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Not fully automated. These may be autonomously driving, but not autonomously shooting. The article hints that that is technically possible, but also states that it is not implemented.
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An example: Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for climate change advocacy. And on the side, made up to a billion dollars from climate change business -- much of which was based on e Energy Department grants! http://
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As far as I know it is quite common.
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He is right, but ... he means something different by "elite." Knowing technology will get you a good job and benefit you in other ways, it is not the fastest and surest path to social prestige. Attending a top university is the fa
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In high-school civics class we are taught that trial by jury is part of the American system. Yes, there is a legal right trial by jury and occasional actual trials by jury. So what? The Soviet constitution guaranteed freedom of religion, an
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If asked, say "My previous contract prohibits sharing compensation details [as it probably does], and I take my commitments very seriously."
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Clickbait title. How do we modify that?
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At entry, Israeli border police check the online presence of a few people. This includes people, both Muslims and non-Muslims, identified as possibly being anti-Israel activists. The social media check cannot be automated. Border police at
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No law is needed to enforce such prohibitions through various forms of pressure.
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Preferences.
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Not paying dividends is actually quite common in tech companies https://www.quora.com/Why-do-only-a-few-technology-stocks-pa...
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This paper is not in the research line of the leading AI-existential-risk research, as found in, for example, MIRI, FHI. A so-called malevolent AI, as described here, is designed to fulfil human values like destroying an enemy. Not hum
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In Israel alarms were banned for new cars. Cars that already have alarms are grandfathered in for 3 years or so and then alarms must be disabled. Immobilizers have done a great job of reducing theft, however.
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Land of the fee...
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Ada Lovelace was upper-class.
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Thank you. 6.23% before taxes and inflation, less after these. Is this reliable enough over the long run to retire on?
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MMM tells you not to drop big bucks on fancy restaurants, SUVs, liquor. Like I need to be told that ? I don't spend on any such thing, track all my expenses, make a good high-tech income, and still spend most of my earnings. There is
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How does he rely on regular returns on investment of 7% or 4%? You don't get that on bank accounts; and the stock market too has not given such returns over long-term timespans in the last 15 years.
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You need a tax advisor/accountant who is qualified in both the US and Germany and has knowledge of cross-jurisdiction issues. These people are expensive . Until now, only big corporations needed such advisors.
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Right. Imagine if every financial form had 200 extra checkboxes -- dictated by the Mongolian Treasury, the Namibian Treasury, etc. But that's not the case. Only the US imposes financial regulations on every bank in the world.
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For most tax forms, the IRS says "you have to fill out this form so as to pay the correct taxes." For FATCA, the IRS says "FATCA targets tax non-compliance by U.S. taxpayers with foreign accounts." https://www
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No, this is NOT primarily about taxes. It is about expensive reporting requirements -- the sort of paperwork usually done by billionaires and big corporations must be filled out by every American, even those with low-incomes.
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There are treaties with some countries, but most of these treaties have "reverse loopholes." E.g., on any freelance income, a 15.5% Social Security tax from the first dollar, with no exemptions. Also, you pay the higher of both c
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The Jews built hiding tunnels ahead of the 132 CE Bar Kochba rebellion against the Romans. They are all around my home village. https://carleton.ca/studyisrael/2014/sophie-crump-crawling-h... The historian Cassius
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Do good developers want to work for free in non-free software?
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You can say, if needed, "My current contract forbids me to reveal my salary [almost certainly true], and I take my responsibilities very seriously."
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In Israel, prison jobs pay minimum wage. So, businesses do not suffer from competition with slave labor as in the US, and prisoners learn the value of labor.
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Is there a "Index Frontrunning" fund which I can invest in? (The fund would automatically frontrun all index changes, and so keep management fees to a minimum.)
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Java 8: An adequate Scala for Spark(datanami.com)
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This system was created to exclude Jews who were getting high test scores. The bigoted notion was that Jews could grind the books, but could not compete as well-rounded gentlemen. By making the process more subjective, elite universities co

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