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Meta Is this one fishing for ideas?

There was a very nice question posted recently about an underground society not knowing overground war has ended. Just out of curiosity: The question could be regarded as "too broad", "genera...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Antares‭

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Incubator Q&A What could be a believable reason for technologically advanced underground people to not notice the end of surface war for hundreds of years?

They lost the key The outside gate was rather "low tech" like a vault door. Then over time need arised to add layers of improved gate technology in the inner area. Also maybe adding several layers...

posted 2mo ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Antares‭

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Incubator Q&A Prevent kelp from growing past a certain height

From the Minecraft wiki: The age value of a newly planted kelp plant varies randomly from 0 to 24. Each time the kelp grows in height by one block, the newly generated top of the kelp plant incr...

posted 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Incubator Q&A How do I increase the height of my world?

I have a world that I made a few years ago. I've built a lot in it, but realized that I've hit a stopblock. I need more vertical space. Can I somehow increase the build height limits, both below an...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Moshi‭

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Meta How can Worldbuilding successfully support creative exploration?

I'm assuming here that a community for Worldbuilding exists and the focus is therefore on "how to tackle certain question types". Not "are certain question types indicating that Worldbuilding is no...

posted 2mo ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Antares‭

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Incubator Q&A How to fix corrupted world data after increasing the world height with a datapack?

I do not know why this happened, but I did figure out a solution which seems like it permanently solves it. Whenever a block is placed in the world, the chunk updates such that the y level of that...

posted 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Meta What should we do with older proposals that have no incubator activity?

Our incubator system is fundamentally broken. When I have some time, I'll write a meta post about this. We should do nothing with inactive proposals until we have a better means of starting new s...

posted 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta Is the Open Source proposal currently viable?

Open Source Software was proposed about a year ago. Ten people have joined or are watching, which might be a record here, but there have been no posts in the incubator. The description is: A s...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Welcoming a wide range of Artificial Life questions

I'd like to welcome questions at any level of understanding, in particular because Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary field, so even an expert in one field is an outsider in some sense. I'd al...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Incubator Q&A How to fix corrupted world data after increasing the world height with a datapack?

I increased the vertical height of my world yet again by lowering the min_y and increasing the height values in the existing datapack I've already used for 2 years, whose sole purpose is to provide...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Meta Should Accounting merge into Finance?

Accounting was proposed about a year ago, but there have been no posts in the incubator. A comment on the proposal suggests that accounting should be within the scope of Finance. There is no over...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Does the Invasive Species proposal have support?

I am not particularly interested in the topic itself, but I would like to make a suggestion: Maybe the topic can be integrated/extended into a "Biology" community? The proposal could be kept as a ...

posted 2mo ago by Antares‭

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Incubator Q&A Prevent kelp from growing past a certain height

kelp is the part that eventually grows into a kelp_plant, and replaces the water block above with kelp. So if you're in creative mode, you can use commands to set the topmost part of the kelp stack...

posted 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Incubator Q&A Is it possible to indoctrinate child soldiers to the point of being robotic in science fiction setting

Backstory: So I had an idea where there's this secret society type organization with a specialized super-powered group to deal with serious and major threats. After something of a civil war breaks...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  edited 24d ago by Melchizadek ‭

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Incubator Q&A Is there an explicit law that you can reject being elected President (in the US)? If so, which law?

In the following scenario: A person is not running for President of the U.S. Somehow, they receive a large number of votes as a write-in candidate, and secure the election victory. They decline ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A What is a common infinite and decidable set of axioms?

a formal system is a system of axioms equipped with rules of inference, which allow one to generate new theorems. The set of axioms is required to be finite or at least decidable, i.e., there mus...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Why can't the body clear / drain a periapical tooth abscess on its own? [closed]

Every single article I've read about periapical tooth abscess (including the one on this previous link) states that it won't go away without treatment. I mean it's just hard for me to understand h...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by toraritte‭  ·  closed 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Comcast internet went down for small business. Can we have our losses offset?

In a small call center which handles many calls, the internet suddenly went down. This led to major workplace disruptions the entire day, lost business, and stress. A small business depends on thei...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A What theoretical frameworks have been proposed to mediate the possible mutual exclusivity of privacy and free knowledge?

From what conceptual framework could one derive self-consistent ethical principles about how to distinguish between situations in which people’s right to privacy enables them to choose what data ot...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A What could be a believable reason for technologically advanced underground people to not notice the end of surface war for hundreds of years?

Undergrounds is a garden of Eden The people undergrounds love to live there. They have all they need and have not developed an urge to go overground (yet).

posted 2mo ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Antares‭

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Meta Proposal authors can cause disruption by deleting their proposal

Since I am the proposal's author I'd like to give my two cents: The original idea to create that proposal was, because I figured Codidact is missing such a community. I proposed that with the inte...

posted 3mo ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Antares‭

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Meta Home Improvement: Is it necessary to expand acronyms like OSB?

Some amount of jargon specific to the site domain is expected and necessary. However, "home improvement" is very broad and not a specialized niche. You don't go to college to get a degree in Home...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A Is time reverse possible in Minecraft?

Yes, it's possible to reverse time in Minecraft. You can do so by using a negative integer in a /time add command. /time add -1000 While a /time subtract doesn't exist, you may still use any in...

posted 1y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Meta Should proposals all have MathJax or none have MathJax?

MathJax should be enabled everywhere. Many communities either need it or will need it. It's tedious to ask for it every time, and then when it's added, to go back and edit dozens (hundreds? thousan...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Incubator Q&A What's the least traumatic way to integrate resurrected historical humans into modern society?

several billion That's going to take some serious 'splainin. We already have too many people on this planet, and the number is still growing. You're going to have to provide a really good reason...

posted 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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