{"id":2101,"date":"2008-10-10T14:41:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T21:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2008-10-10T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T21:41:37","slug":"mortgage-backed-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/10\/10\/mortgage-backed-quantum-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Backed Quantum Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the annals of strangely mixed news stories. Canada: $25 billion government bailout and&#8230;.$50 million for the University of Waterloo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/institute-for-quantum-computing\/\">Institute for Quantum Computing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BRANTFORD, Ont. &#8212; The $25-billion government deal to buy mortgages from Canada&#8217;s banks isn&#8217;t a lifeline for lenders stuck with bum loans, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday&#8230;<br \/>\nHe said the government will likely make money on the deal, because its borrowing costs are lower than those available to banks.<br \/>\nHarper also produced an election goodie, promising a $50-million grant to a high-tech research lab at the University of Waterloo.<br \/>\nThe money goes to the university&#8217;s Institute of [sic] Quantum Computing.<br \/>\nThe prime minister says it&#8217;s in line with the government&#8217;s efforts to spur research and development.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A new way to get out of the financial crisis: invest in the quantum computing!  (joke about a superposition of rich and poor deleted for sanity&#8217;s sake.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the annals of strangely mixed news stories. Canada: $25 billion government bailout and&#8230;.$50 million for the University of Waterloo&#8217;s Institute for Quantum Computing: BRANTFORD, Ont. &#8212; The $25-billion government deal to buy mortgages from Canada&#8217;s banks isn&#8217;t a lifeline for lenders stuck with bum loans, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday&#8230; He said the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/10\/10\/mortgage-backed-quantum-computers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mortgage Backed Quantum Computers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/2101","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=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}