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Cake day: August 13th, 2023

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  • Or we use binary to write all bases, since binary is the simplest. So English uses base 1010, and the alien is using base 100.

    This system does break down when trying to use a base that isn’t a positive integer. I’ve heard of people trying to use base e (yes, as in euler’s number) for maths research.



  • I’m pretty firmly against, because to really call on bodily autonomy rights, you need to be able to make a reasonably informed, rational, and non-coerced decision. For the impact that death has, I don’t think you can make that decision. Both because of the standard that you need to hold when death is the consequence, and because usually when someone is considering suicide they’re not in a rational state of mind. I’ve been through depression and I had some suicidal thoughts, but looking at them in hindsight, I was not fairly considering things at all. Sure, my life was far from perfect, but it wasn’t anywhere near as bad as it felt at the time.

    the only person I’ll ever hurt is myself

    That’s just not true. Unless you live as a full on urban hermit, never interacting with anyone, you have people around you. And those people care about you more than you’d think.