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Comment · 7 years ago
It's an analogy for the second law of thermodynamics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics. The point is that it's “challenging” and that complex events “evade a straightforward explanation”. That “challenge” is our intuitive experience of the directional arrow of entropy. A similar analogy would be to consider the difficulty of un-cracking an egg. Also, imagine comparing one bowl of soup to another bowl which was made just from tasting (or distilling) the first. Intuitively these are not likely to taste the same, otherwise a notable episode of Seinfeld would be invalidated.
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Comment · 7 years ago
You can make up any number you like! That's what they did.
Comment · 7 years ago
Isn't the problem, then, that the software doesn't work well enough with dark skin?
Comment · 7 years ago
The semaphore ploy strikes me as much more rooted in information, thus the description “cyber”. Stealing code is just theft, since the object of theft doesn't generally qualify the act (though it does in some cases).
Comment · 7 years ago
> Given that the user name says the user has no street cred, it's ironic that people would assume the user is "urban".

I don't think so. If they weren't “urban” it wouldn't be relevant at all—no streets.

Comment · 7 years ago
No.
Comment · 7 years ago
An argument like this generalizes into: everybody's free to do anything and there are no problems. At least you included “I don't see”.
Comment · 7 years ago
“... can't get fooled again.”
Comment · 7 years ago
Who isn't a terminally ill patient?
Comment · 7 years ago
Though some of it is, so it's written this way.
Comment · 7 years ago
You stopped reading too early.

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