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First off, the author of the article, Ian Bogost, is a professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. What exactly are your "scientist" credentials, by comparison? Back to talking about the actual article instead of an ad hominem (as well as inaccurate) attack on the...

‘Artificial Intelligence’ Has Become Meaningless It’s often just a fancy name for a computer program. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/what-is-artificial-intelligence/518547/ It's not clear that consciousness has any impact on better trading in any event?

Many SPX contracts are European.

I've started two successful companies in the U.S. so I feel I have some standing to comment on this question. Without meaning any disrespect to you, it's clear that you have not. The reason it's clear is because I worry about hundreds of things about my business, and spend time on hundreds of...

I figured as much. All 4 fans would have to be connected in a single transmission, otherwise an single engine failure would flip the thing upside down in 2 seconds in a hover. The transmission drag alone must have eaten 20% of the power, and it had to have had rube goldberg complexity. I see...

Wow, that's a new one to me! As a former helicopter pilot and maintenance officer, that thing looks like a nightmare!

I'm guessing it's much like a helicopter, turboshaft engines to a transmission which changes direction and sends it out to the prop. Couple an electric motor with a ratchet type freewheeling unit (again like a helicopter), and you can power it with either one. The only suspect piece to me is...

Those links are dead but here's another https://qz.com/950730/tesla-for-the-air-jetblue-just-invested-in-an-electric-plane-startup-called-zunum-aero/ An infinitely more reasonable concept and company, probably the reason why they got the investment. I'm guessing that Boeing at least is using...

Many startups try to look bigger than they are because potential clients fixate on that instead of results. The founder probably listed all their advisors and board members with employees to the reporter and they conflated that to "employees", an error the company isn't in a hurry to correct...

That's another great point, you do get the impression that they guy's really attached to gold would rather starve than part with any of it!

I think that's the real rub. From one of those sites "These are longterm investments. Each eREITTM plans to look for opportunities to provide liquidity to its investors after approximately five years. While we expect to seek a liquidity transaction in this time frame, there can be no assurance...

Do you have any examples of this? My understanding is that they're all privately held, so I guess you'd have to be in it for a 10 or 20 year horizon to be worthwhile without any kind of secondary market?

No-one in Venezuela carries around gold to pay for things, nor did people in Zimbabwe when even crazier inflation was happening. High inflation is a very different and far more common occurrence than not honoring futures contracts on gold. The question is if you need to hold it in your hot...

This movement was essentially formed in response to the CBCs and Mavericks of the world, who use their religion to support discriminating, excluding, and harming others. Both of them would do well to give the movement a look. We've got Maverick here fabricating statistics, really outright lying...

What all the doomsday type's don't seem to grasp is that gold is only valuable in a very narrow type of doomsday scenario. 1. If it all goes to heck then gold has less than no value. You can't eat it, drink it, or defend yourself with it, and it's heavy to carry around. If real doomsday happens...

Since it requires that the probabilities involved fall in a Gaussian distribution and it's been definitively shown that securities prices do not follow a Gaussian distribution, then the answer is no. In any event, he "just" proved a conjecture that has been around for some time. Obviously the...

So fabricating statistics to further your goal of excluding others based on their religion is your definition of "good"? Still waiting for your explanation or apology on that one, we haven't forgotten. Remember Maverick, what would your Jesus do?

Once again your example speaks far louder than your words. You advocate for everything your Jesus specifically teaches against, you blatantly lie with a fabricated statistic, and when you're called on it you ignore all that, accuse me of "foaming at the mouth" and "judging" you, and go on...

Note to Maverick, when you start saying it's fine to bash your son's head in with a rock because he disobeys you because "man wasn't ready" to be civil you've lost your argument! And that's a heck of a lot of interpreting for someone who doesn't "interpret". You're claiming that "Islam doesn't...

You can worship whoever you want, I could really give a crap what you do in your personal time. Pretty sure it doesn't say anywhere "ban everyone of a different religion" in that verse, or did I miss that part? Amazing how you can claim that you literally interpret every verse of the bible but...