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Nah, the progressive DAs are really reluctant to prosecute property crime, this discourages the police from making a case for prosecution.

I know a filmmaker in Oakland who had thousands of dollars of electronics stolen from their car (and receipts/insurance to prove the value of the electronics). One of the items stolen was an iPad that was phoning its location home, the filmmaker tried to direct the Oakland police to the house with the stolen iPad (itself worth >$950 dollars) but the police said they didn't think the case would stick and declined to go address the situation.

It may be 'in fact' that theft over $950 is a felony that police should take seriously, but in practice, it's really rare to see a thief prosecuted.

It's not cancel culture when you opt out of something, it's cancel culture when you decide for others that that they can't do something.

Throwing these books away isn't cancel culture. Telling other people they can't sell or buy the book is cancel culture.

There's a huge hidden cost to price controls through - they don't promote innovation as much as markets do. The US develops over half the world's new pharmaceuticals, if we imposed price controls today, we would have fewer life saving medications tomorrow because the companies couldn't afford to do as much R&D.

I don't think there are batteries that meet Toyota's durability standards.

Toyota wants their cars to be able to last a million miles in extreme environments (-40 degrees Alaska, +120 degrees F deserts). You can't do that with today's off-the-shelf battery technology.

It seems trivial to verify the authenticity of 100 votes of known people, with a roster that changes by a maximum of 1/3rd every 2 years.

Deflation isn't horrible unless you have a lot of debt, it rewards savers. It's probably less efficient for central banks to try to 'hack' inflation than just deploy fiscal policy.

And we're almost definitely seeing inflation in the finanical markets. It's not great that valuations are so divorced from fundamentals.

The demand fell, supply went up dramatically and there's a new equilibrium.

Very few advertisers are actually in a true "prisoner's dilemma" in the sense that they're fighting tooth and nail in the same market as another company and parsing back advertising will cost them dramatic marketshare. First, a lot of demand is supply constrained - lysol is going to sell their wipes no matter what, so advertisers can easily defect. Secondly, advertisers may be locked in a competition broadly but not in a specific channel. Your youtube channel probably isn't your best ROI or its easy to cut back spend and just invest in your most performant channel - it's often not youtube for these companies.

What's the dissonance? By granting the public the rights to use more spectrum, one can imagine greater adoption and usage of the spectrum.

Very few people buying premium cars buy them exclusively for themselves.

You're probably putting too much explanatory power in 'electric' vs 'gas'.

I'll speculate that things are failing on your Audi because it's an Audi, not because its gas powered. Go find someone driving a 15+ year old Lexus and ask them if something new breaks every time they drive. It's unlikely that they'll commiserate.

We had EVs over 100 years ago and folks already knew the advantages of electric power over fossil fuel power. However, batteries have been the limiting factor for awhile. Even now, only Tesla seems to have batteries that meet consumers power/range/cost expectations and they exclusively own the largest battery plant in the world.

I'm not sure we can blame VW for being slower to EVs than Elon Musk and FWIW, the VW company seems to be pivoting to EVs the fastest. The Taycan - a VW product - is the first car that's competitive with a Model S.

Well let's think through a conventional truck frame. It's maybe 800-1200 lbs, uses 3-8 different materials, and has 100-200 fastening points and all those materials probably cost nearly as much as stainless steel.

And remember, the cost of an automobile isn't just the material cost, you have to amortize the manufacturing plant and the paint shop. By stressing the stainless steel skin (like an aircraft), Tesla doesn't really need to buy additional material, but they simplify the manufacturing dramatically because they don't need a paint shop and they don't need to assemble a frame.

Don't you think workplace marginalization would cut the other way? If you have 250 people angry enough about this to leak to the press, imagine what they'd do to their fellow employees who oppose them.

Consider the absence of evidence - name a single person affiliated with the NBA who publicly supported the censured guy or Hong Kongers

I just got this from googling, it seems less crack pot-y than I imagined: https://phys.org/news/2013-07-chimp-pig-hybrid-humans.html

tl;dr - Butthurt muslim feelings about other people treating Muslims 1% as bad as muslims treat non-muslims.

I'm a data scientist and this is an incredibly embarrassing 'n00b' error to make. If these researchers were using anything other than deep learning, it's almost certain that each parameter of the model was manually selected. That the author made the mistake is bad, that no one caught the error is a disaster.

Maybe things would be better if people paid for their own health care? Having workers pay for their own healthcare along with the healthcare of those who are unwilling/unable to work just means that things are going to be expensive for workers.

what about "environmental review"?

Of course colleges want students from wealthy families. There's a reason Marx noticed class warfare, class is the primordial hierarchy.

However, among the fraction of the class that's accepted for reasons other than wealth, it seems like colleges play ethnic and gender favorites: https://twitter.com/DavidRozado/status/1140063678345011200

If GM were grateful for their bailout, how many employees would they have in detroit?

I'd be more impressed with the folks on that list if they managed global trade in such a way that it didn't give us Trump, Brexit, and resurgent nationalism.

but none of these features are new, child seperation and children dying in ICE facilities happened under the Obama administration and it wasn't a big deal then. What changed?

It's a shame that Tesla has build quality issues, but it's rich that a car company in a country known for making expensive cars with defective designs is panning a foreign automaker for quality issues.

> I lost count of the number of times that, say, some engineer 3 years out of college couldn't afford a 5 bedroom house in Palo Alto for them, their partner and their dog and how they were underpaid and this was unfair and a problem

Is it not a problem that someone with one of the best jobs in the world can't afford a decent house near work? It might be related to why the contingent workers have 2.5 hour commutes.

Definitely not crazy, and the engines are getting larger. The 737 MAX issues stem the packaging issues of putting larger engines on an airframe that wasn't really designed for them.

The largest commercial jet engines are actually about as wide as the fuselage of the 737! The first jet engines were less than a meter wide.

In SR-71 Revealed, a book written by an SR-71 pilot and squadron commander, the author addressed this and to the best of his knowledge, the USAF and Lockheed both don't know the true top speed of the SR-71.

(Doing this from memory so I may get something wrong here), the SR-71 usually cruised at mach 3.2, it could accelerate to mach 3.3 when fired upon, and could go to mach 3.4 if the pilot felt it was critical to preserve the crew/airframe however the plane needed to return to base after getting out of harms way and needed to be inspected before returning to the flight line. A lockheed test pilot apparently got the SR-71 to mach 3.5 (or maybe Mach 3.6?) but said it started to get scary. If this is accurate, it's probably the case that no one knows what fails first on the SR-71.

Rarely, but if the union official gets to chose between more people paying dues and fewer people paying dues, which are they going to pick?

We know that Unions don't oppose salary caps, but they oppose differentials in compensation based on job performance. Seems like that amounts to the same thing? Unless you're suggesting we just pay government workers more and see if we get any marginal productivity out of them.

In America, it's probably more accurate to blame government labor unions for the preference of more lower skilled workers to fewer higher skilled workers

Well, let's look at Google's ethics here - they still run ads on demonetized videos, right? So Google is okay making money off that, they just don't want the creator to make money off demonetized videos.