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Regy Rusty posted:"Not good with numbers, but good with patterns" 90% of the Court's revenue comes from patented encryption algorithms. These fairies are keeping your bank account safe!
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YF-23 posted:90% of the Court's revenue comes from patented encryption algorithms. These fairies are Maybe Smitty is the backdoor that the FBI wants.
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May 20, 2016 14:10
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Mathematics of course famous for having no patterns.
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May 20, 2016 14:23
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I'd love to see those forest folk try to figure out Pi.
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May 20, 2016 15:40
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Regy Rusty posted:"Not good with numbers, but good with patterns" Not quite.
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May 20, 2016 15:55
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The Court's secret bitcoin rig revealed.
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May 20, 2016 15:56
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Not quite what I was just quoting this page: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1584
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Regy Rusty posted:Not quite what  I should have figured it was something like that.
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EmmyOk posted:Mathematics of course famous for having no patterns. It sometimes is!
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May 20, 2016 18:01
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So they take these forest spirits and teach them maths (fair enough) and then... data? lots of data? seems sinister 
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May 20, 2016 19:55
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Hey it's not like they're chopping off their hands or anything like that
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May 20, 2016 21:22
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Their computer browsers are locked into knowyourmeme.
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Mraagvpeine posted:I'd love to see those forest folk try to figure out Pi. Oh pi's easy. It's the ratio of the square of the radius to the area of a circle, or twice the radius to the circumference. What do you mean you were looking for a precise number?
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Strategic Tea posted:So they take these forest spirits and teach them maths (fair enough) and then... data? lots of data? Big data! Probably in the cloud. So it can rain ether down later. Seriously, they might be a magical GCHQ or something, but I'm guessing they're having them work on problems relating to etheric technology.
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I'm picturing fairy computer school like the computer episode of Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared.
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Kesper North posted:Big data! Probably in the cloud. So it can rain ether down later. I'm guessing there's a thousand applications they use them for.
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VanSandman posted:What do you mean you were looking for a precise number? Just use the definition: 2*f^-1(0), for f(x):= 1/2 (e^(ix)+e^(-ix)).
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May 21, 2016 23:10
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That hard drive is never getting defragmented now.
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I kinda wish he was wall-eyed while chomping away at all those bytes.
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May 22, 2016 18:47
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So, if the Court give Fairies their clothes, the clothes have etheric symbols, and all the fairies are collectively one giant computing cluster...I guess the Court found some use for Anja and Donald's etheric computers after all?
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May 23, 2016 11:41
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maybe eventually the fairy bit fades away and the Court dumps the groggy human somewhere in Birmingham
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I'd be interested in seeing if there's fairies/former forest dwellers that have integrated more into regular human court society.
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drat it I still wanna see Red's cool job for grownups!
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May 23, 2016 18:26
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Oh good, I am glad everyone else is picking up on this magical sweatshop vibe. What sets fairies and forest animals free? Does the forest have their own version were court goers who switch to the animal side are exploited? (Honestly I think they just get eaten)
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Donkringel posted:Oh good, I am glad everyone else is picking up on this magical sweatshop vibe. Coyote personally hunts down and eats every human who turns into an animal. Not because he hates them or anything, he just thinks it's funny to do so. Remember that kid who turned into a bird with his parents? Coyote ate all three of them.
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May 23, 2016 18:36
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Well, we've never seen humans turn into magic elves or anything, just regular animals. So they might not have it any better even if they're not being actively exploited.
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Donkringel posted:Oh good, I am glad everyone else is picking up on this magical sweatshop vibe.
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May 23, 2016 19:04
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There is no evidence it does the fairies any harm or that The Forest isn't totally aware of what's happening.
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So clothes are gray in the ether because they don't, in some sense, truly belong to the person wearing them?
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May 23, 2016 19:33
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They seem pretty happy about this much like the orphans working in my basement.
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May 23, 2016 19:45
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You know who else employs a fey labor force? Santa Claus. If what we're seeing here is wrong, then Santa Claus is also wrong.
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May 23, 2016 19:48
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Seeing how the ether works, Santa is obviously real in the Gunnerkrigg Court world. I bet Jones knows him.
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May 23, 2016 19:56
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The ex-forest people look pretty chill with the arrangement. Plus, they apparently can do the work on autopilot so they get to goof off and work at the same time. Sounds pretty cool to me. Better than most office jobs.
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May 23, 2016 20:26
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Yeah they can split their attention so well that they can goof off and learn complex mathematics at the same time a la this page.
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Kyte posted:The ex-forest people look pretty chill with the arrangement. Plus, they apparently can do the work on autopilot so they get to goof off and work at the same time. Sounds pretty cool to me. Better than most office jobs. It's also better than being eaten, which is probably what would have happened to that bunny had she stayed in the forest.
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A legitimate ethical conundrum: is it still exploitation if the exploited party doesn't know, care, or even subscribe to a social context capable of describing, that they're being taken advantage of; or is it some different kind of problematic scenario.
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Bongo Bill posted:A legitimate ethical conundrum: is it still exploitation if the exploited party doesn't know, care, or even subscribe to a social context capable of describing, that they're being taken advantage of; or is it some different kind of problematic scenario. I don't know, let's ask the American working class. 
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The Court takes its duty of custodianship towards the fairies very seriously. A lot of thought goes into their names.
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The speech bubble that's covered up probably says "Your assessment results don't leave you a lot of other options." So I see that the court has a high regard of its teaching staff too. Also Annie's hair is overheating she needs to stop running Aether.exe or something.
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