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You think Japanese whiskey is surprising, try a bottle of Amrut. If good water is a key to good whiskey, how does a distillery in India make something that good??! And I have had some very, very good Amrut.

Currently enjoying an Edradour Ibisco sherry cask (cask strength) which is exquisite. Cracking a 20y/o Laphroaig tonight. I don't think either can be bought locally, a friend of a friend is apparently an importer/distributor. I didn't ask, I just enjoy :)

Stormtech outlet center on boundary near the hwy1 underpass.

Great stuff at crazy discounts if you get lucky on sizes.

However, I am mildly curious how those in the know "make a killing" in a short term crash blip.

You said it yourself (though backwards in this case): sell high, buy low

My pretty conservative portfolio of mostly ETFs and bank stocks was down around 3% in 2 days, and has now recovered over 3% in 2 days. Had I sold my entire portfolio Thursday then bought it all back late Monday, I would be up 6% in 4 days. That's a year's worth of earnings on a conservative portfolio in under a week. Yeah, I'd call that a killing!

But anybody with that kind of market timing wouldn't waste their time on conservative ETFs. Play the options game and you could easily leverage a 3% market swing into a monster profit (or play it badly and lose it all, which is why I don't hold options beyond the ones I am granted through work).

Anyhow, the market seems to have settled down, and after a couple days of regret at not being more proactive, my laziness has rewarded me with being right back where I was this time last week. I can live with that personally. After some of the earlier posts here I was disappointed not to see somebody on here claiming to have timed the spike (after the fact of course) and made a fistful of cash. Surprise, it seems like the only folks left on this thread are actually investors, not "traders"!

I made the mistake of reviewing my holdings on Friday and then again on Monday :damn:

Fortunately recovered almost 90% of the loses yesterday and today, and with CAD down a bit, all of my USD holdings are effectively up enough to pretty much make up the differences. I had a tough time resisting the urge to join in the panic sell by the end of the second day tho.

Everybody here claiming to be day trading see that one coming? You must have made a killing in the last week.

Just picked up my new ride

Saw one of those out at Pitt Meadows track day on Sunday, was that you? There can't be too many of them around yet.

Man, that tank looks MASSIVE in person - got some serious Judge Dredd vibe going on there :)

Definitely will turn some heads on that beast. Enjoy!

There is a bear with a cub roaming around the bottom of bby mountain. She seems to spend most of her time in the Stoney Creek corridor, which is the green belt right at the bottom of North Rd trail - if you hang a right and follow the boardwalks back towards the power lines there's a pretty fair chance you'll cross paths with her.

Saw an RCMP walking the neighborhood with his shotgun out last night :damn: which is a bit of an alarming sight in the city. A friend saw him with a CO in the area as well, so they seem to be taking it seriously. I actually saw the bear and cub under the bridge over the creek on Stoney Creek Place this morning (I was on the bridge taking my daughter to school, looking down on the bear and cub below).

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The chip is a 28-14 nm line width design.

Where did you see that? The dwave link only indicated LSI (~128k junctions) and I thought I recalled my buddy saying dimensions hadn't changed much since we were working on them in the 90's - 4um min geometry back then.

14nm is extreme bleeding edge tech for cmos designed to run around room temperature, used on VLSI processors pushing a billion transistors, 10,000 times more than dwave processor today. Hard to believe they would be remotely close to that in a cryogenic application.

Cool tech, anyhow. Seriously, if you found other good links, please post.

that sounds like a good fun route. :banana:

Not on the bike you are riding - the best part of what he described is gravel. Flat, high speed, dirt-track style gravel granted, but it would seriously suck on a sportbike.

If you are heading south, make sure you take a short detour to Chuckanut Drive south of Bellingham. It's a short section down the coast, years since I've ridden it, but from what I recall it had some of the tightest, smoothest corners outside of a track I ever recall riding.

If you do a figure 8 you get to hit it both directions :) If I had unlimited time I'd avoid the Coquihalla entirely - I find that ride boring as hell unless you are prepared to gamble on radar and really wind it out. Having had a close encounter with a moose (!) near Merritt years ago, I personally wouldn't recommend that either. Hwy 3 to Princeton, 5A to Aspen Grove, then 5A up past Nicola Lake to Kamloops has a lot of nice sections.

a basic understanding of quantum computing like most other people.

Lol. I have a degree in physics and used to work (a few decades back) with a bunch of the guys from dwave at a defunct local company that was using SQUID magnetometers to build brains scan equipment (MEG). Same basic underlying technology as the Dwave system.

I still have beers with one of the guys from time to time, and have repeatedly asked him to explain to me how to translate a given problem such that the Dwave system can solve it (i.e. how do you "program" the Dwave computer?). He laughed and admitted that it's incredibly hard to explain, to the point that he actually couldn't really do it and it seemed he wasn't even entirely sure he understood it himself, despite having worked for them in a technical roll for years.

While it's not that hard to explain quantum entanglement, superpositioning, etc., etc. in layman's terms, "a basic understanding of quantum computing like most other people" basically comes down to "WTF?!?"