Look at the powers of 2. The only way you get to 1 is by coming down to 1. Thus, 2, which must be divided by 2 gives you one. The only way to get 2 is from 4 being divided by 2. In fact, once you end up on any power of two, it is just a number of divisions by 2 to get you to 1. If you end up at 1024, then divide by 2 for ten times and you end up at 1.

So how to you end up on a power of 2? Two possible ways:
1. Half of the next higher power of two.
2. 3n + 1

So what are the powers of two that minus one are evenly divisible by 3. Each number of this form is just one iteration away from a power of two. And the POWER of two is the number of iterations to get to 1 at that point.

Since an "n" for 3n+1 to be a power of 2 is an odd number, the only way you got to it was by dividing an even number. So what are all of the 2n values where 3n+1 is a power of 2?

Now each of these 2n values is even, and therefore is half of another even number, and possibly also a 3n+1 for some odd n.

In Clojure (or some other suitable Lisp, or something close enough to Lisp such as Python), create an infinite stream of powers of two. From that a function filters all powers of 2 that are a 3n+1 for some odd n. From here have functions that when mapped over a stream of evens gives you possible n/2 or 3n+1 forms. Or from a stream of odds gives you n/2 forms. You end up with a list of these lazy infinite streams. And each stream may fork into more streams which are added to the list of streams. Now merge sort the streams. It is important that the streams are lazy -- which is easy to implement in Clojure. Probably easy with Python using a loop with yield. See how long it takes for you to go insane.

Facebook would please like your feedback on how they could write better, smoother drivel that would not give you that nausea. Please help us improve the way we do business and how we sell your personal info and tear apart the fabric of society. Thank You!

Facebook has brazenly and openly declared it will allow politicians to buy ads and outright lie to everyone. Spread misinformation. Deception. Lies. Conspiracy theories. And things that even 8chan wouldn't touch.

What does that say about doublespeak and conscience? But look family, I made a lot of money from Facebook last year!! Isn't that all that matters?

If you left out one word, Liberal, I could agree with you.

The worship of money does not belong exclusively to any political party or point of view.

Consider that keeping the people about 50 / 50 divided and squabbling over two unworkable points of view might be exactly what the money worshipers want? You're playing right into their hands.

So you're saying like . . .

Hey, friends and family, don't ask me that, okay? After all, what matters is that I made over $300 K last year at Facebook by abusing your privacy, selling you to advertisers, selling your info to anyone who's payment will clear, and generally tearing apart the fabric of society and manipulating democracy.

But look! . . . $300 K !!!

Chatbot accepts a query.

Chatbot always serves back a single 322 page response. Written by lawyers. Which manages to slyly take take all possible positions on any question without actually committing to any single point of view on anything.

It was merely a bug. It was unintentional that the layout bug revealed that the camera had been secretly activated.

As long as the kids do whatever the screens tell them to do, I don't see the problem.

That's probably why Google would like Fitbit to make that statement now. To reassure people that Google really cares about their privacy.

Of course it could be worse. It could be Facebook.

> Surveillance is only one aspect of machine vision, yet it seems like it is the only one the
> government cares about...why ?

> What about for quality control in manufacturing ?
> What about for medical uses ?
> What about for self driving cars ?
> What about for agriculture, spotting disease , pest control , water management ?

Surveillance is about the government caring about "quality control" of human beings. For certain specific definitions of "quality".

Something interesting I see. What was once called "common decency" is now called "virtue signalling".

Only four? I think Trump will do anything to stay in office beyond 2024.

Now the Trumpers will criticize that I even suggest such a thing But wouldn't they be the ones who should be cheering this insanity?

There are any number of excuses that could be used. "The 2020 election was compromised. It is necessary for me to remain in office until a safe and secure election can be held. One that gives us an outcome we can trust!"

GO ahead and support it. It is only a matter of time before Trump comes for YOUR dna. I can hear it now.

To track disloyalty a citizen database is needed, and believe me, it will be the best citizen database, ever, bigger even than China's, the best citizen database, I promise, and it will be the newest way to keep track of citizens using the cyber, and believe me, I have friends in governments that know all about tracking citizens, and our system of dna tracking will be the envy of like-thinking governments around the world, believe me!

I definitely should have included a sarcasm tag. I thought it was obvious enough. I guess there are some viewpoints that cannot be parodied without being taken seriously.

There is a major problem with your plan. First, those terrible people from outside the US which you speak of should be called by the terrible name which properly describes them: immigrants. Do you realize that some of these immigrants (OMG!!!) have non-white skin!!! (gasp!)