Well at least there's Antifa.

Pretty cool model, though I don't know how much what they did is first principles, is there axiomatic economics?

Basically anyone scientifically literate, well-read and honest should recognize this by now.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House on Wednesday unanimously approved a sweeping proposal to speed the deployment of self-driving cars without human controls by putting federal regulators in the driver’s seat and barring states from blocking autonomous vehicles.

The House measure, the first significant federal legislation aimed at speeding self-driving cars to market, would allow automakers to obtain exemptions to deploy up to 25,000 vehicles without meeting existing auto safety standards in the first year. The cap would rise over three years to 100,000 vehicles annually.

Representative Doris Matsui said the bill “puts us on a path towards innovation which, up until recently, seemed unimaginable.”

Automakers, business groups, and advocates for the blind praised the House measure. But one consumer group said the House bill did not do enough to ensure self-driving cars would be safe.

Under the bill, manufacturers seeking exemptions must demonstrate self-driving cars are at least as safe as existing vehicles. States could still set rules on registration, licensing, liability, insurance and safety inspections, but not performance standards.

Automakers would have to submit safety assessment reports to regulators, but the bill would not require pre-market approval of advanced vehicle technologies. The measure now goes to the Senate, where a bipartisan group of lawmakers has been working on similar legislation.

Automakers and technology companies, including General Motors Co and Alphabet Inc’s self-driving unit Waymo, hope to begin deploying vehicles around 2020. They have been pushing for new federal rules making it easier to deploy self-driving technology, but some consumer groups have sought additional safeguards.

Current federal rules bar self-driving cars without human controls on U.S. roads. States have issued a variety of different rules in the absence of clear federal guidance, and automakers have complained that California’s rules are too restrictive.

U.S. senators might circulate their draft legislation this week. One sticking point is how to handle commercial self-driving trucks, which are not included in the House measure. The Senate version may also soften the provisions preempting state rules.

Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) and other automakers have been lobbying Congress to act, often bringing test vehicles to Capitol Hill so lawmakers can test out driverless cars.

Advocates hope self-driving cars can help reduce U.S. road deaths, which rose 7.7 percent in 2015, the highest annual jump since 1966. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a 2014 study that U.S. traffic crashes cost society $836 billion a year in economic loss, with human error behind 94 percent of crashes.

Consumer advocates want to give the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration quicker access to crash data and more funding to oversee self-driving cars.

“The autonomous vehicle bill just passed by the House leaves a wild west without adequate safety protections for consumers. It pre-empts any state safety standards, but there are none at the national level,” the Consumer Watchdog group said in a statement.

The policy group Transportation for America said cities are worried the House “legislation will preempt local authorities from managing their own streets and fail to give local leaders the confidence that manufacturers and operators will be aware of and follow local laws and regulations.”

On Tuesday, Reuters reported that U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao will unveil revised self-driving guidelines next Tuesday in Ann Arbor, Michigan, citing sources, and the department confirmed plans to unveil the new guidelines next week. The House bill would require compliance with the guidelines.

GM said in a statement that “while more work is needed,” the House measure is “good progress toward a law that will facilitate realization of the safety, mobility, and environmental benefits of self-driving vehicles.”

The House bill would also require automakers to add a driver alert to check rear seating in an effort to prevent children from being left behind, and to consider performance standards for headlights.

Who said self-driving cars weren't happening?

Well, Congress will make it happen.

Under the bill, manufacturers seeking exemptions must demonstrate self-driving cars are at least as safe as existing vehicles.

by putting federal regulators in the driver’s seat

Basically that's what they did. They constructed an empirical model that is based on two assumptions, taken as fact: that capital has returns, and that everybody benefits to some degree by the existence of rich people. Then they asked "by how much do the people benefit from having rich people around?" - and then they fit the real world historical data, and then they discovered that it is severely negative starting in the late 70s or early 80s. In other words, the public does not benefit from having rich people around, but the rich benefit from having poor people around.

"People deriving an average negative benefit from having rich people around" is about as close as you will ever get to a perfect indicator of rent seeking behavior.

One of the most powerful indicators in science is when the same result is shown via several different approaches. At this point the evidence is beyond damning. Capitalism does not work. Market socialism is the closest thing to capitalism that might.

Me.

Boom:

Zuckerberg 2020, here we go.

If someone as noble as JFK almost killed us all, I guess anything is possible.

Anyone else think that Mark Zuckerberg merely running for president could do more to harm American democracy than the entire Donald Trump presidency?

Believe me, these internet ad weirdos don't need to run for president to be toxic to American democracy. They already are. The most damaging thing Mark Zuckerberg can do is lose and go back to running Facebook.

Define Silicon Valley.

Define Silicon Valley.

There are plenty of worthy and talented people there. It's mostly the billionaires and their sycophants that deserve death.

basically all search engines scrape Google's results..

This is wrong. Bing has its own crawler. Duckduckgo does too, and it also makes use of Bing and Yahoo. Neither use Google.

If you believe the statements quotes in that article from MS, it's not even true.

For the record, only Google even indexes Jon's query



Bing doesn't even include it. I actually suspect there's something about how vBulletin is set up here that repels crawlers (since a ton of results on this site are missing from Google, not just the one that Jon suggested was censored), but I really have no idea.