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The limits are a convenient way to escape the challenge. By opting out, nobody can ask why European companies don't have state of the art AI technology. If Europe cannot offer more…

In other words, it's Fahrenheit that doesn't make sense because it goes from arbitrary -20 C to 40 C. Even the originally targeted alignment with human body temperature to 96 F doe…

My guess is that they make sure that you don't doubt your purchase. You could send it back if a competitor gets into your head. Additionally, if you don't doubt, you become loyal t…

What if it's not about keeping individual humans comfortable with nice experiences but about growing the amount of awareness? We think of humans as a resource problem but they are …

Endless hedonism is boring until there is competition. DenisM mentions status in his comment. Status will demand Versailles bigger than can be passed at light speed during a life, …

Why should there be a limit? If you can command robots to build anything you can ever imagine, who doesn't want his own Versailles - with impressive towers like the Burj Khalifa? W…

They can choose for a year or two, but they will lose on scale. Apple can pull off their own processor because they are big enough. If companies don't sell in China, only Chinese c…

With comments, they could have become facebook. They still can become facebook by offering comments, letting their readers create profiles and expand from there. Newspapers aren't …

How do you continue once you are big enough to be a threat to Google?

From the article: > they [the central banks] can expand the money supply to keep the system propped up. They have to expand money supply to keep the value of the currencies stable …

This is open source: https://stephaneginier.com/sculptgl/ You could organize some crowd funding to expand it to the feature set you need.

>what looks to be one If it quacks like a duck, is it already a duck? What is bitcoin's value anchor? What happens if all the people who are afraid of regular currency collapses ha…

Give money to brilliant scientists with no strings attached. Let scientists among themselves figure out who is brilliant. If the system gets corrupted, a second group of scientists…

By which means are the people paid who organize Tether? If they hand out tether effectively for nothing, who is paying for the infrastructure? If there is no payment, why would one…

What's the leverage? Naively I would assume that the worst would be that when such a small investor sells his shares then everybody else has an opportunity to make a cheap offer.

Two wrongs sometimes make a right. So 10 wrongs make 5 rights? There is no more than 100% wrong. Saying it is 1000% wrong implies that you are arguing emotionally, not rationally. …

Same issue in boxing: bare knuckle fighting leads to less concussions than boxing with gloves.

Maybe Steve Jobs did the same berated to himself?

That's the power of a monopoly. Apple didn't have it when the iMacs were presented.

There are two kinds of ETF. Only one of them is operated like that. Check the fine print to be sure.

They are liquidated once the deviation is too big.

Doesn't this all break down once you use eggs? Absolute weights don't help much if you have to add one egg yolk since they don't have a fixed weight. For cakes, all other ingredien…

We still are the first cells that lived. From a cell's point of view, there are no ancestors.

Well, do they abide to Chesterton's fence by themselves? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filioque

As a programmer, it's possible to do the same, just one decade later. Jack Ma argues in some talk that people should gain experience before starting a company. This mirrors the num…