to the contrary. If you read to the bottom of the summary, it draws a similar conclusion:

But Li and Jenn suggest that the greater volume of electricity consumption will exert a downward pressure on prices (people will pay more overall but pay somewhat less per unit of electricity). Based on a few economic assumptions, the researchers conclude that this would roughly offset the costs of the necessary grid expansion, so the price per unit of electricity would be largely static.

This makes sense. Expanding the grid capability was paid for by selling the electricity produced, so more electricity sold will pay for expanding the grid capability to sell more electricity.

It works out to $638/per registered car.

Nothing I've said contradicts that. You are failing to employ sufficient cynicism.

Yes, the new rules will be challenged, and those challenges will take years, and could prevail. Yes, non-compete cases frequently don't make and are generally unwelcome. Yes, that doesn't really matter because the goal is achieved in any case.

If you are aware of any form of legal action less likely to succeed than proving an attorney was insincere, please enlighten me: I have failed to think of any. This is not something anyone worries themselves over.

The degree of cynicism necessary to grasp the actual state of things is rather high, and allows for the reality that practicing attorneys actively dupe their own clients into believing the can successfully pursue such cases: that these nasty scraps of paper have have actual value. Further, how much new money will the political class happily gobble up while the TLA and others "fight" this? You've noticed that this just appeared out of the blue in the midst of an election year, correct?

Now you're getting it.

Not true. An AI can unblur much better than a human, especially with video where the AI can look at multiple frames simultaneously.

If you believe that, you're not paying attention.

If the enhanced image leads to other evidence, they might crack some cold cases.

But the unblurred images are unlikely to be directly admissible as evidence in court.

An AI can unblur a video much better than a human because the AI can combine the pixels from multiple frames.

Even better if the AI also has a clear photo of the scene taken later by the police. By comparing the clear photo to the blurry photo, an AI can figure out the characteristics of the lens and sensor and apply them to the perp's face, hands, and clothing.

True. Also, irrelevant. "The process is the punishment." Non-competes provide the standing an employer needs to bury a former employee in costs. Costs that are incurred, whether the employers case falls flat on its face or not. And not just legal bills.

You would've paid much less if you'd bought it online. Diamonds have a huge retail markup.

You asked a jeweler about a product that means less income for jewelers, and you expect an honest answer?

Even a lab diamond is a silly waste of money. Look at diamond and Moissanite side-by-side and try to guess which is which.

One human pyromaniac with a bic lighter can probably do more damage.

I'm picturing a robot powered dog sled.

Yeah, I don't know where the *good* Sci-Fi authors went either? ... cry me a river. There are way more good SF books than you can shake a stick at let alone read.

Vernor Vinge just died. Read any of his stuff? Very well written classic SF.

The Expanse series.

The Dune books, not just the first one. Given, Dune is a tad overrated in some regards but the good bits are really good and well worth the read. That goes for the entire Dune series.

What about Cyberpunk, somewhat of a sub-genre of SF? Neal Stephenson, read him? If not you've got some catching up to do. ... William Gibson seems to put out a Cyberpunk novel every odd year and the latest stuff is still as premium as ever.

Cory Doctorov, Orsen Scott Card, Richard Morgan, Michael Weisser ...

If you get bored you can look into lore books. The RPG universe of Shadowrun is your type A Nerd fest but of the 80 novels or so they have the top 5-10 are really good and worth a look, even if you don't care about the franchise. I'm pretty sure other expensive IPs have similar traits. It's quite unlikely that the top 5 novels of the Battletech or Warhammer universe are a complete waste of time. The writers of those books tend to spend years working on the worlds before writing a book on them which does lead to consistency and a baseline of quality.

Bottom line: You likely have vast unexplored areas of SF still to discover. Old and new.

It's also disingenuous to say it will be done in a decade for $12B.

There is zero chance of that happening.

Is it legal for LV casinos to offer odds on when public projects will be done and what they will cost?

I'd take this bet at a hundred to one.

California banned non-competes in 1874 when they were a solidly Republican state.

Indeed. Both employees and companies do better in jurisdictions that ban non-competes.

Employees do better for obvious reasons since they can hop to better jobs.

It is not as obvious for companies, but they benefit from more freedom to hire, ideas and innovation spreading faster, and more satisfied employees.

Non-competes are a prisoner's dilemma. An individual company benefits from a non-compete but is harmed even more when other companies do the same. They are collectively better off if none of them do it. But the only way to enforce that, is a legal ban.

The FTC finally did something I agree with. That hasn't happened in a long time.

IANAL. However, I suspect that conflating right-to-work and non-compete is naïve. Union law is from an entirely different legal foundation, and even age, than IP based non-compete contracts. A trivial attempt to find legal views on this corroborates my suspicion:

Non-Competes: Myths, Misconceptions & Lies

So, unless you are a lawyer, take a breath and accept that perhaps you aren't qualified for this guesswork.

See California, largest state in the union, setting the precedent. Colorado followed. Blue states.

And again, these were legislative acts.