Well, other countries joined the treaty even though they might not benefit from it in short term. The fact is that it is a political hot potato, everyone in Senate is scared to death of being branded as an ultra liberal who sides with Europe agains the interest of the US.
More than anything else it tells you something about politics atmosphere in the Senate.
If you wanted to use the antimatter bowling ball as a weapon, you'd just blow it apart into dust using conventional explosives
How would you use conventional explosives to blow a
chunk of antimatter apart? After all the energy of conventional explosives is nothing compaerd to the energy emitted by antimatter on contact ith ordinary matter.
Actually, it is rather hard to imagine that a ball with that surface temperature will not fall apart. Once it happens the surface area will increreas and keep increasing with further disintegration of the parts.
So it seems quite likely that the process will end with a big boom after all.
Both words have been adopted by English common usage, but English does not have an acute on 'e' in its scope so 'resume' [raesumae] cannot be an 'English' word, and CV is just a couple of letters, not a word.
Wow, you seem to exercise a lot of authority here defining what's an English word and what is not. The Oxford English Dictionary seems to disagree though.
Second - trading is like playing a slot machine. Buying is really investing in a company. Not dissimilar to buying corporate bonds, although without a fixed return rate. In fact, you can even vote for company directors, etc with your stock and potentially improve its governance.
If we were to create an artificial intellegence that was fully capable of making these decisions, would we even be able to put limits on what it decides?
A very good point indeed. You cannot program contraints about something which you don't even understand. Once the artificial intelligence is
similar to human in sophistication, there is no reason to think that we will be able to enforce constraints on robots any more than we can do so with people.
There's a non-zero "option value" to the options (the choice not to exercise if the stock price drops), that is distinct from the "intrinsic value" (roughly equal to the strike price minus the current price).
The choice not to exercise adds nothing to the option value. After all if you don't exercise it you gain nothing. The option value exists because there is a possibility that you will be able to exercise the option when the stock is higher.
Thus even if the strike price is above the current price, (i.e. you get nothing by exercising it immediately), the option still has value, which decreases as the expiration date nears.
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I have to say he has some very stiff competition in scientific circles.
Actually, it is complete trivial to handcode it so no images come up for certain searches. What exactly is your point?
Well, other countries joined the treaty even though they might not benefit from it in short term. The fact is that it is a political hot potato, everyone in Senate is scared to death of being branded as an ultra liberal who sides with Europe agains the interest of the US.
More than anything else it tells you something about politics atmosphere in the Senate.
It says that it's structured to benefit nearly everyone else primarily at the expense of the U.S.?
Are you saying that even if the US does not sign it everyone benefits at America's expense? If not, who benefits and who loses in its current state?
So you are saying that every other country is given preferential treatment?
What does it say about the structure fo the treaty?
And what does the fact that most countries other than the US joined the treaty say about its structure?
You are confusing alchemy with transmutation.
Alchemy was just chemistry (same root, btw), however transmutation was one of its primary goals.
How would you use conventional explosives to blow a chunk of antimatter apart? After all the energy of conventional explosives is nothing compaerd to the energy emitted by antimatter on contact ith ordinary matter.
Once it happens the surface area will increreas and keep increasing with further disintegration of the parts.
So it seems quite likely that the process will end with a big boom after all.
There is always a reason.
Installing a democratic government? I see...
There are plenty words with an acute e in English.
Both words have been adopted by English common usage, but English does not have an acute on 'e' in its scope so 'resume' [raesumae] cannot be an 'English' word, and CV is just a couple of letters, not a word.
Wow, you seem to exercise a lot of authority here defining what's an English word and what is not.
The Oxford English Dictionary seems to disagree though.
Assuming that your story is true, how do you know they neglected to normalize for pre-natal care intentionally?
Very good. The statistics sounds absolutely incredible.
The whole thing sounds highly apocryphal.
Some stupid poll correlates 99% with becoming a millionaire? Absolute BS.
I thought fair and balanced was the prerogative of the Fox News channel.
First - all slot machines are rigged.
Second - trading is like playing a slot machine. Buying is really investing in a company. Not dissimilar to buying corporate bonds, although without a fixed return rate. In fact, you can even vote for company directors, etc with your stock and potentially improve its governance.
What's the hell are you talking about?
Horse with a rider on top of it is very different from a horse without a rider. It is like running with a backpack.
What is interesting is why the language of math works so well to describe physical phenomena.
A very good point indeed. You cannot program contraints about something which you don't even understand. Once the artificial intelligence is similar to human in sophistication, there is no reason to think that we will be able to enforce constraints on robots any more than we can do so with people.
You are confusing Al Capone and mayor Daley.
The choice not to exercise adds nothing to the option value. After all if you don't exercise it you gain nothing. The option value exists because there is a possibility that you will be able to exercise the option when the stock is higher.
Thus even if the strike price is above the current price, (i.e. you get nothing by exercising it immediately), the option still has value, which decreases as the expiration date nears.
The problem is that he might kill the concept by promising too much and delivering too little.