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What information would be the most useful to have for me to achieve the best life I can before my death?
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What is the answer to life the universe and everything? You know, just for confirmation.
Repeatability is key in science.
What happened with 'the safe' that was on reddit years ago? OP never posted followup. Is he still alive? Was he taken by the underpeople? Did he release an eldritch monster?
What is the text of a json file containing every private key used for encryption and its associated context, sorted by political and financial value?
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Why does the universe exist?
Winning lottery numbers for next draw. When will humanity go extinct? Where are the nearest 1 billion species with near human level intelligence or greater. How do we safely and conveniently travel faster than light.
So many to choose.
That's why you get 1.
Fine. Winning lottery numbers then. I can ponder the depths of the other ineffable questions from a beach with a tasty beverage somewhere nice.
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What is the full content of the Epstein files?
(Hope you don't mind if I'm recording you while you give the answer...)
What is the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe and Everything?
That one has been answered long ago.
The answer to the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe and Everything is 42.
But what is the question?
How can I make sure I don't misspell guaranteed when posting? I would share the answer.
OK
When are you going to die?
When was the last time my father carried me on his shoulders?
What is the question-answer pair that would be most-advantageous to me?
Given a normal gaming computer running the most currently up to date version of Linux Mint and the rust programming language, what is the code required to make a program that can send files back in time without the need of anything more than a gigabyte of RAM to be able to send it if a single character is called out in the English language every 5 seconds until the code is completed?
When will I die?
Now. Poof. /s
I could see a Genie doing that and being smug.
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