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Could a D-Wave be used to perform Shor's algorithm? I remember reading a long time ago that In-Q-Tel and an unnamed 3-letter agency had invested in D-Wave

I agree. It wouldn't surprise me if Reddit's initial subreddits were narrow and reflected the interests of the founders and early employees – they created a proto-listserv for peop…

I think it's important to remember that none of these startups were as popular now as in the beginning. This is obvious, but it's hard too think back to the late-90s and put oursel…

I disagree completely. Uber's inception/success was partly because of existing taxi services' "barriers to entry". Medallions were worth about $1 million each when Uber started in …

That may be true. I'd imagine that a cheap median price and solid service will depend on the scale of Swift's supply side. Assuming there's plenty of demand (lots of Uber, Lyft cus…

Steven Pinker wrote about the distribution you mention in 2002 in the "Blank Slate". I'd highly recommend it to anyone who's interested in neuroscience and assumptions about human …

Does anyone live in a city (within the US) that takes a similar approach to GDS? I live in SF and developers usually create their own apps for services (Like MUNI/BART) but the cit…

According to the article, they ran simulations and it only provided a .2% increase in likelihood of a breach

November 29th 2013 (A week after the Xbox One release) 1 Bitcoin == $1216.73. By December the same year the price "[had] crashed to $600, rebounded to $1,000, crashed again to the …

If the Microsoft was liquidating bit coin the way planetjones describes, it was probably too inconvenient since the exchange rate (Bitcoin to $) would fluctuate so unpredictably an…

Here are some trending Yahoo! searches I texted to friends in July '15: Buffalo Wild Wings| Janet Jackson | Mega Millions | Type 2 Diabetes |

I actually thought MM had the right idea at first re: Yahoo! being a low-brow web entertainment portal. At one time Gweneth Paltrow was going to have her own lifestyle blog/website…

That's more correlation than causation. I'd imagine it's because in 2016, it's socially acceptable to be a bit "kinky" so more people are willing to be open and honest about it. Wh…

If anyone's curious about Network Science/Graph Theory in general here's a free online textbook used by a grad student friend of mine http://barabasilab.neu.edu/networksciencebook/…

I've never used Slack before, but I'm surprised only 25% of people see it as a distraction. I understand its appeal versus email (Paul Graham wrote about reinventing email in his "…