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The point being that computation is so cheap now, that it's more difficult to promote confusion and obscure facts. It used to be expensive to compile massive data sets and reduce t…

Instead of counterfeiting, and operating beyond the boundaries of well understood legalities, while deceiving users, and engaging in sketchy malicious software practices, what if t…

None of the things you've mentioned are anything close to what I'm bringing up. The point I'm making is that popular discussion of quantum effects are so wildly off-base, and have …

I think that would mean only a dyson hemisphere, since Earth is illumnated by the entire hemisphere of the sun that faces us, due to the sun's sheer size. To see the kinds of effec…

Wake up sheeple!

I mean, sure. Except for the part where we blot out the only star in our solar system. Can't we siphon the total energy output of some other star? #NIMBY

The basic principle of the technique was proposed almost 50 years ago by the physicist Walter Hoppe, who reasoned that there should be enough information in the diffraction data to…

You as an English speaker. What about the remainder of the world? Must everything be left-to-right? What if the nouns and verbs were not English words? What if the natural order of…

I've also found focusing on the resource/noun aspect ( ... ) to be a bit of a "nerd trap"; Oh, absolutely. Ten years ago, during one of my first projects involving a REST implement…

Driving doesn't fit into such a world view. Driving through a long tunnel never lasts up to 30 minutes, and tunnel lengths are never such that if your car got stranded, walking out…

Fascinating, what gets flagged on HN these days... [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17563345

The ship sank in 1905, in case people who can't bypass the paywall might have been wondering.

Also, the "crying with laughter" face, in practical use, comes across as absurdly over-eager to express inauthentic laughter. Most people just knee-jerk flood you to hell with thos…

That is definitely a sad, crying face. How is there no [ ZZZ ] talk balloon floating above, to indicate the obvious snoring?

The experiment certainly demonstrates " something " in terms of how not to "measure" relativistic effects with macroscopic tools... And yet, with relativistic particles, the wild c…

Uh, wow, at no point have I made the claim that an electrical circuit is not a quantum system. Nor have I claimed that they are incapable of simulating quantum phenomena. Quite the…

Quote from the " Phase_qubit " Wikipedia article: "The zero voltage state describes one of the two distinct dynamic behaviors displayed by the phase particle , and corresponds to w…

A Josephson junction doesn't even trap any single actual physical particle. It's just a standing wave of electrical current trapped in a bounded array of geometrically crafted slab…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsistent_comparison Josephson phase qubits aren't even utilizing the same fundamental concepts to examine the qualities of the mediums that quantu…

Except you can't tell me what the spin is without polarizers. This is like telling me I have to measure the orientation of a fidget spinner with a fitness club's treadmill set to t…

Oh, I wouldn't take it that far. You can always take it back to primate diets, and evolve forward until humans emerge, and there you'll find an era for which the concept still ring…