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It has not. Traffic levels are down 15-20% while number of visitors to the inside of the congestion zone has increased. Traffic speed inside the zone has also increased slightly.

Overall, London's example shows that congestion pricing works as advertised.

I love the notion perpetuated by American god botherers that Marx and Jesus do not occupy the exact same circle in the “economic policies” Venn diagram. Given the low uptake of Marxism in the US (either real or that which is imagined by the US right) I would suggest your hypothesis would have more evidence behind it if you replaced Marxism with current US crony capitalism and rent-seeking behavior.

You can also get a mobile PIN device from the bank that uses the chip in your card to authenticate access and transactions. This infra has been around for a while and predates using your phone for this step in the transaction process.

Bacteria contaminates the exposed surface of foods. Pre-ground meat has a _lot_ of surface area exposed so the potential for contamination is high. If you get your meat as a chunk of chuck roast or larger primal cut, follow good food safety practices in how you maintain your workspace, and then grind the chuck and turn it into patties to be grilled the probability for serving a contaminated product is low.

The problem is that this is more expensive and time consuming so almost no one actually does this in a commercial setting. If you tell me you do this when I come over to your home cook-out I will possibly trust you to serve me a burger with some pink in it, but if your restaurant tries to sell a $6 burger that you let someone order medium-rare bad things are going to eventually happen...

You are correct, I was thinking of stability control. Both were mandated by NHTSA at the same time I think.

It is one of those 'was it really that long ago? I am getting old' moments to actually look this up, but the last major safety features which moved the needle on keeping you alive in a car were the mandates for side-impact protection and anti-lock braking systems. Both are more than ten years old.

I think you would be hard-pressed to name a single innovation from the past five years which has increased your lifespan in a car as either a driver or a passenger. Given the fact that things like adaptive braking, lane-following assist, and blind-spot sensors are old enough to be showing up in low-end cars these days I cannot name a single new or shiny safety feature which would not be available in a mid-tier car from 2014. Can you?

You are kidding, right? Twitter is hemorrhaging users and its ad revenue has cratered. Bluesky and Threads are picking up a ton of these refugees and over the past four months I have been seeing a lot of companies leaving Twitter and moving other to these other platforms.

Twitter has already been dethroned, within twelve months it will be obvious to all.

cough bullshit cough

Don't try to be subtle. If you are going to lie, go for a big lie.

Macs run decently as headless servers except for the limit that you cannot use full disk encryption -- the boot process stops and waits for you to provide the decryption key via local keyboard and there is no way around this. If you are concerned about this then you can look at running an encrypted external disk or a partition of an internal disk as an encrypted volume. You still need to decrypt things before everything starts working again but at least the system can boot for remote access. Yes, yes, this is not a secure as having the system fully encrypted and we can all think of various ways something like this can be compromised. It all depends on the threat model you are looking at.

Then maybe the US should change that. Does not change the fact that other countries should be taxing US companies for their local online sales and revenue.

> In the UK you also pay insane taxes and your software engineers make a third of what they make here. At my big tech, as an IC5 I was making more than our UK Directors.

How strange. When I moved from US to UK within a FAANG I took a fractional pay drop and got an RSU topper. After leaving and working as a UK employee in an international org I make more than a lot of US directors. Perhaps the difference comes from the value you brought to the company?

One thing that is objectively true though is that, outside of the whinging from software devs in the 1% that no one really cares about, the outcomes and efficiency of the US system sucks compared to every other western nation.

This is a common food labelling hack in the US when a manufacturer has a product like sausage or bacon which would normally be treated with sodium nitrate (curing salt) to maintain color and taste. When 'nitrate-free' became something the organic food crowd wanted to see on the label but grey meat was not going to be appealing in the package you suddenly found a lot of recipes that included some sort of celery extract because it was high in available nitrates.

tl;dr in the US this was more about nitrates and color of packaged meat than it was about glatamates.

> I think companies will simply quit doing business in California

Sure they will. Just like how the auto manufacturers stopped trying to sell in CA after stricter emissions regulations and just like how companies stopped trying to serve European visitors after GDPR came into force. California is a $4T GDP, placing it just behind Japan and ahead of India in global rankings. I am sure they are happy to tell non-complaint companies to piss off and not let the door hit them on the way out. This is the canary in the coal mine for cowboy AI companies, once EU regulators get into the game their days of playing fast and loose with this tech will be over.

A claim that is categorically untrue and easily disproven. It takes less than ten seconds to google up multiple surveys that show the opinions of the Australian public. The most recent broad survey was conducted less than a month ago, but before Biden dropped out when it appeared Trump was likely to win the upcoming presidential election (relevant fact because the question was asked and answered regarding whether another Trump presidency would diminish support for the US.) Several key take-aways from this survey show:

  - 80%+ said close ties with the US was important to AU security
  - 70%+ named China as a security threat to AU
  - 55%+ stated confidence in the US acting responsibly in the world

There are other similar points if interest in the survey but the facts are quite clear that Australians do welcome more engagement with the US and see it is a counter to Chinese threats in the region.

It is one of the best systems available for realtime protection of windows systems against various threat actors. Prior to today you could probably have said 'no one gets fired for recommending Crowdstrike as the security tool for the company.' It is everywhere and in particular if you are a large org with a lot of Windows seats you are likely a Crowdstrike customer.

