This episode of "To Catch A Predator" is a computer recreation of actual events using the closest model we have to the arrested suspect...

I'd want at least $200K, lol.

I like this analogy, but if you ever do want a Cobra for some reason, there are kits for like $25K

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Wow, you are arguing for 9th amendment rights and against a right to privacy and bodily autonomy? Seems like severe cognitive dissonance.

I mean, I see your argument, but the government would have to compensate all the social media companies for a pretty substantial part of their market cap if they took away their technologies/platforms. That is at least hundreds of billions of dollars if not trillions. Even this highly partisan Supreme Court would probably balk at anything involving overriding property rights (although there is precedent for same when it comes to public health).

Also, just because a process is transparent doesn't make it understandable, and to the extent that it is understandable you'll have people constantly gaming the system even more in the future than they do now.

Not sure what upside there is that's worth the hassle.

We had a local bikeshare program go under and they were auctioning off the bikes for $5 each. Made me wonder if it would be possible to make an EV auto battery out of a bank of bike battteries.

I'm not very experienced with Macs, but when support ends for an OS and there's no supported upgrade path it often makes sense to choose another option. I had cyanogen mod on some old android phones for a variety of tasks after security updates stopped being released for that hardware.

The only other reason I can think of is to test VMs or for security analysis.

Founders probably would've added another right to be stupid to the bill of rights if they'd only realized.

Could have an impact when there's a restraining order with a firearms component as happens sometimes in domestic violence or stalking or other cases. I don't really feel strongly either way on this.

Unless there's federal regulations with teeth forcing insurance companies to both adhere to those standards and make claim decisions in a single pass with the information provided under those standards the standards will not be used. Healthcare is an adversarial process where insurance is trying to increase complexity to force providers and patients to abandon claims. ACA fixed a little of that, but not much.

Alternatively, Sony, Microsoft, Valve, etc... get together and develop a royalty free standardized content library to use across all games. Developers would still have proprietary content, but could at least use enough from a common library to cut down the total file sizes to something reasonable.

Sure if we ignore redlining, statistics, the impact of the carceral state on _increasing_ crime rates, etc... etc... you make some okay points. If we don't ignore those things, then you sound like you are making up a justification for systemic racism out of whole cloth.

Not sure about pumping to Vegas, but the difference in water consumption between a drought and non-drought year in California is enough to require 38 billion gallons a day. The largest oil pipeline in the world pumps 77 million gallons a day. Not sure what Vegas's requirements are, but it'd probably require a very expensive pipeline that would only be for drought years. We may get to that point, but the current model seems to be to just force conservation to deal with drought.

The largest submarine reactors are paired 190MW on the Russian Typhoon class sub. The largest Aircraft Carrier reactors are ~700MW. Land based nuclear power plants exceed that and usually have multiple reactors on one site. in addition, they have a big constraint on cost per kilowatt to stay competitive. It's not that they couldn't solve technical problems it's that they can't do it cheaply enough.

We can't even summon up the political will to do point source carbon sequestration much less atmospheric sequestration which costs something like an order of magnitude more. This is like a prisoner's dilemma game where everyone has been snitching for two generations. No one wants to assume the financial burden unless everyone assumes the financial burden and that cannot happen while industry is continually lobbying hard to keep major players from doing it.

We've had the tech for a long time to deal with this problem. It's not going to happen unless carbon sequestration or geoengineering solutions become a revenue generator or we have a literal bloody revolution to make it happen.

A short haul cargo vehicle with extremely frequent stops and starts is kind of the textbook use case for EV vehicles, and with almost the entire postal fleet aging out and needing replacement it seems kind of ludicrous to only convert 10% and commit to gasoline for the other 90% of a fleet the majority of which has been on the road for over 27 years. Do we need to commit to another 120,000+ idling gasoline engines for the next 27 years or so?

How about instead, we funnel air quality grants that groups like baaqmd et al have into the charging infrastructure in urban environments and keep some of the gasoline fleet (and a few thousand replacements) for rural areas?