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I'm not a mathematician and it always amazes me how people can come up with this stuff. How do you even start such a proof? (I know there are a lot worse ones). Does it just strike as a flash an…

That's how democracy works. You elect people so they decide things for the people. Sometimes they can in turn elect other people. It's impossible to put everything up for vote (and the resul…

You can find this here: http://europa.eu/about-eu/institutions-bodies/index_en.htm http://www.learneurope.eu/index.php?cID=317 By the way, this is a moot po…

Note that you are generalizing based on what you observed on your particular social network. I find nothing satisfying in this by the way. The UK just burned billions without a valid reason for it. It…

I have the same view, but there are all these companies investing billions into it, so there's something I don't see? It's like this is being rammed down everyone's throats. IoT i…

Transistors are not becoming much smaller. Moore's law is stagnating, due to a host of reasons. Multiple patterning is very expensive, EUV is not available - and even if it comes, it will be real…

Nobody was shitting over anything. I certainly do not think it's ridiculous to criticize religion. It's 2016, some supernatural beliefs should not get a free pass just because people will fe…

I think David Deutsch came up with some simple algorithms back in the early 90's that are exponentially faster in a QC. I don't know if they implemented Hadamard/XOR gates in this thing…

Some high end processes only allow you to pattern a bunch of parallel, narrow lines (hence 1D). These are subsequently "cut" in a useful way, and you can connect to them using a different la…

My guess: As you go to faster circuits, parasitic capacitances and a lot of high frequency nuances become even more critical. These effects are relatively more difficult to design for, and not a matte…

Yeah, I was expecting some aerospace or semiconductor tools, which typically require hundreds of millions in investment before launching anything. That's a real barrier.

Don't hold your breath, the margin of error on these things is about 1 million years.

Plenty of people are honest every day. It's possible unless you work in a toxic environment.

You did mention it was hyperbole, but still, saying that executives, marketers, HR and even managers are "useless" people makes my blood boil. A company is a team, and these are crucial part…

Unverifiable makes it hard to believe as well (unless the numbers were reasonable to start with). But there's an easy check, should they care to do it: call their current manager.

Could you expand on this? I haven't heard much info on Watson besides IBM's publicity.

It is user generated content, so I don't see a clear relation between the number of articles and "low quality". Furthermore, as I understand it what you write goes against the Wikimedia…

Redzepi is one of the best in the world at what he does, that alone should be sufficient to pique your interest!

They also injected fake signals into the detector now and then, partly to keep the analysts on their toes. http://www.ligo.org/news/blind-injection.php …

"The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that Agent Orange has affected 3 million people spanning three generations, including at least 150,000 children born with severe birth defects since the war ended…

It probably helped that a sizable portion of the food crops were sprayed with Agent Orange by US forces, rendering them worse than useless.

Those demos were painful to watch. This technology has just so many potential applications - some of them might be a big deal. A button and a knob are not among them.

I don't see what you are getting at. An enterprise such as sending people to Mars is obviously not going to be made by selling a house or a one time boost from a personal fortune, but by setting …

I freaking love moss since I can remember. I'd visit the hell out of all these places. I don't know why. There's something about their shade of green that is shouting "Life".

I'm not sure where you were going with this comment, but the suicide rate in Japan is about 0.02% of their population/year. Quite large but absolutely irrelevant for population. Even for Sou…

I certainly would. Some of my favorite passages ever, fascinating stuff.

That seems like a simple superposition, while I'm going to assume the author meant some sort of quantum interference.

"Photons from two different sources have different characteristics, like color and wavelength. If they have different wavelengths, they cannot interfere, Yu said" Can somebody explain why th…

If I'm not mistaken Dyson also learned Russian one summer as a kid, because he wanted to be able to read certain book. What a guy.

Ah, the good old "future generations will solve it, so let's trash this place"