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US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal

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Re: US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal

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Post by anon291 »

bix6 wrote: post #28
anon291 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is basically the theme. You've figured out the actual grift. The crazy thing is how these same magazines will promote actual fake industries like crypto, while demonizing industries that produce actual results like AI. The goal seems to be to get Americans to invest assets into currencies likely already controlled by foreign entities while discouraging them from developing their own potentially revolutionary tec…

Um sorry have you heard about the gutting of the NSF?

Yeah that sucks balls but America's private capital markets are still robust.

Re: US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal

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Post by sieabahlpark »

upofadown wrote: post #24

>That technology overlaps only partially, at best, with what’s used in quantum processors. Dunno, how can you say that for sure when we don't actually know how to make a practical quantum processor? The bigger issue is that we are scaling up manufacturing of approaches that have not been made to work. I remember a meeting where the project manager pointed out that we were due to send some test boards to a customer. I…

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Post by prerok »

upofadown wrote: post #24

>That technology overlaps only partially, at best, with what’s used in quantum processors. Dunno, how can you say that for sure when we don't actually know how to make a practical quantum processor? The bigger issue is that we are scaling up manufacturing of approaches that have not been made to work. I remember a meeting where the project manager pointed out that we were due to send some test boards to a customer. I…

Hahaha, hilarious. I could also tell a story or two like that.

I have to say, though, I have no idea what the management is thinking when they hire such clueless PMs. Even worse, I have seen clueless product owners who had no idea about the domain we were in. I guess a recent example could be Ive designing the Luce.

Maybe I am just envious. Maybe I just wish I could BS my way through life like these characters do.

Re: US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal

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Post by dmbche »

6DM wrote: post #10

> "could argue that it has been harmed by the diversion of the funds to a different field. But that argument would likely take so long to sort out in court that all the money would have been spent by then." So if I steal from someone and spend it fast enough, I wouldn't be responsible anymore and can get away with it? That's how that sounded to me.

Something about it being the banks problem if I owe them a billion

Re: US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal

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Post by ben_w »

6DM wrote: post #10

> "could argue that it has been harmed by the diversion of the funds to a different field. But that argument would likely take so long to sort out in court that all the money would have been spent by then." So if I steal from someone and spend it fast enough, I wouldn't be responsible anymore and can get away with it? That's how that sounded to me.

If I understand legal terminology correctly*, this is what a "preliminary injunction" is for.

* eh. I'm not a lawyer.

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6DM wrote: post #10

> "could argue that it has been harmed by the diversion of the funds to a different field. But that argument would likely take so long to sort out in court that all the money would have been spent by then." So if I steal from someone and spend it fast enough, I wouldn't be responsible anymore and can get away with it? That's how that sounded to me.

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