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Comment Putting data into array is the fastest algorithm. (Score 1) 130

Sorting by comparison is the wrong way to sort data.

In the example of one million numbers, simply go through them and place them into the appropriate position in a million entry array.

For other data, for example text, simply use the first 8/16/32-bit fragment to of the text to find the appropriate array entry, then repeat for next fragment, using a 2nd level array etc.

Any electronic data can be reduced to an index, and thus that index can be used to put the data into an array.

Comment The breaking of entanglement is FTL information tr (Score 1) 76

The breaking of entanglement is faster-than-light information transmission and thus breaks general relativity.

Suppose Alice is on a space station around Jupiter, and holds one particle from an entangled pair.

Suppose Bob, stationed in a space station around Deneb, holds the other particle.

If the breaking of entanglement results in instant recognition of this breaking, then one can effectively send a signal to both Alice and Bob in faster-than-light speed!

So something is wrong in all this. Either general relativity is wrong or, more probably, entanglement is not faster-than-light!!!

Comment A much better solution exists. (Score 2) 209

Content should have been labelled and users could have chosen through a particular set of filters that apply to their culture, or even define new personal filters and share them with others.

Thus, people would only see posts they like, which of course means it would be safe for everyone.

But they didn't do this because they want to provide better value to their customers, but to satisfy the current lefty social justice craze.

Comment There can be digital offline transactions, you kno (Score 1) 476

Between cash and online transactions, there is a third option: Digital offline transactions.

How would it work? You have a card, you load it with money, and then each time you want to buy something you pay with this card...no online connection required, the money value on the card is decreased.

For security, not only the communication protocol would be encrypted, but it can also be setup in such a way that it requires entering a pin number for each transaction, with the card's small numeric keyboard.

The state machine of the card's software would be small enough to validate it mathematically 100%.

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