"thanks to the foresight of the Russian leadership".

The Russian leadership had foresight to engage in a losing 4 year attritional war which would see Russia become the global pariah with is economy and its crown jewel of natural resource refinement and delivery infrastructure on fire?

I would never have guessed this is how I learned the news.

You said "like we ever talk about quebec" and now you're moving the goalpost to "every day"? Those are two different thing.

Regardless, you're full of anger for some reason and looking for a fight dismissing and insulting everyone you're talking to. I'm here for conversation, not abuse. I'll leave you to it.

I'm American, but very happy with how close we are from our Canadian brothers and sisters be them Anglophone or Francophone.

lol like we ever talk about quebec let alone canada down here.

...and...

As a Bruins fan...

Hydro-Québec powers a big chunk of Boston. When you're watching those Bruins game at TD Garden, 20% of that electricity is maple flavored, n'est-ce pas? Also the "TD" in TD Garden is "Toronto Dominion" bank from next door to Quebec in Ontario Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyandot_language

I know my people better than you. Never speak for us, we can handle it.

Wait, you said you never think of Quebec, but the Wendat are there. I visited the Wendake when I was in Quebec City. Do you not think of them?

You can blame Captain George Vancouver for that. Same for Mt. Baker and a whole bunch of stuff up the Pacific coast of British Columbia. It seems like if you ever even served George a sandwich you'd get a mountain or lake name after you by him.

Decades ago when I was in my 20s, I saw so many of my peers get buried in CC debt. I avoided CCs for quite awhile, but eventually realized I needed to know how to use them responsibly.

Like, always use auto pay, but when you want to spend, go pay a bill early. Whenever you feel consumerery, whip out the app, and pay the bill to zero.

When I was in my 20s there was no app to pay a CC, but I accomplished the same thing by mailing in a payment the same day as I made the purchase, and did that for every purchase. This made that mental connection for me that spending on CC means immediate consumption from my bank account, and that if I didn't have the amount of money to pay for the purchase from my CC, I didn't allow myself to buy it.

With the exception of a few months when a major repair bill hit and I had to shoulder it on debt, this allowed me to never get into CC debt. I'm still using CCs heavily decades later, but always paying off the statement balance 100% ever month and never paying interest. I credit my behavior when I was younger to accomplishing this.

I think at this point they are the closest to a people uprising since 1986.

Gotcha, I can see this perspective.

The CCP is constantly trying to stave off revolution. When viewed exclusively through that lens many of the policies make more sense. The story of China throughout history is the story of revolution. Notable named events in China's history include the word "rebellion" or "revolution".

I misread your comment (and didn't see the community name initially) and was about to post you a video on the materials science of insulators in the context of electronic component design. That instead would be dielectric marterialism.

I suppose Marx and Engels, were they alive today, might have an opinion on Dialectical Materialism as it relates to the modern industry of dielectric marterialism.

Coin-operated elevators sounds like a libertarian paradise!

Coin-operated elevators are a libertarian hellscape!

A single paid fare on the elevator will take the passenger to any floor. While their are fixed costs on the elevator car and the initial installation, the rest of the costs incurred on elevator operation are variable based upon how many floors the elevator traverses before dispensing its passenger. The same coin that takes a passenger to the very top floor of a 25 story building will also only take a passenger one floor up. Where are the variable fare rates so that each passenger only pays for what they are consuming, and nothing more?!

Because much higher costs are incurred from the top floor passenger than the one-floor-up passenger, it means the one-floor-up passenger is subsidizing the top floor passenger. The top floor passenger is a parasite sucking value out of the system without returning an equal profit margin as the one-floor-up passenger. What we've got here is socialism!

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I thought I read years ago that airlines responded to Skiplagged by penalizing people who didn’t complete every leg of the trip they booked. I’m not sure why they would care.

They care because the real cost of air travel is not equaled everywhere on each mile flown. If the actual costs of flying to many small regional locations was reflected in the cost of the ticket, the ticket would be so absurdly high no one would every flight to that location, and the location would lose critical flight services for the community.

The solution many of those airlines used was to consolidate the majority of the flight into a hub using larger planes which are cheaper to operate per-passenger, and then use much smaller planes from the hub to the remote location charging the passenger the equivalent of a reasonable cost of a ticket for all hops along the way.

What Skiplagging as doing was essentially using the subsidized discount rate provided for the small regional destinations, but consumed by those not going to those places that needed subsidies on their flights going to major hubs. So not only was the airline losing money for each passenger not paying the normal fare to the hub airport, but also showing lower passenger volume to the small regional destinations increasing the cost of flying passengers that wanted to go their even more.

TLDR; Skiplagging screws small cities with low passenger volume risking their ability to maintain flight service at all to their towns.

I get being naturally suspicious especially if we're talking about messaging that may match some from large companies, but don't let language that sounds that way turn off your brain to critical thinking. If you interact in a system (such as buying a ticket as an airline passenger) you can have an affect on the system. Understand your actions to personally enrich yourself may have consequences on other people just trying to fly somewhere. Don't be blinded by big business hate to justify screwing other passengers using the airlines.

Article doesn’t say what they actually computed

It does: "Random circuit sampling (RCS)". This is a mathematical exercise.

...but that isn't the important part. The important part is knowing if the answer it computed is right. How do you know if its right? This goes to your next question...

or what the complexity would be for a normal computer

The answer (not in this article but I've seen elsewhere) is essentially a million years of a regular computer.

