Assuming loads of people put panels on their houses, 22c/kWh in the day and 5c/kWh in the night can't last. Presumably day prices would be lower than night prices eventually.

The Tesla's battery is also 53, 70 or 85 kWh whereas the average household uses around 1 kW (kWh/h) and certainly can get by with a few kWh of storage to handle its overproduction of solar during a day.

In the end, it's just economics. Does solar + battery pay itself back in lowered electricity bills? If it does, nothing else matters.

Amusingly, Bluff magazine has a ranking of the best HUNL players where he's number one. But he's written the list himself :)

He really is among the best heads up no limit players though.

Before the void was found, a cold spot that large should have been rare enough that it seemed odd we had even one in our sky. With the void explanation it's no longer rare enough in the models that it seems odd we have one.

At least the youtube video in the story is from 2013.

Eh? Around 3,4 now and changing over time. It's just the expansion of the universe, isn't it?

The difference between 25 and 40 € isn't that big. Depending on where exactly you are and want to go in Helsinki/Tallinn, it may well be more convenient to take a train.

Heck, people ride the metro for nearly half an hour to get downtown for beers. If I can get to a decent Tallinn pub in less than an hour door-to-door I'd probably go now and then, depending on how late in the evening I can get back home.

For those who don't know, alcohol and restaurant food are around half the price in Tallinn compared to Helsinki.

Why wouldn't getting more money be a good idea regardless?

If so, it's pretty funny that the UFOs actually were based at Area 51 :)

I'm not going to watch a 22 minute video on this. Seriously, that's the suckiest way of presenting info like this one could imagine.

Not an expert, but DDoS attacks can use security flaws and often do.

Well, I remember Scott Aaronson saying de Broglieâ"Bohm's pilot wave theory requires exponential resources to simulate even with a quantum computer. Ergo even if it makes some things easier to understand it's not generally the most useful way to think about QM and arguably in some sense can't be the way Nature does what it does.

Electron-positron collisions are much cleaner than proton-proton ones. The LEP did exclude the Higgs up to 115 GeV while it actually was around 125, so scaling this up by a factor of 40 or so would make a small Higgs factory. Dunno about luminosity but maybe that's not a problem.

How much space do they need? If you're talking tens of GB, is that really more expensive than the smallest spinning disk drive you can get?

If I understand correctly, the classical version of this factoring scales with 2^n where n is the number of bits different in the two binary factors. Wouldn't there be some kind of trick to handle situations where more than half the bits are different though? IIRC this still wouldn't be the best known classical algorithm, but this seems worth some thought.

Also nice to see the whys and wherefores of quantum algorithms being better understood, but can't really say I know enough so see if this gives any more general insights.