Well the inefficient micro services that Carmack mentions in the summary do add to safety, correct?

My phone is instant on. In the sense that it reliably stays on for weeks at a time.

Micro services are more maintainable too.

It sounds like the innovation of micro services at the cost of efficiency is something that will eventually be lost (according to Carmack) if hardware stops improvingm

I'm pretty sure you said what I said, perhaps phrased better.

I don't think Carmack is suggesting that there's any world where we do efficiency for efficiency's sake though.

He seems to be implying the driving force is innovation, and that's easier with micro services for easier development but more hardware.

If hardware stopped getting better and cheaper we'd slow down development. He doesn't even seem to be suggesting (from the summary) that we're making the wrong choice, just observing the impacts of rapid hardware improvement, and that ended we'd still have runway to improve things.

I know, but if they made the metric of success mistakes found not dollars recovered it'd be irrelevant.

If going after someone rich and taking perhaps years to get maybe 1 success hurt your career vs closing a dozen easy cases with someone like me helped it, problem (for the rich) solved.

All they need to do to protect the rich is make percent successful audits a metric. They're way more likely to find an issue with my taxes (they have before even, something stupid missed I owed $12 and no penalty) than someone that's paid more than I make in a year to have their taxes prepared and defended.

The reason to put it all in one place is not to protect the rich, but to keep them in line.

Yeah, but the weakness is that we're a Republic and (probably) have an enforceable constitution.

Without congressional support and barely maybe popular support it wasn't gonna stick (it seems very unlikely that the tarrifs would pass court muster to me).

This feels like concessions because of getting thwomped in a trade war.

If the shortages are no more I'm all for it, but this feels like a non tariff related concession being made after hearing about the impact of trade restrictions from cronies.

So we have multiple labs with multiple standards many probably better, but some complete bullshit.

Now we are paying for more overhead, and need to do extra research to buy things.

It seems like a pretty big loss to me.

Refrigerator: tell me how it's a problem
Washing machine: select a cycle that uses for water and hotter
Dishwasher: turn on heated dry
TV: adjust the brightness
Video game console: tell it to auto wakeup
Lightbulbs: believe it or not, I like a good LED, but in a few cases I use decorative incandescents (they work better where I need a touch of heat, and for some reason LEDs due fast in my basement).

But, the fact that they're better at identifying and avoiding people and bicycles is super relevant since they've presumably been driving in bicycle and people dense areas.

It's the first results that actually say anything I've seen from one of these companies in a while (much less likely to hit a person or bicycle).

I don't mind it as a class.

It includes bicycles and motorcycles.

Things that are smaller, perhaps move different than what drivers are used to (pedestrians especially) and squishier than cars.

it makes sense to have a designation for "will be killed by car without harming driver" because those are the people that die and drivers don't look out for.

I think the biggest two hurdles to that are
1) states can't tax for miles outside of their state, so it requires GPS monitoring
2) people like big cars and the damage to the road is the 4th power of the axle weight. Charging based on road damage would make shipping expensive and people would wine.

It's not like magically they don't need to repair roads just because they're not getting the car tab.

That means to balance the budget they'll either need to borrow, tax something else, or cut something.

Money is (pretty much) fungible, so they raise it, cut spending, borrow, or increase taxes.

The one I can store and sell is definitely worth more to me.

TFS literally points out trees are $80/ton vs $1,000/ton for direct air capture.