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Vandalism is a form of trespass.

If only we could devise a system under which all voters wouldn't have to be informed about every topic. A system of, say, representatives to whom the citizens would delegate their power. These representatives would then use their proxy and be responsible for learning and implementing policy about whatever topic comes up.

A populace which is passionate about a topic is more likely to see legislation about it. But it's not the only way.

How would they know that hadn't happened?

Knowing what you really want, and choosing to buy only something that fulfills your use case, is the actual final optimization. Not buying crap is a useful side effect.

I don't understand what anyone would gain from this. Citizens would be more cash-rich throughout the year, then cash-poor when tax time came. Over the years, people would learn to squirrel away similar amounts to what they're withholding now. Withholdings exist now as a forced savings plan for the poor and a free loan system for the .gov for the upper class.

> My bet is that within the first year of this taxes would be massively reduced.

Making the filing and paying of taxes difficult and painful won't change a person's tax liability, it'll just irritate every citizen until we collectively demand an easier process. If you can't pay, you get penalties and a payment plan. Don't forget that the IRS is a government entity capable of legally charging, suing, etc. with the force of law. Why would having to travel to a payment center reduce someone's tax liability?

I guess I want to know more of the argument, for the sake of argument, because the argument doesn't make sense to me as presented.

No.

The service is not to blame for the bad actions of one user. Humanity is so broad and diverse that in any sufficiently large set of people there are individuals who will choose to commit evil. It's society's problem to discourage this, and to react and recover from the evil having been done.

Terms of service were violated, the videos were removed, the service is not at fault here. If it wasn't posted on FBL, it would have been somewhere else instead. The fact that our technology gives us a clearer look at something that's been part of the human condition forever is not a reasonable argument for destroying that technology.

Personally, I think livestreaming is pretty dumb and I never create or consume it, but different strokes and such.

It's worse than this. MCAS is designed to only look at one of the two AoA sensors. If this happens to be faulty, it doesn't know, because it's not comparing the sensor to the other one. Instead of a system which can notice and account for disagreeing sensors and fail gracefully, we have a system which is a designed single point of failure and fails... lethally.

The AF 447 crash is one of the reasons MCAS was created. It's the exact scenario MCAS was designed to prevent: High altitude, high-speed, nose-up stall. This was more likely than the NG and dinosaur generations of 737 due to the engine relocation forward and up (causing a pitch-up moment due to thrust).

AF 447 should never have happened. The copilot crashed the plane, and the pilot and pilot on break had no indication or feedback that he was holding the stick back (crashing the plane by causing a stall). There was no feedback, and the controls deferred to his inputs when the pilot was trying the opposite command (which would have saved the flight). On top of this, the stall warning buzzer was turning off when they were so deep into the stall that the airspeed dropped below a certain threshold, and every time the nose was pitched down and airspeed increased, the buzzer came on again.

Airbus has a controls feedback, stall buzzer parameters, and training problem. 447 should never have gone down.

I don't see why you can't do this now. Draw up an ownership contract and shares etc. This should be workable as long as you don't need a mortgage, and you'll likely need to incorporate, so the deed will be owned by an LLC or some such.

The Ford/GM 10 speed is a heck of a transmission. Porsche has TDM. Anything with dual-clutch can be automatic. Auto transmissions aren't as bad as they used to be.

This is a matter of perspective. If you think of taxes as a burden you undertake because you're legally obligated to, then this behavior is indeed silly. I've recently realized another perspective which makes this extremely sensible behavior:

Taxes are the price you pay to have the baseline of civilization around you so you can live your life. If you're an hourly worker, you go to work in the morning, spend a couple hours earning society, spend more hours earning your expenses, spend some time earning savings, and head home for the day. You drive your car home on your taxes, you go to the grocery and pharmacy for things which are safe due to your taxes, you visit your elderly relatives who aren't in abject poverty because of your taxes. If you want low taxes, you can get them! Just move to a place where you're buying less society.

Turns out that people who can afford nice things tend to not want to live in lesser society. After they do the math, they generally decide that the tax hit is worth its cost, and they live in civilization. It's a self-reinforcing cycle.

The hard rectangular angles lead to fatigue failure from stress concentration. If more testing had been done and this had been known during the design phase, it would have been possible to reinforce the rest of the airframe around the windows such that the airframe would be able to withstand the forces while retaining rectangular windows. No cracks, no crashes. However, the tradeoff for such strength would have been complexity, weight, and manufacturing difficulty; thus, modern airplanes have curved window ports to allow for windows while being light and simple. Aerospace and sports cars are the places in industry where lightness pays compounding dividends over raw strength. For a plane, if you can shave a pound off the design, you do it, since that's a pound you're not going to have to burn fuel to keep aloft for the entire lifetime of the aircraft. Or, for equivalent fuel, you could go faster instead.

