Safety margins still will require some level of delay between cars that aren't mechanically linked. Even with perfect reaction times, the physics of driving (maximum acceleration rates, possible loss of traction) dictate this, it's a non-trivial control theory problem. Besides, it doesn't seem to be a goal of Waymo; I've seen lines of their vehicles before and they all behave the same way as in mixed traffic.

> likely many of the other biologically active chemicals.

Do you reckon taking green coffee beans and roasting them til they’re brown right through has any detrimental effect on the biological compounds in the beans?

What do you mean by detrimental?

What do you mean by asking that question?

Isn’t it obvious? I mean within the same context where you wrote:

” is that decaffeination has the bad side effect of stripping flavors, and likely many of the other biologically active chemicals.”

It's quite regulated in the western US, but usually in the direction of guaranteeing water to incumbent landowners. Some people end up with really strong water rights, and they can be wasteful if the law helps them do so.

And are often _encouraged_ to be wasteful by "use it or lose it" type provisions.

A big celebrity, I think one of the Kardashians was a couple of years ago fined and forced to update things when the city found that the big fountain in the front of the home had no recycling or such, but was effectively just an open faucet because I guess keeping it algae free was proving a hassle.

Maybe this wasn't true an hour ago, but all the top 3 comments right now look supportive (if I am to count yours), and the next few are just mildly critical.

If 90% is one nine and 99% is two nines, we can use the logarithm to compute how many fractional nines we have at 98.59%: about 1.9788 nines (almost two!)

I think it was a joke that 98.59% has 2 '9's: 9X.X9%.

Yes, you're correct about that

> you don't pay them, self-employed and employers pay those

If a tax is a function of the worker's income, it doesn't really matter (except for nominal terms) whether the worker or employer pays the taxes, the economic effect is the same. Who actually bears the burden of the tax ends up determined by the price elasticity of supply/demand in that labor market, and is not determined by who is on the hook for the literal payment.

>If a tax is a function of the worker's income, it doesn't really matter (except for nominal terms) whether the worker or employer pays the taxes,

yes, I took a lot of micro (and macro too for that matter) but if what you say were true, neither political party nor activists would go on and on about taxing "corporations". You should direct your comments toward the parties that do that. But of course, you would get downvoted because the parties that do that don't want to hear otherwise. That's what I was doing, trying to explain ecomonics in ways they'd be receptive to, because telling people how things work is always a good thing even if they are not ready to go all the way.

also, in terms of pure micro, indirectly taxing things is never as efficient as directly taxing them, which you are not accounting for. The inefficiency tax in the form of "lower overall employment" is not easily measured even though we know it's quite significant and as impactful as "well this tax averages out the same" when it's not the same.

Does this take into account feature flags when summing LOC? It's common practice in Rust to really only use a subset of a dependency, controlled by compile-time flags.

My experience has been that while there's significant granularity in terms of features, in practice very few people actively go out of their way to prune the default set because the ergonomics are kind of terrible, and whether or not the default feature set is practically empty or pulls in tons of stuff varies considerably. I felt strongly enough about this that I wrote up my only blog post on this a bit over a year ago, and I think most of it still applies: https://saghm.com/cargo-features-rust-compile-times/

Also just unit tests in the source files, which again aren’t included in the binary via compile-time flags!

Over-engineering? It's a fully mechanical bike bell that's made slightly differently. It's a very established and straightforward technology.

> the price of gold continued to rise as they did this

This would mean they sold low and bought high, right?

It’s because they’re using European mathematics. You wouldn’t understand if you’re American.

In reality the article is attempting to account for a capital gain pnl accounting for taxes.

I'm not sure the central bank is paying capital gains taxes?

price of gold dropped from $5500 to $4600 in the last few weeks then came back. all is possible

Then they didn't make money as a result of the price rising, which is what the original commenter and article claimed.

Usually that's how you want your selling and buying combos to be...

A couple of the lines I ride in California have decent on-time rates (mostly I ride the line formerly known as the San Joaquins)