breadAndWater

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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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 them to reliable statistical evidence, so it was easy to
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
Instead of counterfeiting, and operating beyond the boundaries of well understood legalities, while deceiving users, and engaging in sketchy malicious software practices, what if they were more well behaved? What if they didn't create
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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 muddied the waters of even trying to understa
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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 effects this would have on the gas giants would be fascinati
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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 work backwards to produce an image of the
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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 possessives or adjectives is reversed in a romance language
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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 implementation, I was working with a p
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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 on foot to reach the surface would challenge people wi
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
Fascinating, what gets flagged on HN these days... [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17563345
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
The ship sank in 1905, in case people who can't bypass the paywall might have been wondering.
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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 those things, at the slightest hint of a joke. I'
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
That is definitely a sad, crying face. How is there no [ ZZZ ] talk balloon floating above, to indicate the obvious snoring?
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
The experiment certainly demonstrates " something " in terms of how not to "measure" relativistic effects with macroscopic tools... And yet, with relativistic particles, the wild claims are made that splitting photons
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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 very opposite. What I did clearly state, and insist as qu
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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 when the particle is trapped in one of the
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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 slabs of superconductors and insulators. It's a p
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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 quantum uncertainty affects. https:&#x
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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 the brisk pace of an uphill jog. None of the experi
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by breadAndWater 8y ago
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 rings true.