IMDB started as an open wikipedia type website where everyone contributed content about movies and actors.

As soon as volunteers had added enough content that it was really useful, the IMDB creators locked out the contributors and sold it.

That’s really awesome. But your power setup is very unusual. Few have solar with full battery power storage.

I love Red Dwarf sooo much but I believe that was from the episode Back to Earth from 2008 and was parodying Blade Runner from 1982 as well as CSI from 2000.

You are throwing away 3 watts/hr because you can afford it while ignoring the tiny environmental damage it causes.

I bet you throw your trash onto the street too. “It’s just one plastic cup. One plastic cup doesn’t matter.”

Practically no power isn’t 0. It’s up to 3watts. For comparison a Pixel 10 at 100% CPU is 6.5 watts.

I’d say it’s because Alexander is still such a very common name.

He’s asking why is it Alexander the Great but not Caesar the Great. If Alexander was so great, he wouldn’t need “the great” after his name. Alexander itself would be enough.

Needs cones.

Yes they are contradictory. The computer isn’t supernatural. The premise states the computer isn’t 100% accurate. It says 99.9% but it could say 75% without changing the problem. It says 99% to simplify the scenario for the reader so you assume the computer is accurate. The premise is the computer can reliably predict your behavior. The premise is not the computer can defy physics.

You said this:

“This necessarily includes the results of that coin flip and the Geiger counter readings.”

The premise states the computer sets up the boxes BEFORE you enter the room. The OP states he flips the coin AFTER he enters the room.

The computer cannot change the boxes after he entered the room. The computer cannot know the results of how you will respond to the coin flip because it happens AFTER it has fixed the boxes.

. This necessarily includes the results of that coin flip and the Geiger counter readings.

The OP said he flips the coin after going into the room. But the computer setup the boxes before they entered. So the computer knowing how you’d react to the coin flip can’t change the boxes.

There’s the possibility that there’s something else at play that we don’t know, and maybe cannot fathom.

The possibility that there is something hidden that we are not aware of is why Bell’s Theorem was such a revolution in physics. The experimental proof of Bell’s theorem won the nobel prize. There are no hidden variables. Probability is fundamental, not a result of some unknown process.

The premise wasn’t that the computer was 100% perfect. It was 99.9% perfect. That is its good enough such that you should assume its correct. The premise could have said 75% and it wouldn’t change anything. Saying 99% makes it simpler for the reader to assume that the computer is correct.

The computer is not supernatural. The premise does not say the computer is 100% accurate. The premise does not say that the computer can violate known laws of physics. The premise is that the computer knows your behavior.

Then the experiments may be flawed. We dont know what we dont know

That’s the same excuse flat Earthers make. Yes every single observation made over the past 100 years could have been wrong and tomorrow we find out that all of quantum mechanics is wrong.

There are a near infinite number of variables involved, but if we knew every variable, we could solve it.

Take a single electron. You can’t define it’s position and motion (momentum) simultaneously. It is fundamentally unsolvable. There aren’t even hidden variables that we are unaware of. Bell’s inequality has been experimentally proven many times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell’s_theorem

I believe the universe is determinate

That has been experimentally proven false and outside of all mainstream science.

While you can have a supernatural belief in a clockwork universe, the premise is a supercomputer makes the prediction, not God.

You didn’t read the article. The computer isn’t watching you flip the coin and then switching the boxes at the last moment.

The boxes are fixed before you enter the room. The computer has already predicted your choice.

Which is beside the point that the OP posited using a random process to make the choice for you. The method of randomness isn’t the issue. That’s why I said a Geiger counter could be substituted for a coin flip.

Don’t be pedantic. We all understand the meaning.

1st, a coin flip is random enough such that no computer can pre determine the result of the flip with 99.9% accuracy. The process is chaotic.

2nd, walk into the room with a Geiger counter and pick the box based on the click you get from a cosmic ray.

I’ll try an analogy to explain better. The firewall is a lock on the door to your house. Vlans are a rule that to go from one room to another, you must go back out the locked door and back in.

So an attacker tries to come in and can’t pick the lock. You are safe.

Another attacker can pick the lock and get into a room. But if they can pick the lock for one room, they can pick the same lock again and get into any other rooms because it’s the same lock protecting every room in the house.

if you allowed that to happen you either did not set firewall rules strict enough

The argument was that the vlans force a device through the firewall so that the firewall can protect it. But for that to happen, like you said the firewall wasn’t strick enough or didn’t have a defense against a 0 day.

So the vlan doesn’t do anything either way. Either the firewall works in which case you don’t need vlans to force local traffic through them a second time or they don’t work in which case again the vlan did nothing.

Yes Chevron has patents. That’s not the claim.

The claim is that oil companies are sitting on patents that would make oil obsolete.