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Comment Re:Maybe stick to the speed limit? (Score 1) 162

Driver response time doesn't increase at all. The rest of stopping distance is determined by physics and doesn't increase much, at least not in good conditions where any old tire and any sufficiently strong brake is going to perform about the same. It CAN decrease a lot in bad conditions, whcih is also where most of the technology is useful, but most speed limits are set for good conditions with a law that says you should decrease your speed appropriately. Driving around at the speed that's reasonable for the worst possible conditions would really drive people nuts.

Comment You have no IP address. Your neighborhood does. (Score 0) 29

How are you going to host a game server on a home computer if you share your IPv4 address with other subscribers to the same ISP in the same neighborhood,[1] and the combined modem and router that your home ISP requires all subscribers to use lacks an option for port forwarding? Both of these are true, for example, of T-Mobile US Home Internet.

[1] Many home ISPs apply carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) to conserve IPv4 addresses since the worldwide exhaustion.

Comment Re:could have been different? (Score 1) 171

Nah, AWS provides logistics to military and intelligence and has for quite a while.

It's tough to argue, "these aren't military targets, we just rent the equipment and provide services to the military for hundreds of billions of dollars."

Which is probably what people will argue.

Comment "To keep up with inflation"? (Score 1) 42

Do they only have to state a reason or does somebody have to adjudicate whether that reason is validly "justified"? We have a Public Utilities Commission here that pretends to do such things.

Or is this one of these, "you can't know, so try it and a judge will tell you what the law was" sort of things?

Maybe somebody who understands Italian jurisprudence can clarify their theory of law.

Comment Re:They were expecting what exactly? (Score 1) 106

It's easy enough to go the other way. Pickups and SUVs are the most popular vehicles among American boomers, generation X and millennials. The Zs seem to like smaller cars, but they're also 14-29 so we'll see if that commitment hangs on when most of them have been bending over to stick kids in car seats for a while.

boomers have all the power right now in the U.S.

You guys insist on forgetting you're a democracy, for a little longer anyway. You don't command 49% of the vote by only appealing to a single generation, particularly when it's the second smallest one.

Blaming dead people is completely unproductive.

Blaming people is unproductive. Almost as unproductive as just blaming people who aren't you. Human beings have an enormous capacity to ignore big remote problems in favour of their small proximate problems. When you were born doesn't have much to do with that. Solutions have to recognize and address that basic fact. "Oh woe is me, the boomers are awful, if only poor us who are 80% of the eligble voters weren't so dominated by them" doesn't do anything but piss off the old flower power hippies driving around in their Cadillacs.

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