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The number of digits in their bank account.

So...who isn't lacking the creativity? In fact, I would say techies are unreasonably gloomy because they grew up obsessing over sci-fi.

But AI doesn't pose an existential threat to humanity, so we're all good.

But isn't complexity a major driver of bugs, unintended behavior, and other error types?

Resistive heaters for those situations work fine. They'll be unused for 95% of the year and are extremely cheap/simple.

Turns out, when you have a market cap of almost $1T, you can focus on a few things at the same time.

I'd say, maybe once or twice per hour of driving around town on local roads. Essentially just when someone in front of me brakes hard.

No, because the order would still have gone on Walmart.com with his real name and address

What part of him talking to the police worsened his situation?

Have you been in a Tesla? I have no problem maintaining an exact speed on a highway, or anywhere else, using one pedal driving.

If you're relying on saving the time to take your foot from the gas to the brake in order to save the life of a child or your own life, then you should probably just slow down.

Every car with OPD I've been in also had an option for a more typical "coasting" style, where you need to use the brakes. I've been driving cars extensively for 22 years, and picked up one pedal driving during the test drive of my EV. 4 years later with 95% of my miles done using OPD, the urge to smash the brakes is still there if I need to stop quickly. Having said that, I have no idea how new drivers who spend 100% of their time on OPD will handle actually-using-the-brake situations.

I can go from 75 to 5 mph in my ICE with the brake lights never coming on. Or, I can maintain 75 mph with my brake lights on 100% of the time.

But really, there should just be a standard - it seems obvious and easy for EVs to get it right: If deceleration is > X m/s^2, then brake lights are on.

A better question would be what don't they enable. Something like 30+% of FDA approved drugs operate along that pathway. Besides for the boring stuff like being able to trigger cancer cells to kill themselves, we could have a molecule you inject into your eye that opens up your vision to be able to see infrared and ultraviolet light(and beyond).

What part of that article supports your point? The only thing I see there is that he made up multiple different stories to try to explain her absence.

Will climate change negatively affect Norway? Clearly there are big time losers with climate change, but is Norway's house really on fire? Or is it a house on the other side of town that is on fire and has little chance of impacting Norway's house?

They have that problem, but there are frequently programs or legislation designed to reduce that burden. Eg, >10% of Americans are (theoretically) covered by Prop 13. Other municipalities may have laws on the books limiting property tax increases to a certain percent per year. Many other places offer property tax relief programs for people with low income, or the disabled, or the elderly, or generally by increasing exemptions.

As I understand it though, you wouldn't want these programs with a LVT system, because they would just distort the market in a similar manner that it is now?

Yes, because of the property appreciation, Terry can say that on paper, he is rich-ish, but a weird kind of rich where he has nothing but a house in a nice neighborhood, and otherwise has very little money.

How does he pay off the taxes with the equity of his home? A HELOC could work, but he already can't afford the increased taxes with his income alone, so a HELOC would just delay the inevitable and based on his income he probably wouldn't qualify for one.

Or he could do a reverse mortgage, be able to pay the taxes, but put himself at a major risk of losing his home entirely if he lives long enough. Also, reverse mortgages are only available to people over 62.

That's a classic example used by proponents of LVT. But what is another example?

Terry buys a house in a run down, blighted, poor/cheap neighborhood, and along with other neighbors, starts to revitalize it. 15 years later, the formerly blighted neighborhood has become hip, due to the work and care Terry and others put in to it. Property prices increase as rich people want to move to the cool neighborhood, and now Terry has a hard time affording the taxes, and is forced to sell and essentially evicted from the neighborhood he helped build, because a rich person would rather live there.

Those things happened after the murder, and don't necessarily preclude a crime of passion. When someone does commit a crime of passion, they don't always just come out and confess as soon as they're clear headed again.

At the point COVID was around and known, it would already be too late, because there would be less than a year left in Trump's first term. If I was Putin and I had a useful idiot in the White House, I would start planning that in 2016 before he was even inaugurated.

I am certainly no Trump apologist, but threatening to leave NATO was a classic "art of the deal" tactic to get some NATO countries to pay their fair/agreed upon share.

If Trump really is Putin-friendly, then Putin made a massive mistake by delaying his major military actions in Ukraine until Biden was in office.

I have no real proof of this but I suspect if Putin did delay his actions until Trump was out of office, it was because Trump was such a wild card that Putin might think that he could try to nuke the Kremlin if he didn't like what was going on in ukraine.

I'm guessing based on the OPs location, there is a very real possibility of being overrun by Russia if it weren't for America(or NATO). So this isn't some person shouting "America is #1" without having any idea of the outside world, it seems like a very pragmatic preference based on the alternative if the preference wasn't available.

You can't, but I wager a student excited to doing a review but with a suboptimal method, will do better than a student who dreads the review with the optimal method.

I got a 40A outlet installed in my garage for $400 after a state rebate for EV chargers at home. In the past 2 years I've used a non-home charger 3 times, only on long distances road trips. I charge the car maybe twice a week, and when I do it takes literally 5 seconds as in walking by to plug it in. I would say an EV is far more cost and time effective for my circumstances.

It also ignores the question of how the person even got their prior in the first place. Presumably they heard a convincing argument at one point and accepted that - but then later changed their standards to not accept convincing arguments. In fact, how do they even know "if I know that a false argument sounds just as convincing as a true argument, argument convincingness provides no evidence either way"? Presumably they were convinced of it at some point.

Could do something interesting, until Sudan or Egypt decide to kick everyone out (even if no one lays claim to it, they could still operate there under the guise of national security).

It's also ignoring the fact that if Fujitsu was rolled up tomorrow, Infosys would probably be better off for it, gaining a bunch of contracts that Fujitsu previously had.

Military service is mandatory in Israel, so if that was where you were born, you would not have a choice.

It's not a salary - the "8200" is Unit 8200 - part of the intelligence corps of the IDF. So, it the pay for soldiers, and soldiers in the IDF don't get a salary, but they do get "pocket money".

Maybe Google never had the ambition or ideas to employ 200,000+ people. How big were they in the golden era that you're imagining?