You can think about it based on the uncertainty principle, which allows for borrowing energy for a limited time. The more energy you borrow, the less time you have. With a mass close to Rubidium, a virtual W boson can't survive for long, limiting the maximum travel distance significantly.

Is it though?

How do you measure volume, if your ruler is being sucked inwards faster than the speed of light? How do you measure where the mass is if its world line ended at the singularity years ago?

What about other models for the internals of a black hole, which attempt to unify quantum mechanics? Does the world line actually form a loop at the event horizon?

We know that our understanding of the physics inside a black hole is probably wrong. Because it doesn't explain how quantum information is absorbed, then released when the black hole evaporates.

You can't stop people from downloading and manually running some random executable they found on the internet.

At least flash is no longer auto-launched in the browser.

I would be fine with an escrow service. "We will support this until [date], at which time we will either extend the support period or release the source code under [license]"

On all servers within a location, in order to disrupt any similar crime. And that's any federal crime with a 3 year sentence.

The wave of "stretch" passes us at the speed of light. But the rate of "stretch" is slow.

Picture a tank of water, 1m deep. A bouy on the surface, using pulses of sound to measure depth. A wave 1km wide passes the bouy, also at the speed of sound. The bouy could send 1000 pulses before the wave disappears.

I can understand having the option, particularly for those users with stupidly wide curved monitors.

Can you test every permutation of valid configuration? Particularly for a large complex system, with end user configurable rules.

The real world is how you discover that your automated tests don't cover enough cases.

The grid is built to push power from high voltage lines, to substations, to street level transformers, to the house. Trying to push solar into that street level transformer will not export anything back to the high voltage line.

Yes, but. That storage has to be installed on each street. We're talking about the residential power grids being overloaded. The power grid doesn't have a way to export power from your street.

Yes, but the bit Tesla battery is pugged into the wholesale layer of the network. Not at the street level where the problem is located. Solar power can't be shipped back up the grid, it must be consumed by your neighbours.

I have no sympathy for the network operators. This is an entirely foreseeable problem, that they should have been trying to solve for the last decade.

• power has been too expensive for too long
• people install solar to cut costs
• power network threatens solar users, or raises prices elsewhere

Repeat

The issue I have with these ethics "trolley problems", is that if the situation ever occurs, you have already failed.

Don't forget the onerous requirements for interaction metadata and search / ranking methods.

If you have a bunch of 3rd party Intel code, sure each of them will be translated once and stored on disk. But after that, the Intel code will not be in memory. Loading the translated binaries into memory will not be significantly larger than their Intel counter parts would have been.

I'm not really sure where your misunderstanding is, but you're clearly confused about something.

> GC is always going to give you some level of latency. Well... I suppose that may be technically true. But only because the CPU must be doing some work, taking cycles away from your application. Building a GC that never needs to stop your thread should be theoretically possible.