Modern cars often don't leave skid marks. ABS and modern tyre compounds work wonders. Also, skid marks generally require a reasonably dry road.
The self-driving car will have a complete log of everything. Most non-self-driving cars do already, even if law enforcement and insurance companies generally can't be bothered to access it.
FDR took the US off of the gold standard that was causing the depression. US GDP growth rate in 1934 was 10.8%. If that is a worsened depression, then I don't know what we have been in for the last couple of decades.
Right now, as a low income earner you often face extremely high marginal tax rates, sometimes over 100%. That is, as soon as you start to make money, you lose social services, and the more you make the more benefits you lose. Making that sacrifice, getting a shitty low-paying job even though you are losing money doing so, is simply hard. Even though it generally pays off a few years down the line, many people just get stuck in that situation. Some also pick the "solution" of simply hiding that they are making money, working illegally while still getting benefits.
That is where UBI helps. It changes the effective marginal tax rate for the poorest to something close to 0%. No matter how little they earn, they still get SOMETHING extra to take home. This is powerful motivation.
The cost is primarily that the minimum wage is likely to go lower, as it is always worth it for someone to get a job, no matter how badly it pays. There is also no pressure on employers to pay a living wage, since they can just point to the UBI.
If printing a ton of fiat and handing it out to the population worked then the US Gov't would've been doing it for the past 100 years.
Funny you should mention 100 years. 100 years ago the world was still infested with the gold bug. Only in the thirties did economists begin to gain a basic understanding of what money is.
To this day, a majority of economists still believe that it is possible for every nation in the world to have a balanced budget while overall world economy is expanding. Most politicians believe that a prudent nation should run a trade surplus. They don't appear to understand that for every nation with a surplus, there's a deficit somewhere else.
Hillary is probably the most centrist presidential candidate from the main parties that the USA ever had.
She would have been a foreign policy hawk, like most of the Republican party wants, and her economic policy would certainly have been more right-wing than Obama (and he is not exactly screaming for the socialist stuff like protection of steel workers). Her staff appointments would reflect orthodox business leader thinking.
The only thing slightly left wing about her is her support for Obamacare. She would likely have tried to steer that in a more insurance-company-friendly direction though.
Really, the only thing standing between her and a Republican nomination is a deal with the NRA and the fact that she has ovaries.
There are plenty of jobs out there. If I had enough money I could keep at least one person in meaningful full time employment doing things that are neither easily automated, harmful, degrading, or bad for the environment.
Unemployment is never caused by automation. It is always caused by those wishing they could have goods or services not having sufficient funds to afford it. And since we are unlikely to run out of trees to make bills out of, any demand shortage caused by lack of money can be easily fixed.
Unemployment is a stick used by the powerful to make sure that regular people live in fear.
Your friend gets the first 30 miles every day on electric. For most people that is a significant fraction of their miles.
Generally, it is not really worth it to charge a PHEV during the day, they are better off just sticking with home charging. Chasing down a public charging spot to only get 30 miles extra range is a bit pointless. If there happens to be one near where you are parking anyway, great, and if it gets you free parking as it does in some places, even better. If not, it is perfectly fine to just use petrol.
The only exception is the i3 with the range extender. That thing is practically useless on petrol.
The motorway charge sticker, as the name implies, only applies to motorways. It therefore moves traffic away from the motorways, the safest roads and the generally the roads where traffic causes the least problems for society. Instead that traffic goes on secondary roads which have much higher fatality rates as well as through cities and towns, polluting in the places where most people are gathered.
It works in Switzerland because of the rather unusual geography there -- even a fairly short motorway trip there can often save hours on secondary roads.
Tyre taxes have been tried. Unfortunately they have a lot of issues.
They cause people to pick tires for wear-resistance more than anything else, such as being able to stop on a wet road. This is particularly bad in places with winter, as winter tyres are typically softer and therefore quicker to degrade than summer tyres. They cause illegal tyre imports which typically then lead to illegal tyre dumping, and tyres are dangerous waste that should be properly handled, not dumped in some random field. They cause people to do things like keep a set of tyres for MOT and swap back to the 5 year old ones after the MOT, meaning that now you get to combine the bad rubber compound with a lack of thread.
And if you think it's bad that private drivers do those things, just wait till you see what commercial companies come up with.
