Transportation of a quantum state is not information because what is transported is essentially random. The key definition of information is that it is *ordered*, meaning not random. You cannot communicate a message with entangled pairs or quantum teleportation faster than light.

Thank god someone is in here correcting this. I slapped my forehead when I read this article and thought of all the people that were being wildly misinformed about the nature of quantum entanglement. This is just bad reporting. It's not like it's even that hard to understand the basic concept. You can't predict the…

The accurate impression really is that this is not nearly as significant as this article implies. No information can be sent with quantum entanglement. The phrase "teleportation" is extremely misleading when referring to this phenomenon. All this means is that the two particles have some relationship to one another,…

They had a "sexy carwash" setup that was in no way shot like a sexy carwash scene. I think that right there tells you everything you need to know. It is talking *about* the tropes but itself is avoiding or directly addressing them instead of just repeating them.

Your BO is certainly progressive.

Obviously whatever forces of natural selection favored the gigantisism so prominently displayed on Skull Island also favored 100mm hardened steel dermal deposits. That´s just basic science.

You know, what this country really needed was its own Himmler.

Fair enough, but they are largely right. A lot of what made the show enjoyable in the early going has been lost as the writing has transitioned away from George RR Martin's story to TV script writers. If what you like is the epic aspects, the heroism, the rapid progression of the plot, the drama and the vengeance then…

First, I think it's important to separate colonialism and neo-colonialism as distinct things. It is quite obvious colonialism was driven by resource exploitation, and there is clear, overwhelming documentary evidence supporting that claim. The evidence for neo-colonial interests being driven by resources is not always…

The neo-colonial project has far more explanatory power for what the Bush administration did than the oil narrative. That's basically what the Project for a New American Century was about. The key difference here though is that the motives, while terribly misguided, weren't just about stealing oil. Many people in the…

I absolutely agree that the neocons dramatically misunderstood the middle east generally and Iraq in particular. I protested the leadup to the Iraq war. That doesn't mean I have to believe nonsense alternate narratives that conveniently align with my politics though.

On the other hand, if we got emotional about every single injustice in the world, particularly ones far distant from ourselves or our direct influence, we would ask be emotionally paralyzed, so that's not really a very useful approach to life either, particularly given that most conflicts in life are significantly…

To be fair, aside from head shots i think dying from an arrow is generally significantly more painful than instantly dying in a drone strike.

It's not that good of a point really. What happens in Westeros is basically modeled after the War of the Roses, which absolutely did have a bloodbath of pretenders tot he throne in a very short space of time on the island of Britain, which is approximately the same size as Weteros. If you prefer to go away from…

To some extent, but really the only thing that was a clear retread was the existence of a death star, that had to be blown up, but even that had more novelty because of the twist element what with it appearing to be half finished. It wasn't an exercise in "Bigger = Better." It was narratively distinct. Beyond that…

You don't have to be a huge Star Wars fan to have that reaction. I have far less interest in Star Wars than I did as a kid and generally couldn't care less about its legacy as a film, but I completely agree that TFA was uninspired filmmaking. It was two hours of fan service without an original idea or plot beat to…

The Force Awakens was bad in a different way, in that it was almost straight unoriginal and unnecessary mediocrity. It offered nothing worth seeing for fans of the original trilogy. It was just a shadow of the originals, mimicking their every beat while lacking any substance of its own. For people's first foray into…

I think Hodor sacrificed himself out of loyalty, that seemed pretty clear. In terms of the larger narrative, Bran's uniqueness is pretty apparent. He can see events across time. That's a power no one else aside from the three eyed raven has at this point, and in a world like this where magic is rare and mysterious,…

I mean, you keep saying it is cheap or unearned, but you haven't really managed to explain why. So why is it cheap? What is it about what happened in this scene that makes it worse or more cheap than other scenes dealing with the death of a character?

And finally your AC. Inbreeding is entirely responsible for the nature of the 1ed-2ed mechanic.