Thank Allah that the USA and Canada have lots of sparsely populated and temperate areas to house domestic and foreign climate migrants (unless we have another baby boom and/or the newcomers are unable to fully integrate).

Have Congress make the law so we aren't responsible. Then we'll knock it down as unconstitutional.

Sorry. I can't read any of that OP without me also hearing the "judgment" I just made.

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And this is problematic, why? Ads pay bill brotjer.

Depends where you live, I’m sure.

Can you get flood insurance in Florida?

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Is the technology they built to correct the quantum errors called the “Heisenberg Compensator”? Because that would be hilarious…

I don't think suburbanites should get even more handouts.

>The private insurance industry and the private housing market also push people out of their homes. In California, for instance, the large insurers have stopped offering fire insurance to people who live in the riskiest areas, or have raised costs to unaffordable levels, forcing homeowners to reconsider whether they can afford to stay where they are. Many of the places that are most vulnerable to disasters are also experiencing a severe housing shortage, which makes recovery almost impossible.
The federal government has the resources to help address this chaos. Lawmakers could ramp up programs that protect against floods and fires. They could give people money to relocate from vulnerable homes or to find new jobs if climate change makes their old jobs impossible or dangerous. Meanwhile, the White House could take a leading role in planning for future migration, incentivizing growth in places that are less vulnerable and easing the transition away from the riskiest places.

The severe housing shortage is that of zoning laws that make it impossible to build anything but single family detached housing...and now you want us to insure and replace that at great cost?

Insurers do factor climate risk in to premiums.

You're obviously being sarcastic, but even with the fact that it doesn't have the current full functionality that we all want, it has more value than many of the searches that are done on google. And if you take into consideration the fact Google has become a Pure ad based search tool, the advantage of chartGPT is even bigger.

And they would be correct. Supreme Court should not be creating law only interpreting it.

The following submission statement was provided by /u/landlord2213:

Lunar astronauts might have to get their overalls ready, because the Moon could be the next great frontier for agriculture. The European Space Agency and Norwegian lunar agriculture company Solsys Mining have teamed up on a project to study how lunar soil could be used to produce fertilizer.

The project builds upon prior research demonstrating that plants can grow in lunar soil, albeit not very well. One of the main challenges is that lunar regolith lacks certain amounts of nitrogen compounds—a key ingredient in soil that allows flora to flourish. Another issue is that lunar soil gets tightly compact when wet, which creates trouble for plants trying to put down healthy and strong roots.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/119yvoy/ingenious_technique_could_make_moon_farming/j9opwu8/

Finally, we can build colossal paper towel dispensers.

If you have ever set up ads in an big system like Amazon or Google you can see exactly how it works - the more you pay the more your ad gets seen. The more you refine your demographic audience, the more specific content targets them.

Are the websites complict? No, because they get paid to unbiasedly post content that is paid for using their pay scale and the customer's algorithm. And their job is to rank and sell for who pays them and we have to realize that.

And yes, because as corporations they have an image and overall agenda they are allowed to promote as private entities, not journalistic entities. So if they allow content contrary to their corporate mission that allows attacks to their interests, they have to deal with the consequences.

Thus, why any search or shopping website or social media site is NOT a journalistic entity and simply a place to pay for advertisement of your product, content, or website.

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And this is not an isolated problem. I saw a talk by IBM recently that also said they had something in QC that was commercially viable, but after a few questions it was clear they had nothing even close to a realistic (if any) idea for what their business model would look like -- it was like it hadn't even occurred to them to consider that kind of thing before claiming something was commercially viable.

That's the category I mostly had in mind. Unlike Google Reader, where they just straight-up murdered it.

Google's blog post on this paper, which gets into more technical details and also explains their development timeline. It's probably required reading and should be stickied.

With that background, from OP's article:

>he thinks that at this stage “we can confidently promise a commercial value” for quantum computers.

Really? You got that from handling one scalability problem, so now it will have commercial value. Really?

According to their timeline they still need to scale up by 4 orders of magnitude (and note this error correction solution itself requires an additional multiplier to the number of qubits), with still no way to make even preserving entanglement not scale in difficulty with each qubit. That's in addition to the inability to predict the inevitable new tiers of problems you'll run into when your viability timeline requires scaling, again, on the order of 10,000x. And when you talk commercialization beyond a fad, you still need to find a convincing use case beyond uneconomical-for-daily-use cryptography and being a physics model of... itself.

This is a huge achievement. I like QC a lot. But there's a lot of hype, fads, BS, and fraud out there, and it's only going to get worse. And at the risk of sounding haughty, other science megaprojects learned (after a couple major f-ups) how to keep disciplined and stay quiet until their claims/projections were either substantive or they needed help. (In this case the project's claim is fine, but the director's projection is not.)

The interesting bit about quantum is that it’s not a faster version of the kind of computing we have, it’s a different kind of math. Some things that we do now would be no better or maybe even worse as a quantum calculation. But some calculations that can’t even be attempted now because they would take the entire age of the universe to compute could be done more or less instantly as a quantum calculation.

The kinds of math it is good at are over my head, but include things like designing new medicines, predicting weather, and understanding deeper things about the universe.

Imagine going back to the early age of transistors when IBM predicted that there was a world market for potentially five computers, and foreseeing cat memes. We’re around there with quantum computers right now, maybe earlier. It could still be this is a fantasy that will never take off like flying cars. But if it does, I expect it will lead to some incredible advances in science and a billion stupid other things just because we can.

Lunar astronauts might have to get their overalls ready, because the Moon could be the next great frontier for agriculture. The European Space Agency and Norwegian lunar agriculture company Solsys Mining have teamed up on a project to study how lunar soil could be used to produce fertilizer.

The project builds upon prior research demonstrating that plants can grow in lunar soil, albeit not very well. One of the main challenges is that lunar regolith lacks certain amounts of nitrogen compounds—a key ingredient in soil that allows flora to flourish. Another issue is that lunar soil gets tightly compact when wet, which creates trouble for plants trying to put down healthy and strong roots.

I'm glad to hear Google has already made the decision.

Your argument is asinine, if you buy something from target and get automatically enrolled in their mailing list that isn't a good reason to go to the supreme court and demand retail stores be banned from existing, it's fucking insane they're even hearing this case

In the case of youtube Autoplay is a feature that comes with it, just don't use youtube

“We have successfully applied flame stickers to the side of the quantum computer, increasing its speed by up to 300%”

Sounds annoyingly easy to fix.