residential lithium fires are unlikely to be coming from phones. (unless people still have those exploding Notes still kicking around)

Far more likely to be lithium batteries being used or abused in a hobbyist capacity. E-cigs and RC are both ripe for it when users have lower quality cells to begin with, routinely discharge them above the rated current and then charge with sometimes questionable chargers. Worse yet when people try to charge them above the max voltage.

What protection mechanism do we've of one of the SMD resistor or IC in the protection circuit fails?

I'm pretty comfortable assuming that Apple wouldn't design a lipo charging circuit that could fail in an unsafe way due to a single component failure, but I can't speak specifically to what those might be.

That’s why Apple invests in quality control to prevent this from occurring.

No amount of quality control can work against the long tail events, it's simply impossible.

Yup. The best they can do is reduce the probability of it happening.

Why? I’m honestly interested in you’re theory.

I use Arduino nano for that. I've programmed the port on Arduino to support any amount of new devices with any port.

And capital is acquired for free?

Think it this way, the work of founders which got them their share of capital will be used as investment in some other company.

Or are you trying to claim the capital invested in this company by investors was acquired for free without putting in any work or risk?

But isn't labor a commodity and ground breaking innovation not?

How many startups are in the latest YC batch? An enormous amount compared to previous batches. “Innovation” is a commodity because it’s just become product market fit testing through brute force.

ya, but testing for product-market fit is much more uncertain than buying/providing labor. It's still harder

The employees aren't responsible for any innovation?

Barring corruption, compensation is usually commensurate with how much risk your capital takes.

It also prevents new entrants in the market who will be subjected to higher scrunitiny and restrictive laws from get go.

Big companies will deal it with somehow, either they'll manage it or they'll fight it.

Cannabis's Schedule I status makes it difficult for legitimate researchers to debunk (or confirm) the ever growing volume of nonsense cannabis proponents put forward to support legalization. Which ironically, is a pretty good argument for rescheduling it at least.

Claims of legitimacy aside, The CBD portion of cannabis is supposed to have this affect, not thc.

Why CBD specifically? Where do you get that data?

You could trade gold for almost anything.

So, anyone who had enough gold could afford most of things - without worrying about the reason the gold is valued.

Many smart people work for Google and Facebook and a lot of them do not care about negative effect of ad economy on the society because the wages which they pay enables them to afford a house in a good locality and good enough lifestyle and probably interesting work.

Most people don't look at things from fundamental level.