unfortunately.

As others have said, why don't you list out your hobbies (as I did mine), so we can understand exactly what recreational activities you think constitute "valid" hobbies? That will also make it easier for me to explain the difference between video games and slot machines to you.


Go play something like pathologic and come back to tell us how its like a slot machine.


In your case it would seem to be “arguing with strangers on HN”!


I'd say it's more like I'm trying to get something coherent out of people and there's nothing to be had.

Video games don't even appear to be productive of good discussion.


What are you on about? You clearly don't like video games and think they're a waste of time, which is fine. Other people do like them and find them fulfilling for whatever reason, which is also fine.

Why are you trying so hard to "prove" that someone's hobby is a waste of time?


"But don't you see?! Someone has the wrong opinion on the internet" he said as he frantically replied to every comment.


> Other people do like them and find them fulfilling for whatever reason

That's the question. What is the reason?

People also play slot machines. Are slot machines fulfilling?


How is cheating a problem that needs a technological solution when playing with friends?


Because I'm not friends with all 64 players in the lobby.

I don't want kernel level anti-cheat, though. All the games with it have cheaters anyway.


If you click on the message from warren buffet its another Geico endorsment!


because you surely will keep it updated...


They cant outspend each other forever. And with all the datacenters not even being able to be hooked up compute isnt the problem, its powering it.


Thats deliberate, heres the archive link: https://archive.ph/3ql6b


China, North Korea, Russia


In Morocco?


you're hung up on "The problem is especially severe in Morocco[…]" but the thread has moved on since the root comment where the author starts with: "The oceans are depleted."


You could solve the inaccuracy by just using a resin printer, that should have enough accuracy (maybe with some fiddling with the settings/trying out resins, light can bleed to the sides of the tiny holes needed). Although I have never done a stencil that was very fine but did fine silicone moulds with them.


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