The scams are designed as alzheimers screening tools. Teaching will help some people, but not that many.
Depends on how close they can be made in watt-hours per kilo. They might be good enough for vehicles once the technology comes into reasonably widespread use, while avoiding a lot of the issues with trying to acquire sufficient lithium.
Sounds like it.
Maybe he fantasized about doing that:
“You would have known if I had gone down on a helicopter with Trump,” Brown said Thursday. “I’ve never been on a helicopter with Trump.”
Individuals do really dumb things when there are financial incentives to do them.
It takes fixing those incentives.
At some point, that car won’t be cost-effective to repair, and you’ll want to replace it. Be a lot better to have strong privacy legislation in place when that happens.
More that peoples’ movement data isn’t worth much, so it wouldn’t be a big deal to impose legal requirements on keeping it private.
This is timely in light of JD Vance’s comments about wanting to surveil the body of every woman in America. I just dropped a new investigation into car companies selling off your private location data to shady data brokers. The case for federal privacy legislation has never been stronger.
per the article, it’s rather better than that.
Pretty much anything trying to predict human behavior is a heuristic; people using them as if they’ve got some kind of certainty is a problem.
My impression from the article is more that they’re not doing any kind of garbage-in assessment: nobody is making sure they’re getting answers about the right person (eg: some women date more than one guy) and some women don’t feel safe giving accurate answers to the police, and there aren’t good failsafes available for when it’s wrong; you’re forced to hire legal counsel and pursue a change via the courts.
Yes, the federal minimum wage hasn’t risen; that’s static and requires an act of congress to change. What happened is that the pandemic also gave a lot of people negotiating power, so the wages most people earn went up more than prices.
Wages weren’t stagnant though.
The key thing is that right now, wages are rising at about 4% per year, while prices are rising at about 3% per year. That’s a good place to be.
Inflation of 3% per year is lower than median wage growth; it’s generally considered somewhat desirable because it transfers wealth from lenders (who tend to be well-off) to borrowers (who are less so)
The key thing is that it dropped down to around the long-term average of 3% per year. And did it quickly and without a recession. That combination is downright amazing.
And getting there means having the political power to implement it. Which we haven’t had since the New Deal era.
Not at all. No capitalist system is going to give you some wonderful fair everybody gets gold at the end of the rainbow outcome.
But policies we had within that system on net made Americans appreciably better off than was the case in countries without them.
Statistics are good at describing averages and medians; not everybody has the exact same experience.
The key thing is that wages went up by enough to cover increased costs, and prices stopped their rapid rise once the pandemic shortages ended.
When we can get congress to pass it.