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The city supposedly did an enforcement weekend on it last year. It was so ineffective that the state actually changed registration laws so that you pay the sales tax when you purchase a car at the dealership and then you get your plate in the mail. That doesn't go into effect until late this year and I won't be surprised if it gets pushed back before then.
Where I live, it's common to see at least one person run a red at every major intersection and not just for left turns that couldn't be made due to cross-traffic. Quite often these drivers have expired temp tags which means they don't have insurance because you have to show you registered your vehicle to get insurance. Enforcement is awful so people have been trained to realize there's virtually no consequences to their bad habits. And if they do cause an accident, well it's not like the police will show up in time to stop them from driving off.
In fact, it's so bad that parts of the metro are reinstating red light cameras this year despite having decommissioned them years ago for similar legal reasons as what Florida has run into.
If you can't tell who was driving, you shouldn't be sending anyone a ticket.
The Hunt brothers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday
This seems incredibly inefficient. Is there a future for hybrid aircraft, which would feature both traditional turbofans and large batteries for energy storage?
I would assume the extra weight would make it not really worth the added cost and complexity.
Recovery is beyond the scope of most small practices.
Seems like a business opportunity. Could probably work very similar to other collections agencies where they either buy the debt for pennies on the dollar or take a percentage of the collected amount.
Humpback whales have been known to defend other animals from Orcas. The food of my enemy is my friend type of thing I guess.
With such a… fixed opinion, the hidebound government agencies can't allow themselves to think that the overall risk profile has increased
This is only true if policy makers are logically consistent. If they're not then whatever they feel like at the time goes. I don't think it takes much effort to see that logical consistency is not something that is highly valued by the people currently in charge.
I knew a guy that was extremely upset to find out that there isn't a lenticular garage door product so he could have it display an "animated" image as it opened/closed.
This means people are okay with whatever is happening
Or it means the game has been rigged which is exactly the point of all the gerrymandering going on right now. Tons of people are not okay with what is happening but their power to replace their government representative has been or is currently being effectively stolen from them.
A lot of those things require you to give them your email to get the coupon. They could do that with a button as well but couldn't then follow up to let you know you didn't buy anything from them in 24hrs.
If the FDA was able to work faster/more parallel and could approve the process significantly quicker, would that have changed how many experiments you could have run to the point that you could have kept an intern busy at all times?
Sure, you can scale it, but if an LLM takes, say, $1 million a year to run an AGI instance, but it costs only $500k for one human researcher, then it still doesn’t get you anywhere faster than humans do.
Just from the fact that the LLM can/will work on the issue 24/7 vs a human who typically will want to do things like sleep, eat, and spend time not working, there would already be a noticeable increase in research speed.
Did you read his followup Echopraxia? How would you say it compared to Blindsight?
Mostly battery life I would think
What jobs or opportunities were people posting Reddit comments or whatever getting that are now going to AI?
Content writing, product reviews (real & fake), creative writing, customer support, photography/art to name a few off the top of my head.
Good old Microsoft naming. I'll never understand how they can think it's a good idea to release multiple entirely different products and call them all variations of the same thing. One would think they would have solved this problem a decade ago and yet every few years it happens again.
the risk should've been the same with google's index, and yet they're dandy!
Sure it should be but reality says Google has many more and probably better lawyers so the risk is clearly different.
Does this fix whatever method companies use to continue billing you monthly when you are issued a new card because the old one was lost/expired/etc?
Really depends on where you get it done. On your forearm? Not that bad. On your scalp? Hope you take a stick to bite down on while you get it done.
Those giant university endowments are partially used to allow those who couldn't afford it but otherwise have shown they have what the university is looking for in students to attend for significantly/entirely reduced costs. Meanwhile, the most visible billionaires are using their money to try to buy elections so they can dismantle the government for personal gain while oftentimes employing people with such low wages that they depend on the government to be able to afford such luxuries as eating three meals a day. It's pretty easy to see why the large parts of the public find one acceptable and the other less acceptable.
Why no treadmills?
This is short sighted. Where will all those red state farmers go to sell their food if it doesn't go to the large population centers which are mostly located in blue states? It won't be to USAID, China, or any of the other places that it used to go to who are rapidly going from allies to economic adversaries. So now the farmers have no income to buy anything else they need to live or even repay their loans. Given our allies have figured out that they should target their economic pain at red states, it is likely far easier for blue states to find a new food supplier than it is for red states to create entirely new markets for existing American crops.
Sure it has but only when a Democrat is in office. Look at all the things that Biden/Obama were prevented from doing by the legislative and judicial branches.
It's not a closed ecosystem. If LGBTQ+/minority speech is happening on a different platform or medium, it's still happening. It can be profitable to be the part of the ecosystem that doesn't cater to the minority as long as someone else does.
| no reason not to hike up the prices
Because they're happy with the income they're making from it probably. Not everything has to make the absolute maximum amount of profit possible.
What percentage of books get a second print run on a printing press? And what's the process for that? Do they have to reset each word for the second run? I genuinely don't know how a physical process like typesetting can result in increased accuracy on each print.
Not sure why you have something against the flyover states. I'm sure there's more shoddily constructed condos in Florida/California/New York per capita than there is in the Midwest. Same goes for cheap high calorie food.
Of course, the same can probably be said about the large population centers in China too. More people concentrated in one area tends to mean more poverty in that area and all the things that come with it.
I've backed most of GeekClub's previous KickStarter campaigns and received everything I had put money towards including an extra set of kits for one of the campaigns for some reason. The kits are generally pretty good although the instructions are less great in my opinion. From what I can tell in the comment sections, a lot of the people the complain about not getting items are people that never filled out the surveys with their shipping information. Of course, with it being KickStarter, buyer beware is always the rule.
You may also like Will Wight's Cradle series. It's an american style of Xianxia/Cultivation novels but very good. The audiobooks are also highly praised.