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mikeash
on Aug 29, 2016
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Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Co...
Jan takes a normal box and locks it. He declares the space enclosed by the box to be the "outside," and the world to be "inside."
logfromblammo
on Aug 29, 2016
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Unfortunately, the mail thieves declare "outside" to be the volume in conformal space on the side of the boundary definition that contains the point at infinity, and "inside" to be the volume that does not, and thus steal the ring.
mikeash
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Those jerks, they're always one step ahead.
OscarCunningham
on Aug 30, 2016
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Of course the point at infinity had been stolen some time ago, and its whereabouts are currently unknown.
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