Need much more convincing data before I'd be comfortable to join into these happy speculations :-)

There is more to physics than just the conversation of energy. Specifically this thing, the way it is supposed to work, violates the conservation of momentum.

... "failsafe".

Meh, his dad is the real deal.

Paul the younger is a rather faux libertarian.

As far as history rhymes Islam goes through its version of the 30 years' war right now.

Thanks for pointing this out, that this seems to be mostly forgotten rubbed me the wrong way, too.

Especially since Lem really gamed out how this will change warfare.

'We're all guilty of pressing send on an angry text or email that, had we had to put it into an actual letter and proofread, we probably wouldn't have sent,'

Ah, lawyers, thinking since they represent the highest infallibility standard, they can speak for all humanity?

Did you ever sent an inappropriately angry email or text? I don't recall that I ever had that problem.

... where this question will be decided. If the f***books of the world succeed there they will know they can get away with it, and will double down their efforts.

When moving up to Canada, Ontario to specific, I was surprised that this province hosts the most Native Americans up here, since in contrast there are hardly any on the East Coast and Mid-West in the US.

It's really not all crackpotty. After all you can drive the reaction with a particle accelerator to create a non-critical reactor design, a design so flexible it can handle all sorts of nuclear fuel while also allowing for the transmutation of nuclear waste.

From my point of view the latter is much more environmentally sound than to bury the crap.

A friend of mine who works in IT a the German Railways company (DB), tells me they are regularly scouting in Spain/Portugal where unemployment is high to convince talented IT folks to move up to Germany.

So while there is a shortage of IT specialists in Germany this is too a large extent mitigated by inter-EU mobility.

Your point is well taken, but then look at the other contenders in the Republican camp. If there's any group of people who can make Fiorina look good in comparison in must be Ted Cruz et al.

Newspaper execs have proven over and over again that they don't get the new digital media. If they sign up for this it'll be just more proof that they still don't get it. Further diminishing their own brand to prop up the declining Facebook one.

Have you ever watched it? It's like Monty Python with adult sized hot wheels.

Your priors need updating.

After all you can buy a machine now that solves numerical problems with qubits (no transistors involved).

The quantum speed-up evidence is still shaky, but this is not nothing, and the speed-up conjecture for the gate model is as ironclad as physics can make it, nor is there any reason to think it cannot be built. It's just much harder to scale up than quantum annealing.