I suppose there's another question I never asked myself: What is the merit of a rectangular window? Why would we want rectangles on our airplanes? They're on our houses because they're simple to frame and create openers for, neither of which are important for planes.

It does not. If a device requires your location to work, it is not a remote, it's something else.

Who owns my medical information? Who controls how it's used, aggregated, disseminated, etc? If I want to be the only person who has my medical records, going around to every provider and getting a copy before having them all destroy theirs, is this possible?

Such as?

Is a Pi Zero worth $15 to you? If so, buy one (or many). If not, don't.

High-demand cars often sell for well over sticker price. A few recent examples are the Civic Type R, the Focus RS when it was 1-3 years old, the BRZ when it came out... Demand is higher than supply, and vendors (car dealers in my car reference) are profiting from that.

I understand your outrage, but the fact that multiple vendors are selling at this high price means that the market is saying the product is worth it. If you choose the perspective that the Zero is a $15 board which you can occasionally buy for $5, you can be free from spite and simply decide if you want one. Ten bucks and a slightly different perspective is a small price for tinkering and being free from anguish!

The top tier rate was that high to pay for WWII. The rate didn't go similarly high for Vietnam, Desert Storm/Shield, or Afghanistan/Iraq because we have played shell games to cover the cost, with the net result being huge national debt and the social security fund being low enough that it may not be able to continue full payments through my lifetime.

Wars cost money. Taxing the wealthiest the most keeps wealth in investments and productive companies while securing the lower and middle class to provide demand with their lower rates. If you want low taxes on the wealthy, avoid allowing a geopolitical situation in which war occurs, and don't enter into them unnecessarily.

I trust the social network on my telephone's contact list more than any other. If I want to find out how someone is doing, I can do so via messaging or calling. It's a service I pay for anyway, though you can get it for free if you have an old device that you have only hooked up to the internet via wifi rather than cellular data access.

I want a V8 Falcon. A car-based pickup would suit 99.99% of my use cases. They don't exist in the US market unless you buy something >30 yr. old.

All these avenues already exist and are in play. To take away the drug black market is to reduce the total cash potential for organized crime.

Have the dispenser display a code for a $2 future credit. Or to be redeemed for cash at a later time somewhere cash transactions with humans exist. Or just use a standard vending machine module and give change with a restocking employee.

The market will decide if it's more expensive. Customers exist who will commute to another charger so they can pay cash. If the money left on the table is more than the cost of the cash module and attendant, it will be adopted.

Is there legislation pending to alter the copyright term again? If not, then we are indeed closer.

I have just figured out the perfect IoT device to solve this problem:

Push a button when local infrastructure makes you angry. The device figures out your location from GPS and user input on setup. The device then searches for a local realtor, and sends them an email saying that the device's owner wants to move. The realtor handles it from there.

If flight paths are changing, the housing market will adjust. If you don't want to be subject to the vagaries of metropolitan infrastructure, buy land in the middle of nowhere.

Everywhere has poor people, but places with progressive taxation and gov policies have lots of rich people too.

Wouldn't that mean that ProtonVPN then has an end user in Aus, and would then be theoretically subject to all this nonsense?

A user would have to double-VPN for ProtonVPN to be the solution. Right?

What other player exists in this space, producing comparable performance in the same cost ballpark?

If you cross the speed of sound with any part of your design or airflow, air can be pretty destructive if your design isn't up to it.

Why is there no discussion of a this response: "Of course Uber says this; they're heavily invested in this tech and want it to succeed."

I don't understand how a tech company that's developing a thing saying the thing is being developed is relevant to bring to everyone's attention.

Why does this exist?

If the aircraft were being piloted manually, this crash wouldn't have happened. The increasing imposition of automation and removing the pilot from the equation was the cause of this crash. Your recommendation is to take this further, rapidly?

The FAA issued a mandatory airworthiness directive as a result of this crash. Boeing didn't include training for a new anti-stall automation regime in their type cert update class for existing 737-rated pilots moving to the 737 MAX. There was apparently a malfunctioning angle of attack sensor, which caused a software data conflict which caused the anti-stall assist (which the pilot wouldn't have known existed) to repeatedly trim the aircraft nose-down.

There is also the possibility that a separate pilot assist system read a possible near-stall and enforced difficulty in pulling back on the stick (to prevent what it saw as a potential stall). So the pilot couldn't pull out of the dive that the MCAS (trim changer) had caused.

The blame for this incident does not lie on the pilots failing to RTFM. Boeing changed several systems without telling anyone. Now the plane's been type rated, so software changes to fix it are significantly difficult.

Imagine Boeing as a guy saying "Screw those idiots who operate our multimillion dollar safety-critical product; they're too stupid to know how to work it!" This is a closer perspective to the truth than the parent's comment.

Mentour pilot overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfQW0upkVus FAA Emergency Airworthiness Directive: http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf/...