I tried that, and spoke to them on phone for 20 mins. Their site says that if I buy without a GSTIN, they will reach out to get some business proof -
"Please note that if you’ve selected ‘No’ option to GSTIN, then our Order Processing team will reach out to you via email for other valid business documents (e.g. Income Tax Return copy, business utility bill or other valid business registration document) to complete the purchase post payment confirmation."
"We’ve demonstrated for the first time that a quantum computer can be used to solve a simplified version of a securities settlement optimisation problem, including modelling credit and collateral pools. If we were to scale up to real-world volumes of tens of thousands of transactions in a batch, we’d need to first wait a few years for quantum hardware to evolve and mature. Every few months, the number of qubits goes up – but to run securities settlement netting, we’d need orders of magnitude more qubits than exist at present.”
With all due respect - I don't understand this. Why would suburban growth not work with tram / local train lines that could be extended? It worked in London - one of the largest cities in the world which had to plan way ahead of time due to its historically narrow streets. I've lived in suburban London for >7 years, and frankly the only time I really needed to use the car was only to haul grocery home. Almost any other travel (including to work) was always achievable with the tube/bus - some combination of these.
What the ground truth was then isn't recorded in history. There are post-facto interpretations. I would argue if the incentives were laid correctly, there was no reason for suburbanism to necessarily lead to growth in automobile consumption.
The US motor companies had a massive clout. Given a choice back then (and the big roads due to the post-war expansion) it possibly made it easy to convince people that a car was a superior and more personal form of travel (think pre-ubiquitous air-conditioning). That's when you need government to think ahead, especially at the local level.
Didn't the US car companies actively lobby against and destroy the budding streetcar transport in most cities? I admit its not exactly rail, but you do have trams / streetcars in many European cities too - like Amsterdam. I would think they would be a much preferred public transport option than everyone driving their own car.
Culture is not something which happens automatically - sometimes its driven by corporates, and the stronger the incentives for the corporates, the harder to resist, until the only one capable of doing so is the government.
Very topical speech from the Fed on regulations (current and future) on AI in Banking industry.
tldr; Opaque AI models are OK in some areas such as fraud prevention and cyber security. But in other areas like consumer credit scoring, transparency is key.
What if they had access to the IP that is currently locked away by the likes of Apple/Google?
What if anyone who wanted to replicate a good design (and improve upon it) were able to do so without restrictions, or fear of lawsuits?
Conversely, what if what we treat as the sacrosanct right to make profits over a one-time invention (as if noone else could ever come up with a similar idea on their own - while history has repeatedly shown otherwise) was applied throughout history? Would even railways / electricity / simple things we take for granted now - have been so widespread? Maybe we would be flying in counterfeit airplanes.
> The ship's velocity can then be represented by a rotation of the axes; the rotation of the time axis is shown in Figure II. (Readers who find Figure II puzzling should recall that a diagram of an imaginary axis must, of course, itself be imaginary).
The ancient humans would then also (eventually) develop patents because someone somewhere would have thought about it even back then - and with worldwide distribution - it would catch on.
Effectively, what I'm saying is - when faced with a common greater good that is a game changer for humanity, humanity then has to collectively want the greater good. And humans can be selfish - ancient or not.
I could be wrong, but I don't think that's how it works. You're comparing the true size of UK with the flatmap projection of US. To do what you want, you need to compare the true maps of both countries - with the cities.