One has to be completely ignorant of reality or an absolute tankie to make this sort of statement. Labour will be mildly hamstrung by the costs of a decade and a half of Tory failure, but to claim some sort of false equivalence between the two is foolish. The Corbynistas were rightly pushed aside because they, and the tiny leftist rump the represent, have no chance to get elected. Hopefully, now they can disappear into the irrelevance from which they sprang and let the rest of us get down to repairing the damage caused by the previous five years of pain their incompetent campaigning brought about.

> These two statements are at odds

No they are not.

As described so far, the system is on device or out to Apple's private computing cloud. If the system thinks it can use OpenAI then it will ask. It will ask _each time_. So far Apple has not said that there will be a complete opt-out but I expect there will be just as there is for Siri.

The number of dumb hot-takes in response to this article is staggering. The system as described so far is opt-in for anything sending your data outside of either the device or a carefully vetted and privacy-first cloud system that was designed by people far smarter than you to make sure that Apple could not get to your data. Apple knows that it is better for them to be unable to see this data and to be able to prove it to anyone holding a warrant.

Will there be a general on/off slider just like there is for Siri? Probably. Will more than 1% of the userbase turn it off? No.

Will I be surprised if, days before Apple Intelligence is released to the general public, it is declared that apps distributed via non-Apple app stores are not eligible for linking to these AI services (payment of the cloud services and OpenAI being funded by App Store revenue, naturally, and TANSTAAFL)? No, I will not.

Well, it is not wrong... The Tories are not even going to be His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition in less than a month. Yes, somewhat funny that it is making the same assumption that all of the rest of us are making, but it is like ChatGPT assuming that if you throw a ball into the air it can speak of the ball as if it has already landed.

And now you have two problems...

Definitely, but alcohol abuse definitely raises the odds of certain types of cancer. The specific type of cancer was not mentioned, but if it was liver or bowel cancer I would suggest alcohol played a role and if not I would classify this in the 'probably something that just happened' category.

No, he was a long-term alcoholic and that is why his final health report was so bad. Add in the additional calories he was drinking each day plus any DTs from a hard-core drinker trying to go straight for a few days while filming a movie and the results are pretty much exactly what we would have expected to see.

The article only tangentially touches upon his alcoholism without noting that the claimed effects of his diet in the 'documentary' was in fact not due to eating McDonalds for a month but was caused by drinking a fifth of vodka daily. Not really mentioned, but I would not be surprised to learn that this alcohol abuse was a significant contributing factor for his cancer.

Yes there is: Dangerzone (https://dangerzone.rocks/)

Converts incoming documents into a PDF that is a sequence of filtered/optimised images. Dangerzone will also handle office docs, epub, and a lot of different image formats (e.g. SVG and others that can possibly contain active content).

Turn on Lockdown mode. I have had that turned on for my iPhone since it was first available and it is not really that much of an inconvenience. I think the only time I notice is when someone tries to share a photo album with me on family trips.

The claimed support for this (Cicero Institute) is a right-wing libertarian policy group that is rather notorious for is attempts to criminalize homelessness at the state and municipal level. I would take any policy suggestions they make with a giant grain of salt. In almost all cases "loosening of <X> regulations" involves screwing the poor and disenfranchised as much as possible with regards to X.

> (1) Lunar holidays for the ultra-rich

An incredibly small market given the cost of getting a human to the moon and keeping them there. There will be no economy of scale here for quite a while so this is an unlikely driver of any revenue. Tourism is barely a thing for orbital trips and not even close to being sustainable for such a small energy expenditure compared to a lunar visit.

> (2) Entertainment industry–reality TV shows filmed on the moon.

Never going to happen. Chicken-egg problem here and a complete fantasy.

> (3) Professional sports

So rediculous it does not even rise to the level of fantasy.

> (4) Oh no, China's lunar base is bigger than ours,

Possible, but not quite the national motivation it was in the midst of the space race. In the 60s and 70s existential conflict with a competing super-power could barely get flags and footprints on the moon. What passes for modern nationalism is not enough to sustain a lunar presence.

> (5) Scientific research

This is the most likely of any options presented so far, but is still completely reliant upon the government teat to drive action. This is the exact same revenue model we have now and mining government contracts and lobbiest-driven funding is not exactly fertile ground for a 'gold rush.'

The point remains that there is no revenue model at all for this, no is there likely to be one within our lifetimes.

The question was: could you expect to explain an atomic bomb and its power to someone at the turn of the 20th century? The answer is clearly: yes.

Knowing the specific structure of the atom is _not_ required for this. The point was to prove that something was not necessarily 'magic' and the example selected was a bad example, because we can actually show that people were on the cusp of figuring it out themselves and would not have a hard time following an ELI5 overview. Are you providing information they do not have at hand? Yes. Will a reasonably well-read person of the era understand your explanation of how such a device would work? Yes.

> You don't know what you don't know.

But we do know what is possible given the universe we can see. There is no magic left; the god of the gaps has been made so small that it can only live down in the quantum foam.

> Nuclear warheads are shockingly small. Imagine telling something at the turn of the 20th century that soon a weapon the size of a small table would have a kill radius of multiple miles.

Einstein published On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies in 1905, so that puts us close enough to the turn of the 20th century to state as a fact that at least a handful of well-read scientists would have no problem imagining what you proposed.

You are going to catch a lot of downvotes for Atlas Shrugged unless it is added with irony. It is truly a bad book written by a rather horrible person with dubious morals. I strongly recommend anyone who has progressed beyond their angsty sophomore year of college to give it a pass; just go read Anthem to get a feel for Rand's poorly justified bullshit (and to observe a nice example of 'literature' that can do no better than straw man antagonists) and save yourself several hundred pages of reading.