A species capable of recording its culture and history more than any other species on earth, and yet incapable of not continuously repeating the same mistakes from one generation to the next is a textbook example of an evolutionary dead-end.
I would like to see that textbook.
Also, a lot of what IBM did in WW2 was only made public knowledge this century. Millenials have every chance of being educated on the issue.
Modern CPUs have an area that you aren't allowed to touch. That is where they implement TPM, store DRM keys among other things. It looks like some of the flaws may give you a chance at looking at that area; i.e. they allow you to actually control the hardware that you paid for.
So no, you cannot do anything you want already, even with root access.
It is a disgrace that private companies from Western countries make money on human rights abuses.
Humanity will never forget what IBM did in WW2. IBM got away with it, but their name will forever be shamed. Vodafone, do you really want the same fate?
Why would anyone even want a device that has invasive sensors in it?
Because it is handy that the phone adjusts backlight based on ambient light. Also, phones (and most laptops) have much more invasive sensors known as camera and microphone.
The silly thing is that punycode solves exactly zero problems that simply making whitelists of utf-8 characters in domains would not have solved equally well, and every problem caused by whitelisted utf-8 characters also plagues punycode. Plus of course punycode adds its own set of problems.
Not significantly more weird than having 11:59 am immediately followed by 12:00 pm. That would be daft, surely no one would come up with a time keeping system that stupid.
While the leader may be corrupt on day, in practice it takes time to implement that corruption.
Also, term limits are a backstop. They are used when the other methods fail. They are easy to understand and they are an easy trigger to tell the general public that they are dealing with a dictator.
In Denmark we have a different canary, the Queen. Officially laws only go into force when they have the Queen's signature. Obviously, if she ever refused to sign a law, her reign would end -- but at least the population would be aware that a barrier had been crossed and democracy is at an end. The backstop in this case only works as long as the monarch is sensible and as long as it isn't the monarch themselves trying to take over. Term limits are a safer choice.
Besides, it is not like there is a huge cost associated with changing leader. Even if we end up losing a really REALLY great leader and having to put up with second choice, the difference is likely to be small. I know that Obama vs. Trump is a counterexample, but that just shows how useless the US election system is.
If you have the best leader ever, you need to kick them out despite overwhelming public support just because some arbitrary date has passed?
Yes. Because power corrupts. Especially when you have a truly altruistic leader who looks out for the people and manages to bridge divides. Give them 20 years and they will feel that the good they did means everything they do will automatically be good.
Some democracies do not need term limits as such, because the way their elections are designed make long-term reigns very unlikely. Still, even for those it is good safeguard to have, just in case.
The real reason that the SpaceX booster landings are so amazing is that they CANNOT hover! Even with a single engine running out of the 9 available, the thrust is just too high, and so the whole thing will go back up if you try.
So you cannot do the usual "slow down and be gentle" landings that retro-rockets have done in the past. You have to come in at high speed and then use the rocket engine to fairly suddenly stop, hoping that the place you stop will be above the pad, but not far above the pad.
Eventually though we're likely to reach a point where demand for more data doesn't scale in step with availability, but I think that this will help out considerably until people find new ways to consume mobile data.
All I know is that my communication demands as measured in "fractions of cell taken up by serving me on average" has gone down over the years. It might be because I am getting older, of course.
I used to be able to keep a significant fraction of a cell busy, with either multi-channel circuit-switched data or GPRS over plain GSM. Even with EDGE, I could put measurable load on a cell even with just one phone. Today on 4G my meagre usage drowns in everyone else's.
It's a bit funny that this post is 5 Informative. It is exactly the wrong way around. Meltdown can be fixed with a patch. It involves speculating across a hardware security barrier, which is something that microcode has a chance to detect.
Spectre, on the other hand, does not involve speculating into inaccessible memory. It just involves speculating into memory that the program (typically a jit compiler) is carefully avoiding touching.
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Modern cars often don't leave skid marks. ABS and modern tyre compounds work wonders. Also, skid marks generally require a reasonably dry road.
The self-driving car will have a complete log of everything. Most non-self-driving cars do already, even if law enforcement and insurance companies generally can't be bothered to access it.
Nobody hires undocumented workers in Germany.
That is so not true. They just hire them indirectly by paying a foreign company for services instead. That keeps their hands clean.
