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the property is the persistent modifiable state
how it's accessed or named is secondary
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DEVELOPERS: Terminology poll! I am interested in your understanding of the word “property,” regardless of programming language. -
(whispers: the original iPhone was in many ways a superior user experience) https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/113162083054623081@inthehands
incentives for the phone
to be loyal to its owner
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I fully expect that string theory will eventually turn out to be completely unrelated to physical reality, but give rise to a new family of useful encryption algorithms or something. Research is like that.https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/11309705...@inthehands
A related challenge: Is there any bound on how many abstruse theoreticians society should be prepared to support for the unpredictable eventual value of their output?