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Comment Re:Fairy tales (Score 1) 39

It's a terrible phrasing, but 300 qubits (with binary states, let's just call it 300-bits) CAN store more information than the (number of particles in the known universe). The number of atomic particles in the universe is roughly 10^80, maybe 10^90 if you want to count all the longer-lived subatomic particles including photon and neutrinos. 10^90 is less than 2^300. It can store more information than that *number*. Can it store more than the particles? - of course not.

Comment Re:What do people use it for? (Score 1) 91

I think you are looking at this from only a download speed perspective. Most cable modem (DOCSIS) based ISPs provide a highly asymmetric DL/UL speed ratio where your 250Mbps down could be less than 20Mbps up. Often the upload speed goes up a paltry amount even when you pay for something closer to 1Gbps down with cable. The brief period of time where I had fiber internet service (Sonic), the speeds were a symmetric 1Gbps. That could be 20x to 50x the upload speeds I get with cable. If you are uploading content, doing backups to the cloud or other machines you own, or streaming video those upload speeds start to matter.

Comment Re:Fuck a cashless society (Score 5, Informative) 171

I make it a point to use only credit cards which give 2% or more back in rewards. At least that way I know the money being made by the credit card issuer is much closer to their actual cost.

Those "rewards" are also taken from the merchant in the form of even higher discount rates for rewards cards. Basically the merchant gets screwed, always.

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