Because they know it's not allowed (or at least frowned upon), but they decided to do it anyways, the company surveillance is kept secret and downplayed and plausibly denied as much as possible.

They already openly reveal their true intentions by this excemption.

A better alternative, remove small coins. They serve no purpose nowadays, inflation made them obsolete. They are even more expensive to make then their inherent worth.

The only purpose left for using small coins is for psychological manipulation, by pricing items at 0,99 instead of 1,00. This has been proven a successful tactic for supermarkets and vendors, to the detriment of buyers, who are manipulated into thinking something is "cheaper", because the price is reduced by 1% or less.

A few European countries, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy already use the practice of rounding to 5 with no issues whatsoever, thereby basically removing smaller coins.

This posting rule "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity." explicitly asks not to do this. Yet here we are.

AGI can go wrong in innumerable ways, most of which we cannot even imagine now, because we are limited by our 1 times human intelligence.

The liftoff conditions literally have to be near perfect.

So the question is, can humanity trust the power hungry billionaire CEOs to understand the danger and choose a path for maximum safety? Looking at how it is going so far, I would say absolutely not.

The problem is that there is so much money in food made by big companies nowadays, for every reputable study you will get 10 studies paid by those companies that proclaim the opposite.

To have incorruptible lawmakers lay the ground work is only the first step. Then the laws have to pass in their original intention, ie. waterproof wording without loopholes. Any unintentional loopholes have to be identified and fixed. Then the law has to uphold to "accidental" mistakes, misinterpretation and misrepresentation, official or secret changes, additional laws that reverse them, ....

You know the difference between compassion and pityfulness? I feel compassion to anyone losing their pets, I was in the same situation many times. But pity won't make it easier or better.

The reason why it still should be allowed to talk about it is to hinder, or raise awareness of vote manipulation in the comments.

"it is boring" is not a logical explanation, but maybe that's just me.

My earlier comment was downvoted in record time for stating the same, so I made a new post. What's the reason to have such a guideline? I suspect manipulative downvotes to silence my opinion. Otherwise, why not comment and correct my fallacies instead?

Using Rotten Tomatoes as a legitimate measure of quality, you need to use the inverse value of their score.

If you do not trust this specific source, there are plenty others easy to find by search engine.

Unfortunate choice for Sega to acquire such a company.