MichaelBurge
For all you know, every humanoid species that was intelligent was equally as destructive. Maybe we're the least destructive and you should be praising us.
As far as I know, nobody except maybe Microsoft(for finetuning Bing) has access to the base model. And probably not even them.
And similarly, somebody stuffing money under their mattress would be removing 20x the amount from circulation as they gain, with 5% deflation. So while one can easily imagine the 5% is financially equivalent to interest, the effect on the circulation isn't.
"Remove money from circulation" seems different than simple funding of services, though. It's not even obvious there should be any difference there, if the money were infinitely subdivisible. I don't think using personal finance equivalents like funding goods and services is sufficient to explain the effect.
An economist has probably written something in excruciating detail, making sure there's no shell games being played with the terms. So it's probably on me for not reading that instead of commenting here.
Why's deflation different from e.g. sitting on treasury bonds? The money was originally printed by the government, the bonds are issued by the government, so sitting on bonds does nothing except pays you for taking money out of the economy temporarily, same as deflation.
If e.g. nobody would ever buy a computer because it'd be 2% cheaper if you wait a year, you could just as well argue that if bonds yield 2% above inflation you could park your money in them and wait a year and have 2% more money so nobody would ever buy anything.
Most internet commenters read the title and immediately jump to the comments to start writing their response without ever opening the article.
Why were the owners liable? They notified the court and were prevented by the court from removing the machine, so my first thought is they should be blameless: The court assumed control and therefore responsibility.
Personally, I thought everyone(including Google) was crazy for using Java or any JVM language in any form until the Supreme Court case was settled. Even if the internet commenters tell you it's safe, do you really trust them to make a legal case so iron-tight that Oracle's thousands of lawyers won't find some way to sue you and cost you $500/hour in defense fees for months if you come to their attention?
In either case, if the behavior is to change, it should change as an informed decision and not because nobody noticed.
"I may not know what cos(x) means, but whatever it is shouldn't depend on what OS version I'm running"
The amount is large enough that even with 1% or 0.1% they could probably pay a professional bounty hunter to tail him for a week, reducing the odds of him escaping.
The "grey area" is modding games(notably Beat Saber), since it involves replacing the APK with an altered one without the consent of the developer. And if the developer sells DLC, that cuts into their profit and maybe they'll threaten to sue Facebook for damages since they created the development tools and authorized development accounts that allow people to do it.
The Googles and Apples of the world are probably safe against even their own people, but do you trust Tracfone?
So if some researcher published an article 50 years ago predicting a climate disaster, and even 1 random legislator at any time since votes against oil industry regulation, then you can presume the State knowingly chose to trade off future flooding and wildfires for short-term benefit and dismiss their case.
In general, this would be an incentive to never talk to scientists if you think you're doing something with negative consequences. Don't deploy any mitigations at all, because mitigations are evidence you think there's something to mitigate. Never read any scientific research, except for the minimum to accomplish specific tasks, because anything more is infohazardous. That seems worse than a world where they try to find a cheap solution that mitigates environmental damage, even if the search is unsuccessful and they decide to cause the same damage anyways.
If they have to split their efforts among 10,000 independent groups, maybe the EV-chasers will go away and people will talk about things other than the latest scandal or movie.
It's in some sense the "most dynamic" language, because you start one instance and repeatedly mutate it. And people mainly use introspection as the main tool for finding definitions/help/etc. instead of static documentation, so you don't have a half-hearted REPL.
I'm more of a static types person myself, but CL would be what I compare them to.
https://shafik.github.io/c++/undefined%20behavior/2019/05/11...