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maxericksonon Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)

Andy has to be innocent for his escape (and bringing down of the warden) to be a redemption. It's a redemption of his life against the injustice he was subjected to, not a redemption of his soul for some evil that he committed.

If he was a double murderer, plotting to and successfully escaping isn't a redemption, it's just a murderer getting away with it.

maxericksonon Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

In the quote in the article there, the one judge responds to something specific by calling it "irrational".

maxericksonon EV-1 for Lease (1996)

There is no evidence that the EV1 was a practical vehicle, at least not if you take the strange step of expecting GM to make money manufacturing it.

maxericksonon Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon

If all companies fire 50% of their engineers,

This is not a reasonable premise.

maxericksonon Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon

Software productivity doubling would be a huge boon for the economy, not a drag.

Of course it's very disruptive for people that lose their jobs, but many of them will get similar new jobs, and the overall impact is higher output.

maxericksonon Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k

I agree that whole is a better comparison to the actual value.

I was responding to the freedom to spend the other poster had in their second paragraph, where I think it's reasonable to look at the insurance that would be better to actually buy.

maxericksonon Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k

That's like $75 a year of term life insurance for a young healthy person.

maxericksonon ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants

Amazing the hoops that people will jump through to not enact strong employer penalties.

maxericksonon Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores

Small car towns are more or less the same. I drive 10 minutes to work, the stores are all on the way. It's easy to stop anytime.

The more local one is medium sized and I've been shopping there for years, so I don't really have to find anything.

I should go to the butcher that's a few blocks away more often though.

maxericksonon Anthropic’s secret plan to ‘destructively scan every book in the world’

The conception that books are precious is an artifact of history.

Of course rare historical volumes are precious, but stuff you can buy new right now or that exists in the tens of thousands of copies? No.

maxericksonon Heathrow scraps liquid container limit

2 part liquid explosives featured heavily in Die Hard with a Vengeance.

maxericksonon Cholesterol levels cut in half with one-time gene editing drug in trial

The existence of a gene edit directly contradicts your assertion.

That you don't label the specific phenotype a disease doesn't really matter.

maxericksonon The coming war on car ownership?

Michigan had unlimited lifetime coverage from 1978 to 2019. That it was no fault doesn't really matter all that much, there's enough people driving and enough collisions that it reflected the cost of doing it, even if there's disagreement about whether the placement of that cost was fair.

Then in 2019 they made unlimited coverage opt in. Now ~Medicaid is gonna cover those injuries. A victory for the supposedly libertarian leaning Michigan House Republicans, moving Michigan from a user-fee type of system to the dole.

maxericksonon Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

No, I mean that it wouldn't hamper ICE all that much unless you took it to an extreme. An onerous policy inflicted on the people of Minnesota that accomplished little in the way of disrupting federal operations.

maxericksonon Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study

You basically get internal faults and cable faults with HV stuff. A box reporting that the AC compressor motor winding isn't shorted isn't going to make the compressor work with a shorted winding. ECU probably wouldn't disengage the powertrain for that though.

And then things like battery temperature warnings will quickly turn into real failures.

And then the next generation or 2 of stuff is going to at least attempt to implement cybersecurity features that greatly complicate tampering at the message level.

maxericksonon Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

Yeah you aren't getting the point. I'm not saying that the proprietor would be at risk for unfair prosecution, I'm saying the policy would be useless because it is easy to avoid if you don't take it to an absurd extreme.

I guess I should have spelled it out in the initial comment.

maxericksonon Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study

The exhaust from a well functioning modern ICE is likely enough to have less pollutants than the air. Of course it still has carbon dioxide, but less other pollutants.

maxericksonon Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

Are you and toomuchtodo the same person?

maxericksonon US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional

At least with vaccines there is a good chance that the actuaries will conclude that covering them is the cheaper thing to do.

maxericksonon Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

My point is that the OPs goal of preventing transactions with federal employees is impractical, so I'm not sure what you want me to say here.

maxericksonon Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

Yes, you appear to see the point I am making.

maxericksonon Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

You are proposing that every customer identify themself for every transaction, and that every store verifies that identity against a state maintained list.

"Stop their payment cards" just makes things a little inconvenient for the bad guys. What you are proposing makes everything very inconvenient for everyone. Mental models differ indeed.

maxericksonon Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

Some guy comes into your restaurant and eats a meal. Pays cash. Leaves. He was ICE. You're now subject to charges from the state of Minnesota?

That sounds like maybe not entirely the best idea.

maxericksonon Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

So know your customer regulations at the gas station then?

maxericksonon Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

Make it illegal to enable any commercial transactions within the state supporting federal agents. No food sales, no fuel sales, no hotel stays, no medical care, no rental cars. Make them drag their supply chain in like the Middle East.

In state economic deplatforming.

You're gonna prosecute Minnesotans for accepting cash?

maxericksonon When employees feel slighted, they work less

Base rate is likely quite low.

maxericksonon House vote keeps federal "kill switch" vehicle mandate

I know someone that installed an aftermarket touch screen in their Cadillac.

The OEM part arguably has a flaw where it dies when it gets too hot (Cadillac didn't do a recall though).

I think there were more than one third party options.

maxericksonon OpenAI to Take a Percentage from Customer AI-Assisted R&D Outcomes

It's a step removed from that. It's a guy saying he's one hell of an idea guy and will be rich in the future.

maxericksonon Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections

It's not about showing how you apparently voted, it's about not being able to prove it.

You can record a picture of a ballot and then spoil it and things like that.

maxericksonon Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections

The US overwhelmingly uses paper voting (often paired with electronic tabulation). We can't "move back", it's where we are.

Electronic tabulation introduces little risk when the ballots are paper.