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Teleporteurs sans frontieres.
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P.J. O'Rourke does his best Gregg Easterbrook impression.
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" If my opinion is worth anything though, I think classic literature is improved by a little physics."
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"[I]magine for the sake of argument that I could give you a simple, concrete explanation of how quantum computers work. If that explanation were truly correct, then it would mean we could use conventional computers to simulate all the elements in a quantum computer, giving us a way to solve those supposedly intractable problems I mentioned earlier."
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