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That damn food pyramid

Traffic accidents and deaths are rising because of phones. I think we actually "won" the war on drunk driving, only to have a new more vicious war set upon us.

Collision energy and thus damage increases with the square of speed (or ~speed^4 for head-on) so there is still an interest in controlling speed.

Most drivers (especially those over 35yo) will auto-regulate their speed to the optimal (safety vs throughput) for the road design. The problem is the ones who don't. Speed limits are set lower than this optimal speed, partly to make it easier to stop and charge drivers that can't auto-regulate well. Most of the time you will be ignored for going 5-10mph over. If you are over that, it is seen as deliberate defiance and "you are asking to be pulled over".

Automatic enforcement turns this de facto road law on it's head however.

During the 1970's oil crisis, highway speeds were capped at 55 mph nationwide. It took several decades for this to reverse and only after safety studies showed that differential speeds (those obeying and those going the optimal natural speed for the road) is a significant contributing factor in crashes. Unfortunately, speeds limits are still often below optimal because of an assumption that every driver will always go at least 5mph over the limit (which is incorrect).

On 70 mph interstates away from urban/commuter traffic (where time pressures often affect driving), It's not unusual to see some cars going 5mph below the limit. That is a sign that these Interstate segments have the optimal natural speed.

If you are going to play the founders game (get rich slow, then all of a sudden), then you should not be surprised by the slow and painful part.

It looks like we are at risk of losing another valuable brick-and-mortar resource. We already lost Radio Shack.

Go outside and touch grass every day. Go for a walk if you can. It will improve your mental and physical health, and can even help you solve problems. If it also keeps your eyes healthy, that is a bonus.

Why is it called "doomsday"? Neither the wiki article nor MW dictionary definition explain this etnymology/usage.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doomsday

Yes, they would tolerate it. Both because of the Government's monopoly on violence, and because citizens always rally to support a war when under direct attack. The latter effect was popularized by Randolph Bourne in an essay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Bourne

> the phrase "war is the health of the state" that laments the success of governments in arrogating authority and resources during conflicts.

The problem the US might have in full war mobilization today would be due to cronyism. Remember all of the exceptions to Covid lockdowns for "essential" employees? Some of that is of course necessary but I suspect it would be very widespread if it happened today. This would stoke resentment from people/companies not so privileged.

> I don't understand why people have such a big privacy issue with this. It all happens on your device.

It's not hard to imagine situations where this complete and total information package can be exfiltrated or otherwise abused. Roommates, stalkers, one night stands, domestic govt, foreign govt, domestic hackers, foreign hackers, computer repair techs, employers (seizing a personal device), etc, etc etc.

There is no scenario in a free society where this should be allowed or tolerated.

Wait until you see what goes on at the county landfill.

This article largely ignores the fact that there are common data center designs that use closed-loop cooling, and consume no more water on a daily basis than a barber shop.

It's not even hard to build them that way.

You could always bring your parents into this if you really wanted to. For some reason that rarely ever happened...

In the 80's I had a walki-talkie confiscated till the end of the year also. It "just happened" to be crystaled for the same freq the school narcs/maintenance used.

This happened when I was in HS in the 1980's I think it was around 86-87 that they outright banned beepers/pagers, no exceptions.

Paying the plumber or janitor to spy is as old as dirt.

It's amazing to me that regulators have not required a minimum latency, or random latency dispersion in orders/trades to level the playing field.

How bad do you have to be before the Gov files an antitrust suit these days?

IE/Netscape bad or this apparently.

It's a routine random inspection of commercial freight. Gold is extremely dense. It's about the same density as Uranium and Plutonium (which is a big reason why they and/or software look for it in the x-rays).

Since our entire perception of reality is a carefully controlled hallucination based on our fairly crude sensory inputs, this is not surprising at all.

> Sometimes it’s music, like a full orchestral score

For me it's usually something like a full orchestra. I assume that is because our brains are already trained on the erratic arrangements and multitude of different sounds of a real orchestra - it pattern matches the noise better than say smooth jazz.

I get a weird feeling reading these technical manuals from the 1940's. It feels like we used to know how to do things correctly, and can describe them with precise language, but somehow we lost those abilities?

I know that doesn't make much sense but that is exactly the feeling I get reading these.

Don't worry about the Internet, it will survive this just fine. It was designed to reroute around damage like the "Reddit IPO".

Or, it allows consumers to make better informed decisions?

The United app and website also show equipment type under the "details" expansion. You can also filter searches by equipment type. Yes, it can change but it's correct the vast majority of the time.

So what did the original statement mean?

Are they going to target prices to individual customers based on how much the AI/algorithm thinks they will pay? That would be per-customer not per-demand...

Also, the use case for quaternions depends on how many times you will be applying the same rotation. If it's a few or dozens of times then maybe not the most efficient. If it's million or billions then you are going to want to use quaternions.

This is mainly due to the cost of converting to and from the rotation vector.

It's actually swung the other way with multiple US Government agencies and even former CDC cheif Redfield admitting that a lab leak is most likely:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/26/covid-virus-li...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2023/02/26/timel...

FBI Chief Christopher Wray: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64806903

Former CDC Chief Robert Redfield: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64891745

> for unspecified reasons

> my phone since it was on a prepaid plan

That is likely your reason (burner phone). Did they ask you for hard evidence of your identity before unlocking your account?

Top of market interest rates are a signal that the bank needs capital (yours).

Be careful with more than $250k in any one regional bank right now.

It's good to keep at least 1 year of salary in savings.

Investing it in other assets can be problematic when the global macro environment falters because you won't be the only one trying to liquidate!

It's not hard to imagine a scenario where the stock market and risk assets in general crash, and then you get laid off.