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- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days ago:
There’s also the very important concept of a capital gains tax. Why does their income from stock sales get to be taxed at a special low rate, as if it weren’t income? That’s ridiculous
We’d go a long way toward evening it out just by deciding
- income is income. No special categories of income for the wealthy
- when your company or trust spends money on your personal life, that’s also income
- tax brackets keep going. They don’t even have to be specially high, but why does it top out so early?
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 2 days ago:
- Comment on Swiss Experiment Will Place Solar Panels Between Train Tracks 3 days ago:
It’s great to explore if it didn’t cost anything. Since someone needs to spend money, they do need to use some judgement.
Technically there’s no reason this can’t function, but practically this is highly sus. The only benefit would be to save a little land, but it’s hard to see any likelihood if it being worthwhile
- Comment on Swiss Experiment Will Place Solar Panels Between Train Tracks 3 days ago:
At the cost of making any maintenance harder, creating a very long layout so no likelihood of redundant connections, and putting breakable objects in a high impact zone
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
caranddriver.com/…/car-windows-glass-aaa-unbreaka…
a rule the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) passed in 2011. It’s known as Ejection Mitigation, and it requires a combination of side airbag curtains and stronger windows to keep occupants inside the car during a rollover.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
Or they could try a front door, which is much more straightforward
- Comment on The Amazon Echo graveyard 2 weeks ago:
Those look great but a physical timer doesn’t label which timer is which nor is it available throughout the house. Why shouldn’t i see my laundry timer when I’m in the kitchen or my kitchen timer when I’m in the family room?
While I wish for a home solution, nothing matches my Apple Watch. Voice response. Any number of timers. Timers are named. Timers go with me everywhere
- Comment on The Amazon Echo graveyard 2 weeks ago:
I also really liked the wall clock but definitely too limited feature.
I still have the wall clock but never use it. My biggest complaint is that it is tied to one echo and it must be in Bluetooth range if it, but I want my timer visible throughout the house.
It’s easier and more convent to use my watch or phone
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 2 weeks ago:
Wait until your furnace dies and see if it was closer to ten years or to 25 years?
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 2 weeks ago:
Right it’s just a radiator shape filled with an oil to circulate heat.
- no combustion
- no hot surfaces
- more consistent heat
- generally more engineered for continuous use than other space heaters
- generally have tip sensors (depending on country)
When my ex wanted a space heater, I insisted that this be the only type, for safety. And of course not allowed to use a power strip or extension cord with it
- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 2 weeks ago:
So, they do control whatever assets Google had within Russia - article said a closed up office, and 200 remaining employees laid off, to get them entirely out of the country
If they do attempt to look for more assets to seize, they’ll pretty quickly run up against any other country saying “were their sanctions at the time?”
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 weeks ago:
I’d go even farther and say most driving is an edge case. I used 30 day trial of full self-driving and the results were eye opening. Not how it did: it was pretty much as expected, but looking at where it went wrong.
Full self driving did very well in “normal” cases, but I never realized just how much of driving was an “edge” case. Lane markers faded? No road edge but the ditch? Construction? Pothole? Debris? Other car does something they shouldn’t have? Traffic lights not aligned in front of you so it’s not clear what lane? Intersection not aligned so you can’t just go straight across? People intruding? Contradictory signs? Signs covered by tree branches? No sight line when turning?
After that experiment, it seems like “edge” cases are more common than “normal” cases when driving. Humans just handle it without thinking about it, but the car needs more work here
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 2 weeks ago:
As someone who is bad sat names but has a more social ex, same here. There are so many people I come across that ought to know. I probably come across as rude or aloof because I’m bad at faces and names
- Comment on Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone? 2 weeks ago:
In some states
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks ago:
We used to have racks of these things for automated testing …. And eventually they stop responding, so someone needs to power cycle them. In the computer room. In a rack
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 2 weeks ago:
There’s a good chance we’ll need to try, so we need to have that technology. However it would be so much cheaper and easier to moderate our energy use, electrify, and use renewables
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 2 weeks ago:
So far, we have smaller towns wiped off the face of the earth and can’t seem to figure out they should be moved rather than rebuilt
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 2 weeks ago:
Right, Earth will be here, life will find a way …… but cock roaches and jelly fish can’t read
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 2 weeks ago:
So, because I can afford an EV , to electrify, to add solar, I also get a carbon bonus to sell or bury
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 2 weeks ago:
As far as energy production goes, we already have the technology. We also already have the technology for cars and personAl transportation. Above all we have transit. If we can get our shit together with things we already know, we’d be in better shape. If we would have done it as little as ten years ago, we could have stayed within the Montreal targets for global warming.
Now it’s no longer enough. We need to fix harder areas as well: aviation, shipping, grid storage, steel and cement, etc, and we need it asap … how is there still not any urgency?
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
Everyone has some anger and frustration, the fascists tell you that’s right and give you an easy target
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
And MAGAts are useful fools for Russia
- Comment on Seriously good cold-climate heat pumps are headed to the US market 2 weeks ago:
But is it effective , or work?
I understand heat pumps are really good now and do function at colder temperatures than we usually see, which is fantastic. However they get much less efficient as the temperature difference get bigger, meaning you’d have to size the appliance much bigger.
When I looked into this, in New England, HVAC companies were consistently telling me they’d work but not that effectively, and insist led on a new gas furnace as backup heat
- Comment on Beware 3 weeks ago:
Nope, we’re not tired of Larry yet, but “Be wary of Larry”
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 weeks ago:
The article below this is
Donald Trump says that if wins the White House, he’ll fire special counsel Jack Smith “within two seconds” of taking office.
Imagine a criminal openly admitting he’ll use his power to evade justice, and somehow half the country is still voting for him
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 3 weeks ago:
The hard part will be inelastic collisions
- Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. 3 weeks ago:
Same as today, but slower.
GM’s OnStar was notorious for this. I think the first version had a 2G cell modem
- Comment on “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock 3 weeks ago:
My idea wasn’t so fun …. Extended family. For example, my immediate family is four phones, plus I pay for my Mom’s
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but my point is that while all kids deserve a well funded education system, all kids deserve high standards, all kids deserve all the opportunity, politics will still determine that level. We clearly already have a situation where different places have wildly different ideas of the value of a good education, and putting a cap on spending won’t change that
But it’s different to say a town shouldn’t pay more. I’ll vote for better funding for schools whereever they’re needed to bring all kids’ future up to my standards, even at the expense of my increased taxes to pay for it, but I will not let them limit my kids’ future down to their regressive standards.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah this was always confusing to me because my Dads cousins were closer in age to me, so “second cousin” always seemed to make sense.