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tjhance··on Scooping the Loop Snooper: Proof That the Halting Problem Is Undecidable (2000)
There is a general theorem that says that for any computation, you can write a program that executes that computation on its own source code. The quine is only a special case.
tjhance··on Ace – an embeddable code editor
Actually I think the 'ace' in Paper/Hackpad/Etherpad is a different thing called ace.
tjhance··on Time Travel Simulation Resolves “Grandfather Paradox”
www.scottaaronson.com/papers/ctc.pdf

Shows that (with or without quantum computing) you can do all of PSPACE using a CTC (in polynomial time) and no more.