Are corporate bonds purchased in Swiss Francs generally being purchased by European entities? I would have assumed they would represent a more global set of investors than bonds issued in Euros.
This is correct, mice don’t naturally experience alzheimer’s or other dementias during their lifespans and the structure of their amyloid beta protein is different as well. To continue using them as model organisms, we have to induce the disease in them by either introducing human genes that are linked with alzheimer’s, or chemically inducing a disease state that we believe to be similar. Mice are much better models organisms for studying metabolism or cancer, by comparison.
Twitter in Japan is more comparable to Instagram in the US in terms of usage (both being the third largest platforms, on which over half of their respective citizens have an account).
Owning capital means off-loading my labor to capital investments i.e. machines. I don’t see how that is any less noble than seeking to be a math teacher. In fact, once I’ve accrued enough capital (save enough in my 401k and retire), I have some plans to go into teaching, just as my 7th grade science teacher did after he retired as a chemical engineer.
This is the median lifespan. If the number of total products is increasing, that doesn’t suggest that fewer products are succeeding. You could even have more products succeeding, if the number of failures is growing even faster
In Chinese mythology, human beings were also created from clay. The goddess Nüwa first came to an empty river bank and spent much time carefully crafting a set of figures, then got tired, and rushed together a bunch of clay piles using a length of corded rope. The first group of clay figures were the nobility, while the latter were the commoners.
That’s a misunderstanding of what an observer is. An observer is better thought of as an interaction which distinguishes between states; there need not be a conscious observer. For example, long wavelength light interacting with the electrons in the double slit experiment does not affect the interference pattern because long wavelength light interacts with both states of the superposition in the same way. Short wavelength light has different physical characteristics than long wavelength light and interacts with one state of the superposition differently than the other, resulting in decoherence and the wave function “collapsing”.
There are other problems with the Copenhagen Interpretation, but this isn’t one of them
You’ve probably been reading a lot of physicists that believe in the Many Worlds view. Nature did a poll of physicists last year[1] and it’s still only the third most popular interpretation, behind the Copenhagen Interpretation and information-based interpretations like QBism.
Government service pays far less than the private sector, particularly for software engineers. If you’re paying 2nd decile prices, you’re going to get 2nd decile performance.
It can be fast by disregarding consensus, which is different from democracy. The power of democratically elected executives is that they are, unless otherwise bound by rule or regulation, free to execute very quickly, but they will (generally) align those actions with the will of the majority of the public if they want to be re-elected. Elected legislators are a bit different but the same principle more or less applies; by trading consensus for majority acceptance, you can move faster. This is largely what distinguishes anarchists from lower case D democrats.
Are we talking about the article? Because no, it’s not. The issue at hand is that WhatsApp’s docs pages contained hidden text, presumably for instructing external chatbots reading the page after conducting a web search. The issue is not with WhatsApp’s own AI agents
The US is more than capable of deploying and supporting a Marine Expeditionary Brigade in either Iran or Yemen. That it has not is a political decision.
Huh, I’m surprised R. Talsorian Games doesn’t also have a trademark. Wonder if they sold it to CDPR under the condition that they’re still allowed to use it for their products. Also, apparently a company in Shenzen holds the trademark in relation to lighting products, so you probably won’t see any 2077 branded lamps any time soon
I’m not making a claim one way or the other about the intent of these companies, but if your product made labor 3x more productive, you could still easily justify a TAM of the entirety of US GDP, without resulting in anyone losing their jobs. Obviously, here in reality, AI does act as a near 1:1 replacement for people in some roles, so we should expect some job losses. But I don’t think there’s any reason we should expect the entire US labor force to be automated away any time soon, even taking these assessments at face value
Choose Your Own Adventure is also trademarked, though that trademark (initially held by Bantam books, lapsed, and re-registered by another company) did originate the name of the genre
Okay, well, nearly half of all HOAs are condominium communities which inherently have common elements. I’m not saying that detached SFHs with no common elements should be governed by HOAs; I was if anything implying the opposite
You definitely need that level of governance if there are common elements which need to be funded and maintained (pools, parks, the building itself for condos)
Yes, laws should be repealed if they’re bad. And I think strict enforcement makes it clearer when laws are bad. I would much rather everyone get the same treatment by the criminal justice system every time they violate the law, so everyone knows the true cost of the law, not just those that are unlucky
I think that depends a lot on the age of the child in question. I absolutely would simply forbid an 8 year old from entering a library or book store with neo nazi writings or aum shinrikyo literature or Ted Kaczynki’s manifesto easily accessible. Trying to provide appropriate context for everything at that age is simply not feasible.
Yeah, there’s nothing more objectionable than a law that is not seriously enforced. It need not be perfectly enforced (what law is?), but anything that doesn’t come with real teeth should just be repealed, regardless of the merits
>One of the big issues with DRM is that it's not legal in the US to break the digital lock
My understanding is that the Library of Congress has the authority to designate situations in which it is legal to remove DRM on electronic copies of books you have purchased, such as to run it through a TTS program for those that are visually impaired. Does this not apply to other art mediums?