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So if I ask my ISP if they are selling my data do they have to admit it? Or can they now do it in secret?

You have to love pop sci headlines with phrases like "...promises possible..." I promise you, BBC's Roland Pease, that it's possible the sun won't rise tomorrow and Linus Torvalds …

So CKs brilliant talent for comedy had not so much to do with his ticket sales, eh? That sounds like a sales pitch. Oh wait, scroll to the bottom, this is a sales pitch. Classic ta…

Changing the zoom on this page is trippy.

This is a very nice argument! Our senses are still only tuned in to detect portions of "reality" that are relevant to life on earth. For example, our eyes detect the band of EM rad…

"You're a fucking moron if you use default browser styles." - Eleanor Roosevelt

So the Sell/Check/Recycle model only requires 33% of the labor compared to the Check only model. The author suggests that this means tripling production would be possible, but that…

Here in the US we stand with you on the issue of BMW drivers.

Physics experiments have ruled theories like this out. They can put a very very small upper bound on how much the constants can change over a volume the size of the universe, and o…

You don't, it's just that h-bar = h/2pi is the variety of planck's constant that is more useful in quantum mechanics.

The first name to show up when I search 'evil man' is 'Mr Rogers'...what the hell, reddit. (first name, not first word, had to scroll down a bit, past words like 'Nazi soldier' and…

So that's wayyyyyyy outside our galaxy? Any idea how many galaxies fit into a 1 billion ly sphere around the milky way? I'm guessing a shit ton, which makes the detection of a bh m…

What would us change about the letter? Commenter djcapelis above disagrees.

I'm turning 25 in two weeks. So this is it? 2015 was my last year of music? Damn...it went by so fast!

> It's turtles all the way up. That's just perfect

Scot Aaronson does understand this work very well, and he mentions several times (with citations) that there is no widely accepted proof or disproof that a quantum speedup will eve…

So then why is it important? What is the argument for encrypting all web traffic? Does it act as a sort of camouflage for the actually important encrypted traffic?

Ignorant question: If they are making getting a certificate easy for everyone, what is to stop "bad guys" from getting certificates for their sketchy sites? I usually look to the g…

Hah, Is this a joke or is there actually a doge service that does this?

brewer2mpl moved to: https://jiffyclub.github.io/palettable/ Great package, thanks for sharing!

There is at least one fundamental truth: obesity is on the rise. Why? I think it is safe to assume that a rapid change in the human genome is not responsible for skyrocketing obesi…

Is there a good alternative idea?

Anything that has an energy can be turned into a temperature by dividing by the Boltzman constant k_b (units: Joules/Kelvin). The meaning of that temperature can be hard to interpr…

But if they call it a quantum computer enough times it's almost like it is one, right? Troyer's group has done some great work looking for any quantum speedup from one of these ann…

Epic Systems (digital healthcare records) employs 5,000 people just outside Madison, WI. Soon to be 10,000 according to their roadmap. I wouldn't be surprised if other corporations…