Absolutely. Though I’m not sure we want the government taxing anyone down into the lower-middle class. Millionaires, or more specifically people who have $1M to $9.9M (sevens) are quite good for the overall economy and more common than most people seem to think as there are about 22M of them in the USA. Have the IRS watch them, but otherwise leave those people alone. Problematic wealth, the kind that should be progressively taxed, starts in the eight figure range.
I am unsure what direction you are attempting to take things here. Please clarify.
Fun time to introduce/remind people of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect: The phenomenon of a person trusting newspapers for topics which that person is not knowledgeable about, despite recognizing the newspaper as being extremely inaccurate on certain topics which that person is knowledgeable about.
Same thing goes for laws and lawmakers. It’s almost as if selecting our “leaders” from a narrow band of society who, for the most part, don’t know shit about anything, does not lead to enlightened laws.
Remember when China was the villain for doing this? At least the owners aren’t building out a huge network of surveillance centers under the guise of a miracle technology that has zero chance of living up to they hype.
“Waymo offered the rattled occupant $40 worth of free rides” Time to lawyer up. I’m guessing that even in our car loving society there are cases of reckless drivers who endangers passenger lives being sued.
Also, I missed the part where Waymo was ticketed in this and every other story about these renegade cars.
In my limited experience they all suck. I was driving a new Ford with “driver assist” and it decided to nearly kill everyone in the immediate area while driving through a construction zone. The transition from my driving to the vehicle taking over felt similar to the time my power steering (instant horror) went out and the transition from vehicle misreading the situation to my somewhat panicked regaining control felt like performing a highly illegal driving manuever. I’m singling out Ford because that was the vehicle make, but I’m fairly certain the technology itself is undercooked. I’ll be sticking with my ancient vehicle as long as possible and maybe go buy something with a tape deck or 8-track next.
Wait, you mean Dr. Feynman didn’t speak extensively on the healing power of crystals? /s It’s really super-duper-cool that we’ve created a system of zero platform accountability.
Do not adjust the gas tax for 33 years, do not listen to all the civil engineers telling you heavy vehicles do almost all road damage, and propose a tax with no method of enforcement. Brilliant leadership out of DC.
Can someone ELI5? Is this extremely token gesture an appreciative nod or strings (visible or not) attached trojan horse?
I mean, what do you want us to do? Index tax taxes or make them percentage based so they don’t go 33 years being eaten away by inflation? Create a system that actually pays for the roads it needs to exist instead of saddling the future with massive debt? Not make it legally difficult to impossible for any alternative forms of transport to exist or at least be usable by sane people? That all sounds impossible. /s
Classic Fortune, sowing the seeds of blaming labor for every problem. Though, they should be careful because these Hynix/Samsung stories are showing the world how much the parasite class cheats workers. You suppose Micron workers who thought they had a good deal making high five-figures are looking at these bonuses and suddenly developing class consciousness?
Context for all you n’wahs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR-K2rUP86M
The Chinese probably gave them normal gifts, pins, and phones because why waste money on tech when top secret files are stored in the bathroom and POTUS tweets sensitive information?
Sounds like a problem one of our super genius god brain billionaires should be able to solve before lunch.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but shouldn’t something generating the heat of several atom bombs be utilized as a heat source for making energy, instead of energy used to cool it?
Because outlawing vaccines can’t bring you a mojito by the pool? Also, while that’s a bold plan to eradicate the poors, all of human history up until vaccines were created suggests it might not work.
Facebook will announce some new feature, spin up a few million more bots, and have a glowing report for the investors next month.
Did Bernie read my Terminator fanfic? The one where the 1% are living it up on some islands with T800 butlers while the Terminators clear out the rest of humanity?
In most cases, absolutely. There are a few jobs I can see an LLM performing as well or better. Though, then those people would be roaming the streets and do you really want your insurance claim denied while you’re out walking your dog or someone yelling about paradigm shifts to align synergies when you’re just having a nice day at the park?