What risk? There is way less risk than a traditional setup due to not having a differential. And it is being done literally all day every day by existing cars that have this setup. Rimac and Rivian both have 4 motor configs. BMW releases theirs this year. Audi and Tesla have versions with 3 instead of 4. Controlling things is software is so much easier than with hardware.

The ONLY ONLY reason more cars don’t do this is the cost. That’s it.

I lived for 3 years with a 100 mile range EV as my only car. Very rarely did I need more range than that. When I did I just rented a car for $40/day. When I upgraded to a 220 mile range car it felt like infinite range. I was able to charge at home, though, so it was much easier to deal with.

You are behind the times. This is a pretty well-studied and implemented thing. It is expensive, though, which is why you don’t see if more often. If a motor stops working, you can still drive the car with the other three motors. That’s SUPER simple with modern computing and software.

Now, the part where the motors are Ferrari-made… let’s see how that turns out.

Yeah, I’ve been wanting one of those since they were announced. Such a good looking car.

The opposite is happening in Los Angeles. They are scrapping laws that require builders to create off-street parking for apartments, but the parking spots are wanted and used. LA is nowhere close to a walkable city, and biking is putting your life in the hands of some very questionably talented drivers. So everyone here has a car. In the past there have been laws for minimum parking spots for a new building project, but the city has prioritized creating housing and is getting rid of those laws. The only issue is this isn’t NYC or London or Paris. We don’t have a comprehensive subway system, and our buses system takes a long time to get anywhere. Those renters are going to park on the streets or will be faced with streets putting up resident’s only parking that excludes their specific building.

It’s interesting that Australian cities have 40 percent of single-bedroom apartments with people who don’t have cars.

My highschool job was working at a sporting goods store. My closing duties each night were to clean the women’s restroom and occasionally cover for another department to clean the men’s room. I can tell you that the women’s restroom was always grosser. Yeah, there would be more pee on the seats and floor in the men’s room, but the rest of the place was far cleaner than the women’s.

Yep, which happens in other no-income tax states without high tourist or property taxes. It has gotten to the point in some of those states that they are trying to put wealth tax in for to make up for losses.

When you itemize federal taxes, you can deduct up to $10,000 in state taxes (either income or sales, but not both). Since it is difficult to get up to $10,000 in sales taxes but not that difficult to reach $10,000 in income taxes, then most people who itemize will end up paying higher in federal taxes.

That only depends on how much you have to pay in state taxes and how much you pay in sales tax. If your state taxes plus other deductions are higher than the standard deductible, then yes you would be lowering your federal deductible. If you weren’t making enough money to itemize, then this won’t change anything.

The real question is whether people who pay more state income tax than the maximum federal deductible also pay more sales tax. I sure don’t, even in a high sales tax state; so this would lower my federal deduction. For higher income people who buy more expensive stuff, this might not change their federal deduction. I think the number is $10,000, so you would have to pay more than $10,000 in sales tax in a single year to NOT lower your federal deduction. I guess a very rich person might buy a new $100,000 car every other year plus tax on a lot of luxury goods to get to that amount.

GPS is a broadcast-only system. It is not the source of your privacy concerns. What your cellphone/car/whatever does with that broadcast data is not GPS’s fault.

You have to really like murdering people to take a case like this all the way to the Supreme Court. This guy isn’t a serial killer or mass murderer or terrorist. He’s not a serial rapist or torturing psychopath. If they believed he was likely to repeat his crimes, fine, keep him behind bars for life. They tried to follow their harsh laws, got slapped down, and then kept trying again and again. Why? What are they accomplishing by killing him vs keeping him locked up?

Even regardless of the debate of whether capital punishment is moral and good for a healthy society, just because you are legally ALLOWED to kill someone doesn’t mean you HAVE to.

I played LOTRO at release for a couple months but couldn’t get into it, and the player base (at least on my server) was too small. I’m shocked to hear it’s still going.

It would be tough for me to think up a more fitting name for who I would imagine did this.

It’s honestly impressive how they keep making this WC so much worse with every passing day.

Yes, I use them all the time. They are fucking amazing.

You don’t even have to use them in a country like the UK that has had them for a long time where people are used to them. Carmel, IN put roundabouts all over their part of Indianapolis (yes, I consider Carmel part of Indy and not its own city), and it took hardly any time for people to get used to them. The people that live their love them for the most part. Plainfield, IN also put roundabouts in more country road areas, and they are also great.

What’s weird is when cities don’t fully commit and put stoplights in the middle of a huge roundabout like in Inverness, Scottland.

This was a dev who wanted to sync data between their home and work computers so they could do check-ins from home. This is a combination of a lazy person who values their own ease of use over basic security practices, plus a government contractor who values making as much money as possible by paying shitty devs without any real oversight over those shitty devs, plus an oversight government entity that had its funding slashed by people who only understand cutting money as opposed to national security.

I’m not sure, but that sounds likely. We have Silicon Valley, which contains billionaires who think they are more important than other people and have no problem saying stupid stuff like, “taxing digital products will cost jobs and move companies out of CA.”

You just described what regressive means. Sales tax is absolutely a regressive tax, since it impacts poor people more than rich people.

That’s only partly correct. Steam only charges a state sales tax for states that require sales tax on its purchases. CA does not impose state sales tax on digital products, so Steam does not charge CA residents a sales tax on purchases. This is aiming to level the playing field for brick and mortar stores as well as make more money (from normal people instead of taxing billionaires).

Your first paragraph has way too many questions marks. I’m not asking you to buy a teenager.