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Sometimes this cost is explicit: for example, if a firm pays $100 for a machine, its cost is $100. Other times, however, the cost is implicit: for example, if a firm diverts resources from producing output worth $200 into producing a different kind of output, then regardless of how much or how little of the latter output is produced, the ...
Bostrom argues that if "the fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one", then it follows that humans probably live in a simulation. Some philosophers disagree, proposing that perhaps "Sims" do not have conscious experiences the same way that unsimulated humans do, or that it can ...
As the bill required a two-thirds majority in order to pass and the coalition parties only controlled 340 of the 647 seats (52.5 percent), the government needed the support of other parties. [ 20 ]
The process converts a large fraction of the random energy of the fusion products into directed motion. The particles are then collected on electrodes at various large electrical potentials. This method has demonstrated an experimental efficiency of 48 percent.
About 44 percent of the 2010 sales were derived from contracts with agencies of, or prime contractors to, the U.S. government. [3] By the start of 2011, there were near 100 companies, functioning in a wide range of products and services. Teledyne reported third quarter 2019 net sales of $802.2 million, a 10.6% increase compared to 2018. [23]
Of the 253 nuclear power reactors originally ordered in the United States from 1953 to 2008, 48 percent were canceled, 11 percent were prematurely shut down, 14 percent experienced at least a one-year-or-more outage, and 27 percent are operating without having a year-plus outage.
The company itself was only allowed to refine and sell to Iraq's internal market, in order to prevent any competition with the parent companies. [30] Gulbenkian, who did not own a refinery, signed a separate agreement with CFP on or around July 31, 1928 in which CFP took on the obligation to buy his share of oil at a fair price, i.e. reasonably ...