Sorry, I missed the point where registration includes odometer readings. Sure, it's possible that someone could be driving 10k miles off-road and 100 miles on-road, thereby paying for more than they're using, but it seems quite niche and less complicated a trade-off (and much less tied to fossil fuels) than gas tax.
Bear with my ignorance, but what are the issues you see with registration-based usage taxes?
Electric usage tax has the same problem as a gas tax in that it's decoupled from actual public road usage.
edit: hit "send" before actually done writing... Whoops.
It seems to me that registration should be the point where a vehicle owner has to pay for public road usage. Some vehicles that need gas/diesel aren't registered for public road usage (e.g. farm equipment), and some vehicles which don't need gas/diesel are registered for public road usage (e.g. EVs). Therefore gas taxes are misaligned, but registration is by definition aligned with public road usage.
The only thing you lose out on is the fuel economy heuristic that bigger/heavier vehicles cost more to fuel (there's some physics to back it up: heavier vehicles take more absolute energy to accelerate up to a given speed, and an ICE only converts energy one way -- potential to kinetic -- so it's all eventually lost to heat via the brakes), therefore they'll pay more in taxes. But adding any kind of electrification into the mix (BEV, PHEV, or mild HEV) invalidates the physics behind the heuristic (electric motors can recover kinetic energy), thus the gas tax is supremely irrelevant and we instead need a different mechanism for funding roadways.
So at what point is highway maintenance more expensive than a railroad?
It's not that my brain is tired or even that I trust LLMs, I just don't have time and either an LLM can create the thing I want or I do without. If the project fails, nothing of value is lost.
At home, that's the summary of so many of my hobby projects lately. At work, however, there's one phenomenon that I don't know if we have a name for yet: loss of job satisfaction because a large part of the joy of creative problem solving comes from the process of wrestling with a hard problem, making a breakthrough, and genuinely learning something. LLMs make it too easy. I don't feel like I'm learning anything of value. I'm just regurgitating some version of the LLM's solution back to my coworkers during stand-ups. And so, if anyone really pressed me on the details, I would have a hard time coming up with anything. For this latest release on a project that I've worked on for most of a year and given demos for in the past, we unleashed AI. I'm genuinely nervous to give an upcoming customer demo for this release because I don't really feel like I understand the changes were shipping.
At first, I thought it was just a problem I was experiencing alone. But then I started hearing others express very similar sentiments. At least one person mentioned that they chose to work on hobby projects without LLMs, precisely because they wanted to recapture that joy they lost from their career. Even though I've finally started knocking out quite a few ideas from the backlog that had accumulated over the years, it's hard to really reach that same level of satisfaction.
Is there a balance point where I can stay on top of the backlog while feeling like my brain hasn't fallen out of my head?
Make it $10k, bring back graduated corporate taxes (with global consolidated income to prevent ferreting away income in a plethora of international subsidiaries), and actually pledge to solving the debt and I'm sold.
This is probably going to be an unpopular comment... but these articles are all super misleading. The physical books are getting destroyed, but their content is getting digitized. Is that a loss? Absolutely. But is there a benefit? Also yes.
The biggest loss is probably the fact that destroying the physical books removes them from circulation, making them essentially permanent additions to these companies' book collections.
The current economic regime is less like "capitalism" and more like "feudalism with corporations."
I'm pretty sure they're trying to say that, if you were to realistically simulate orbital mechanics, the framework generates terrain 9 times faster than the player could reveal new terrain via orbiting, making it possible to calculate at runtime.
I also thought it looked a bit sloppy. I couldn't find it with a reverse image search, and AI detectors seem convinced it's fake. Where's it from?
Definitely unpopular by the literal statistics. Definitely correct about the health benefits. Definitely something I don't do.
Also, it's a little strange that some desserts are only ever for special occasions (like cake), but others which may be just as difficult/expensive to make are considered regular fare (like ice cream).
The thing that gets me is when car designers make a car that's trying to be something it's not. It's an EV, not an ICE vehicle. If anything, amplify the motor hum under load (accelerating). Don't simulate engine sounds. We're tired of living in a simulation.