Anytime someone brought in a kid suffering from a disease that could have been prevented by vaccination, I would first ask whether the parent was brain dead.

-jcr

Not as useless as bitching about it, kid.

-jcr

because slice left-to-right rules out seeing X-Y from happening. Local hidden variables (i.e. it was X all along) can't create that ourcome (GLobal hidden variables due but these require spooky action at a distance to change B based on A's letter).

Finally you can't have letter A changing it's state in response to the slice as a local variable explanation, because, I have a free choice if I open letter A first (and thus determine B's outcome) or I open letter B first and thus determine letter A's outcome. Without global hidden variables A cannot know if B was opened yet or not.

Thus with local hidden vraibles seeing X-Y on a left to right slice would eventually have to happen. It doesn't.

Sounds about right. With all the MS employees looking to jump ship, I can't see why anyone who wants to hire a Windoze developer would spring for a ticket to interview a candidate from a different city.

-jcr

uh huh... and the Mexican Cartel said "oh, and, by the way, beat the drivers when you steal the truck?" That's why it doesn't even matter in this case.

I not only agree with you, but need to shake my head every time some apologist changes words like "beat" into "hit." They didn't just "hit" the drivers, the drivers were "beaten." I don't wish death on the perpetrators because they stole a truck, but because they beat someone, and that was just completely unnecessarily to commit the theft. Some of these people take pleasure in it, they have demonstrated a complete, selfish lack of regard for others. They simply do not deserve to exist with the rest of us.

You don't steal a truck and beat the drivers to feed your family, because even if that's their end, their means still makes them deserving.

I know a lot of people don't agree with us, but this isn't a case of stealing to feed your starving family; anyone willing to so wantonly disregard the rights of others for personal gain does not belong in our society.

Moreover, none of the nerds here have noticed yet that Tesla would not be proud of this. He was trying to do wireless power across nations and oceans not inductive coupling at short range. Magnetic coupling falls off at very short range compared to propagating waves.

Technically, it's a barge.

-jcr

Right. no Local Hidden varaibles

Simple. I did not say which envelope I opened first. I can delay that choice till the envelops are well separated.

I didn't say which envelope I opened first.

You prove this by delayed choice. You don't decide which envelope to open first till the envelops are far apart.

Apples blade style connector for iphone really nice. about as small as it can be, strong, reverisble.

The first thing is to remind them that you could be hit by a bus or win the powerball tomorrow and they need to have at least one more person who knows your job in order to stay in business.

Keep it in terms that they will see as practical.

LK

Something that's a little bothersome is that when you are designing a video game that portrays a classical world, the physical limits of the computer end up imposing many of the physical laws we are used to.

for example, consider diffraction limited resolution. Basically the further away something is, the less resolved it becomes. The bigger the eye or telescope you look through the more you can resolve at a distance. In the real world we call this diffraction limited resolution. In a computer game we call it pixels, and the bigger the monitor (in pixels) the better the resolution.

To object oriented variables cannot simultaneously know each other's state. One of them has to be updated first. There's a finite limit on how fast the computer can alter the memory locations and it can't change both at the same time. So there's a kind of speed of light limit on how fast the world can change. If were doing this on distributed architectures or iterating serially over the objects then that limit actually shows up in the connectivity of objects with distance: nearer objects can influence each other sooner than remote objects.

Finally, there is an exception to that rule. Two objects can communicate instantly if they share the same class variables. This is spooky action at a distance. While it's often claimed that quantum mechanics does not allow hidden variable theories , this is a mis-interpretation of Bell's theorem. In fact it only disallows local hidden variable theories. Global hidden variable theories are what QM says do exist. That's exactly how you get entanglement.

So QM emerges because of the class variables, diffraction emerges because of memory limits and the speed of light comes out from serial processing at the CPU or memory access level.

Thus you can't actually create a simmulation of reality that didn't have the characteristics of our weird world even if you wanted to.