birdsbirdsbirds

5 ms·

1.
by birdsbirdsbirds 5y ago
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 than €6.7 billion to create an alternative infrastruct
2.
by birdsbirdsbirds 5y ago
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 doesn't match. On the other hand, freezing and b
3.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
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 to the brand and you will recommend it in your netw
4.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
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 also the source of innovation and creativity. Will reso
5.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
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, just to impress. There will be galaxies full of combat drone
6.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
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? Who doesn't want to fly their jet or space rocket j
7.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
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 companies are big enough to have fancy new components an
8.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
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 swimming in money because they don't go all in on
9.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
How do you continue once you are big enough to be a threat to Google?
10.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
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 as long as most money is not spent. The economy depends n
11.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
This is open source: https://stephaneginier.com/sculptgl/ You could organize some crowd funding to expand it to the feature set you need.
12.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
>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 have spent their money on bitcoin? Who will provide t
13.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
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 will emerge who claim to be the real deal. Let them battle
14.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
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 not expect that they intend to run away with those $30 bill
15.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
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.
16.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
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. Rationally, it doesn't matter how google reacts to thei
17.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Same issue in boxing: bare knuckle fighting leads to less concussions than boxing with gloves.
18.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Maybe Steve Jobs did the same berated to himself?
19.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
That's the power of a monopoly. Apple didn't have it when the iMacs were presented.
20.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
There are two kinds of ETF. Only one of them is operated like that. Check the fine print to be sure.
21.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
They are liquidated once the deviation is too big.
22.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
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 ingredients should be measured in multiples of the use
23.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
We still are the first cells that lived. From a cell's point of view, there are no ancestors.
24.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Well, do they abide to Chesterton's fence by themselves? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filioque
25.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
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 numbers that show that older founders have a much higher s
26.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
1. The other could still be successful. 2. Same mother doesn't mean same fathers. Success comes down to IQ. One kid could have been lucky while the other drew the short stick.
27.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Or we shouldn't. Education gets diluted the more people are educated. Think about how much you learn in university in a short time compared to how much you learn in school. Now imagine you would have gone to school only with the ones w
28.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Make your own exchange.
29.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Offtopic: [1] >North America Europe 100GB per month free $0.02 per GB >India 30 GB per month free $0.12 per GB How come India is so much more expensive? Is this how Jio manages to keep consumer costs down, by making service providers
30.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
How come moderators don't fall for those 'theories'? Or more precisely: Why is there a majority of people who upvote those theories but moderators can identify them as what they are and remove them? What has happened to moder

More ›