Or we can aggressively issue fines for obstructing a public right of way, and add a stipulation that the fine doubles each time. By the 20th occurrence, you can almost guarantee they will have gotten the message.

We should just let AI regulate itself.

Given its stellar job on everything so far, I'm sure that will work out great!

Yes, you'd get a different answer because you're asking someone commuting on a subway about high speed rail, which is something different altogether.

You'd probably get a different answer if you asked someone on a private plane too. And you'll possibly be surprised to learn that private planes aren't high speed rail either.

I get that the US has never had HSR and most people are unfamiliar with it, but FFS, you're on the internet so you should at least be able to google it and learn what it is before ranting about unrelated things.

We sort-of did that where I live, actually. Federal government announcement for near a billion dollars for HSR, connecting several major cities. State was on board with it. Most of the people in the state were excited about it. Initial design was unveiled. Then a republican governor gets elected, turns down the federal funds because trains are socialist or something, and the funding goes to another state for another project.

I think the official line was that the state might have to pay to maintain it in the future, and there was no guarantee that it would be profitable enough to cover the costs. But we can bail out the struggling sports teams, and help them rebuild their stadiums. Which would actually be served by the fucking line in question, potentially allowing more of the state to easily access their games.

I'm looking at a concert 4+ hrs away that's happening soon that I absolutely would like to go to. But there's just no way I can afford the travel time. If we had that rail line, it would be doable. I could leave after work, get there in time for dinner and a concert, spend the night, hop the first train in the morning, and be back in time for work.

This discussion is about high speed rail. Why are you talking about jet lag and commuter trains?

It's clear you've never actually been on a high speed train, because everything you're complaining about is unrelated. That's not how they go in the real world.

What's your motivation to throw a fit on the internet about something completely off topic?

No, they are not safe. Tons of data exists in the world that contains characters that CSV files can't handle. Like commas. I have a vendor that insists on CSV files, and they sent me one just the other week which had commas in address lines.

You can imagine how well Excel handled that.

In addition, CSV can't handle metadata, and lots of data needs that extra information to interpret it correctly.

It did not take $170k to get your kid through college.

You chose to pay $170k to get your kid through college at the place you decided was OK for them to attend, despite needing to pay for high living expenses and a car.

That was your choice. It was not a requirement. There are thousands of schools in the US you could have chosen that would have been cheaper.

If people like yourself keep coughing up that sort of money, why wouldn't they keep charging it? You are absolutely part of the problem.

IDK who wrote this summary, but it's spastic and incoherent.

Yeah, if you're eating your own dogfood, it's not working.

I disagree. This doesn't have to be set in stone, never to be changed. Pick something and have a plan to revisit and revise.

I think the mistake of most people planning action in any area, but especially in politics, is not setting out clear goals and reasons for the action, and not setting up a system to monitor and revise the action if it's not meeting the intended goals.

Thanks for telling us you're a fucking idiot. However, it wasn't necessary.

Here are some things you can read to educate yourself so you don't repeat this mistake about this particular subject:

1,000 rounds fired at Canadian weather balloon failed to pop it
This one was 200 feet tall, and carrying a load the size of a medium airliner

We're talking about downing something the size of a skyscraper, not some kid's birthday balloon.

Around my area they're still using personal vans and the occasional budget rent-a-truck for deliveries. Less than during the christmas rush, but still about once a day I see a non-amazon marked vehicle making amazon deliveries.

Them just using a more modern amazon van would be an improvement around here.

I actually kind-of doubt this, because it ignores a ton of complexity that exists in business.

First you have to realize that the C* folks in a lot of places are highly resistant to institutional change. They got where they are now often not taking huge risks, but instead just iterating on old, outdated, inefficient things. "I'm not going to risk our Q3 and Q4 goals just so you can run your stupid little AI experiment!"

So it will take time for this to break into established companies. Sure, some of the major tech companies will blow a couple hundred million on a new wing of AI stuff, but if the ROI isn't there, and it won't be right away, that's going to give a lot of other companies pause.

Where this will happen is in startups. They're absolutely going to get VC money to play this game. But again, there will be more successes than failures, because that's what startups are. That's going to look less than appealing to a lot of middle sized companies.

Where AI shines first is going to be automating trivial shit. It already can do this a bit. Who does trivial shit? Junior developers.

So I see the IT jobs going away first as the junior dev ones, and that's going to suck for this generation of college kids. But that also reduces the pipeline of folks in IT, and as the senior devs retire, it may will INCREASE wages, if there just aren't enough bodies with real world experience to replace them.

The question in my mind is if AI can develop programming chops at a rate where it can do the same or better work for cheaper than a junior dev. If AI can, we're going to cut off our nose to spite our face with it. If AI can't, then it's going to find niches where it works great, but lots of areas where humans at least need to hold its hand, if not do the work themselves. At least for a long damn time.

Well, the entire premise was "lets desecrate the sacred places and rob the cultural artifacts of another culture", and I don't see that playing as well today as it did 30 years ago.

Around the world we're at a much different place with regards to looting other cultures for profit at this point. We're seeing huge shifts towards returning and repatriating lands and items that were stolen through colonialism.

I wonder how they can make an engaging movie around this concept, and not run into either widespread protest about their cultural insensitivity, or turning it into an overly woke hammer of "this is why it's bad to loot other cultures". If I were to guess, they'll probably figure out how to do both at the same time.

You can do that at any job now, so why would Uber be different?

And like any job now, if you show up and don't do anything, you will get fired. Again, why would Uber be any different?

You seem to be absolutely missing the point here.

The money already exists. Society has it. The issue is *who* in society has it, and what they're doing with it.

If you 100% socialized the US, if you took all of the wealth in the US and gave everyone an equal share of it, the average american would have 2x as much wealth as they have now. That is absolutely bonkers.

Trillions of dollars have been extracted from the economy and stockpiled by the 1%. If you give the average person twice as much money, they're going to spend a lot of it. And that absolutely supercharges the economy. This is how the Fed gets us out of recessions - you hand out stimulus checks, people go spend the money, that reinforces jobs to provide goods and services, keeps businesses afloat, and everything gets better.

The issue is that right now this is done through deficit spending, not wealth redistribution.

Your hand wringing about post-war German economics is fucking stupid. It has almost nothing to do with our modern economy or the entrapment of trillions of dollars by the 1%.