boplicity

Per-mile stats is helpful info, not the overall totals.

They're finally getting OLED, which is one thing that's kept me on competitor laptops. They're just so much easier on my eyes.

takeout rarely works. Usually fails partway through the export.

What makes you think they knew about it on the 17th? Scanning old logs is not the same as understanding them as they're generated.

What makes you think they knew about it from the 17th? "...dating to Oct. 17, 2026" means that's when it happened. It doesn't mean they identified it on the 17th.

If people act with gross negligence, then yes, we should arrest them. How that is defined may depend on a variety of factors, though, and is something that already has relevant case law in related fields.

The problem is not plowing the streets, it is moving the snow away from the streets. After heavy snowfalls, plows create huge piles that block a significant part of the road. This is a difficult problem that simply takes a lot of resources to address.

Just to be clear: there are humans choosing to have the car operate. That's not just semantics. Responsibility lies with the people making the choice to cause a system to operate.

I don't think that's better or worse: it just brings in another dimension of scale. We shouldn't limit ourselves to just one comparison, should we?

I mean -- there's plenty of ways to figure this out. You can take a loan versus the value of the stock, for example, which is what many billionaire's do. The advantage to that, is you don't have to pay any tax at all on the value of the loan.

Yeah, but you're not required to transfer cash in order to transfer wealth, are you? Stocks are plenty transferable. Sure, the value would likely drop, but what's 20% to 40%, when you have a trillion to start.

Hilarious. They were right to do the comparison, but got it oh so wrong.

I was recently trying to understand Elon Musk's wealth, and come up with similar comparison: For example, he could make millionaire's of every single person in Seattle, and still have hundreds billions of dollars of wealth left over. Truly mind boggling.

> 55% of MA students take the SAT, while only 2% of KS students take the test.

This makes me think an interesting metric would be total SAT points per 100k population.

If only 2% of Kansas students are taking the SAT, that's kind of shocking, actually. But maybe the state University there doesn't require it?

> there are now old people that want/vote for some level of service

The problem isn't that there are old people, is that there's currently a glut of old people, which puts real strain on the system. Being old is expensive for governments. Not only do older people not typically pay nearly as much in taxes, they also require more resources to support.

So many of today's problems come down to the simple demographic fact: there's a lot of baby boomers, and they're getting old.

I have a very old school manual espresso machine (a La Pavoni). It's connected to a "smart" plug, which lets me turn on the machine remotely, and have it turn on automatically in the morning. It's nice to have it heated up and ready to go when I wake up. Nothing about the machine is smart though.