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Re:Is There Anything Beyond Quantum Computing? by Jtsummers on Friday April 11, 2014 @02:29PM (#7574577)
If you're a writer and you have an article available on some 3rd party site, wouldn't you inform your blog readers of it? Besides, the poster of this link is not Scott Aaronson, so why accuse him of attempting "to move traffic to the blog"?

EDIT: And a blog without advertisements at that.

Re:Is There Anything Beyond Quantum Computing? by Havoc on Friday April 11, 2014 @05:00PM (#7575602)
>so why accuse him of attempting "to move traffic to the blog"?

Remember what I said...one of the first responses (3rd at worst) is someone posting the "proper" link to the actual article. That was there before I posted - someone else read the blog extracted the relevant info and concluded that the single link is the core content of the blog post. Then I put the same thing into words and go downvoted to hell. Oh well.

OP has since altered the link to point at the PBS article.

As I said before I don't doubt the technical ability or integrity of Mr Aaronson. I was commenting purely on the HN submission because I felt both the HN submission and blog were subpar & did an injustice towards the actual content (the PBS post). Downvote away...