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by wybiral 8y ago
Do you think that computer science was impossible before the construction of computers?
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Those probability distributions are typically represented as complex vectors and quantum gates as unitary matrix operations on those vectors. Here's a quantum computer simulator [1] I wrote years ago that allows you to construct quantu
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Quantum computing boils down to unitary matrix operations over complex space. It's very straightforward. But the way those pieces behave in more complicated systems and the emergent properties they give rise to can be studied... Scient
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Trump says a lot of things but the system is actually more balanced than the power-play media show makes it seem.
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People are jumping to a number of conclusions in these threads with little evidence. The rapid down-voting is crazy. There's no confirmation that this had anything to do with Meng, or that these people weren't guilty of something
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There is a FISA court system in place preventing random access to data collected by the NSA. It has to be obtained via warrant, on record, from a judge. Most of it is metadata (call times, etc) and most of it was collected by cooperating wi
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I don't think that the faith in China is much greater among most of those people. It's just that the censorship among anti-China sentiment is more aggressive than anti-US.
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> Edit: witness the downvotes - my point exactly. It doesn't take much.
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That was the administration vs the intel community. There were CIA reports advising the administration that there was no clear evidence but the admin pushed the WMD narrative really hard because of a potential. Even then, it was more compli
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Many people in the US criticized that behavior from the NSA. Maybe you didn't notice those stories. It doesn't make all other instances of hacking or spying okay. But surveillance is one issue (which is valid and we should talk ab
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That sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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That's been my assumption too. There also seems to be more acceptance of that even in the business world. I get contacted by Chinese tech companies offering partnership deals because I've made YouTube videos about electronics and
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It's exec but a decision like this would still require numerous people. Not that situations haven't arisen where exec is in disagreement with intel (Iraq, for instance) but that's pretty rare. And it's hard to tell exact
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I've noticed that too. Some of it might be suspicious but I suspect there's just a lot of misinformation, disinformation, and feelings floating around.
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I didn't vote for Trump and don't support him to this day. But I still think that China has gotten away with more than they should up until this point. There is nuance to this all.
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People demanding to see evidence here have to realize that information like that tends to stay classified for some time as ongoing operations are put in jeopardy just by announcing this. It's also from the justice department, meaning m
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China would need to come clean with a few of the skeletons behind its firewall before I would feel comfortable with them wielding that much power. I'm not saying that America is innocent (by any means), just that I would rather them ha
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Pick a side to bet on.
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There has been a solid anti-FB wave for the past year or so. The Cambridge Analytica situation didn't help. And especially with GDPR fresh in mind the media has been continuing to rail them for various privacy issues (as well as the us
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When I first got a Windows 10 machine I used edge long enough to download Chrome anyway. The real question in my mind is: how will Mozilla differentiate in such a way that it even makes sense for users to support a different browser platfor
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The external situation, and whether you agree or disagree about Iran, has no impact on whether or not it was illegal. The company traded tech with the US under an agreement not to share said tech with sanctioned countries. They then proceed
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Because the actual crime was the act of selling the tech to Iran.
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If they were doing business in Russia and buying Russian-made tech under an agreement that the tech not be sold to Russian-sanctioned countries, and then they sold the tech to those countries in violation of that agreement... That might be
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Somehow they got the US technology in order to sell it to Iran. I'm no legal expert, but there was probably an assumption during that transaction that they wouldn't be selling it to Iran, which they violated. (which is exactly why
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> But yeah, if this is the game that the nations are going to play, then you don't want to be the poor schmuck sitting in a Chinese prison for 10 years just so they can make a point. Facilitating deals with Iran to deliver US produc
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Common Lisp is one of the least "functional" of the major lisp dialects too. Without TCO you generally need state for iteration. That being said, I agree, there's nothing wrong with taking aspects that you like (first-class f
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Python doesn't even have tail call recursion optimization (you'll hit a RecursionError exception if you go too deep). Using first-class functions is great but I hesitate to call any serious use of Python "functional programmi
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It can take time before the market catches up to what is happening and responds.
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Both sides would be trying to leverage their influence over other nations to adjust the balance so it could be a stalemate if neither side amassed enough support. And, arguably, the cold war was similar and it seemed to have a net positive
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True, you'll get all kinds of weird traffic like that running public services. Especially hidden services on Tor where people generally aren't backed by CDNs and attacks can be made anonymously. But it's weirder to claim that

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