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Relevant - AI Progress Measurement page by the EFF: https://www.eff.org/ai/metrics

Aerones have developed a drone that can haul a human - https://www.aerones.com/eng/news/?text_id=18

Agreed, this is something we at http://volteuropa.org are working towards!

Unified tax rates would greatly reduce the burden of setting up and running a business in the EU.

Well, with shares you are more or less guaranteed that they will increase in value, if the company does well.

With tokens this is not clear, as it would be possible for Telegram to do insanely well, but the tokens not being very popular/being used for some unimportant feature.

Mind you an IP address is personal data only if it identifies an individual. Same goes with any other information.

It can get tricky. Analysing web performance is not a direct requirement to fulfill orders, so you would need an explicit opt-in from your customers that lets them agree to their personal data being used in this way.

With Mailchimp you probably need to let your customers separately opt into their e-mail being used for marketing purposes, as again that use is not strictly required to fulfil their order.

Same with any other information - your customers need to be aware of all the ways you will use their data. If any uses are not covered by a legal agreement, there needs to be an option to opt-in.

In essence the GDPR requires you to be accountable about all personal data you collect and use in your daily operations.

Compiling a list of all personal data currently located in your systems and making sure you have a legal basis for each item, goes a long way towards compliance (though of course this is not all you need to do)

Regarding this - "Model here means business rules, like rules for approving loans or adjusting power consumption in data centers. In traditional software, programmers created these rules by hand. Today machine intelligence can use data and new algorithms to generate a model too complex for any human programmer to write."

Isn't it a bit problematic that the business rules generated by the model are too complex for humans to reason about them? How can you rely on the rules to be 100% appropriate for the task if it's impossible to reason about them?

I have found the Caspian Report tremendously useful for improving my understanding of global dynamics - https://www.youtube.com/user/CaspianReport/videos

Short the stock :)

Well if you can run any executable as root, that sure counts as rooting in my book.

Please consider Board Games as an alternative to Computer Games. There has never been a better time to get into the hobby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKgz-UBEhss :)

I think it would be useful to give examples on how or where you your site finds an item at a price that I, presumably, was not able to find?

It sounds sketchy. :)

Also not sure if the whole workflow of your clients providing prices for items and then hoping your site delivers will work. How do I know the price I provided is realistic at all?

If you already have the capability to find items cheaply, just list those items on your website and let people purchase them :)

There's a good overview of IPFS here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skMTdSEaCtA

OK, but is there a demand for so many PhDs? Having a PhD doesn't really guarantee a good income now. It will be worse once everyone has one.

This makes sense, if there is some sort of government sponsorship or grants, but providing these to all people would mean drastically higher taxes, and companies are opposed to those.

I still don't get why Opsworks is not getting more love?

I guess people don't like Chef? Opsworks has enabled hassle free deployments for us over the past three years or so at no additional cost. :)

Thank you for the insightful article! Sadly it only covers historical trade routes. Are similar maps available for present day? I.e. What are the main trade routes for different types of goods?

Nice project! Is there a snap to grid functionality? Being able to easily align a diagram is a must have for me.

Kudos to you. I'm in a similar situation where while working remotely I have decided to stay in my home town with family, so they don't age alone.

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