Be ause this is nearly news, but not quite.

*wouldn’t

Why does wikipedia need so much money? Isn’t most of the work done by unpaid people? I get there are servers and power etc, but they could have donated use of AWS. If they had free servers they would have to constantly be running a fund raising campaign.

If the bird flu goes airborne we could be in trouble.

He is not a private businessman. Tesla is a publicly trade company, which comes with rules. He shouldnt have done an IPO to raise money if he wanted to be a private busniessman.

Not were I live, but most jurisdictions dont have the same laws. Where i am at, stop signs are yeild signs and stop lights are stop signs for cyclists. Its written into state law. Its called an Idaho Stop, see here https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwik...

It isn’t nannyland when your behavior has the risk of injuring an uninvolved party. Almost certainly the actual regulation wont be as vague as the article, but the determination of overkill depends on what they actual mean by “use”.

I ride a lot. I find that many drivers dont understand the actual traffic laws as they pertain to bikes on the road. Granted there are differences between jurisdictions.

Or listen to music. Hard to tell what they mean by use in the article.

I hope they are researching and planning for large capacity storage solutions. They are a couple intriguing ones that could be tried. Personally i like hydro storage because it can be done with all existing tech (two reservoirs, pipe, pumps, generators). These already exist but it would be cool to see them on large scale to see if it is practical on a huge scale.

I watch a TED talk by the head of googles driverless car project. He said in the talk that you cant partially automate a car for exactly this reason. Has to be all or nothing. Google new this years ago. See here https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ted.com%2Ftalks%2Fchri...

This is about life insurance policies not health care policies. Many people carry life policies outside of work.

You are opting in when you select them as your provider and sign the contract.

The way to keep markets regular is to have punishments as deterents for unwanted behavior.

Citizens of various jurisdictions and socio-ecomomic classes will be punished by Apple forfeiting $16B too, you have just made value judgments about who its ok to punish for this and who it isn’t.

I get that, but Ireland was complicit in the deal. Their punishment, get $16 Billion. I just think the money should go somewhere else so both sides in the illegal deal are punished currently, not just by the los of future jobs. For example, make Apple estimate where the sales came from in the EU and give proportional payments to those jurisdictions.