So you see the challenge. We have an answer from the quantum computer, and a way to verify its actually right by using the slow method that we know would give is the right answer for sure, but its so far out of reach we can't use the slow method in a feasible human lifetime.

So the breakthrough the article is calling out is what the researchers did instead. They built a way to have the quantum computer produce accurate answers (which quantum computers didn't do reliably before because of the limits of science) on lots and lots of smaller shorter problems that we can compute on regular computers where we can verify the answers. Thats what the article is saying here:

"Encoding the circuit reduced the effective logical error rate to one tenth of the physical error rate, allowing the computation to maintain high fidelity despite the large number of operations."

Here's an analogy of how I understood what the researchers did:

Lets say you have 5 friends that love car road trips to places they've never been: Adam, Bill, Charlie, Dave, and Ethan. All of them refuse to use maps or a GPS. As you can imagine if any one of them gets in a car alone and just relies on their gut and signs they'll likely not get to their destination. So instead the researchers put all 5 in one car.

Adam is in the driver's seat and after the first hour has made every correct direction choice. Suddenly Adam is about to make a wrong turn Bill, Charlie, and Dave quickly tell Adam to make the right choice, while Ethan tells Adam to make a 3rd entire choice (which is also wrong). Adam goes by majority rule and chooses the suggested path from Bill, Charlie, and Dave. The car is still headed in the right direction. Ten minutes later Bill tells Adam to alter course, Adam, Charlie, Dave and Ethan contradict this, so the car still stays going the right direction. Another 20 minutes later Charlie and Dave tell Adam to take a turn. Adam, Bill and Ethan disagree and they car stays on the right path.

Eventually the car actually arrives at the destination a long way away from where they started. If any one of them were driving by themselves (or even with just one or two other drivers) the likelihood of a successful trip would drop to zero.

The researchers used a bunch of qubits ("drivers") so even if there were bad directions given by some at any given moment, the overall result was successful. So the researchers can say even though we only had Adam, Bill, Charlie, Dave, and Ethan drive successfully from New York to Chicago, you can see how they work to stay on track and we they'd make it all the way to Los Angeles if asked. So just because we've never had Adam, Bill, Charlie, Dave, and Ethan drive from NYC to Los Angeles, you can trust that they could if we asked. So when we tell you we had them drive all the way from NYC to Anchorage Alaska, you can trust we're telling you the truth and accept they got their successfully even if you didn't do the slow walk all the way to Anchorage Alaska see them arrive with your own eyes.

my air and weather shouldn’t have to suffer so you can keep your “small town lifestyle”, fuck your luxury bullshit founded on the externality of my life.

I have no idea what image you have of these smaller airports supporting smaller cities and their surrounding rural populous, but I assure you most are far away from "luxury". Lets take one small city in the middle of Kansas called Salina. Its a city of 47,000 people. The median income is $61,783 and the per capita income of Salina is $34,886 and has a 13% poverty rate. The next closest airport to Salina is 80 miles away. They're not living there just to keep their "small town lifestyle". Its where they grow the food we both eat.

It has a total of 4 small plane flights a day into its airport:

source

Salina is also a major agricultural hub supporting 650 farms for total of over 360,000 acres growing grains and livestock.

I don’t mind green energy powered trains. That’s cheap, it doesn’t intrude on my life any, and gets you where you’re going fast clean safe. I’m just against flying them out on a jet.

Fast rail service versus flying? Have you ever been on a long haul Amtrak passenger rail train? Amtrak is not fast. Salina doesn't have an Amtrak station. The closest one is 90 miles away in Newton Kansas. An Amtrak train trip form Newton Kansas to Chicago takes 12 to 14 hours and the service can experience delays making it even longer. A flight (1 of only 4 flights they have) from Selina to Chicago takes 2 hours and 5 minutes.

I’m sorry but I’m sick of subsidizing these obscenely decadent parasites who would probably kill me and mount my blue stained scalp on their wall.

I bet the people of Salina would laugh their asses off at you considering them decadent parasites. You're happy to eat the food they produce, but you'd put their their 4 flights a day into their city at risk so you personally could save $50 on a ticket to Chicago by skiplagging?

perhaps it would be more accurate for me to say that capitalism in the pure platonic sense doesn’t really exist,

I agree with this without any reservations.

and tends always towards crony or state capitalism where the power of the state is used to funnel money and power towards the holders of capital rather than to provide a free and fair playing field for economic actors.

I take exception with "always". In the USA for example, there have been many notable exceptions where state capitalism implemented protections from abuses that pure laissez-faire capitalism would have allowed. The National Labor Relations Act was a state action that allowed for collective bargaining of workers. More recently the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau acted as an agent against uncheck capitalist forcing a fair playing field.

I'd probably agree if you changed your word to "frequently" though.

I'm not sure I've ever read a more subtle or concise way to say "fuck you" to all of smaller city America simultaneously.

One slightly different path here is socks. If a sock lives long enough for its elastic to wear out it can go to "garage clothes" category. Socks missing a mate can also go here being pair up with another sock with a missing mate. Another path for socks to "garage clothes" is if fashion trends finally evolving so far that wearing those socks will get admonishment from the gf/wife if worn out in public. However, as soon as a sock has a hole in it, it skips the "garage clothes" step and heads straight to the "rags" category.

The context of a dad talking to his daughter in a private text message. Its likely used as a phrase of endearment referring to his wife and daughter. He's not speaking to about public women he doesn't know.

Unintentionally 'shipping Gus Fring and Hector Salamanco?! Thats enough internet for me today.