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Per-mile stats is helpful info, not the overall totals.

They're finally getting OLED, which is one thing that's kept me on competitor laptops. They're just so much easier on my eyes.

takeout rarely works. Usually fails partway through the export.

What makes you think they knew about it on the 17th? Scanning old logs is not the same as understanding them as they're generated.

What makes you think they knew about it from the 17th? "...dating to Oct. 17, 2026" means that's when it happened. It doesn't mean they identified it on the 17th.

If people act with gross negligence, then yes, we should arrest them. How that is defined may depend on a variety of factors, though, and is something that already has relevant case law in related fields.

The problem is not plowing the streets, it is moving the snow away from the streets. After heavy snowfalls, plows create huge piles that block a significant part of the road. This is a difficult problem that simply takes a lot of resources to address.

Just to be clear: there are humans choosing to have the car operate. That's not just semantics. Responsibility lies with the people making the choice to cause a system to operate.

I don't think that's better or worse: it just brings in another dimension of scale. We shouldn't limit ourselves to just one comparison, should we?

I mean -- there's plenty of ways to figure this out. You can take a loan versus the value of the stock, for example, which is what many billionaire's do. The advantage to that, is you don't have to pay any tax at all on the value of the loan.

Yeah, but you're not required to transfer cash in order to transfer wealth, are you? Stocks are plenty transferable. Sure, the value would likely drop, but what's 20% to 40%, when you have a trillion to start.

Hilarious. They were right to do the comparison, but got it oh so wrong.

I was recently trying to understand Elon Musk's wealth, and come up with similar comparison: For example, he could make millionaire's of every single person in Seattle, and still have hundreds billions of dollars of wealth left over. Truly mind boggling.

> 55% of MA students take the SAT, while only 2% of KS students take the test.

This makes me think an interesting metric would be total SAT points per 100k population.

If only 2% of Kansas students are taking the SAT, that's kind of shocking, actually. But maybe the state University there doesn't require it?

> there are now old people that want/vote for some level of service

The problem isn't that there are old people, is that there's currently a glut of old people, which puts real strain on the system. Being old is expensive for governments. Not only do older people not typically pay nearly as much in taxes, they also require more resources to support.

So many of today's problems come down to the simple demographic fact: there's a lot of baby boomers, and they're getting old.

I have a very old school manual espresso machine (a La Pavoni). It's connected to a "smart" plug, which lets me turn on the machine remotely, and have it turn on automatically in the morning. It's nice to have it heated up and ready to go when I wake up. Nothing about the machine is smart though.

There are many different challenges, each requiring their own solution. I, for one, really miss the old Google Assistant on my Android phone. It would very reliably play most songs that I wanted to hear on Spotify. Gemini fails at this almost every time, and is significantly slower. It's actually a difficult problem, as the songs people want to hear are regularly being released, are often associated with uncommon names, or have words in unusual orders, so normal LLM style tools just don't cut it.

That's exactly the problem: people don't want to know how much they're actually paying for banking services. They just want their credit card "rewards."

Basic reforms that could solve this problem:

1. Merchants need to be allowed to add card processing fees on top of any transaction, and it should be possible to do this very easily. If not this, then any receipt should be required to include card processing fees.

2. Merchants should be allowed to pick and choose which cards they accept without penalty.

Those two simple changes would add competitive pressure back into the payment processing market, and quickly cause fees to lower.

> I'm not confident in my country's ability to create its own payment processing platform

You live in Canada, which already has better options than the U.S., though the sittuation is getting better in the U.S.

For example, Interac is free for most people and very easy to use.

Debit payments often cost merchants less than 10 cents per tap. The local gelato place only takes debit or cash; if you don't have either, they're happy to accept an Interac payment, and do so more often than you'd think.

Part of the problem is that the incentives are misaligned. People want their points systems. Merchants want customers, but they also want lower transaction fees. Most customers have debit cards that would be much cheaper for merchants, but choose to use their credit cards, because they want the "rewards."

While the 3% or so that a bank charges might seem low, if you look at this from a low-margin business, that 3% may actually be much higher percentage of their net profit.

Regulation concerning rewards systems could go a long way towards shifting the system to be much less costly for businesses.

There's not much hope of real change here; Canadian banks are very profitable, and are a cornerstone of our economy. It's very unlikely that politicians will do anything to risk that.

Why not call it taxes?

And there certainly is consent, given voters can choose to elect people who will change the system, or not.

> Everyone pays for it as a mandatory percentage from their salaries every month as a health insurance fee. .... the higher your salary you end up paying more money to receive the same service

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds exactly how almost all income taxes work.

> 5$ for Netflix and other paying 50$ to watch the same shows with no change in service offering.

Counterpoint -- you pay taxes to get the full benefits that a stable society provides, which includes your ability to make any income at all. The more income you earn, the more benefit you're literally getting.

> you’re young and single, you will be punished

Don't worry, it's impossible to stay young and single forever.

> the innate parts that existed prior to birth

What does this mean? Do you mean the congenital aspects of a disorder?

There are many events you can't get into now without a smartphone. Unfortunately on-phone digital tickets are far too common and far too commonly mandatory. There's a huge audience of people who are required to use them. It may be specific, but it's also what we're stuck with.

What makes you think governments can't or won't regulate organizations operating in space?

The main thing is evaporative cooling is incredibly wasteful. The water should be returned to the system, if it's going to be used, and not sent into the atmosphere. This is especially important in regions with limited access to water, which, ironically, is where many data centers seem to be located.

The problem is if you spend the next 5 years building new fossil fuel capabilities, the economic payoff won't be for at least 10 to 15 years more years. We absolutely should not be burning natural gas at that point. Not only would it cause continued havoc on our environment, zero emissions alternatives are already extremely cost competitive in most parts of the world. We should spend the next 5 years, instead, building for the future, not sinking our money into assets that will only cause further harm without providing any real cost savings.

Large scale battery storage, by the way, is already a mostly solved problem, and possible to do at a cost competitive price.

It's become clear that when society suffers, they demand cheap fuel. There's no way around it. I don't see a path out of this: do you?

Politically, fossil fuels are in vogue. New pipelines, new capacity, lower prices -- all of these are being accelerated right now. There's no #$#$% hope that we'll stop extracting carbon from the ground. It's just not going to happen.

They're basically Flock Cameras, except they could appear anywhere. Nobody wants mobile surveillance potentially brought into any room.

I'm no expert, but I think the future is more about extremely low latency and low power chips with LLMs etched directly onto them. You can create specialized chips that function as "neurons" in a larger system, generating the needed reactions with a very clearly defined set of constraints.