Executions are not murder. Why? There was a trial.

So executions are not unethical when they are approved by a government. I would be very, very careful with that line of reasoning.

in some neighbourhoods the wait time actually increases along with the surge price increase.

It makes sense that neighborhoods with a relative oversupply of drivers would see their wait times increase, approaching the wait times in neighborhoods with higher demand.

In San Francisco when they implemented surge pricing for parking, prices went up in some neighborhoods and down in others. But prices on average fell.

To return to the old version:

1. Go to maps.google.com
2. Click on the ? icon in the lower right corner
3. Click "return to classic Google Maps"

But there doesn't seem to be a way to make it permanent.

I wonder if they've considered adding airbags to help cushion the fall, protect the rocket from water damage, and provide flotation?

At the local level [churches are] exempt from property taxes.

So they don't have to pay for street lights, sidewalk repair, police and fire protection, things like that. That's one good reason to replace property taxes with fees. (Another is to prevent property taxes from causing financial hardship for people on fixed incomes.)

The brine won't kill anything if it's sufficiently disbursed.

So should someone who steals $2 million and a kid who steals a pencil sharpener both be given the same jail sentence?

Yes. Return what you stole and stay in your room until you've learned your lesson.

Maybe a full analysis was done and a round number close to the optimal number was selected.

That also happens to be a power of 10? There's only a 1 in 10 chance of that happening in real life, so that's not likely.

On the other hand why mandate when a number has to be reexamined? If inflation is low it could be quite a while before needed.

Someday the number will need to be raised, so why not plan for the inevitable?

Round numbers are easy to remember and deal with.

That's true, but other than criminals, who needs to memorize how much a person can deposit before it gets reported?

[The number is too low] When too many transactions get reported and the investigation teams get swamped.

That's an objective metric, certainly better than picking a number out of thin air as the first one appears to have been. Maybe they should write that into the law and also that the number must be re-determined periodically so it's never too high nor too low.

So instead of fixing the algorithm, they wrote a new law making it illegal to exploit the algorithm.

That's your federal government at work!

What's so magical about the $10,000 number?

Laws have to be black and white.

That still doesn't explain why $10,000 is a better number than $9,999 or $10,001. The fact that it's a suspiciously round number suggests negligence on the part of whoever wrote the law.

If inflation causes the number to be too low they can change the law.

How would you know whether the number is too low? Why wasn't that same mechanism used to help write the law long ago when the cost of making changes to the law was much lower?

Lets not go too far into this specific case. It is just an example of how knowing an algorithm can facilitate gaming the system.

You're partially correct. It's an example of how knowing a poorly designed algorithm can facilitate gaming the system.