Have you been in a Walmart? People already equate them with large scale human suffering.
Yeah - how do you think that yellow disc is able to fly around the store knocking prices down unless the jackboot of a supervisor in some Chinese sweatshop is being pushed progressively harder onto the neck of the working comrades?
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This is both the funniest and saddest thing I've seen on the web in a while.
You don't work for a corporation where safety is first. You do not understand what process safety is. No one was pushing the boundaries of space by pushing O rings beyond their safety limits. This was a preventable accident. Your specious arguments don't prove otherwise.
I have worked for corporations where safety was first. Guess what - they still had accidents. Not as many as corporations which didn't give a shit, but nonzero nevertheless. Murphy was right. A system will eventually find all of its points of failure. Process safety is designing systems to minimize the number of those points.
It is just like a few quantum bits with a few rooms full of machinery that operates these bits and is both slow and has way to small a number of bits to really be useful.
I don't know Jack - sorry, I don't know Werner - about quantum computing, but you did just describe the state of regular computing circa 1946 or thereabouts.
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