We disagree on what tasks do and don't require emotion. We probably disagree on whether machines can ever have emotions, too, but that's neither...
What fun! Still not quite enough to coax me into international travel, though.
Those are not the liquid assets we've been talking about.
Those five banks have combined assets of, what, ten trillion dollars? Their combined net (not gross) annual income is somewhere around $120...
Paper's even more useful. Consider the situation where there's none left on the roll when you really need it.
I haven't shopped metals around in a while, certainly not since the recent upswing. I've experienced times when buy prices for junk were above...
That seems like a bad example. Mechanical motion control and quantitative computer vision (get precise location/trajectory from images) have been...
Well, yeah. We make more steel than almost anything else, certainly any other metal. I'm seeing figures of just under two billion tons per year...
Thanks for the followup, and I'm glad to hear it turned out genuine! I hope you've held onto it long enough to enjoy the, what, 30-40% run-up in...
Local price war, maybe? Drove through some cheaper-gas parts of NC yesterday, and the lowest price I saw was 2.76. Cheapest I found on a quick...
Didn't know the Mint was going the "cross-promotion with big retailers" route. :yack:
Not me. I don't even have a show coming up this weekend where I'm looking to sell.
Not after inflation, alas. Yet.
I'm still waiting for a convincing proof that I'm conscious.
I disagree (surprise!). Yeah, chess is a discrete problem, with a finite set of solutions. But that set is really really REALLY huge. The number...
I'm guessing that the communication from the buyer might be grounds for getting eBay to remove any negative feedback they leave.
Coinflation says $6.1275 for a quarter, 24.5x face value. It was a bit higher earlier today; they're showing silver at $33.88, where before I...
I'm not gonna generalize about which generations are more likely to ask for handouts. I am sorely tempted to generalize about which generations...
Heh. I spent my teenage years in Lynchburg, and don't miss the place at all. Our rival high school was E C Glass. I thought maybe it was named...
But if the grade assigned to a coin depends on how the grader feels at that particular moment... how is that a good thing? How I feel about a...
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