Comment ATC traffic should be interesting (Score 1) 120
I predict a distinct change in the tone and content of ATC radio instructions. Use of the gamer word will skyrocket.
Comment Re:Taken too far (Score 1) 132
Step 1: Make a lot of crimes, such that everyone is at least technically a criminal
Step 2: Stop enforcing the laws against traditional property crimes (theft, vandalism, burglary, etc)
Step 3: Propose cameras, claiming to use them to solve crime problem. People rejoice
Step 4: Use cameras to catch all those crimes you made in step 1. Continue to fail to enforce laws against traditional property crimes.
Step 5: Put on trollface, ask citizens who are being fined and jailed and having guns stuck in their face "We're catching criminals, isn't that what you wanted?"
Comment How shocking (Score 5, Insightful) 100
Comment Nutritionsts always trying to restrict good things (Score 2) 70
Protein intake increases thermogenesis. This FGF21 is probably being released when protein is low because more body heat is needed when digestion and absorption aren't producing it, but we know protein-rich diets result in more total thermogenesis.
Comment Re:Just make up the numbers (Score 1) 330
Make that
Comment Just make up the numbers (Score 1) 330
In 2016, there were 6080 pedestrian deaths in the US. In 2017, there were 7080. Ascribing all 1000 of those additional deaths, plus another 2000 that presumably wouldn't have been happened, isn't credible.
I suppose what they did is make themselves a toy model which related hood height to deaths, then applied said model to actual hood heights to come up with a number. Basically assuming what they wanted to prove.
Comment Re:Harbinger of a future SCOTUS case (Score 1) 295
It's a state matter; SCOTUS isn't going to take it.
Comment Re:Texas, here they come! (Score 1) 295
False. While the ballot measure does not impose an annual wealth tax, it authorizes the legislature to implement one without further voter approval. It also lets the legislature set the rate and the floor.
Comment Re:The Rubber Hits The Road NOW. (Score 1) 295
The wealth tax on Brin would amount to 67%, because it goes by percentage of voting shares or percentage of ownership, whichever is greater. I assume something similar would apply to Page, who also holds Alphabet class B shares. Of course they're going to avoid that.
Comment Indeed, how? (Score 1) 95
"Who would have thought that school buses would be turned into the mass surveillance state?,"
As soon as they heard about the cameras? EVERYBODY.
Comment AI is getting out of control (Score 0) 159
The original article was written with AI and it shows.
Comment Re:"Have you said thank you once?" (Score 1) 364
The US tends to import heavy sour crude and export light sweet crude. We have the refining capacity for heavy sour, which is more capital and energy intensive, so that works out economically. We have extra heavy refining capacity now because in January Dos Bocas went on line in Mexico, so Mexico can now refine more heavy and export more lucrative refined products. Fortunately for US refiners, we also got a new source of crude (very heavy and sour) when we "liberated" Venezuela.
In general, the heavier and more sour the crude, the harder it is to refine; if the US suddenly had an excess of light sweet and a shortage of heavy sour, US refineries could still handle it.
Comment Re:The Batcave's Trump Million-Dollar Coin Exhibit (Score 4, Funny) 364
Comment Re:Protection for the oligopoly (Score 1) 63
And not sell any routers because to have a sufficiently American supply chain they'd cost 4-10x as much and be unavailable in quantity (the domestic suppliers for the relevant components are pretty low-volume because they only exist to support the military)