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by yk 13y ago
Apparently Google does not use geo IP for this tracking. ( At least it did not show any location data for me, even we I briefly turned tracking on on my tablet.) However, what Google knows and what Google shows may two different things.
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by yk 13y ago
Assuming that it actually effects a particle at a distance, it is odd. But I simply see it as a oddity of the collapse of the wave function, which is no more surprising than finding just one photon in a double slit experiment even when the
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by yk 13y ago
I don't think that I am misrepresenting this, however I should perhaps have made clearer what I mean by classical vs. quantum. So I take the view, that entanglement can be traced back to the smaller than naively expected state space, w
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by yk 13y ago
I would call being in both states at once a quantum phenomenon, which has not much to do with entanglement.
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by yk 13y ago
Well, what I am saying is, that the state of two entangled photons (with polarization +,-) is s_e= a |+-> + b |-+> and not s_n= a |+-> + b |-+> + c |--> + d |++> as is the case for two arbitrary photons.
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by yk 13y ago
Notice that I say 'I shoot' above, so the moment you start to look at correlations, I start to decide into which pockets I shoot. ( For example determined by the results of an EPR experiment.) However, my rant is not so much about
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by yk 13y ago
Quite simple, physicists use latex and crackpots use word.
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by yk 13y ago
I tried to read the article, but the first paragraph already compelled me to rant. There is nothing 'mysterious' or 'strange' or 'bizarre' about entanglement. Lets look at the classical version, suppose there i
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by yk 13y ago
The sky above the port was the color of a TV, switched to a dead channel.
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by yk 13y ago
I submitted this post, despite thinking that it is quite a bit too pessimistic. It is a nice list of thinks we should be concerned about at the moment, but I think that all of it is solvable without dead bodies in the streets. Except, perha
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Baseline Predictions for the next Sixty Odd Years(ianwelsh.net)
1 points by yk 13y ago|1 comments
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by yk 13y ago
The heating value of dollars is a lot lower than the economic value. Same for gold.
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by yk 13y ago
Probably, I have next to no idea how many waiters are needed. So I took a number where I am quite certain that I overestimate. So with realistic numbers, the situation looks certainly worse for waiters.
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by yk 13y ago
Quick back off the envelope: 100 Tablets ~ $10k Guessing that this is roughly the number of seats a waiter can wait, this leaves a few thousand dollars for an automated delivery system per year. ( I hope something that involves a c
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by yk 13y ago
While we are at it, if a site needs tweaking of noScript settings for displaying text...
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by yk 13y ago
Actually the US had a rather strong worker movement, it just played out quite differently than in Europe. So in the US the unions did quite often manage to get a corporate pension plan, while the European ones did get a government pensions.
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by yk 13y ago
You should use the unemployment rate, since the US are several times larger than Germany. Apart from that, I think that German unemployment is compiled by some government office, who use the actual numbers of people who get unemployment ben
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by yk 13y ago
I am confused, is this a parody of the current "Not as cool as a pencil" iPad ad, or is this a real product?
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by yk 13y ago
Absolutely, I recently looked at Ali Express and nowadays you can even get tablets for < $50. So something like a factor of 10 in 3 years. If this continuous, then tablets will probably become simple impulse buys in another five years. J
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The Xbox One and PS4 share similar specs, but the devil’s in the details(arstechnica.com)
2 points by yk 13y ago|0 comments
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by yk 13y ago
" I think it’s these very small things that reinforce cultural and racial stereotypes.. " I tend to agree with the quote. To use a analogy to programming languages, in Python one is always tempted to use lists, w
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by yk 13y ago
Thats a remarkably bad article, almost to the point of satire. It just sparkles some anecdotes over the fallacy that politeness is somehow impeding free speech. If you are offending someone, then you should apologize or the offended party h
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by yk 13y ago
I believe the previous discussion was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6607661 ( Which I only still have open because I wanted to program the article at some point...)
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by yk 13y ago
So the oldest mention I did find, is from the 21st of October [0] and then more at the 23rd. [2,3] So until I see an actual zombie, my money is on a ghost story for Halloween. [0] https://twitter.com/dragosr/status&#x2F
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by yk 13y ago
No, but apparently all the way up.
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by yk 13y ago
The irony of this post, of course, is that it decries the evolution of language while praising the evolved parts of the language. He decries one aspect of the evolution of language, the aspect which just hides meaning. An
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by yk 13y ago
The important slide of the talk is 65. It shows the exclusion zone of LUX and some competing experiments in the parameterspace of dark matter particles. The parameters are the cross-section ( how likely a DM particle will react), and the ma
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George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946)(alexgolec.github.io)
206 points by yk 13y ago|62 comments
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by yk 13y ago
( I am rather trying the argument, rather than actually believing it myself.) There are not only BTCs, but also forks and other crypto currencies. So if BTCs hording becomes a problem the incentive to adopt one of the alternatives will rise
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by yk 13y ago
When I hear drone warfare, I always wonder what would happen if someone puts on his uniform and guns down a drone operator in a crowded shopping mall. Obviously he distinguished himself as a combatant and engaged in a act of war.

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