It doesn’t act as a deterrent due to the crimes it’s used as a punishment for - no punishment stops a mentally Ill serial killer, someone in mindless rage acting on impulse, or someone who is certain they will never get caught. The studies all agree with that.
But if you would get sentences to life in prison or death from a parking violation or not paying your taxes, there would be zero people doing them as both are conscious actions, and definitely not worth the risk.
True. But it shouldn’t be. At all.
Bottling, shipping and stocking hundreds and hundreds of bottles of soft drinks that are 98% just water on the store shelf costs a hell of a lot more than putting a hundredth of the amount of syrup in a small bag and selling that. A sachet of sugar-free cola syrup would be smaller than a McDonald’s ketchup pouch, and cost a few cents.
A Waymo looks like this. The Tesla robotaxi looks like this - see anything missing?
That’s right, all the sensors and hardware required to make safe, functioning autonomous car.
As long as Tesla keeps listening to the fundamentally flawed idea of Musk that “Humans drive using only their eyes, therefore autonomous cars don’t require anything except a camera”, they are destined to fail, as that system can’t prevent crashing into things if it doesn’t understand what it is looking at.
The Deck triggers don’t have a physical switch at the end, but Steam Input does have soft pull and full pull mappings as well as settings to change when and how they activate.
They’ve been getting more powerful - and power hungry - each generation. The original Pi had a max load power usage of less than two watts. The Pi 4 gets up to 7W, and now the Pi 5 can peak to 12.
The first picture in the article is the component view.
So Musk wants to take it to court that no accounts on X can be run by a team, only the person who made them, and they can’t be transferred.
I wonder who owns @/POTUS then, some random whitehouse intern from almost two decades ago? What about @/Tesla and @/SpaceX, has he received written permission for them :) ?
Not quite the same, but Finland will put you in jail for six months if you refuse your mandatory military/civilian service. Though technically speaking you are just doing your civilian service by sitting in jail instead at that point.
To avoid that you need to have a valid medical condition that prohibits you from serving. Being too obese is one of them.
There have been at least five major mass extinction events in the history of this planet. What will be after us in the future won’t look like it does right now, but right now doesn’t look anything like it did before any of those five events either.
As the saying goes, life finds a way. We just won’t be around to witness it.
General Artificial Intelligence doesn’t exist - we don’t have HAL9000 or Terminator or Cortana yet.
But up to that point, and almost certainly even past it, the AI effect means the more sophisticated AI things become, the more people think “well </insert ai thing/> isn’t actually intelligent or an AI”.
As Larry Tesler says: “AI is whatever hasn’t been done yet.”
“Too many Europeans might have frozen to death during the winters so we’d rather not, but by now it’s their fault if they haven’t prepaired. Also buy our gas.”
Up until this point, Washington refrained from sanctions in order to maintain gas flows between Russia and remaining European customers.
the US has held off to preserve stability in Europe’s gas supply. But trade dynamics have shifted since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine — that year, the US shipped more natural gas to Europe than Russia did for the first time.
It wasn’t a fine, it was compensation to the victim for the pain and medical costs she was caused, which don’t exactly change depending on how rich the perpetrator is. If Elon Musk kicks you in the shin and breaks it, it hurts and costs just as much as if it was done by a homeless person.
He should have also gotten a hefty fine and jail time as a punishment for the crime he committed though, but this was a civil case, not a criminal one for some - probably Irish - reason.
Prius. Teslas are way too large and heavy for my tastes.
Though preferably I’d swap my VW Up to an electric one, they were too expensive back when I got mine.
As for the acceleration figure, I took it from this review:
We haven’t tested a standard Tesla Model S for some time, but a 2020 model that we ran through our instrumented test regimen reached 60 mph in a blistering 2.4 seconds. You can expect roughly similar performance from the current standard Model S today. The gonzo Plaid version, which boasts a third electric motor and 1020 horsepower, reached 60 mph in just 2.1 seconds in our testing.
The systemic reason might just simply be “They were the kind of a person that would buy a Tesla”.
If I wanted to buy a safe car to drive responsibly while respecting all the traffic rules, an EV with almost a thousand horses with a 0-60 time of 2.1-2.4 seconds wouldn’t exactly be my first choice.
The data is by “Fatal Accident Rate (Cars per Billion Vehicle Miles)”, Model Y having 10.6, Model S having 5.8. Ignoring Model 3, the average would be 8.2.
Back in 2023 Tesla tweeted “Total miles driven by the Tesla fleet has exceeded 100 billion miles globally—equal to 532 round trips to the sun!”
So that math says 820 fatal accidents, Tesladeaths reports 614. I’d say the numbers seem close enough?
Just say you are from the Middle East.
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…how, exactly? Other than the models that fold like an old clamshell, none of the phones I’ve seen make the screen wider, they just make it square. But in either case, you would have the exact same screen size with a normal phone, it would just the half the thickness and wouldn’t have a seam down the middle. I guess if you a connoisseur of old 4:3 TV shows it could be nice.
“discard changes” button - the 5000 “new file created” changes, specifically.
Niiden pitää laittaa fediverse sharing päälle (jos se edes on Suomessa mahdollista, jossain vaiheessa oli US/UK only), ja sinun Mastodon instanssin pitää ylipäätään olla yhteydessä Threadsiin, aika moni on sen blokannut.
How does putting someone in jail or having them pay a fine to the government help “make the victims whole” any more than the death sentence would? If that was the point of the justice system, we would only have payments of wealth or services from criminals to victims and nothing else. In fact, I can think of quite a few crimes where the victims would love nothing more than the permission get to kill the criminal themselves in the most painful way possible.
The number one priority of a justice system is to prevent crimes from happening in the first place - a task it has to constantly balance with freedom and human rights as the ultimate solution is to get rid of all criminals - and the more it wants to prevent a certain type of crime, the harsher the punishment for it should be. But as I said, usually the death penalty is used for crimes done by people who aren’t thinking about the consequences.
If you use it as the threat for financial crime, soon you will have no more victims of financial crime, as the criminals are all either dead or too afraid to do it.
Should it be used, for that or in the first place, that’s a completely different argument all together.