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  1. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Some policies have no named insureds.

    Auto insurance is written on a particular vehicle or vehicles, named insureds can be on the policy or not.

  2. Re:"operate the vehicle remotely" ?!?!? on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, every ms counts, because a car can move an inch in a millisecond

  3. Re:satellite in motion link will have high pings on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    RT time 10ms or so doesn't seem to be a problem

  4. Re:Who is Liable? on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is liable when the car you are driving kills someone?

    Same answer, it depends.

  5. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    No

  6. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Vehicles are required to have insurance, not people. The vehicle policy covers any authorized driver.

  7. Re:Why bother with H-1b visas? on Trump Administration Cracks Down On H-1B Visa Abuse (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is a system, it is called E-Verify

    https://www.uscis.gov/e-verify

  8. Re:Meh on Jeff Bezos Shares Video of 10,000-Year Clock Project (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    It keeps uses Solar Noon as it's time zone, so it adjusts every day or at least every day that has enough solar light at solar noon

  9. Re:Useless waste of money on Jeff Bezos Shares Video of 10,000-Year Clock Project (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    By analysis

  10. Re:Gravity on Jeff Bezos Shares Video of 10,000-Year Clock Project (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a 10,000 year clock, not a perpetual clock

  11. Re:Needs a new direction on We've Reached Peak Smartphone (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    People rarely use the "phone". It just happens to be a more convenient size for viewing the apps that people really use their phone with that either a big tablet or a little phone.

    You can make "phone calls" and send/receive messages without a "phone".

    People don't want to cart a tablet around with them

  12. Re:Like cars? on We've Reached Peak Smartphone (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Buying a new car and sending it to the crusher after 3 years because you want one could be wasteful and environmentally irresponsible.

    But most people sell their cars to someone else so there is no waste or additional impact on the environment.

    In the case of other stuff, it is wasteful and environmentally irresponsible to NOT discard your perfectly good incandescent light bulbs, your 1970's gas guzzler and your old tube TV/monitor. So I guess it depends on what you mean by "perfectly good".

  13. Re:They accept dollars, because the bill is in dol on Arizona Introduces Bill That Would Allow Residents To Pay Taxes In Bitcoin (investopedia.com) · · Score: 1

    There are gold dollars made today in the US, no need to go back in time 200 years

  14. There are no money laundering violations for deliberately making each sale under $10k

  15. Re: your full of base load on New York's $6 Billion Plan For Offshore Wind Shows That Oil Drilling Really Is On the Way Out (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nice, compare the range on a small, lightweight roadster with a Model S. Even nicer that you couldn't bother to look up the range of the Model S. It's 315 miles for the 100D and about the same for the smaller, lighter Model 3 with a battery that is 20% smaller.

    Current growth rate in the US is 25%. Project that out 20 years. Growth rate is likely to accelerate as prices decline and range and performance increase. but even 20 years at 25% growth rate completely replaces gas cars.

    Worldwide, growth rate is even higher.

    Strange that you would say an additional 2.5GW of power coming online "won't help with additional load". Power to recharge EVs is pretty low, roughly the same as three 100W light bulbs kept on 24/7.

  16. Over 1 million EVs sold worldwide in 2017, huge growth rate

    In the 4th quarter of 2007 Apple only sold a bit over 1 million iPhones. Clearly a loser product, just like EVs.

  17. Re:boycott 'ending in nine' !!! on Apple Begins Selling Refurbished iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Models (macrumors.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Boycott everyone that ends a price in 9 and where do you plan on buying anything?

    Talk about a petty grievance. Why not stop buying gasoline that ends in .9 while you are at it.

    Walmart didn't invent pricing that ended in a 9, go look at an old Sears ad from 60+ years ago.

  18. Re:"Refurbished" iPhones are exceptionally good on Apple Begins Selling Refurbished iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Models (macrumors.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They've already reduced the price of the iPhone 7 to reflect that it is an older model. The 10% discount is on top of the price reduction.

  19. Re: Imagine if cars could be sold this way. on Apple Begins Selling Refurbished iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Models (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    The outer shell and battery are the primary wear items in a phone. Replace those and you are pretty much as good as new.

    They also replace any defective modules, it is cleaned to a like new state and you get a full factory warranty identical to a new product.

    I think his analogy is pretty accurate

  20. Re:Imagine if cars could be sold this way. on Apple Begins Selling Refurbished iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Models (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you understand that the selling price of the refurbished iPhone 7 isn't 90% of what they originally sold for, much less Apple's 2018 models?

    Or that they replaced the entire exterior and the primary wear item, the battery?

  21. Re: Yeah but... on Apple Begins Selling Refurbished iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Models (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Utter nonsense.

    You are confusing the term EOL, which refers to when a manufacturer will stop selling an IC, with how long it is expected to last.

    ASICS don't get designed to last 3 years

  22. When the company in Florida does business with people/companies in New York or commits a crime in New York (such as stealing the identity of people who live in New York.

    You don't have to physically set foot in a state to commit a crime in that state.

  23. Re:Some back-of-the-envelope calculations.... on Norway Will Make All Short-Haul Flights Electric By 2040 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why start with a 737 class aircraft when the Norwegians are talking about short haul flights with much smaller passenger counts?

  24. Re:Are they sure they don't mean on Norway Will Make All Short-Haul Flights Electric By 2040 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I just can't figure out why my demonstrably impractical electric automobiles have safely and reliably been driven over 65,000 miles without any problems.

    Heck, I can't even figure out what is impractical about them at all. Can't be the zero time I spend standing out in the rain, wind, cold, dust, heat fueling them. Can't be the zero time I've spent getting oil changes. Can't even be the cost since they have been far cheaper to own than the gas powered automobiles that proceeded them.

    Those crazy Wright brothers were just plain nuts, nobody in their right mind would see any practical use for their glorified hang gliders.

  25. H2 vehicles use compressed H2, not LH2 and the fuel tanks aren't heavy for compressed H2