And what if you lose? Or your lawsuit has no real impact?

> I eventually have to come up with the $10

Or you never do that. When you die the cost basis is adjusted and you children don’t have to pay any taxes even if they sell.

But, yeah since it’s not actual income taxing it makes no sense. IMHO a wealth tax above a certain (high) threshold would be far more reasonable

> why would anyone out of blue ask such question

I would certainly expect any person to have the same reaction.

> So, it started its chain of thought with "Interpreting the riddle" (smart!).

How is that smarter than intuitively arriving at the correct answer without having to explicitly list the intermediate step? Being able to reasonably accurately judge the complexity of a problem with minimal effort seems “smarter” to me.

I’d assume that drilling a tunnel under a mountain would be significantly cheaper than digging one in a densely inhabited city (in a seismically active area).

3miles for $2bln under densely inhabitated city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinberg_Tunnel

> So, again, it's not at all clear that AMD being in the compute GPU game is the automatic win for them in the future. There's

You’re right about that but it seems that it’s pretty clear that not being in the compute GPU game is an automatic loss for them (look at their recent revenue growth in the past quarter and two by in each sector)

Because their current market valuation was massively inflated because of the AI/GPU boom and/or bubble?

In rational world their stock price would collapse if they don’t focus on it and are unable to deliver anything competitive in the upcoming year or two

> of the market where they're doing much better than nVidia?

So the market that’s hardly growing, Nvidia is not competing in and Intel still has bigger market share and is catching up performance wise? AMD’s valuation is this highly only because they are seen as the only company that could directly compete with Nvidia in the data center GPU market.

> Same could be said about Moore’s Law and progression of silicon based processor advancements. Yet it has held true.

Not an argument. Plenty of things seemed like they will progress/grow exponentially when they were invented yet they didn’t.

> Same applies for AI

Perhaps, but why?

> unlike other countries

Unlike many other countries. I live in Europe and certainly don’t need provide an ID without a cause or even carry one with myself

> “I live in Europe”

You don’t say.

> ~800 Euros sticker price, no special promotion or sale. That seemed like a good deal to me.

Sure but at that level you usually get poor build quality and/or thick plasticky chasis and a horrible screen

Mine doesn't have any of those issues. I think some people are stuck with the impression that all Windows laptops are stuck in 2006 and haven't kept up in terms of quality. Mine is slim, full metal build, 2.5k 16:10 IPS screen.

So what am I compromising on compared to spending over 3x more on a Macbook? Is the Mac display, trackpad and build quality a bit better? Most likely. Is it over 3x better? Definitely not.

> is slim, full metal build, 2.5k 16:10 IPS screen

I’m not sure you can get something like that for $800?

> some people are stuck with the impression that all Windows laptops are stuck in 2006

No, you can can certainly get very nice Windows laptops for 30% less than equivalent mac or so. I was only doubting the price