I'm assuming that the author managed to mangle the spelling of "hindrance". Mostly because I'd have to be appalled that an "editor" could neither run spellcheck nor recognize a misspelled word...
On the other hand, this is
Your assumption about requiring braking distance is false.
You are...mistaken.
Braking distance intervals need to be maintained even on a fully automated roadway, if only to deal with external factors - a moose crossing the roadway, for instance.
No level of automation of the driving/traffic problem can be dealt with completely in isolation unless we wall off the roadways from all external access (to include airplane crashes, meteor strikes, etc., since it does little good to set things up in such a way that the first time we discover we overlooked something in our self-driving programs is when we have a million-car pileup in LA....
Oh, nonsense!
it's not like the compiler can tell that explode() precludes further processing.
Any more than the killbot-2100 can tell whether it has killed the last human on Earth, thus leaving its programming eternally unfulfilled....
This happened now because the Democrats knew it would fail (if they'd thought it would succeed, they'd have pushed it BEFORE the elections just past), and wanted to get the good publicity for being AGAINST THE NSA!!!
The Republicans voted against it because the Democrats were for it.
Neither Party's position had anything to do with their opinions about the issue (they're both in favour of the status quo) - it was a purely tactical vote.
That means Joe Uber is going to get into more accidents, and requires a far higher level of skill to get the rate down to acceptable level.
Given that Uber is legal in a lot of places (and still done in places it's not), there should be plenty of statistical evidence that they get into more accidents per mile driven than "normal" drivers.
So, can you point me at the evidence that supports your statement, or were you just talking out your ass?
Disclaimer: I've got no interest in this whatsoever. While it's possible Uber operates here, I've never noticed, and am unlikely to do so, since I don't ever have to go anyplace I can't go in my own car.
Obviously, if the company does something illegal the people behind it will be prosecuted, too.
Umm, no. Hence the Limited Liability Corporation.
Note that anyone who owns stock is one of the "people behind it ("it" being the corporation)", so your view of the way corporate law words would make YOU liable for the actions of any corporation whose stock is part of your 401k....
Fortunately, the rest of us live in a world of Limited Liability Corporations, where the owners are not held liable for the actions of the managers....
We don't need 2000 pages for this...
Hmm, seems to be a reference to the ACA. Note that we didn't need 2000 pages for that, either.
Start with "Age of eligibility for Medicare decreases by one year for every 90 days after the date this legislation becomes law".
Then, "All individuals under the age of majority (currently 18 in the USA, last I looked) are eligible for Medicare as of the date this legislation becomes law".
At that point, we're on a 12 year transition to Single-Payer, and everyone should be happy (except possibly the Insurance Companies that bought the ACA).
Ion engines [wikipedia.org] can impart much higher velocities to the "fuel" than chemical rockets
Pedant Mode...ON.
"Fuel" is what produces the energy. "Reaction Mass" is what you push out the back to make thrust. In chemical rockets, they're the same thing, but in ion engines (or NERVA engines), they're not.
I know a lot of guys don't even wear their wedding ring because it's annoying when you're not used to it
Let's see...I think I stopped wearing my wedding ring the first time I had to put that hand into a junction box with some 450V circuits. Reminding myself to remove the ring every time I had to do something similar just seemed a particularly stupid way to live my life, so into a drawer it went, and it's never come back out.
Maybe a legal system where lawyers are funded purely by taxes and still only receive payment for the services rendered?
The coffers of people doing frivolous lawsuits are finite. The amount a lawyer can get doing frivolous lawsuits at government expense are NOT.
In other words, do we really want endless frivolous lawsuits being filed at our expense?
That the Dupont corn is considered tastier thereby, and that yeilds with it being higher mean increased total supply. These factors combine to drive down the price of local variety and make farming it a losing proprosition over time too.
So, the Dupont corn tastes better & produces more edible grain. Enough so that the local competition is a "losing proposition".
And this is bad, why?
Do keep in mind that industrialization pretty much requires that you get some of those farmers out of the fields and into factories. if 80% of your population are growing food, you don't have much left for anything else, and will end up with a population of peasants....
Criticizing a company for getting steep discounts worth millions of dollars on jet fuel from the government
Citation? I didn't notice any mention of "steep discounts".
and then getting a large lease from that same government seems in line with their mission.
"Getting a large lease"? Is that the same thing as "paying the government a lot of money"?
(and Ak...did they declare a winner yet?),
Yes, the winner wasn't a Democrat....
Given the assumption that AGW is an existential crisis, everyone is going to have to reduce emissions to zero in the near term (near being defined as within half a century).
At that point, we'll all be at the same emission level.
Note that if AGW is NOT an existential threat, it's probably not important to bother with landmark agreements that won't accomplish anything meaningful anyway.
There are about 7000 hours in the year, so we get about 500 KWh/m^2/yr.
Closer to 9000 hours per year (8760, 8784 in leap years, 8766 on average).
Which would make your estimate closer to 600 KWh/m^2....
In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.
