.. we joked it should be Xilinx to buy AMD. Things have changed a lot in 5 years.

Perfect Day already produces milk proteins and hopes to start producing milk fats too to produce dairy products that are almost chemically identical to real ones.
https://www.perfectdayfoods.co...

That's the way to go IMHO, replace farm grown animals and their derivatives with lab grown alternatives.

I like the JetBrains model, the subscription part is what entitles you to updates, but every product version you have owned for more than six months is yours to keep as well. That way you are never unable to use the product but have a large incentive to keep the subscription.

It helps that the pricing is super reasonable.

Personally I believe the subscription strategy is a more reliable source of revenue, as opposed to huge spikes after every release and not much money in between. This security likely allows for priorities to shift from new features to maintenance and polish.

I don't know exactly how this verification is usually done but I would assume it would involved a more relaxed search checking for instance that the same system calls which are implicit in the source are in the provided binary (and only those), or that the symbol table matches what is expected. An not a direct byte to byte comparison.

But I could be wrong so I hope someone else with experience in this area can enlighten us further.

If I got it correctly he (or whoever else is with him) will match the remaining 6.

The value of the Boleto is part of the code and can be altered by the payer(for instance if you have to pay a fine because the payment is late, or if you have a discount for paying early) so if you can yank the transaction you can probably also alter the value.

They only get the goods *after* you pay, so it is safe for them. If you go to a store and take a product home they will give you other payment options instead such as credit/debit, cash or some other type of *ensured* payment. Or they will collect all personal information (including your CPF (SSN equivalent)) which is all they need to the hell out of you if you don't pay (much like if you payed with a cheque and had no backing funds).

It migh have in the sense that the data cap limits how much people actually browse/stream/etc, so they don't go over it. Which in turn reduces the total bandwidth.

I would imagine his intent was not that the machine would achieve success, the experiment is simply a nice framework to analyse weather the machine is able to comprehend information. Weather the machine is convincing or not, if the machine can abstract concepts in the same we do then you'd have a thinking machine. The pretending scenario seems just like a simple way to make it harder for someone to make a cheap solution to the problem (i.e. a chatbot).

Ultimately producing real intelligence is what is sought, not passing the damned test.

Strain and exposure tends to destroy nylon from my experience, when a muscle fiber is broken it gets replaced by one or more new fibers, how would you efficiently replace broken coils on a artificial limb?

You could just 'force' people to use a language with explicit memory management, like by offering [better] support for that particular language (C/C++ is best but I understand people do not enjoy these lower level languages as much). I always thought that the best form of garbage collection is not having garbage collection at all, but managing your memory efficiently and having good allocators. Yet even on languages such as Java/Javascript you can be smart about your objects so to minimize the underlying allocations. I would suppose javascript may be a little harder since it's not strongly typed but it should still be possible.