You can trust America will make this as convoluted as possible and absolutely not crib of any of the number of countries who already do this. I don't expect any american business to actually round if its legal to ceil(sale) and keep the change, but I could see them auto donating it to one of their personal charities. Then somehow benefiting from a write off.

None of this is hard, but it is additional work. People imagine oh the prices will all be 1.05 1.10 and so on, but in reality you want something to be 4.00 at the register the price will be 3.66 and when you raise the price to 4.76 the price really needs to be 4.79 to hit the Nickle. And if your going through all that trouble why even bother discounting anything to the real price for people paying with methods that can go down to the penny.

Long way of saying the law will need to catch up as it did in Canada so that you have some guarantee everyone is doing it the same.

Our non inclusive sales tax setups are going to make things complicated. Lots of places have like 8.5% or 8.25% tax rates. Presumably it's simple to amend the laws, but I just have never thought out the process of well the cost of something is $1.00 and that is $1.0825 so we say 1.08, credit cards make this easy in cash you have to give me $1.10 is that 2c profit? I mean it would add up over an entire day. Should that then be subject to sales tax, who pays the sales tax on the $2.00 in 2c over charges you gained for the day.

I am not advocating for the penny, but I do think some details in the process have to be changed to allow it.

Who would ever need more then 381 x 381 km?

I love the fact he has another comic on the phrase "In five years"

https://xkcd.com/678/

I personally, think they should stay in the same place they currently are, so its easier to associate where the camera feeds are coming from, but maybe thats me just being used to what I'm used to.

The big deal is that most days I can't even see my backup camera display either some random glare spot is created by the sun shining through any of the windows in my vehicle or this display is simply to dim to begin with. So, I can't imgine this going main stream unless the displays were either Mini CRTs or some decent replacement came out that could provide enough light to be useful in the day.

I have a hard time carrying if an AI can beat me in a game unless its an AI that receives its video feed over camera feeds of the game play and then mechanically moves the mouse and keyboard to play. Maybe they are frame scanning directly to the AI, but still need to simulate input delays with more then a stochastic timer.

I also find this interesting. Still the most recent results in the field are very promising.

Agreed

I think this is a regional difference. Where I am all plugs are stacked on top of each other not side by side. So that Samsung design is Perfect. Compare that to an old DC Wall wart where you can't plug it in the top plug with out blocking the bottom plug.

Power strips come in both orientations so as a designer your screwed. Thing that really bugs me about that article is his complaint about the apple charger. When it has a removable plug adapter so you can plug an extension cord in to it. We can make fun of it catching on fire, fraying and all the other things the design does, but plug ability isn't one of them.

This just seamed like a excuse to rant.

I see this confusion all the time. Everything people complain about is the returning to "Normal Time".

Honestly, the most expensive part of DST is the modern debates about keeping DST. Computers handle the rest on most clocks by now and you hardly need to worry about it.

This man needs props

Not to mention Sharper Image lost court cases about fraudulent claims.

http://www.latimes.com/health/...

This was a feature on my Mint Laptop last winter when my car heater went out.

Consensus is in. Billions of Clock Cycles and Billions of Transistors can't be wrong. Clearly Earth is rare!

Well, if they can't make money off it anymore we will gladly accept it uploaded to git hub.

good luck proving this isn't true.