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Posted by Bender 2 days ago

US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal(arstechnica.com)
83 points | 96 commentspage 2
s0a 2 hours ago|
there is not yet a single approach to quantum computing that is provably scalable. so called experts may quibble, the uninformed (or financially aligned) will bloviate, bluster, and talking point us to death. but it's sadly just true. we're closer to useful fusion power than useful QC.
123k2a 4 hours ago||
Trump Jr. is one of the government money recipients via 1789 capital (which had already profited from the groq insider sale last year):

https://www.startribune.com/donald-trump-quantum-computing-i...

bix6 4 hours ago||
Trump Jr the guy selling drones to the Middle East after his father started a war? What a standup guy!
vjvjvjvjghv 4 hours ago||
The Trump family is a fully integrated business. Start a war, sell weapons. Negotiating peace deals and looking for investors at the same time.

Sue the government and be in charge of the agency you sue.

actionfromafar 4 hours ago|||
That's Sir Mountain Dew Trump Jr to you.
redsocksfan45 3 hours ago||
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4ashga 2 hours ago|||
Downvoting and flagging facts? Here is another one:

Trump Jr just married the daughter of an Epstein banker.

Aboutplants 3 hours ago||
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LadyCailin 3 hours ago||
> At this point, however, it’s not obvious how to stop the deal.

Impeachment, but congress has bent over so much that they can taste their shoes.

lazide 3 hours ago|
They like the payment, and yelling about it while actually not doing anything about it means they get the benefits (as long as their constituents buy it!) while not having to do the actual hard work on take on real risk.

When it blows up, they can even say ‘I told you so!’, often while profiting from it insider trading wise.

itake 4 hours ago||
disclosure: I have large (to me) investments in quantum.

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The US needs to keep leading innovations. We have permanently lost the ability to manufacture. For China (and the world) to stay dependent on us, we need to continue pumping out technologies.

Ukraine / Iran / Afghanistan / Vietnam has proved having the biggest baddest military is not that valuable.

josefritzishere 4 hours ago||
I think we're all seeing a theme.
thegrim33 4 hours ago||
Is the theme that any direction US tech advances in results in a persistent campaign of negative hit pieces aimed at trying to halt/destroy any achievements? Written by "journalists"/publishers that have never, and will never, say a single negative thing about china? Sure seems like that's the theme.
orsorna 4 hours ago|||
What does your tangent about feelings have to do with the fact that the money is illegally allocated? That is the theme OC is pointing out.
itake 4 hours ago||
My understanding for the money to be "illegally allocated", the court system would have to declare it so.

The article do not mention any lawsuits that overturn the allocation, just a couple senators disagreeing with the interpretation of the law. The senate does not interpret the law, but the judicial branch.

bix6 4 hours ago||||
> But a member of the US Congress is now arguing that those deals are illegal, as Congress did not allocate the money for this purpose—instead, it was meant to support public research in semiconductors.

That is the theme. Illegal use of public money. It’s called crony capitalism.

anon291 4 hours ago||||
That is basically the theme. You've figured out the actual grift. The crazy thing is how these same magazines will promote actual fake industries like crypto, while demonizing industries that produce actual results like AI. The goal seems to be to get Americans to invest assets into currencies likely already controlled by foreign entities while discouraging them from developing their own potentially revolutionary technology.
bix6 4 hours ago||
Um sorry have you heard about the gutting of the NSF?
anon291 4 hours ago||
Yeah that sucks balls but America's private capital markets are still robust.
Hikikomori 3 hours ago||||
Plenty of that on Ars Technica, even by the same author. Baseless silly whataboutism as usual.
mrhottakes 4 hours ago|||
Take a deep breath and get your meds updated.
NietTim 3 hours ago||
Can you actually make an argument instead of just vague posting?
dlev_pika 3 hours ago||
waves at most executive decisions of this administration
sebmellen 4 hours ago||
Quantum itself is the most scummy, grift-filled industry. Every quantum company is riding the AI/semiconductor hype wave with basically zero revenue prospects or long-term application of the tech. Companies trading at 200x earnings, IONQs CEO claiming to the “next NVIDIA”/“base case is Cisco’s market cap” — just ridiculous.
Zigurd 1 hour ago||
Bogus research they use for image polish is to be expected from IBM. It's pure comedy the way that Watson missed the AI hype train.

But quantum seems to have infected some more legit players. Whatever became of Majorana chips, for example? That got some high-level attention at Microsoft.

dlev_pika 3 hours ago||
If you have enough money, you can say whatever bullshit and the pilot fish around you will clap.
mounceyboy 3 hours ago||
my favorite conspiracy theory - the govt has already cracked all the RSA codes but they keep funding QM to show that we're still secure.
ecshafer 3 hours ago|
I read once that if we really wanted to be secure, we would have a crypto library that was open source, AND all changes needed to be signed off by more than one of NSA, Mossad, FSB, China's agency, etc. This way if there is a bug they find, any agency has to assume other agencies have also found the bug.
dylan604 2 hours ago||
That's so good it'll happen the third day after never. Neat idea though
daveguy 1 hour ago||
I'm old enough to remember when conservatives thought the government picking winners and losers in industry was a bad thing. But that was before about 75% of them joined the dumpty cult.
shevy-java 4 hours ago||
A suspicious amount of betting here - from the top of the current administration, down to semi-regular people like that US soldier who profited from his special knowledge recently:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-soldier-charged-using-clas...

400.000$

So if these are all the Trump-voters then I am no longer surprised. It's an ongoing cash grab on different levels - the big guns play on top.

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