A lot of people like you said Waymo would never be able drive within a city without killing people. You were lying then, and youâ(TM)re lying now.

There should be a way to overrule moronic judges.

Also, it is bringing to the forefront a long running battle that is waging in academia. Students have all been taught from a very young age that if they work hard, get themselves prepared, strive for and achieve excellent grades that they will get into the best colleges (i.e. the concept of meritocracy, where those that put in all the work and have the gifts for excelling in academic study and life would be rewarded for their efforts by being able to get into the highest rated colleges).

Yes, a lot of the students who are able to achieve and excel academically may also be from a more "privileged" background once you start mixing in things like social-economic backgrounds, family backgrounds, and even location. These are things that are hard to dismiss, especially in a public education system which has guidelines and mandates to educate the whole population, not just those who have excelled. This is the biggest clash that then occurs because you have a limited resource (i.e. the number of spots for students), which must somehow be divided out in some reasonable way. Things like standardized tests tended to do a good job at predicting who was academically prepared, and was one of the reasons those tests were created. Comparing the grading curves of different schools, teachers, and even students against one another is almost impossible without lots of additional information that the college selection committees simply do not have and don't have the time to research. The standardized tests provided some of that information.

Not really. The UC system has way more applicants than it can accept, and it has been that way for decades. As such, they already know they have the "income stream" that is "nice and healthy".

What this really means is that the UC system is doing a much worse job then they previously did in "selecting" the students into their system that are ready to meet the requirements without needing remedial math and writing.

In other words, the UC system changed how they were selecting people for acceptance, and the metrics of tracking the need for these remedial courses by a much larger percentage of the incoming students are showing that their current selection criteria is doing a worse job of picking out students who are academically ready for the standards of the UC system at the time of their selection/acceptance.

All transactions will be done using $Trumpcoin -- two birds, one scam - I mean, stone - and all that. :-)

Show me the how you can create a system where the price totals of all possible combinations of inventory selections result in only (3 or 4) mod 5.

Several articles have noted that pennies will remain exchangeable for the foreseeable future and legal currency forever. So people in the U.S. should be able to use them up / get rid of them (through payments) eventually.

The Treasury and trade/retail groups are looking at guidelines and/or legislation for a national standard on transaction rounding. The latter to protect themselves from potential state lawsuits from rounding short-changes (last paragraph below).

US Mint to strike last penny as Trump’s phaseout rattles retailers

People need to consider: Rounding to a nickle isn't going to be greater than 2 cents more inaccurate than rounding to pennies. Let's say you live in a backwater state, and still only make $7.25 per hour. Each transaction could potentially cost you at most 10 seconds of extra wages. However, transactions randomly round up and down, so the average error gets reduced by the square root of the number of transactions you make. Statistically speaking, you'll gain or lose only a couple of seconds of your time per purchase. Probably less time than it took to fumble for all those pennies.

But it sucks to be poor. Without pennies, someone who makes $50k per year will gain or lose only milliseconds worth of salary per transaction on average.

"But the stores will set prices so that it always rounds up!!!!1!" -- That only works for one item at most. Savvy shoppers would strategically buy combinations of items that always round down.

California, however, still favors it heavily, and is doubling down on it.

In a few years, all of these GPUs will be available on eBay for a few bucks each.

Then I'll finally be able to snag a whole bunch of them and build a Beowulf cluster to run SETI@home faster than anybody else.

Joke's on them, I'll just put my outgoing mail in boxes. :-)

Just to nit-pick... (a) Ryanair doesn't have any flights in the U.S. (according to Google) and (b) there are procedures available to fly within the U.S. w/o a Real ID, and other forms of ID are also acceptable (also listed on page below), like a valid passport or DOD ID.

Acceptable Identification at the TSA Checkpoint

I'd be more surprised if it was some other kind of flare from the Sun.

Immediately kicking people out of their in-progress reservations doesn't seem like winding down. No mentions of compensation for any inconvenience Sonder imposed on their now-former guests either.