Yes, you can.... everywhere except in the real world. Garbage collection is one of the reasons iOS is much faster than Android on the same hardware.

Probably just less money spent on the roads. When I drive to my girlfriend's parents house, I can see the difference in the roads the instant I cross the border, even though the traffic is pretty much the same on both sides. And we have big ruts in the roads where the big trucks drive, even though few people use studded tires in the winter.

Because encouraging people to drive on bald tires until they explode would just be such a good idea...

And who could possibly have predicted that?

Because puppies and unicorns. It's just NOT FAIR that my $100,000 Tesla should have to pay tax to fund the roads it drives on!

Hint: those ruts aren't caused by studded tires, they're primarily caused by poor road design and big freaking trucks.

Besides which, modern studded tires are increasingly designed to reduce noise and road damage. New Nokians, for example, have studs that retract into the tire when driven on dry asphalt, and they're testing a future design with studs that can be electrically retracted and extended.

Governments only care about money and power. Taxing low MPG vehicles more was just a way to justify increasing taxes because SUVs kill kittens, and nothing to do with 'the environment'.

That's fine, if you want to live in a third-world nation where you can't rely on having power. You know, the kind of place where you can't run a modern, high-tech economy that depends on reliable supplies of electricity.

But then it's pointless, because we do what other third worlders do, and buy a diesel generator.

Maybe, if it stopped, Walmart would have to pay their employees enough to eat.

Just a thought.

Uh, yes, it has. That's why GPU manufacturers often made mid-range cards by putting the same chip on a board with a half-wide memory bus; saves money on RAM, and is significantly slower.

GPUs tend to be more bandwidth-constrained than latency-constrained, as they typically have long pipelines that can hide much of the latency. Though I'm sure you could make them really latency-constrained if you wrote shaders badly.

Yeah, now you just need to get 500W out of that chip that combines a power-hungry AMD CPU with a power-hungry AMD GPU.

Yet there was a scandal in the UK recently when the newspapers discovered some guy had been given a taxi license despite being a convicted rapist and the licensing body knowing he was. There was another a couple of years before that about a taxi driver who'd been picking up hookers and raping them. A few months ago, there was another scandal when newspapers found some women refusing to get in taxis driven by men of a certain persuasion, because they were afraid of being raped.

So, no, that argument doesn't work, either.

How does 'industry regulation' prevent car accidents? When I worked in London, taxis were generally the most dangerous cars on the road; I was almost killed one day by a taxi driver who drove straight across a pedestrian crossing while filling out some paperwork and not looking at the road.

Statists believe everyone is as stupid as they are.

While widespread availbility of narco-yeast seems a bad idea, the only way to prevent it is a global total-surveillance totalitarian state. Which would be far worse.

Most likely the cartels are way ahead of government science in these areas, as they have a ton of money and an eager market.