And then they realize that everyone needs cars at the same time. Rush hour doesn't go away just because cars are autonomous.

Autonomous rental cars are going to need to be cleaned, or at least inspected, after every use because no one wants a car that smells like someone else's cigarettes--or vomit.

There are reasons that owning a car is cheaper than renting a car for most people. Those reasons don't disappear with autonomous cars. The cost discrepancy might go down, but if I have to rent a car to and from work every day and to the store once a week and on the weekends to visit the parents or go to the beach, I might as well buy a car.

What autonomous cars might do is decrease the need for every household to have 2 or more cars.
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JimFive

No, they wouldn't because they wouldn't have free will either. If we have no free will then the world that we see is exactly the world that would exist because this is what we have in that deterministic universe. You can never say "If we had no free will then <something would be different>". If the world is deterministic then this is the world that is determined.
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JimFive

Ok, you're wrong. The mentions of citizen in the constitution revolve around jurisdiction of the courts and eligibility for office. The Bill of Rights doesn't mention citizens at all and the mentions of citizens in the remaining amendments are related to voting rights. Even the 14th amendment says

Which makes it clear that the word person is not limited to citizens. In addition, as others have mentioned, the constitution enumerates (an incomplete list of) rights but does not grant them.
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JimFive

Nothing. When is the last time that protests actually caused a policy shift in the US? 1776? Protests in the 1930's didn't, protests over Vietnam, Occupy? Nothing. The civil rights protests of the 1960's is the only thing that comes to mind and I'm not sure about those.
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JimFive

As I understand it, the actual problem is with group plans in which different aspects of insurance are managed by different entities, e.g. your medical insurance is Blue Cross, your dental is Delta, and your prescriptions are Caremark. The ACA says the individual annual out of pocket maximum is ~$6000, however, Blue Cross, Spectera and Aetna don't know how much the member has paid the other companies because they don't talk to each other. The problem isn't actually technical so much as bureaucratic.
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JimFive

I think it is important to emphasize this. And also to recognize that these are NOT "ride-sharing services", they are taxis. Ride Sharing would not have dedicated drivers taking people places, it would have people going places offering space in a car.
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JimFive

Well, no, marriage has been about property rights and inheritance for a lot longer than it has been religious.

Because along with the benefits of marriage come the responsibilities of marriage. You are agreeing to support the other person for, ideally, the rest of your lives. You are easing the burden on society and society rewards that by giving you a tax break.

By the way, the tax break for being married really only occurs when one person makes a decent amount of money and the other person earns very little. In that case, you are (basically) taxed as if you each made the average which generally puts you into a lower tax bracket. If you both make the same amount of money, or both make a lot of money (even if disparate) then their is no benefit and sometimes a increase in taxes (due to deduction limits) over begin single.
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JimFive

Did you see the story about the Boston parking auction where 2 spaces went for ~$600,000?
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JimFive

I actually like the integrated browser that allows me to swipe to the next feedly story after looking at the website. What I don't like is how slow/laggy the interface is trying to get into the first story.
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JimFive

I may not be understanding your suggestion, but I'm not so sure this would work in an environment that has 1500 practically identical rooms each of which have an identical sink and where leaning forward to look down at and manipulate things (such as a patient) is common.
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JimFive

Removing the gloves (potentially) contaminates the hands, thus you must wash your hands after removing the gloves. (Or, at least, that's the policy at my local hospital)
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JimFive

I just wanted to expand on this a little bit. You enter A's room, wash hands, deal with patient, wash hands to prevent contaminating the door handle with whatever you just picked up from A.
You enter B's room, wash hands to wash off whatever was on the door handle of the last two doors you went through etc...

Policy at our local hospital is to wash hands whenever you remove gloves so this wouldn't really help.

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JimFive

Doesn't it let you send the one bit of information "I have broken the entanglement"? If so, then that would send information faster than light.
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JimFive

This isn't a revenue generating bill. It is not a federal tax being imposed. It is a law requiring businesses engaged in interstate commerce to collect sales taxes for the state of the purchaser.
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JimFive

A single professional earning ~$100,000 with a modest house and no student loans (basically unable to itemize deductions) will pay a combined federal tax (income + SS + Medicare) of right around 30%.
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JimFive