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  1. Re:Gonna Learn the Hard Way on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It was re-opened because "Federal prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been sexually abused by wealthy New York hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, .."

    https://www.miamiherald.com/ne...

    But you will of course chose to believe whatever you want.

  2. Re:Gonna Learn the Hard Way on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In the Trump case we actually have video deposition of one of the Epstein girls he allegedly raped when she was underage.

    https://vimeo.com/176181706

    The case being re-opened simply attests to the prosecutorial independence of US federal attorneys. The president's powers are fortunately limited.

  3. Sign of the Brexit times.

  4. The EU has never been shy of taking on monopolies.

  5. It would need to be inflation adjusted, but I think the principle is sound.

  6. Time to break them up.

  7. No doubt. Problem is, these kind of borrowed currencies can introduce additional problems when there is no infrastructure in place to disperse the physical, non-legal tender.

    For NGOs that operate in remote areas this can be a pressing security concern.

    Met an activist once at a blockchain tech event, who came with a handful of what were essentially locally issued IOUs, they served as currency in remote Amazon villages. He used them to illustrate the need of the unbanked.

  8. You need a stable currency to acquire savings that in turn can serve as capital in a market economy.

    Parts of the developing world has cell phones yet no stable currencies. I think cryptocurrencies can very well play a role there once you have a protocol that doesn't require resource heavy mining to facilitate transactions.

  9. Re:Huh? on Is Quantum Computing Impossible? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Actually your are pretty much on point.

    Frankly this article is pretty pathetic and embarrassing.

  10. Astounding what gets published in Science nowadays on Researchers Created 'Quantum Artificial Life' For the First Time (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This was done with five noisy qubits. Everything that such a chip can do can be simulated at much higher quality on classical machines. Five quibits you could even simulate on your cell phone.

    I am running a start-up that is exploring what kind of use you can get out of near term noisy quantum computers (50 qubits and beyond).

    BS hype like this is not helping.

  11. Re:If D-Wave's machines are so fabulous.... on D-Wave Launches Free 'Leap' Quantum Computing Service (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You would need to reformulate the hash search as a QUBO problem (Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization).

    This is probably impossible. Even if such a mapping existed, chances are it would require a level of connectivity and number of qubits far in excess of what the current chip provides.

  12. Re:Apple's WebKit ? on Chrome Browser Turns 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently I wasn't clear on this: My point isn't that they are one, but that the LGPL forced Apple to keep Webkit Open Source.

     

  13. Apple's WebKit ? on Chrome Browser Turns 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    WebKit came from the KDE browser. And because it was LGPL code Apple and Google were forced to keep it Open Source.

    Would be nice if these details would at least get some attention on a site like /..

  14. Given farble1670's UID he probably has no idea who you are.

  15. Only a tiny fraction of the consumer market ... on Linux Turns 27 (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... if you forget about Android.

  16. Microsoft lost the touch with what made it success on 'This is Not Your Father's Microsoft': CEO Satya Nadella On Helping a Faded Legend Find a 'Sense of Purpose' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Does he mean MS has lost touch with being a predatory company that squashes its competition with vapoware, patent trolling and abusing the Windows monopoly?

  17. Re:CryptoCurrency could break the bank? on Russia Secretly Helped Venezuela Launch a Cryptocurrency To Evade US Sanctions (time.com) · · Score: 0

    "the Rothschild bank"

    It wouldn't be /. if warmed up illuminati, jewish world domination theories weren't moderated insightful.

  18. Re:An epic failure in science journalism on Can Electricity Travel Through Space on Astrophysical Jets? (mdpi.com) · · Score: 1

    lol

    Not my job to do your homework for you.

  19. Re:An epic failure in science journalism on Can Electricity Travel Through Space on Astrophysical Jets? (mdpi.com) · · Score: 1

    Reading comprehension? My point was that I don't care to discuss this in this forum.

  20. Re:An epic failure in science journalism on Can Electricity Travel Through Space on Astrophysical Jets? (mdpi.com) · · Score: 1

    Fellow physicist here, thank you, that you took the time to make this point so extensively yet politely!

    I've long ago ran out of the patience to do so.

  21. If you think the effect in the US is bad ... on Facebook Says It Can't Guarantee Social Media is Good For Democracy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
  22. The Russian public opinion clearly regarded Crimea as Russian. As bad as he is, there are worse hardliner than Vlad, and he needs to keep them at bay.

    He is not an old school imperialist, but his fear of NATO encirclement is real.

  23. A small sign of sanity ... on Lithuania Calls On EU To Stop Adjusting Clocks For Daylight Savings (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    ... in an out of control world.

  24. Re:I think all reality is in jeopardy on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    A public Blockchain for media hashing that happens on a trusted hardware level could be a technological solution for that. If the hash of a media cannot be found in the associated blockchain than it wasn't a live recording.

    Not that this will be temper proof, but it would make casual fakes much more difficult.

  25. There are myriads of Open Source alternatives on Microsoft Releases Free Preview of Its Quantum Development Kit (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of them integrated with Python so that you can use them in Jupyter. Many of them are included in this free AMI distro.

    And unlike MS the IBM, Rigetti and D-Wave tools let you connect to real quantum computing hardware.