Brilliant satire. This is how you do it, folks.
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secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoExactly! I don’t even see how there could be a benefit for me. If I don’t understand it, there’s no benefit. After all, I did take Algebra. We need to decide democratically what science is, with everyone getting a fair vote, so wasteful science like this can finally be stopped.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Urist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Now I want to try too: The ultimate form of democracy is when people are voting with their wallets. Then they can have the freedom to express both what they want and how much they want it. That is why profitable = good and freedom, actually.
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think we have already done that and you just disagree with what we have agreed to categorize as science. This shouldn’t stop you from making your own computers and have them do whatever you’d like though.
Because, well…. That’s democracy.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Like voting on which science is right lol?
That’s how we end up with solar roadways…
Urist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Much of the basis for the RSA cryptosystem, and by extension much of modern computing, was done by some mathematician who prided himself that his work was not applied mathematics and could not ever be applied in any way (bonus point for being pertinent to the topic of large primes). Science is exploratory work, not a straight path to some predefined goal. The person above is evidently clueless as to how science is conducted.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes I’m with you 100% there :-)
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Solar freaking roadways