FDR took the US off of the gold standard that was causing the depression. US GDP growth rate in 1934 was 10.8%. If that is a worsened depression, then I don't know what we have been in for the last couple of decades.
Right now, as a low income earner you often face extremely high marginal tax rates, sometimes over 100%. That is, as soon as you start to make money, you lose social services, and the more you make the more benefits you lose. Making that sacrifice, getting a shitty low-paying job even though you are losing money doing so, is simply hard. Even though it generally pays off a few years down the line, many people just get stuck in that situation. Some also pick the "solution" of simply hiding that they are making money, working illegally while still getting benefits.
That is where UBI helps. It changes the effective marginal tax rate for the poorest to something close to 0%. No matter how little they earn, they still get SOMETHING extra to take home. This is powerful motivation.
The cost is primarily that the minimum wage is likely to go lower, as it is always worth it for someone to get a job, no matter how badly it pays. There is also no pressure on employers to pay a living wage, since they can just point to the UBI.
If printing a ton of fiat and handing it out to the population worked then the US Gov't would've been doing it for the past 100 years.
Funny you should mention 100 years. 100 years ago the world was still infested with the gold bug. Only in the thirties did economists begin to gain a basic understanding of what money is.
To this day, a majority of economists still believe that it is possible for every nation in the world to have a balanced budget while overall world economy is expanding. Most politicians believe that a prudent nation should run a trade surplus. They don't appear to understand that for every nation with a surplus, there's a deficit somewhere else.
Hillary is probably the most centrist presidential candidate from the main parties that the USA ever had.
She would have been a foreign policy hawk, like most of the Republican party wants, and her economic policy would certainly have been more right-wing than Obama (and he is not exactly screaming for the socialist stuff like protection of steel workers). Her staff appointments would reflect orthodox business leader thinking.
The only thing slightly left wing about her is her support for Obamacare. She would likely have tried to steer that in a more insurance-company-friendly direction though.
Really, the only thing standing between her and a Republican nomination is a deal with the NRA and the fact that she has ovaries.
There are plenty of jobs out there. If I had enough money I could keep at least one person in meaningful full time employment doing things that are neither easily automated, harmful, degrading, or bad for the environment.
Unemployment is never caused by automation. It is always caused by those wishing they could have goods or services not having sufficient funds to afford it. And since we are unlikely to run out of trees to make bills out of, any demand shortage caused by lack of money can be easily fixed.
Unemployment is a stick used by the powerful to make sure that regular people live in fear.
Your friend gets the first 30 miles every day on electric. For most people that is a significant fraction of their miles.
Generally, it is not really worth it to charge a PHEV during the day, they are better off just sticking with home charging. Chasing down a public charging spot to only get 30 miles extra range is a bit pointless. If there happens to be one near where you are parking anyway, great, and if it gets you free parking as it does in some places, even better. If not, it is perfectly fine to just use petrol.
The only exception is the i3 with the range extender. That thing is practically useless on petrol.
The motorway charge sticker, as the name implies, only applies to motorways. It therefore moves traffic away from the motorways, the safest roads and the generally the roads where traffic causes the least problems for society. Instead that traffic goes on secondary roads which have much higher fatality rates as well as through cities and towns, polluting in the places where most people are gathered.
It works in Switzerland because of the rather unusual geography there -- even a fairly short motorway trip there can often save hours on secondary roads.
Tyre taxes have been tried. Unfortunately they have a lot of issues.
They cause people to pick tires for wear-resistance more than anything else, such as being able to stop on a wet road. This is particularly bad in places with winter, as winter tyres are typically softer and therefore quicker to degrade than summer tyres. They cause illegal tyre imports which typically then lead to illegal tyre dumping, and tyres are dangerous waste that should be properly handled, not dumped in some random field. They cause people to do things like keep a set of tyres for MOT and swap back to the 5 year old ones after the MOT, meaning that now you get to combine the bad rubber compound with a lack of thread.
And if you think it's bad that private drivers do those things, just wait till you see what commercial companies come up with.
A species capable of recording its culture and history more than any other species on earth, and yet incapable of not continuously repeating the same mistakes from one generation to the next is a textbook example of an evolutionary dead-end.
I would like to see that textbook.
Also, a lot of what IBM did in WW2 was only made public knowledge this century. Millenials have every chance of being educated on the issue.
