Because if the database ever gets taken down, it would be a shame if the data is lost forever.

Emissions and road use should be taxed separately.

There will be TSA, there will be baggage checks

Which means simply putting your bag onto a conveyor for it to get x-rayed. No taking off your shoes, no taking out your laptop, no patdowns.

and like airports, HSR train stations will be outside the major cities, no in downtown.

California's stations will be at the Salesforce Transit Center in downtown San Francisco and Union Station right next to downtown Los Angeles. Door to door travel times between the two downtowns will be 3h10m by HSR and 5h20m by air.

I think what's happening there is that, like a nuclear power plant, a coal plant takes so long to spin up and down that it can still be generating electricity while the sun is charging the batteries.

The storage that is portrayed as emission free is sometimes actually using cheap fossil fuel power to charge the batteries

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Yes, nuclear advocates usually won't tell you this but load-following is more important than baseload.

And the solution that upgrades both baseload and intermittent sources like solar and wind into load-following is the same: more grid storage!

We don't need a patchwork of 50+ regimes creating compliance nightmares... Imagine when the internet was getting started if every state was regulating content in a different way?

Then we would have 50 small startups instead of one big one!

And don't forget the startups that would be formed to navigate that patchwork, similar to the way sales tax compliance companies work, or income tax filing companies. This must be a good thing because the IRS has shut down the Direct File program.

So what's the downside?

Because many of the parts are made in China so they are no longer cheap, and because much of our labor force has been deported!

The US government hasn't ever tried to replace the $1 bill with a coin, only to add a $1 coin into circulation alongside the $1 bill.

Stop printing the $1 bill and I guarantee you that the $1 coin will take off.

Vending machines also do this. In fact, they do it so well that you don't even realize you're paying taxes on your purchase.

Bills are cheaper to make than coins. They also aren't a pain in the ass to carry as they easily fit in my wallet.

So you'd rather have 25 cent bills? 1 cent bills also? Please tell me you're joking.

Monopolies, including those on repair services, are anti-capitalist. Making the purchaser/licensee of a product agree to pay a monopoly for repair, whether the product itself is a monopoly or not, is very similar to voluntary slavery which most libertarians consider to be a contradiction in terms.

Trains won't replace planes for 1000 mile trips but they will for 500 mile trips!

The GOP created this mess, and they put the Democrats in a no-win hostage situation.

It's literally a life-or-death situation because people will die without the ACA subsidies. I don't know how the GOP expects to win against people who are motivated to save lives. They've cornered the tiger but now what?

Critics, including some big names in Hollywood, argue that motion smoothing looks unnatural

As someone who loves watching things shot in 60p, I agree that motion smoothing looks unnatural when the pans are motion-smoothed and everything else is left alone. It breaks my suspension of disbelief when it doesn't all look the same, either 24p or 60p, it doesn't matter which.

So I don't think the high framerate "soap opera effect" is the issue, I think it's the crappy realtime conversion.