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by ridewinter 7y ago
All of that seems to only be “medium” secure in face of future quantum computing. “It's been estimated that 6,681 qubits would be required to run use Grover's algorithm to break AES-256 bit encryption.” https://www.ther
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No, you shouldn’t count for 50 Californians or whatever. The few hundred thousand people in Wyoming could care less that millions of people in big cities live under the threat of gun violence. That’s highly unfair and a big reason for the d
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Just become Swiss.
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The only truly safe encryption is quantum encryption. Any classical encryption algorithm should be breakable with quantum computers, even if we haven’t figured it out yet like with Shor’s.
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The biosphere only cares about absolute numbers.
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by ridewinter 7y ago
Somewhere in Chile someone is yelling How can it be the hottest world month ever, it’s snowing outside!
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by ridewinter 7y ago
Disagree. The masses of Chinese tourists do well to be exposed to the rest of the world. Where in your reply do you offer solutions? People have been giving some form of your complaint since the beginning of time. We will continue to innova
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by ridewinter 7y ago
Science seemingly removed meaning from our lives, with many of us reducing ourselves, like Hawking, to “just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet”. But what if that’s a bad explanation? I recommend reading David Deutsch’s books. This
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by ridewinter 7y ago
If this tech allows BEVs a significantly higher range it would be a game changer. Currently the range is about the same as gasoline cars with a longer refueling time. For your average consumer that’s not an improvement. But if I can go 800
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Google uses AI along with the camera to correct the compass. If they could integrate this correction with their standard compass API it would be a game changer. As a side note, the API docs in both Android and iOS fail to mention how unreli
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Couldn’t you say the same thing about the standard camera app on Android and iOS? People have it open all the time.
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Which is exasperated by warming temperatures. Or to be precise, less bitter cold temps in the winter that control the beetle populations.
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Is that like saying that time & distance have no meaning for a photon?
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...so no time passes from the photon’s point of view. Infinite time dilation means that a photon from a galaxy 3 billion light years away arrives here instantaneously from the photon’s perspective. Which means there’s actually no distance
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I dunno, HK was legally handed over to China with international approval (albeit with China bending/breaking the 50 year agreement). Messing with Taiwan’s sovereignty would be a far far greater geopolitical problem.
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A wise man once said that all of the business contracts in the world don’t matter if the two sides don’t trust each other. So just claiming to stay within the rules & limits is not enough. Good faith goes a long way.
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by ridewinter 7y ago
Hot tip: enjoy the moment, then find a similar scene on google images and share that if you need to. No one ever knows or cares the difference.
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And all the staff at every specialist’s office dedicated to navigating the insurance & provider bureaucracy. Or every party having their own crappy payment & client portal - often created from scratch! I think everyone here recogniz
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“Neven says that Google’s best quantum chips have recently been improving at an exponential rate.” That may be the real news here. Are there any other sources about this?
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They are called “western” values because their current form began with the Enlightenment and scientific revolution in Europe and have stuck around since then. But yes they’ve popped up temporarily in other past cultures like Ancient Greece.
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Western values: freedom of speech, the ability to remove bad leaders, etc. IMO, all of the historical innovations you mention in the Arabian peninsula, China and Japan happened during periods of relative openness in those cultures.
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No, it’s an article by and for anyone with western values. You know, the values that resulted in 99% of the innovations in this world.
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This kind of stuff makes me so happy to own Google stock. Even if it drives the stock analysts crazy.
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We understand how to play games with defined rules. That’s the point. Do you expect AlphaZero plus human advice to beat unaided AlphaZero? If so, it’s not a step towards AGI.
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David Deutsch, father of the quantum computer, says that we can only automate and program something that we understand, and that we do not understand human intelligence or how creativity works. And AGI is not possible until we do.
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Ya, it’s pretty crazy to think that almost everyone of European descent (myself included) are descended from the (apparently) mass murdering Yamnaya. And a good percentage of Asians from the mass murdering Genghis Khan. And that although th
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Are you French and your wife English-speaking? That’s what the OP article mentioned as “école horizontale”. The author lived in France for years but her family spoke English at home and thus her French proficiency never got great. In my exp
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by ridewinter 8y ago
2013’s FAA was under an ethical Obama administration. Anything touched by Trump is assumed to be corrupt. Witness the black box being sent to Europe and not the USA. The soft power of ethics in action.
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Show HN: Spotup – Learn about any landmark by simply pointing your phone at it(spotupapp.com)
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Neat trick turns Cesium 3D maps into AR(blog.spotupapp.com)
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