Modern CPUs have an area that you aren't allowed to touch. That is where they implement TPM, store DRM keys among other things. It looks like some of the flaws may give you a chance at looking at that area; i.e. they allow you to actually control the hardware that you paid for.
So no, you cannot do anything you want already, even with root access.
It is a disgrace that private companies from Western countries make money on human rights abuses.
Humanity will never forget what IBM did in WW2. IBM got away with it, but their name will forever be shamed. Vodafone, do you really want the same fate?
The phone's OS handles backlight control based on ambient light, not your damn web browser.
Read my post before going off on a tirade. It is only 3 sentences, including the quote that I replied to.
Why would anyone even want a device that has invasive sensors in it?
Because it is handy that the phone adjusts backlight based on ambient light. Also, phones (and most laptops) have much more invasive sensors known as camera and microphone.
The silly thing is that punycode solves exactly zero problems that simply making whitelists of utf-8 characters in domains would not have solved equally well, and every problem caused by whitelisted utf-8 characters also plagues punycode. Plus of course punycode adds its own set of problems.
Not significantly more weird than having 11:59 am immediately followed by 12:00 pm. That would be daft, surely no one would come up with a time keeping system that stupid.
While the leader may be corrupt on day, in practice it takes time to implement that corruption.
Also, term limits are a backstop. They are used when the other methods fail. They are easy to understand and they are an easy trigger to tell the general public that they are dealing with a dictator.
In Denmark we have a different canary, the Queen. Officially laws only go into force when they have the Queen's signature. Obviously, if she ever refused to sign a law, her reign would end -- but at least the population would be aware that a barrier had been crossed and democracy is at an end. The backstop in this case only works as long as the monarch is sensible and as long as it isn't the monarch themselves trying to take over. Term limits are a safer choice.
Besides, it is not like there is a huge cost associated with changing leader. Even if we end up losing a really REALLY great leader and having to put up with second choice, the difference is likely to be small. I know that Obama vs. Trump is a counterexample, but that just shows how useless the US election system is.
If you have the best leader ever, you need to kick them out despite overwhelming public support just because some arbitrary date has passed?
Yes. Because power corrupts. Especially when you have a truly altruistic leader who looks out for the people and manages to bridge divides. Give them 20 years and they will feel that the good they did means everything they do will automatically be good.
Some democracies do not need term limits as such, because the way their elections are designed make long-term reigns very unlikely. Still, even for those it is good safeguard to have, just in case.
Hovering on rocket power?
The real reason that the SpaceX booster landings are so amazing is that they CANNOT hover! Even with a single engine running out of the 9 available, the thrust is just too high, and so the whole thing will go back up if you try.
So you cannot do the usual "slow down and be gentle" landings that retro-rockets have done in the past. You have to come in at high speed and then use the rocket engine to fairly suddenly stop, hoping that the place you stop will be above the pad, but not far above the pad.
No one else has done that before.
Eventually though we're likely to reach a point where demand for more data doesn't scale in step with availability, but I think that this will help out considerably until people find new ways to consume mobile data.
All I know is that my communication demands as measured in "fractions of cell taken up by serving me on average" has gone down over the years. It might be because I am getting older, of course.
I used to be able to keep a significant fraction of a cell busy, with either multi-channel circuit-switched data or GPRS over plain GSM. Even with EDGE, I could put measurable load on a cell even with just one phone. Today on 4G my meagre usage drowns in everyone else's.
So, your point is that 1kB is 1024 bytes and 1kbps is 1024bps except when talking about networking or storage. Got it.
I promise to use binary prefixes when I am not talking about networking or storage.
It's a bit funny that this post is 5 Informative. It is exactly the wrong way around. Meltdown can be fixed with a patch. It involves speculating across a hardware security barrier, which is something that microcode has a chance to detect.
Spectre, on the other hand, does not involve speculating into inaccessible memory. It just involves speculating into memory that the program (typically a jit compiler) is carefully avoiding touching.
The consequences for a white cis male is you might get your feelings hurt. You're not going to lose your job. You're not going to get raped.
Suck it up and grow a fucking pair. Enjoy your privileged and stop whining about your hurt whittle feewings.
This deserves better than being buried at 0. Despite the language.
MP3 is MPEG-1, not MPEG-2. Known MP3 patents expired sometime last year (specific date appears to depend on who you ask).