And what would you'r solution be? Take from them the houses they worked their whole lives to acquire and put them in elderly homes? They have paid their share to society by providing the taxes for 65+ years that they have worked and brought us where we are today.
Those homes are not vanished from the market. They will be inherited by their children and so on.
Land taxation is by my opinion inherently bad for that specific reason ( if they have only one piece of land )
The problem is that we are pilling into cities where land is minimal and thus the market works in supply and demand.
Hopefully as years pass, where remote work is more and more accessible you can be owning your own 1 euro or whatever home in any area and not worry about limited land.
I really don't understand this argument. Land taxes are supposed to pay for the various services in the area (schools, roads, etc). You don't pay your fair share and be done, you pay every year because those services cost money every year. If, at some point, you can no longer afford those costs (excluding those situations where social welfare safety nets are supposed to help), you move somewhere else. You don't get to keep taking advantage those services without paying for them just because you've been there for a long time.
In Germany thats what income tax is for. The municipality receives the money and funds local infrastructure from it. I think the rest of Europe is at least similar in this regard.
One can argue about which system is better, but taxing elderly people out of their homes would never fly politically over here.
... and that's why we have families who are on the verge of welfare not selling their expensive (additional) properties, waiting them to appreciate even more in value, dreaming of selling them somewhere in future and making their children set for life, while working class people have to pay 50% of their already heavily taxed wages for rent...
No. The main funding for local communities are property tax ("Grundsteuer") and business tax ("Gewerbesteuer"), income tax share only accounts for about a third. The height of both are also set on the local level the community has a very direct way to change the available money.
edit: A solution to this problem is to allow seniors to defer payment of the land value tax until the next purchase of the land, at which point the next buyer will receive the deferred tax burden.
I did try it with my picture. Very interesting results.
It definitely did find my picture but i cannot access all the ones that it has flagged for me as it is behind a paywall.
But most interesting is that it found a lot of people that we appear identical.
My pictures are already out there, so i used a random picture. If it found me then, no worrying in me uploading the picture as i am already in the system.
It is not as clear cut as this.
Massachusetts has a population of 6.7M and 7152 deaths.
Sweden has a pop. of 10M with 3K deaths.
Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 2,118% larger than Massachusetts.
So the 10M residents of Sweden are much more spread than in MA. Also MA was late in how they have dealt with Covid and the number of cases was progressing much faster.
It's not that simple. Population density numbers don't tell us anything useful at the national level. Most Swedes are clustered into a few urban areas.
> the 10M residents of Sweden are much more spread than in MA.
Probably not. Swedes are a fairly urban people, many living in blocks of flats in cities.
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about Stockholm:
Population (31 December 2019)[3][4][5]
• Capital city 975,904
• Density 5,200/km2 (13,000/sq mi)
• Urban[6] 1,605,030
• Urban density 4,200/km2 (11,000/sq mi)
• Metro 2,377,081
• Metro density 360/km2 (940/sq mi)
And here is Boston:
Population (2019)[2][3][4][5][6]
• City 692,600
• Density 14,344/sq mi (5,538/km2)
• Urban 4,180,000 (US: 10th)
• Metro 4,628,910 (US: 10th)[1]
So Sweden might be twenty times the size but the urban population density is not so wildly different.
Two ways in Bloomberg. Either search in debug mode and disable two displays that are what is disabling them or simply disable Javascript on their page. It will be limited in functionality but you can read the article.
This not news. This has existed from the first iteration of Tesla Autopilots. That is why there where crashes with stationery vehicles for Tesla.
This is shortcoming for using only cameras or any vehicle that has adaptive cruise control.
The problem is that the front camera cannot distinguish from the road and a stationery vehicle. For that, they are the same and they ignore stationary obstacles. If they where taken into consideration, then they would not work at all.
This is where Lidar comes in but at its current price, or at price that Tesla was designing its system it was too expensive.
I am not entirely sure that pure cameras will ever be enough
Not sure why you are downvoted. My Subaru does a pretty good job of detecting both moving and stationary objects, using only stereo cameras. It does have its limitations, and I wouldn't trust it to be a level 4 or 5 auto-auto without additional sensors. But it sure blows away Tesla when it comes to little things like detecting parked fire engines and highway barriers.
What you describe is specifically related to emergency braking. None of these systems claim to prevent collisions at high speeds through emergency braking. But they will significantly reduce the impact. No, I haven't tested that personally, and I don't plan to, so no actual "experience" there.
However, there are other aspects of EyeSight I do have experience with at highway speeds.
- Collision alert. It's an extra set of eyes to keep an eye out for trouble. When I'm checking over my shoulder before a lane change, I can take a little more time and look more carefully, knowing that it is watching the road ahead. It has alerted me for things like a car slowing suddenly or squeezing in front of me.
- Adaptive cruise. This helps by reducing load on me while driving and maintaining a safe following distance. So I can focus less on the car ahead and pay more attention all around.
