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by Zaak 9y ago
The implication for symmetric ciphers is that key lengths will need to be doubled. 128-bit ciphers like standard AES have 64-bit security against a quantum attack. I expect to see 256-bit keys adopted widely in the not-too-distant future. I
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by Zaak 9y ago
I expect quantum computers will always run in batch mode. Storing quantum state in classical memory is impossible, so task switching would be very problematic.
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by Zaak 9y ago
No. Quantum computers are very specialized devices. They allow massive speedups for certain applications, and no benefit at all for general-purpose computing. I expect to see a flourishing of quantum programming languages with which to writ
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by Zaak 9y ago
If I remember correctly, it takes a quantum computer with roughly 2N qubits to break N-bit RSA. So we should be ok until thousand-qubit systems are being developed. Increasing key lengths is a short-term workaround, but the real solution is
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by Zaak 9y ago
Ok, I can see not worrying about permanent forks. How do you deal with double spending in short-term forks that will soon be merged?
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by Zaak 9y ago
Is the problem the poor exposition? Because the answer actually is refraction. In my experience it doesn't make any difference how many references you include. They either don't read them at all, or they read them but don't a
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by Zaak 9y ago
How are you going to merge if you have different spends on the forks you're trying to merge? It's not a matter of whether or not you care about ordering. It's a matter of one branch's spend being invalidated by the spend
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by Zaak 9y ago
> In the end these people don't really want to know. They just have a deep discomfort with the current state of things. This is a very succinct description of the mindset of the flat earthers I have talked with.
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by Zaak 9y ago
No one I know believes flat-earth (fortunately), but for a while I was fascinated by the existence of flat earthers and wanted to understand why they believed they way they do. The outcome was mostly disappointment for me. They don't h
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by Zaak 9y ago
The difference between flat earthers and round earthers is that round earthers can correctly predict the outcome of observations using their mathematical models, and flat earthers cannot. Take the recent total eclipse as an example. It was
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by Zaak 9y ago
I believe that a significant number are true believers, judging from conversations I've had with them in the past.
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by Zaak 9y ago
Are inverters costing more because of increased demand at the current production rate, or is there monopoly / price gouging happening?
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by Zaak 9y ago
> However, in cases where people say that some language is bad, it means that it simply does not fit their tasks. I disagree. It is possible for a language to simply be a bad language. Intercal is intentionally so. I will refrain from me
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by Zaak 9y ago
Thank you for these clarifications of the situation. It helps to hear from someone who has a personal connection to the issue.
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by Zaak 9y ago
How does monotheistic religion differ from other cultural elements/social constructs that allow the formation of organizations that resist accountability? I would say that all organizations allow concentration of power, so that is besi
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by Zaak 9y ago
I have similar feelings about its descendant the MD-80. The power to weight ratio on takeoff was a lot of fun.
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by Zaak 9y ago
I don't disagree that those young arab boys are in a destructive environment which is associated with their religion. I'm asking a different question however. If you removed religion from human experience, would there would be no
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by Zaak 9y ago
Does religion cause the evils of human nature, or is religion merely a means of expression for the evils of human nature? I see people glad that religion is decreasing, but is there evidence that the evils of human nature are decreasing, or
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by Zaak 9y ago
The problem isn't about doing stupid stuff. The problem is about doing very smart stuff when your core values massively conflict with humanity's continued existence.
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by Zaak 9y ago
Have you heard the paperclip maximizer thought experiment? Here is a good video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdVC4e6EV4
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by Zaak 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_cooling
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by Zaak 9y ago
I can clearly imagine how s-exprs can replace html, but I don't understand how s-exprs would replace css. Would you show a toy example?
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by Zaak 9y ago
I wouldn't like to see CSS replaced with lisp. CSS is declarative, lisp is imperative/functional.
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by Zaak 9y ago
> Another also well-known "issue" is that many modern x86 clock up or down depending on core temperate (I think this behavior can at least partly controlled by the firmware (UEFI)). From what I've read, current Intel proce
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by Zaak 9y ago
Yeah, Python's environment/import logic is really convoluted. It evolved organically with little forethought, and only got a minimal pruning with Python 3.
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by Zaak 9y ago
To continue offing the topic: Use of Weapons greatly irritated me. You spend all this time getting to know the guy through flashbacks, then at the end Banks pulls a bait and switch "No it was really the other guy all along!" The b
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by Zaak 9y ago
The grasshopper flight that flipped sideways then exploded was blown up by the flight termination system. The rest of them are just pressurized tanks of propellant rupturing in the presence of fire and/or red-hot metal.
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by Zaak 9y ago
> There are no natural numbers with infinite digits, so this is not correct. Exactly. If you allow an infinite number of digits you wind up with the p-adic numbers, which are uncountable just like the reals.
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by Zaak 9y ago
To clarify my comment, I wasn't intending to slight the science behind LIGO, nor the scientists working on the project. Rather, I was trying to mean that the main challenge to detecting gravitational waves was "merely" buildi
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by Zaak 9y ago
I was under the impression that gravitational wave detection had more to do with engineering advances than science per se.

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