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by mundo 8y ago
Check out /r/churning for more info than you ever wanted.
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by mundo 8y ago
Correct, this only works if you can reverse the particle's spin without observing it. This is a descriptive example - the real experiment is slightly more complicated - but it was experimentally verified by Alain Aspect in 1982. If y
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by mundo 8y ago
> There's nothing shocking or spooky about two billiard balls being made to spin in arbitrarily opposing directions, selecting only one, then separating them, and then noticing the spin of one, in order to reliably grasp that the ot
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by mundo 8y ago
Yes, this is more or less what Bell's theorem disproves, although it's kind of a poor metaphor, because entanglement deals with indeterminate states, not just unknown ones.
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by mundo 8y ago
Not sure what "actual physical phenomenon" means, but probably no. If you mean can you look at a photon and observe something about it that tells you it's entangled to some other photon, no. If you mean do we know what phys
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by mundo 8y ago
> look into sensors I am doing that already thanks, this is the backstop. Though if you have a brand/model of door sensor you used and were happy with I'd like to hear about that too.
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by mundo 8y ago
Ideas so far: * There are "notify you when your child/parent/dog leaves a certain area" commercial solutions, but they all seem to rely on GPS, and hence include hefty ($20-$40) monthly charges. They are essentially jus
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Ask HN: Homebrew RFID/IoT solution to monitor an Alzheimer's patient location?
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by mundo 8y ago
I don't want gigabit access to youtube and netflix. I want gigabit access to the services that don't exist yet because you can't build them until lots of people have gigabit access. If the only ISPs in America are the ones
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by mundo 8y ago
Paraphrased as the (oft-ignored) third guideline for HN comments: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
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by mundo 8y ago
> if they can get out from under their debt and get into Uber or Lyft, that might protect them from some of these problems They've lost their career due to new technology, and the solution is to drive cars for a company trying to cr
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by mundo 8y ago
> the idea that low status men should be assigned wives forcefully to prevent them from being sad, which is what some people have actually proposed. Who proposed that?
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by mundo 8y ago
> A general purpose social website requires most everybody to be on it. Who said it has to be general purpose? Part of the attraction of a paid social media site for me would be the fact that most people aren't on it. Isn't t
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by mundo 8y ago
I wonder how similar this is to https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sbhagava/papers/face-rec-ccs16.pdf ? That's the "Facial recognition fooled by funny-colored glasses" study from Carngie Mellon, where research
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by mundo 8y ago
They certainly would've had better nutrition than most people - as I recall from reading about this quite fascinating topic some years ago, the men who joined the Templars were generally quite rich, mostly the sons of the nobility. (T
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by mundo 8y ago
1) You can hire ASL interpreters by the day 2) "Your argument is disgusting" is not ad hominem
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by mundo 8y ago
> Inflating currency is a hidden way to spend money it doesn't have. This seems to be a recurring area of confusion in every thread about cryptocurrencies, so let's clear it up now: * The amount of money in circulation is manip
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by mundo 8y ago
I think this is a useful article. The bit that struck me as most important was the bit about Clarifying - I think many pointless online discussions, including most straw-men, could be rescued by that practice. More specifically, if I were
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by mundo 8y ago
> I think the one-line quote would persuade people more readily than the 10-line quote. Sure, and "My opponent once made a tweet that could arguably be interpreted as racist" will persuade even more people. But this article is
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by mundo 8y ago
> Yes, improving your social skills can be damned hard. But that’s irrelevant if you don’t even want to do it. Er... your theory is that "too shy/awkward to carry on a casual conversation with a woman" is something that so
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by mundo 8y ago
For the same reason that "Just don't drink, what's so hard about that?" would be in a discussion of alcoholism.
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by mundo 8y ago
> Does investment really grind to a halt though? Well, it's discouraged, but yes, basically. Under inflation, you need to invest money just to stay even. The lower inflation is, the less urgent the need to invest. With deflatio
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by mundo 8y ago
> You can guarantee there is > 50% chance you win on the first guess. You mean "greater than" and not "greater than or equal to"? The latter is easy; lots of naive strategies accomplish that. But the former implie
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by mundo 8y ago
There's a fascinating TLP article on this very topic[0]. Here's the most relevant bit: * The reason TV sociopaths are admired is that they are on TV. They have a story. Do you really admire Tony Soprano? Which part? His lovel
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by mundo 8y ago
> "It is immoral for wealth to exist in a way that, properly distributed, would solve the fundamental necessities of people. Thus, wealth should be confiscated until this goal is achieved for morality" I don't believe anyo
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by mundo 8y ago
> "Nobody should go hungry, so everyone should be able to eat anywhere they want and not look at the tab". This is a violation of the most oft-ignored HN guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation
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by mundo 8y ago
Yeah, the article is super-vague about that: > In 2016, WhatsApp added end-to-end encryption, a security feature that scrambles people’s messages so that outsiders, including WhatsApp’s owners, can’t read them. Facebook executives wanted
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by mundo 8y ago
> Rich neighborhoods often have much better roads than poor neighborhoods under our current system. I don't know that it would be any worse under a system where roads were privatized. Do they? Better how? Maybe they're sligh
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by mundo 8y ago
> (Libertarians') usual position is that roads should be privatized and tolled Do libertarians think this will lead to rich neighborhoods having much better roads than poor people and think that's fine, or is there some reason
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by mundo 9y ago
I posted about Whittaker because his story is on-topic and interesting, not because I thought OP was making a serious scientific claim to which I had contradictory evidence. If you want more info try reading the links I included or doing a

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