Tip for users of EyeSight and other systems:
Always remember that like every other system out there it's not perfect and has limitations. Don't get complacent. After 5+ years of driving with it, I'll still keep my foot ready to brake, even in situations I'm confident it can handle. Occasionally I'll give in to the urge to brake only to find that it has started braking by the time my foot hits the pedal. But I'd rather react too soon than wait too long.
This is something I don't understand. If you have more than 1 camera, you can run an edge detection algorithm on the images from each camera and use simple trig to build up a 3d model of what is in front of the car. This can easily distinguish between a shadow or road kill, vs a large object in the way. Is there a technical reason they don't do this (such as too much processing power required)?
You are trivialising the problem. Getting reliable data from stereo images is still far from solved, especially in realtime. (Also, the best currently available techniques are likely too computationally expensive to run on the compute that Tesla has put in the car).
There could be situations where this does not work accurately and that's when problems occur. If you watch closely you can even see it sometimes in this video.
Couldn't a secondary camera help more? Matching the images is not trivial and may take a while, but you could extract spatial information. Maybe a laser or a flash projector works better, but I imagine these systems to be susceptible to disturbances like reflections, especially when multiple cars are driving around.
Probably a long way still until we have real self-driving cars...
But have search low and high to find the Lidl Whiskey Queen Margot, but i have been unable to find it in any awards.
From a quick google search various website spread the same news, but none actually link to a reputable source for this.
As far as i can find Lidl won the chain supermarket last year whiskey award while Aldi have just earned a Gold Medal at the 2018 Scotch Whisky Masters awards.
The two winners are the Highland Black 8-year-old Blended Scotch and their Glen Marnoch Islay Single Malt.
I've also been digging around and eventually found that "Winners will be announced on 28 March 2019" on their site so I'm guessing the winner hasn't officially been announced yet.
I was trying to understand how this was so much efficient and how did he manage to generate this will so little code. Where was his query retrievals ? Where did those classes magically appear. How did he retrieve the data so fast.
Then i read the first line, he is the CTO of Speedment.
So he had to add maven dependency to his project generate ton of code, to create his objects, retrieve all them and do the computation in the Speedment optimized functions.
So with his goal to use as less code as possible, he had to add third party library that added tons of code that he did not count in the lines of code that was written.
Seems a bit like self promotion and unfair to be honest.
The basic idea is that it is wasting time.
But this is no longer a factor as the gear change is instantaneous with Automatic GearBox.
Electric cars do not have a gearbox and just have one rotor.
This does place them in a disadvantage when starting though as there acceleration is affected.
Formula E cars, have started using a 3 gearbox for their cars in order to have a faster start.
So it is possible that the Roadster does have a gearbox.
Although the iPhones might get updated for 5 years that does not make them fast.
Each update makes the older device slower which at a point it becomes unusable.
A 3 year old device just cant compare with the increase in features, how a newer device can.
But for Android, it all comes down to the provider. This has always been the issue.
I have a Nexus 6 running 7.1 and working just fine. I could use it for another year if i wanted but it does show signals of getting old.
People used to change iphone every year as they did with Android.
I believe that this is coming to an end and people will keep there phones longer as they become much more expensive (X:1100+, note8:1050, etc) and the increase in hardware is not that massive any more.
We both have anecdotal evidence so we can disagree all week without each of us being right globally.
I am yet to ever see a slow iPhone in my life though, anecdotal evidence or not.
Maybe you were looking at iPhone 5 or 5S. From 6 and on, they are quite long-lasting and many people hold on to them for a long time without complaints.
Nexus is not a good example from your side. It's more the exception than the rule. Have you looked at the wild landscape of most of Android land? Phones get abandoned in less than a year. That's the norm in Android.
Nexii and Pixels are the outliers.
EDIT #1: Nexus 6 should theoretically now be abandoned by Google in terms of new Android versions, same as 5X and 6P. Last two should have one more year of security updates though.
EDIT #2: "increase in features" in smartphones hasn't been happening in a while. It's been mostly rebranding of a little bit more battery-efficient SoCs, at least in Android. Apple is showing gradual increase in single-core performance, and I can't deny that my Mi 6 (using Snapdragon 835) is snappy as hell. So IMO you're half-right: people will hold on to devices for longer since they're very expensive now, but there's another half: many people, me included, feel the smartphone hype is over and that the OEMs have nothing to show except flashier displays, maybe faster SoCs, and prettier outer shells. Thus I want to buy a longer-lasting device. And that ain't any device in Android, sadly. I am not a huge fan of Apple but the durability and high performance retention (the point you're questioning) seem to be an accepted fact, so I'll go with them.
Although i believe that Universal basic income will one day be available to everyone, we simply are not ready for it yet.
The full automation of jobs is still years and years away.
When we start running out of jobs for people then our government might start considering it.
As i see it this experiments will have little effect in the whole idea of the UBI. If someone guarantees you an extra income for only a year, then you wont really change your whole life. You might do an extra trip, purchase something that you wanted but never could but nothing life changing.
The problem is that we are pilling into cities where land is minimal and thus the market works in supply and demand.
Hopefully as years pass, where remote work is more and more accessible you can be owning your own 1 euro or whatever home in any area and not worry about limited land.