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Working stiff has enough saved up to lose his job and go back to college while still paying the bills. Truly an ancient premise.

Logically terminating resources does not imply a terminating logic loop. Clever wordplay, though.

Recursion has a specific definition. It means solving a problem by breaking a process down into smaller and smaller self-similar pieces until reaching the “base case”. In programming, it (almost) always means a function that calls itself as part of its internal logic. Depending on what the function does and the conditions for returning a value from the function, it may do that one time, many times, or not at all. A classic example is the Boggle solver.

I did say I was being pedantic :P

Not to be pedantic, and I do appreciate the humor, but that’s not recursion either :3 Recursion doesn’t need to be endless. Recursive functions can absolutely have logical termination.

Homie, Au-197 is what’s being created, as stated in the screenshot, and it is the stable isotope of gold. It’s the naturally occurring one.

And the reaction doesn’t need to be especially stable on its own when it is a bonus byproduct of existing fusion reactor processes. The point is that we can take existing and new reactors, add this process, and immediately gain significantly extra value from the stuff we’re already doing.

it’s like hybrid electric cars that charge their batteries using the brakes. You’re already braking and losing a ton of energy as waste. ANY way to recapture and use that waste energy that yields more value than the materials required to capture it, is an immediate win.

The jewelry and investment industries make up 45-50% of gold consumption. Practical and industrial uses make up only 5-10%.

As such, while flooding the market with cheap gold would rapidly lower value, that’s unlikely to be how the gold is sold. If the amount of gold being generated from fusion reactors is orders of magnitude less than the global consumption rate from jewelry and investment, which seems likely, and they are selling at our near market value rather than trying to undercut everyone, then the value of the generated gold would remain relatively stable.

in other words, considering that the gold market generates something like $350bn USD per year, and the total market value of “above ground” gold around $25tn USD, even if fusion reactors generate $1bn USD worth of gold it would have a negligible impact on the price of gold while providing significant value to the reactor operators (incentivizing the growth of the fusion reactor industry)

Totally. The fact is, once a society is beyond intra-stellar travel, with craft that do not do atmospheric flight, there is little reason not to go full borg and have ships with no real forward-facing direction to speak of

I was making an admittedly weak reference to the death star trench run dialog. Not serious

Honestly I find these types of questions silly since we have no way to compare the efficiency and efficacy of the different weapon and shielding types, or other on board tech and countermeasures.

For all we know the falcon’s shields absorb phasers like they’re paper and its turret lasers eat the Enterprise’s shield at 5% per bolt. Or it could be the other way around. Not to mention this completely ignores tactics and strategy which is a huge part of it. The Falcon doesn’t do direct confrontation for a reason. Han is more likely to try to fake a surrender and then pull some shit once aboard for negotiations.

And if we’re just gonna say “Trek tech is more advanced than Wars tech” we can just end the discussion there 🤷‍♀️

Honestly an X-Wing would likely fare better than the Falcon. Proton torpedoes, and small enough to evade their turbo lasers phasers

12 parsecs. 7 is impossible even with shortcuts through the ion storms

As I said, they care about how you think. Do you ask all these questions?

if I were given this interview question I would immediately start asking questions: Do I have my phone? Can I bring any objects into the room? Do I know the construction of the light? How far from the room is the light switch panel?

Asking “what are the limitations and conditions of this situation” is literally the thing they want to see. That’s my entire point.

This is often exactly what the interview question is testing. Many of these questions are not about the solution but about how the applicant approaches problems