The 12v battery performs the very significant safety feature of allowing the HV battery to be disconnected when the car isn’t ready to move. You’d need to have a converter in the HV battery to avoid that down side, and then you have a new downside of a fault could cause your 12v line to be HV instead.
Ultrasonic humidifiers need to be run with distilled or equivalent purity water, yes. Not just for the lack of salts being aerosolized, but also because anything that may incidentally grow in the water also will be aerosolized. Distilled water helps minimize growth.
My most reliable home automation devices are the Lutron Caseta. I've never had any problems, aside from changing the batteries on the shades. The Ikea stuff is decent now but wasn't so great 6 years ago. I still have the original tradfri hub. An annoyance with them is that because you want to be able to control them with a physical switch, a power-outage will result in them coming back on when the power returns, instead of remembering their last power setting. They may have fixed this since last I looked. I'm just using the hub for the smart blinds at the moment.
Once upon a time, I had daylight color lights in my bedroom. My then GF was somewhat unhappy with that choice after a while, especially since it was winter when she moved in with me, and so outside was extra white. Since then we now mostly use warmer white bulbs excepting certain locations like the garage and laundry room.
The military does use a grid square reference system, Military Grid Reference System (MGRS), and to resolve the issues when sufficiently far north, the grid squares stop being aligned with the latitudes and longitudes, but rather just sit lined up with the 0/90/270/180 longitudes, as a sort of circular cap cut out of grid paper. (Properly speaking, it's Universal Transverse Mercator (which is a series of 60 Mercator projections) between 80S and 84N, and Universal Polar Stereographic near the poles).
Weird copyright idea of mine: copyright registrations lapse, and must be paid for regularly, but the copyright itself continues. You have to have a registration to be able to demand statutory damages and can only demand for the period of the registration. So, if it lapses, you can't demand anything. No copyright zombies, because if you cared enough, you'd have made sure the registration was up to date. But it still falls close enough to treaty requirements to not get thrown out.
The purpose of the justice system is many-fold: One is reform (serve your penance and be better). One is retribution: you did a bad thing, so bad things are going to happen to you. One is deterrence: knowing that you'll get caught, you won't want to spend time in jail, a flip side of retribution. The last is removal: it's hard to commit crimes against innocent people if you're not around innocent people. The death penalty is the ultimate in removal. But it's final. So, you can't fix it if you screwed up in applying it. And that's why I'm against it, generally speaking. Our justice system is not reliable enough to avoid innocents getting ground by the wheels of justice, even at the level of scrutiny of capital punishment. So, excepting things like killed a guy in prison, I can't support it.
Lead shot is typically spherical without any trimming from a larger piece. The traditional method is called a shot tower, and involves dropping molten lead so it forms small drops that cool as they fall, until they impact into a water bath. This works because drops of liquid are spherical below a certain size dependent on the material. The classic depiction of a rain drop is entirely false.
> altering her Social Security/Medicare FICA deductions in order to increase her biweekly take-home pay by a few hundred dollars.
There are no employee-end deductions you can change here. The W-4 only allows income tax deduction, not SS/Medicare. But the responsibility for ensuring it's done is on the employer, and they're responsible for ensuring the right amount, to a certain level of fidelity is withheld. And the amount she changed the total withholding is likely not enough to have triggered any IRS look into the details, and therefore criminal charges. Your restaurant owner likely was doing games enough to materially change the value withheld, which gets the IRS interested.
Here's where I think you're going wrong: the unimproved land value of Alice's land does kinda change? If you try to do it specifically at the lot level, you go crazy. Do it at the neighborhood or block level on a per square foot basis, and you'll be able to levelize the value of two lots next to each other. And this handles someone building a private road or a subway or something: them building it increases the land value of the entire neighborhood, including the property the improvement is on, but the value of the improvement isn't included.
