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And their risks as well.

IMHO, the reason is not really to protect US manufacturers. It is about long-running negative balance of trade between US and the rest of the world.

Protectionism rhetoric is a sugar-coat for Americans who will have to foot the bill by paying more for imported goods, but honestly, who else should?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Balance_of_trade

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This propagation delay does not really matter as long as neighboring power plants are synchronized with each other.

Yes, east coast and west coast are out of phase, but only to a perfect observer who can see phase value on both coasts instantly (without a propagation delay). However in reality information about the phase cannot travel faster than speed of light, so to any real observer anywhere between east and west coasts both sides appear to be in sync.

If the ledger is centralized, what is the advantage of using blockchain?

There are regulations for casinos as well.

Or Holy Bible for that matter.

In a way, Holy Church has been doing it for ages.

When breaking with engine, the kinetic energy of movement is converted to heat not via friction (like breaks do) but via compressing air in cylinders which does not cause extra wear on anything.

What about Opium wars?

Perhaps since this practice got exposed, other countries became less willing to cooperate. With such a treaty in place it will be more difficult to say no.

Good joke!

XMPP is even better example than IMAP.

Do you think folks currently participating in murders will put their guns down once they run our of drug dealers/addicts?

This policy is akin to starting fire in a house to get rid of rats.

Perhaps “random fluctuations” are as much random as Brownian motion. I.e. there is cause and effect on a finer level (yet not possible to probe with current techniques), however a large number of interacting particles renders analytical prediction infinitely complex task.

I believe this comment is not directed to people who are trying to create something, but to people who feel entitled/special because they are trying to create something they perceive as improvement for humanity.

Can be also luck on first try, while all subsequent attempts are "regression towards the mean" as Kahneman puts it.

However I agree with the idea that being motivated by the process of creation is more robust than being totally goal-oriented, especially when chance of achieving a goal is low and it may take many unsuccessful attempts before producing a hit.

Aren't these worthy endeavours resource-starved because most of resources are being spent on less worthy endeavours which involve competition?

It is not a big deal as long as seemingly identical file names are treated by OS as different.

Unicode normalization is not the only problem here, e.g. Latin 'a', 'e', 'T' are exactly the same as Cyrillic 'а', 'е', 'Т' in most fonts which makes it possible for two files to have seemingly same names even in some 8-bit encodings.

Wonder if anyone is going to do the opposite - try to buy off pro-global-warming professor to produce exaggerated doomsday prediction - and what the outcome is going to be.

The cash one exchanges for shares of a public company is usually spent on paying wages, buying equipment, funding R&D etc, thus enabling future growth.

If one happens to invest into the inefficient company in a long term it is going to be bust along with investor.

How comes this is not productive?

As for differentiation of goods in Soviet Union it went as: - made in USSR: hard to buy - made in USSR for export: takes a bribe to buy - made in Soviet block countries (DDR, Czechoslovakia): requires bribe and connections - made in Western countries: you better be high-profile member of a communist party

What you say about intelligence vaguely resembles genetic algorithm... or I just saw a pattern similarity where none exists :)

The only problem is that hardware to verify ECU code is an actual car of particular model with equipment to analyse exhaust. Or very precise mathematical model of it which would be much more expensive and would probably require super-computer to run.

Opensourcing is not a replacement for QA practices.

If it was, open source applications would never have critical bugs or security vulnerabilities.

It may mitigate some issues in a long run (e.g. intentional backdors) but in a short run it will create havoc as access to source code will make it easier to create exploits.

And suddenly you have whole new problem of making sure that everyone keeps their ECU software up to date or they risk fatal crash.

over-the-air updates for safety-critical components of a car is a risky practice at best.

Absolutely. Even if particular restaurant provides food for free it is still a subject for regulations e.g. concerning health and fire safety.

I guess that explains why celebrities make millions for only being celebrities.

If Tesla finds itself in position to need more capital, factories are better collateral than domain name and brand equity.

I would never ever want to be in a car which acceleration can be controlled remotely via Internet, even in theory.