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on Rabies tags · c/cat · 23 pts · 2d

In Tag Neuter and Release we're talking about feral kitties. They don't have collars and it is impractical to give feral cats collars.

Are you talking about Obama or Fauci? Obama wanted campaign money, Fauci was doing the best he could to save lives.

Obama continues not talking because there's not really any benefit. Itd just be viewed as political regardless of truth, just as releasing a man's private diary without a crime to prosecute is.

I'm probably out of my depth as to how a quantum computer functions but the way you describe it breaking encryption would also be rather useless as well. I had thought it was just a system wherein the code is switched from binary 1/0 to one where you can do +0/1 neutral 0/1 and -0/1 or something like that. If you have to be dealing with individual qubits then it sounds useless.

Basically they have all the utility of a supercomputer. Breaking encryption is a use sure. As is computational chemistry and protein folding and interactions. The reason it can do so is because of the information processing. It doesn't mean new equations but that the equations that are made can be tested faster. There's various times where equations to help understand bio/chemistry are limited to remain feasible to use but reduce the precision and accuracy.

on The crystal ball · c/comicstrips · 2 pts · 10d

There's lag unless its magically projected into your brain. There's a time delay for photon signal and visual processing otherwise.

Movies like the Big Short, Margin Call, shows like Billions, or whatever the inheritance show was, make people think they can be the ones smarter.

However, most individual investors aren't usually of the arrogance that they'll do better than the billionaires and hedge funds just of the arrogance they can still get more scraps than others and won't get eaten themselves.

It's a horror story and most people would probably go insane rather than manage to do anything with their knowledge. Besides getting rich because you know about what will get big ahead of time you are very different from all your peers. Any childhood crush much less a gf/bf is more perverse than thrilling and you have basically no chance of being able to meet and keep the same long-term partner much less having the same child if you're a parent.

There's a few movie takes on this mentioned in other comments, they always run into paradox problems.