That’s the end result of car centric infrastructure. The bad drivers couldn’t afford to pay the full rates they would be charged. If you kick 10-20% of the population off the road, that is a whole lot of people siddenly unable to work

That many people suddenly stopping working would destroy the only thing Americans truly value - shareholder profits

We have no alternatives to driving. As such the worst drivers you’ve ever seen will continue to drive by necessity

Nearly every human on earth would be in that category. The whole basis of human knowledge is that we take the knowledge of others and build upon it

The dash you used is neither an en dash nor an em dash. It’s a regular dash, which is much more commonly used since it’s on a standard keyboard

Vigilante justice is NEVER acceptable. Until someone has been justly tried, and convicted they innocent in the eyes of the law. Period, and no exception.

Devil’s advocate: Judicial systems throughout history have had varying levels of success. If a person repeatedly commits murder and is not held to account by the justice system, is it not acceptable for someone to kill them? The net result would be lives saved

There have been many instances throughout history where a person repeatedly commits unspeakable crimes, but is guaranteed immunity from whatever justice system exists in their society. Do you think it’s entirely unacceptable for them to receive vigilante justice?

Millions of North Koreans suffer and die under the Kim regime. If a vigilante were to assassinate him, millions of lives would be saved. Do you still contend it is unacceptable to do so? Keep in mind, everything Kim Jong Un has done is perfectly legal under the North Korean judicial system

If you question that interpretation of the result, let’s invoke Godwin’s Law. If one of the early assassination attempts on Hitler had been successful, WW2 could have been avoided (or at least made far more one-sided), saving tens of millions of lives. Would vigilante justice have still been unacceptable to you?

Seems incredibly amoral to state it’s preferable to allow a genocide than to extra-judicially murder the one perpetuating the genocide

I had a couple classes in college where the grade was 8% homework, 42% midterm, and 42% final exam. Feels a bit more balanced

I think we should also be adjusting the criteria we use for grading. Information accuracy should be weighted far more heavily, and spelling/grammar being de-prioritized. AI can correct bad spelling and grammar, but it’s terrible for information accuracy

When I did those tests, checking your ears was a required step. Plenty of other subtle ways to communicate though

Easy enough to put notes or a phone on the backside of your monitor. Pearson doesn’t check there during their room scans

Source: Took dozens of exams through them

I would argue there are at least 3 classes:

• The impoverished class that makes their living from the charity of others

• The working class that makes their living from their labor

• The ownership class that makes their living from owning things

If that were the case I’d have spent thousands on Linux by now T.T

Didn’t they do that a long time ago? I remember ~10 years ago Microsoft had a big push to get all SDEs to become SDETs. I think that was just before their push to make devs into DevOps

AI companies are more insulated from quarterly returns due to being private companies, and not being expected to have any profit, or even revenue growth

The only thing investors are looking for are user growth, and increase in AI capabilities. The second KPI being difficult to objectively measure

The How Money Works video was decent, but I was annoyed he showed the Apple cash on hand chart without mentioning they peaked at ~100B, and the contracts we’re talking about are in hundreds of billions

Microsoft, for example, has about 100B in cash on hand. Their total liabilities have gone from about 2x their cash to 3x, which is effectively doubling the leverage

When you think about that additional debt in absolute terms, it’s huge. Historically companies wouldn’t be able to get to that level of debt simply because they lacked the cash to do so

I had a similar issue with a Windows laptop recently

Trump literally owns the country club for elites

What’s with these top union people being so blatantly stupid, näive and gullible?

I don’t see that at all. He knows exactly what he’s doing: Selling out the union for his own gain. It’s not incompetence – it’s greed

That’s a good point, didn’t even consider that. EVs have really fast acceleration, despite being heavier

While those are all contributing factors, I’d argue cars getting bigger has added two additional major factors:

1. Impacts are far more likely to be deadly due to the higher hood height knocking the victim to the asphalt/concrete, rather than them going over the hood

2. Higher hood heights have far less visibility, giving less time to react, if the driver sees the victim at all

Combine that with people generally being distracted by smartphones, and we get the current situation

It’s hard because people are addicted to their phones. Tech companies have spent billions making social media as addictive as possible. Americans also have no other choice of transportation. If you want to go somewhere, you generally must drive

There are probably several factors. I doubt there are as many people using a smartphone while driving in other countries. If someone wants to sit on their phone while commuting elsewhere, they can walk or take the train/bus/subway. In the US, you have to drive no matter what

The drivers being on their phones is a major contributor, I’d imagine