{"id":1536,"date":"2007-06-04T15:51:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T22:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2007-06-04T15:51:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T22:51:48","slug":"karmas-gonna-getcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/06\/04\/karmas-gonna-getcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Karma&#039;s Gonna Getcha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I wrote a  post, <a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1360#comments\">Laugh Therapy<\/a> where I described a paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/quant-ph\/0610117\">quant-ph\/0610117<\/a> by M. I. Dyakonov entitled &#8220;Is Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation Really Possible?&#8221;  The tone of my post was flipant and commentors (both online and offline) rightly pointed out that the proper way to resond to such a post is not with my bad jokestering, but by pointing out the technical flaws in the argument.  i.e. to respond like a professional and not like a clown (which, of course, is my first reaction to nearly everything in the world.)  At the time I didn&#8217;t think much about it, except that I agreed with the commentors.  But I also thought, but yeah, when will this ever really be important?  I mean no offense but large chunks of what I see on the arxiv everyday is, well, kind of junky (and I don&#8217;t exclude myself from this category.)  So what harm is there in one more paper which I strongly disagreed with on the arxiv?<br \/>\nKarma, however, must have heard these musing in my head, since today I received a rejection for a grant proposal and what did I find in one of the reviews?  Yep, you guessed it, a reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/quant-ph\/0610117\">quant-ph\/0610117<\/a>.  Doh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I wrote a post, Laugh Therapy where I described a paper, quant-ph\/0610117 by M. I. Dyakonov entitled &#8220;Is Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation Really Possible?&#8221; The tone of my post was flipant and commentors (both online and offline) rightly pointed out that the proper way to resond to such a post is not with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/06\/04\/karmas-gonna-getcha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Karma&#039;s Gonna Getcha&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}