It is not faster than light.
I think what he wanted to show was a situation, in which entanglement and quantum mechanics, are superior to classical physics. i.e someone using quantum mechanics would have an advantage over someone who don't.
However, as he said, in this situation the two generals could have agreed on something else, like if it was raining or not.
In fact, something they could have done is to flip a coin, and split with a copy of the result, which they only look at when they launch the attack. It would have the same effect.
With a random variable (the coin flip), that is hidden until revealed, we achieve the same results as quantum mechanics.
Scientist call them "hidden values" and Einstein hopped we could explain the "spooky action at a distance" with such hidden variables. But we can't, Bell proposed an experiment with entangle state which measurement could not be explained by such hidden variables, and Aspect did the experiment and obtained the predicted results.
So there exist situation where we can use entanglement to achieve better results, for example in "non-local games", where players sharing entangled state can win with probability 1, when "classical player" with probability < 1
Not really, maybe it was the case 50 years ago (I don't know). Now I'd say the authors that are the most well known in France are Victor Hugo, Molière (we say that french is Molière's tongue), Voltaire and La Fontaine (every student has to learn some of his fable), maybe Baudelaire.
But then again, even tho most french people heard/learned about them, few could quote one of those author.
As for an equivalent of Shakespeare, Pushkin, Goethe or Dante, we don't have any author stamped "best French author", it's a matter of personal opinion I guess. I'd say maybe Proust, but not a lot of people read him. (There is a saying that half the people who say they read Proust, did not).
For things like textbooks, I'll start easily but then, when I reach a new point or new chapter, I will rationalized my self to stop it there and call it a done work, when in reality I worked only 30 minutes instead of and hour.
it's like my mind is rationalizing itself to settle for a sub goal.
Honestly I don't think your argument really hold. When you are born in place were you use a specific system of mesure you get use to it. And I don't see how living beetwen -10°C and 30°C or 10F or 80F change anything.
It's not always positive. Because of our large brain we must give birth before the child is fully develope and then it take 15-18 year for it to become adult, before that the child is pretty weak.
What a nice trilogy, when I read it I had the feeling that there was really a colony on Mars. I still have music which I listened at the time that trigger a martian feeling !
It make me think of Von neuman probe. If we can consider that a robot or something with connections similar to our neurons can be a living creature. Then maybe if something like Von Neuman probes existed it could have colonized the whole galaxy (actually it could be done in a few hundred millions years) then those probes, while each one have is own brain, could communicate with the other probes and even if two probes at two opposite sides of the galaxy couldn't communicate, they would still be connected. Then maybe this network could be consider as a living creature.
I personally use KeePass, I generate 20+ character random passwords and it save them in a encrypted file. I just wrote my email password and hide it in case I lose my file.
I started this year the 52 book a year challenge, one book a week. I'm actually at 29 books this year (one behind because I read Les Misérables) and I must say it's very rewarding. You just need to take a bit of time every day on some not essential task (tv, facebook etc..) and replace it by reading. I read 1h a day and it's enought to read a book a week.
Oh man, I always read before going to bed, and now I read a bit after lunch but I must take a break after 20 pages and take a small nap. I never thought before that reading might be a trigger for me to sleep.