Depends who's shoulders. I vote we use Tom Cruise or Sabrina Carpenter as a yardstick.

There are far simpler ways, if your vehicle either:
Was sold as a commercial vehicle (especially for tax or regulatory avoidance).
Has a kerb weight of 2000 KG or greater (kerb weight is "ready to drive" so filled with all fluids and options, basically everything except the driver).
Seats more than 5 passengers or has more than 2 rows of seats.
Is mainly cargo space (in excess of 65% if cabin length including any tray)
Has a towing capacity in excess of 1000 KG.
Is longer than 4.5 metres.
Then it's a commercial vehicle and requires a commercial license. In most countries commercial licenses carry higher penalties for infractions.

I'm aware that the weight and length requirements will get a lot of expensive limos like Bentleys and Maybachs, but if you want to remove a cancer you need to take some healthy tissue and lets face it, a Bentley is not a drivers car, it's a "being driven in" car so for the most part the drivers are already professionals.

There never really was.

With the possible exception of the first one (and "possible" is doing a lot of heavy lifting) Xbox and Playstation consoles were just trying to be gaming PCs but less useful, less powerful and ultimately more expensive. Even the original Xbox was easily modded into a media centre PC (XBMC was originally XBox Media Centre and ran on the original XBox) and the PS3 was originally able to run Linux... well until the corporate overlords decided they didn't want you to.

Expensive, yes, sure the cost of entry was lower for the hardware which was sold as a loss leader but then everything started to cost you, free services were scaled back or eliminated, hell, now Microsoft wants you to pay by the hour, no longer simply content with just a monthly fee. All those costs add up and soon overwhelm the higher cost of getting a PC in the first place (which after you've paid the cost of entry, savings start in earnest). Consoles had (past tense, the PS5 is almost as expensive as an entry level gaming laptop these days) a lower cost of entry which tried to hide the much higher total cost of ownership.

Add to that the fact that more and more console "exclusives" are making their way to PC, for the most part we're surprised by them and not in a good way, it's more of a "you harped on about this game for so long and it's distinctly mid". Very few games go the other way, from PC to console because ultimately you can dumb down a PC to run console games but you can't dumb up a console to run PC games.

The irony of RAMAGEDDON is that consoles should be able to take advantage of it, with games and OS requiring less of it and both consoles using last generation RAM... However there's nothing worth playing on there as it's dominated by AAA (fuck it, we're going to 7 A's) publishers that take as few risks as possible when producing Generic Sports 20xx. If you like games dump the console, bite the bullet and get a PC. Not only do you have a lot of indie and mid-tier developers producing great games but also a massive back catalogue. Today I've played games from this year and 20 years ago. Hell, I can load up some ancient DOS games if I so desired, also Linux gaming is ready, more than ready. I've not needed to boot into my Windows partition for any other reason than to check that it installed correctly, I haven't even installed the graphics drivers yet and it's been there for months. I might ditch Bazzite for Catchy though.

Pump and dump. And with the LLMs hooked into HFT trading systems, my guess is that the the dump will occur across the board and in milliseconds.

Vandalism. Almost certainly violation of the contract. And if one Flock camera is covering another, there will be evidence. If the college is involved it could get expensive. A lot more than if some greasy hippy* is seen doing it.

*Employment opportunity for all you greasy hippies.

.. and take my money.

... went out of business too soon to profit from its technology.

Don't talk to anyone other than through your assigned (human) client. The way this was worded, it was asking for the AI to find a loophole in the rules.

On the other hand, I'd say AI has proven its worth as an attorney.

Who even needs to measure historical time that precisely? There's a principle in engineering and science called error probability. You account for it in your calculations and get over yourself about the last few CPU clock decimal places.

There is also the legal problem of measuring things too accurately. When did the Great Flood occur? Well, we have been living here "since time immemoriable" and the courts have judged our memories to trump your science.

It's the recprocal of the Street Light Effect. You don't look for where it is likely to be or where it's easiest to see (under the streetlight). You search where the rewards of sucess are likely to be the highest (citation for your research papers, Nobel prize in physics, etc.) Drunks search under the streetlight because the reward will always be the same. Found my car keys. Now I guess I'll (hic) be driving home.

The only difference between what you and I are doing and what the socialists seek is the decision making authority over asset allocation. They (socialists) presume the existence of some wise intellectuals with a perfect overview of the markets. We, on the other hand, rely on the wisdom of the crowd. Which time and time again has beaten the pundits' track records.

It's what they call a chaotic system. You have some positive and negative feedback loops. Which causes the system to oscillate around or settle on one of many possible points of stability (attractors).

Back when this paper was written, chaos theory was still in its infancy. So the author can be forgiven for using a better understood deterministic model.

Granted, a simplification of the formal definition. Some mathematicians will be here to mod me into oblivion shortly.

Actually, I've built my fortune (such as it is) off of the same economic growth. Or in a recent case, the lack of it and the concomitant shortage of RAM chips. So, lack of economic growth in this case. And then there's oil ....

Everyone can play that game. But just sitting around and crying "Capitalism bad!" isn't going to help. "Workers should own the means of production!" Just checked my stock portfolio and it turns out that I do.

This.

I was going to say Roe v Wade. But the end result is the same. Fewer generations of the unwanted (and unsupervised) offspring crapping up the planet.

I don't know why slower population growth is such a bad thing. I'm a geezer (beyond some mandatory retirement ages), still working and contributing to the GDP. I hear complaints about how we are blocking promotion paths for young people. But even more about "Where's my UBI?" That's the Ponzi scheme.

First, assume a spherical cow in a vacuum.

And those corrections require atomic clocks.