It's having access to a subway, or having a hotel nearby, or a restaurant nearby that improves values, and they stack. There might be some adjustments on a lot level, but that's due to things like: water access might increase the value of the lots that have it, but not on the other side of the street that doesn't have access.
And here's the thing: cities already calculate the value of the land separately from the stuff on top. I do look at my property taxes, and they break it into the two values.
It ignores the value of the physical infrastructure on that property. It's not ignoring the value of the physical infrastructure around it. And this discussion ignores the most likely method of determining the value, which isn't by individual determination of the lot, but by determining the price per sq ft for a block or neighborhood, then multiplying by the size of the lot. Which is a roundabout saying that it may in fact incorporate the existence of the physical infrastructure, but only in so far as it makes the land of the neighborhood more valuable.
In places where the land is expensive, yes. But that's also largely where the people are, so it's helpful to build there too. You don't end up with a giant surface parking lot, because you get taxed the same whether you have a parking lot, or a 5-story parking structure.
The value of the land in NYC is related to all the other stuff next to the land you’re valuing. Other people’s improvements make your land more valuable, because you’ve got the subway line nearby. And the pizza shop on the corner. And the bar across the street.
The intent is to avoid tyranny by the majority. And you don't even need a majority, depending on how things would have been written. If each state gets a vote proportional to it's population, you could have something pass with substantially less than a majority of the national population, just by convincing a majority of the population of the states that becomes a majority to vote a given way (just shy of 25% (50% of state votes controlled by 50% of the votes in the states)).
The intent is to make it changeable, but not too changeable. The constitution is the supreme law of the land, and it's not beneficial if it can be changed at a whim.
Living constitutionalism doesn't quite make sense to me, insofar as it means that the constitution means whatever we want it to say, which results in it not actually being a check on the government's powers. This isn't to say there isn't some ambiguity in the constitution, and that ambiguity can be beneficial. But the living constitution theorists tend to read more ambiguity in than actually exists.
This includes saying things like: constitutional review didn't exist until Marbury v Madison. This ignores that it was a thing under the various state constitutions, with it not being called out specifically, and that it falls naturally under the fact that SCOTUS has the power to decide all cases and controversies, and Stare Decisis combines with that to say that if SCOTUS decides one way on a constitutional issue, they'll continue to decide the same way on that issue, so if a lower court judge decides the other way, they'll get reversed when it gets appealed, probably summarily in a one line opinion of the Court.
The Dickey Amendment was specifically because a certain set of activists would do "research" for the purpose of creating a record to support gun control.
> “We’re going to systematically build a case that owning firearms causes deaths. We’re doing the most we can do, given the political realities.” (P.W. O’Carroll, Acting Section Head of Division of Injury Control, CDC, quoted in Marsha F. Goldsmith, “Epidemiologists Aim at New Target: Health Risk of Handgun Proliferation,” Journal of the American Medical Association vol. 261 no. 5, February 3, 1989, pp. 675-76.)
The CDC wasn't banned from looking into it. They have looked into how guns may lead to deaths [0][1][2]. The were banned from using it to promote gun control.
Regulations are going to and fro. Some of them are getting rolled back, while others are progressing. Most of the ones that are getting rolled back have been useless at their intent. Or they violate the constitution. Or both!
Tailscale actually does all of the above for you: does the DNS, can register a LE cert, and provides the always-on VPN to allow access when you're away from home.
According to IRS Pub 15[0], I think companies are legally required to deduct the employer share of taxes. This doesn't apply to self-employed contractors because they're technically self-employed (so the employee and employer are the same). The W-4 can change your deduction rate, but only for the income tax portion, not SS/Medicare.
I literally have just bought a new e-bike for not much more[0] (mine was pre-order, so a bit cheaper than currently). Claim is up to 60 miles, depending on conditions, at 45lbs.
Don't remember the AC.ID codes. Have a script generate a textfile index based on the file structure. Then you just look at the index. You look into a place enough, and you'll remember it eventually then.