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The biggest problem no-one is talking about is how to program driverless cars to deal with a situation where no matter what the car does there's a high chance that someone is going to die. Even if all cars are networked together, you're never going to network the deer that jump onto the highway...

It seems you're all making this far too complicated. The U.S. and U.K. interest rates are built into the futures price of every futures contract. You can obtain what they are by simply looking at what the price of the future is vs the current spot and doing the math. Is there some question that...

4th is definitely wrong. However the U.S. is pretty far above all other first world countries in murder rate, and even a bunch of second and third world ones. And definitely higher than the so called "socialist" countries that are our contemporaries around the world.

The last year we have data for from the FBI crime stats is 2015, for which there were 15,696 Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter deaths in the U.S. (https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/table-1) For that same year and category by city, the numbers were...

It's actually an interesting thing that the clubbers of the world are doing, and he is really making it obvious here. They are told what these "white liberals" think by their right wing bubble, and what they're told is a ridiculous caricature of what liberals really think. Indeed if liberals...

I think you agree with the underlying issue though, socialism does not cause a country to be unsafe?

Let's not get carried into your right wing rabbit hole here clubber. The vast majority of what you would call "socialist" countries are extremely safe. Venezuela isn't unsafe because it's socialist, it's unsafe because it's a totalitarian regime. Agree or disagree? See how you make an...

It is a little easier to prosecute when you have a signed contract with the employee and you've been paying them, plus there's a little less sympathy than when the recording industry slaps a million dollar law suit on a 12 year old. But yeah, definitely something those of us who generate...

Actually Alaska has one of the highest homicide rates in the country and none of the minority infested "certain urban areas" that you probably think are the downfall of the nation. Also happens to be one of the most gun owning and gun toting states in the country, as I know from living there, so...

What a well thought out, educated response. Do you always interact on a 6th grade level or just when faced with anything that challenges your worldview and you are scared to actually think about?

Your right every "socialist" country is like that. Oh, except they're not, most are far safer and healthier than the U.S. Most countries with authoritarian rulers are like that though. Perhaps that's the common denominator you're looking for? Too obvious, or just doesn't fit your political...

Wtf is that supposed to mean? It's sad when you have this absurd caricature of what people you disagree with believe and refuse to actually listen to what any of them have to say. To the contrary of the purposely misconstrued quotes you hear from your "news" sources on the right, no one on the...

For sure on the security piece, when pretty much every house on the island seems to have steel security bars over all the windows and doors it makes you think twice. I am curious about the tax issue you ran into. My understanding, mostly from a couple casual conversations so by no means...

When are you people going to grasp that there is absolutely no difference between an employee who you pay to build a car stealing that car and an employee who you pay to build software stealing that software! I know it's hard for some to grasp the concept that something you can't touch and feel...

Actually living in Puerto Rico is about as good as it's going to get, where you pay almost no federal income tax. If all you care about is taxes. Not a Republican state by any stretch of the imagination, btw.

We've already taken it on, it's part of the U.S. and we already spend a ton of federal money there. The bigger issue is 2 reliably democratic senators and a 4-5 person reliably democratic house delegation and 4-5 electoral votes. If DC can't get representation and they pay full taxes (remember...

Well he's full of shit on that as well. We're seeing solar bids on long term PPAs of $29.10/MWH in Chile with no federal tax or other subsidies (https://cleantechnica.com/2016/08/18/new-low-solar-price-record-set-chile-2-91%C2%A2-per-kwh/) and natural gas is setting the market clearing price in...

Back to my last post, the majority of coal exported is metallurgical coal (https://www.eia.gov/coal/production/quarterly/), which is used to make steel, not electricity. When you consider that metallurgical coal is worth at least twice as much as thermal coal, it's an even high proportion by...

It will be used for making steel, but of course only certain grades of anthracite are suitable for that and by definition if you're talking power stations you're talking thermal coal. Which are two commodities so different that they really share only a name in common. Since the vast majority of...

Which was so remarkable that we all know about it. The fact that it is remarkable, and not something that everyone has experienced, says a lot in and of itself.