Even if studios agree to it when AI gets good enough that a couple of people can make a full movie in days those studios that did agree are closing. Setup a new studio in a non-California state or even non-US local and churn out movies without this union tax. You would need federal level protections for actors and then every single industry would want their protections. Going to be a wild time as AI keeps progressing.

From the report: "In 2020, the University of California Board of Regents, against the advice of the report by the Academic Senate’s Standardized Testing Task Force (STTF), voted to eliminate the SAT and ACT from admissions consideration. Beginning with the cohort entering in 2021, standardized test scores were no longer used in the admissions process. The decision aimed to broaden the applicant pool, based on concerns that otherwise qualified students were deterred from applying by standardized testing requirements. The number of applicants from California to the UC system did grow from 99,156 in 2020 to 116,805 in 2024, an increase of 18 percent (see Figure 4). The elimination of standardized testing resulted in more reliance on high school grades even though the STTF report notes the worrisome trend of grade inflation in many schools that had already been substantial in 2020.5 During COVID, grade inflation and lowered standards in California high schools likely accelerated. The disruption created by COVID made it very difficult to objectively evaluate students. Many classes moved from letter grade to pass/fail for that period, and teachers often felt compelled to lower grading standards in acknowledgement of students’ special challenges.6"

The original sentence says "like this one" It is clearly referencing itself as a horrible run on sentence with bad grammar.

Training != Copying. But I repeat myself.

It wasn't maintenance it was repair. Repairing Teslas is really expensive due to lack of parts availability and some of the repairs needing to be done in-house by tesla mechanics, etc. https://www.motortrend.com/new... If the vehicles were built by a normal manufacturer those would not be real issues. The issues with semis right now is all the new fancy electronics and systems used to make them cleaner keep breaking which means they sit at dealers forever. An EV Semi would not have any of those problems - although they might present new problems.

They had a rollout schedule but it was way too aggressive compared to where the technology is right now. The number of electric semis on US roads right now is in the low 100s and the growth of that number is very slow. Not because of lack of interest but lack of availability. The current version of Telsa semi might be able to directly replace 10% of trucks right now without a loss of efficiency. That's a lot of Trucks but still a small portion of the capabilities ultimately needed. Right now range is a problem, charge time is a problem, weight is a problem (if your truck is heavier you haul less weight in the trailer - assuming your hauling something heavy and not amazon boxes), etc. These will hopefully all be solved overtime but not on the timeline CA had.

I am more interested in how the shop worker got access to checked bags at an airport. And knew exactly which one had electronics in it. If the owner gate checked the bag, there would be no record of it going through a scanner at the departure airport. Luggage coming off the plane and going to The luggage carousel presumably is not x-rayed unless it's an international flight. How did she know that that bag had electronics in it, and who gave her access to get the bag?

Yup. They proved that fingerprints from different fingers from the same person are highly similar. And with some accuracy, an AI model can determine if two fingerprints came from the same person but different fingers. There is nothing in the study about the absolute uniqueness of an individual fingers fingerprint.

As Chris Rock said: Tax bullets. Make them prohibitively expensive for anyone to buy lots of them but law enforcement.

How do you prevent scammers from saying they are a victim of DV and want this phone number given to them. They already try to swap the phone line to a new sim by calling the phone companies and making up stuff. It would seem that this process would be easier now. I am all for making this easier for the victims but I don't want to make new identity theft easier either.

Can the FTC fix gym membership cancellation too? Last time I had to physically send a letter to get my membership cancelled. Couldn't do it at the gym or online or by phone.

Telsa beta has brought them up to where Waymo was around 2016. Waymo has just recently started trips with no safety drivers in a very small area. I dont foresee Tesla leapfrogging 4 years of Waymo development in the next 12 months. If you watch videos of Teslas beta you will see some very scary driving. Even Waymo still has issues in their small heavily mapped area in phoenix. We are years away from the true summon a car from somewhere miles away without heavy limitations on the starting/ending point.

Yeah i dont call this a successful landing then. The rocket isn't reusable. Its the equivalent of the falcon 9 hitting the drone ship, falling over and exploding. Both rockets are equally reusable at that point. But I wish them well. Making space cheaper is going to be a good thing. Took space-x a lot of trys to perfect the landing.

Exactly. I run Ublock but then the page doesnt work at all. So then I have to customize ublock for this specific webpage to get it to work right. Which would be ok if I went to the same sites every day except I am usually reading stories from google news which links to some random news website. A simple make whatever has been rendered static now button would be a wonderful thing.

Can I get this but just for a single webpage? After the page quickly loads the text I want to read I would love to just stop loading the videos, ads, etc that keep screwing up my browsing experience while I attempt to read the words on the page. That kind of pause button would actually make me consider switching to a new browser.