Wait, does Gmail load in 3 seconds for some people?

Unions don't make the decision to automate tasks. The corporations with more unionization (=workers who were treated badly enough, at some point in history, to unionize) are making cost-cutting decisions to replace human employees with automation. (captcha: automata)

Perhaps wouldn't, not couldn't. The "so what" of this article is that they're reproducing a past result, by doing physics experiments with an entangled system -- it's a kind of verification; about all the "proof" you can ever get about an analog computer, by my understanding. It also shows a use beyond just SAT and factoring which looks rather novel to me, but apparently Feynman suggested it.

It's fairly similar to an FPGA, actually. An FPGA can't simulate an FPGA of the same size as itself, but it can simulate a smaller FPGA. They aren't simulating their hardware, they're simulating something significantly smaller.

Yeah, it's underhanded marketing to get people excited about their extremely lame quantum computing efforts. Amusingly transparent, for how quickly people drag D-Wave here.

Most quantum computing efforts are purely electrical in their implementations, so the entangled objects are "massless" (cough cough electrons have mass). Entanglement of photons has been long-since demonstrated. This "massive" entanglement involves moving mass around. I'm not impressed by the technicality but curious about its applications

That's all true, of course, but the fragility mentioned in the article is a hard barrier to scaling. Wake me up when an independent research group demonstrates a scaling advantage on any problem class

D-Wave recently released its DW2000Q qubits. Where 2000 qubits are guaranteed to be calibrated, the actual device contains 2048 qubits. D-Wave operates its refrigerators around half the temperature, and 48 qubits is their acceptable error margin. So, good job, Intel, your hot quantum computer is dinky and negligibly small

Nah, finding a purpose for a quirk can be an invention too

That's one of the most elegantly expressed thoughts I've ever read.
Bravo.

He wasn't "let in", he was made there.

The downside is that you *can* experience some pretty horrific latency when accessing stuff that isn't physically located in NZ.
That's just the laws of physics

What's the difference between Australia and an apple?

If you leave an apple for long enough, it'll grow a culture.

(And no, I'm not a Kiwi)

It's pretty good - from my experience, NZ has few noticeable flaws.

Is it safe?