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endowing rogue nations or terrorists with tools to synthesize a deadly virus. [...] keep the “weights” of the most powerful models out of the public’s hands. Unverified source (2025)

These are things we are seeing -- a trend across the country that the technology is not up to speed enough and people are getting arrested that should not be. [...] You use crime data and you use mathematics to basically say where to put police. It'... more Unverified source (2020)

Yeah. So, yeah, something needs to happen, or civilization’s arteries just harden over time. And you can just get less and less done because there’s just a rule against everything. So I think, I don’t know, for Mars, or whatever, I’d say, or even for... more Unverified source (2021)

Currently, starting and operating a business across the EU is complex due to 27 member states, each with its own company registration requirements. To streamline this process and make it easier for entrepreneurs to operate across Europe, there should... more Unverified source

Taxing unrealized gains is bonkers. But accruing tax on unrealized gains makes a lot of sense. I built Monzo when I lived in the UK and accrued a lot of (paper) gains during that time. I now live in California and will pay US & California capital... more Unverified source

An employee or consultant receiving an interest in shares [...] should only be taxed when a capital gain is made on the disposal of the interest. Unverified source (2013)

The government granted the RAE a subsidy of €500,000 yesterday so that it could distribute its dictionaries. If the goal is to spread the Spanish language and also with public money... why isn't the Dictionary free and cannot be downloaded or copied? Unverified source

Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster and others typically provide value by capturing information as you enter it: your birthday, your e-mail address, your likes, and links indicating who is friends with whom and who is in which photograph. The sites assemb... more Verified source (2010)

If you’re a venture firm, you’re getting strips of your portfolio pulled away from you every year. You’re out of business. [...] This makes startups completely implausible. Unverified source

[This is] a clear example of what could be done if we want to favor Spain to be an ideal place for creating startups that can become big around the world. Unverified source

As the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has assessed, AI models have the potential to enable advanced military and intelligence applications; lower the barriers to entry for nonexperts to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD); supp... more Verified source (2025)

Notwithstanding the limited reach of the ban on predictive policing — which excludes event and location-based predictions — the guidelines must clarify that predicting ‘risk of committing a criminal offence’ includes all systems that purport to predi... more Unverified source (2025)

The solution to this problem is to routinely include a sunset clause in legislation. When a new policy is introduced it will automatically lapse within a certain time-frame, no greater than 20 years. If the policy continues to make sense and has popu... more Unverified source

These problems could be avoided by delaying the taxing point until the shares are sold or listed. Unverified source (2016)

Imagine you have a company to which the administration owes 100,000 euros in VAT, and you owe 40,000 euros to the Tax Agency and 9,000 euros to Social Security. In an efficient world, the public administration would allow you to continue operating, s... more Unverified source