Ads? Never saw that many, now I only see ONE on the page at all.

Guess you haven't heard of Brave and are still being tracked all over the internet,then.

Pretty sure that all taxes are paid by humans in one form or another, I don't think robots are paying taxes yet. Sure you can tax a corporation, but you are just indirectly taxing the shareholders, and they are people too.

You vastly overestimate the taxation capacity of the economy. Go read the fed's papers on optimal taxation and you will see that the US is close to the optimal rate right now. The theory of optimal taxation is to maximize tax collections over time. Sure you can raise taxes a lot right now, but if you do that people stop investing and you lose future taxes. Optimal taxation theory shows how to maximize the combination of current and future taxes.

Since we are sitting pretty close to the optimal number currently, we need to reprioritize spending, not just spend more. Spending more simply increases the debt. Increasing the debt increases interest expense. And the more the government spends on interest, the less it can spend on other priorities.

You need to consider the currencies. The Romans had metals based hard currencies. Try doing this with a fiat currency like the USD and you'll be toting wheelbarrow loads of cash to the grocery store. Look at what is happening in Iran right now with loss of confidence in the currency, 56% inflation in a month.

Total government spending federal, state, local in total is around $10T with $7T of that being federal spending. There are 133 million households in the USA. Now divide. That works out to $75,000 per household per year in government spending. The US median household income is $83,000.

Does anyone really think we need more government spending? Maybe the problem is that the existing spending is not being effectively utilized.

What happens when interest expense exceeds 50% of tax collections? The U.S. government's interest expense consumes a significant chunk of its revenue, recently reaching around 19% of all federal revenue in FY 2025, with projections suggesting it could rise to 27% by 2035. Maybe we can support all of that debt, but we won't have any more government spending programs.

Read the click-bait article carefully. They are not saying real ID is unreliable, they are saying a real ID card can be forged. When there is suspicion of a forged document it can take longer to verify its authenticity.

Well, that isn't too hot. My kiln, in my barn, was running a firing last night that got just about that hot for cone 6 pottery and it can do cone 10, even hotter.

It'll take more than a furnace that can do what the average potter's kiln can do before it sounds impressive.

That has actually been proposed but the physics of it don't work. To make the cable strong enough to resist the extremely high winds it becomes too heavy to get it up the mountain side.

Many commenters don't understand how dangerous the trash removal is. There are human bodies near the summit which haven't been removed.

After a little research drones are likely the answer. They already have them working up to 20,000ft. With more R&D it is possible to make drones which work at the summit and still have lift capacity. Many people are already flying camera drones at the summit.

Pay to have extra sherpas bring up balloons with bags. The balloons have built in thermal source to heat them enough to loft them (or use some other scheme). Launch waste balloons when the wind in the right direction for them to float to the lower elevations. Pay the locals to retrieve them and dispose of the trash. It is slow process but over time it can reduce the waste near the top. Might even be able to optimize with a radio command to drop immediately when over the right area; radio command pops the balloon. These aren't toy balloons. Use balloon which can loft 30-40lb.

This will be cloned in China before they even ship it. Is it for sale on Aliexpress yet?

Pointless link to a paywalled article.

Ah - yes, I did misread it. Jobs did push people and created the Reality Distortion Field, but he could not have gotten much going without Woz.

And, yes, I was talking about Woz' accomplishments.

Some of his logic designs were amazing. I was learning digital logic when I got my //e and started studying schematics. (The //e was a generation removed, but had some features from the ][ series and I studied those as well.) For one example, the ][ disk drive. Just as a quick and simple example, he had a 7400 chip needed and used 1 ro 2 of the NAND gates on it. He used the other gates as amplifiers from the disk signal. Not something that was at all standard at that time (don't know if it is now). That's the one I can remember, but he was using ONE gate as an amp instead of at least one, if not three more chips. Things like that kept the costs down more than most would think.

I can't remember other examples, but his habits of having to keep chip counts down, so he could make what he wanted when his family didn't have a lot of money, came through in a number of ways in his designs.

Hmmm...

That's being a little bit harsh.

He sold *new* cars! ;)