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by madez 6y ago
> Upshot: You use quantum mechanics to decide a classical potential for you (e.g. you chose the classical potential that factors into pairs such that each pair energy is 'closest' in the Hilbert space metric to the quantum rest
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by madez 6y ago
This explanation is interesting. Thanks for sharing it. While reading it, I got the impression that the simulation is not fully quantum mechanical, but rather classical with select quantum mechanical effects. Which parts of quantum mechanic
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by madez 6y ago
I'm saying that copyright is unjust. It violates fundamental individual freedoms of people like freedom of expression to achieve goals that do not justify that mean, and is therefore illegitimate. The comparison to laws that protect pe
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by madez 6y ago
Copyright does not deserve voluntary submission anyways. It is an unjust and ever stricter becoming legal framework to give life support to an industry that is unwilling to adjust to new technological realities.
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by madez 6y ago
RetroShare was removed from Debian in the past. Anybody any clues why?
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by madez 7y ago
It is not stealing. It may be illegal, but it isn't stealing nor robbery. You may be violating the copyright law, but nobody is taken away any object and there is no threat of violence. When people get access to copyrighted works, then
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by madez 7y ago
"I'm just doing my job!" The deflection of personal responsibility for damaging behaviour as part of a job is a cultural problem.
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by madez 7y ago
That's not what is said in the article of politico. Here is what is reported: First, The allegation: According to the article, Trump was trying to get the Tübingen-based CureVac company — which also has sites in Frankfurt and Boston —
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by madez 7y ago
Who knew? Electing badly can have bad outcomes.
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by madez 7y ago
Here is a source that might be more acceptable for your palate: https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-confirms-that-donald...
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by madez 7y ago
The company CureVac only denied rumours that it will be bought, it did nor deny claims that the Trump administration approached them and tried to buy exclusive access to the vaccine.
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by madez 7y ago
The reporting is matched by many very reputable broadcasters and confirmed by government officials on record.
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by madez 7y ago
No, they did not deny it. What they said is that they won't be bought. They did not deny that the Trump administration tried to get exclusive access.
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by madez 7y ago
I quote from the article: "US President Trump is attempting to entice a German lab to develop a vaccine exclusively for the US, a German newspaper reported." You are sharing the conspiracy theory that the Trump administration did
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by madez 7y ago
The grandparent of your comment wasn't made from the same account as yours, so unless you use multiple accounts, I was not referring to you. The conspiracy theory is that the German government conspired to spread a lie.
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by madez 7y ago
You are spreading a conspiracy theory. Please stop.
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by madez 7y ago
The rate of rule breaking comments was high. The other threads may give an impression, if you show dead comments. Some are spreading the conspiracy theory that either the broadcasters and news outlets conspired to produced incorrect but mat
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by madez 7y ago
This might be a clear case of a selection bias. When the quality of threads goes down, I tend to stay away from them and the moderators need to interact more with it. When a thread has a fantastic quality, I feel a urge to interact with it,
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by madez 7y ago
When many comments break side guidelines and the thread is wretched, then that feels odd and usual for me for HN. Probably you see more threads like this and it isn't unusual, but for me it feels not at all what I expect and relate to
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by madez 7y ago
As distastrious as it might be that this may be part now of US American culture, it doesn't need to start happening here nor be tolerated. The nature of this place is that we can talk with reason and share facts based on evidence. If p
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by madez 7y ago
If that weren't the case, so if the Trump administration just wanted to invest and also have access to the vaccine, this wouldn't be news and just business as usual, and everybody would benefit from it. Also, that would not get th
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by madez 7y ago
The facts are in. The German government acknowledged reports and said it is engaged in talks. The company reacted and fired the responsible CEO on 2020-03-11, per the companies website. Before you judge reports, look at the available eviden
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by madez 7y ago
Dang, would you mind taking a look at the behaviour in this thread? The content and the voting feels very odd and unusual.
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by madez 7y ago
China is run by an authoritarian extreme nationalistic government that tortures its citizen that dare to critise it. That is widely known. Europe will stay a close ally with the USA and the cooperation will resume to normality once the USA
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by madez 7y ago
That didn't happen yesterday. "On March 2, CureVac's then-CEO Daniel Menichella attended a meeting at the White House to discuss coronavirus vaccine development with Trump and members of his coronavirus taskforce. On March 11
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by madez 7y ago
The meaning of what the quote is saying is clear. It is also clear how the logical reasoning is supposed to be. My - admittedly pedantic - point is that the choice of words is incorrect.
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by madez 7y ago
> Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. The expression "by definition" is misplaced he
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by madez 7y ago
Openness isn't binary. One significant step is support for the mainline Linux kernel. Another significant step is free information about the hardware on a high-level, such as PCB schematics and documentation about the used chips. Here
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by madez 7y ago
Even in an archaic the-winner-takes-all vote, the result reveals important information besides determining the winner. That information can influence other voters, vote options, and the winners behavior.
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by madez 7y ago
Unlike in some political systems, in the market the winner doesn't take all, but rather all receive their votes. Even then, I don't understand the psychology underlying the concept "discarded vote". I vote for what I thi

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