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New comment by kamarg in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

kamarg — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:23:10 +0000

The city supposedly did an enforcement weekend on it last year. It was so ineffective that the state actually changed registration laws so that you pay the sales tax when you purchase a car at the dealership and then you get your plate in the mail. That doesn't go into effect until late this year and I won't be surprised if it gets pushed back before then.

New comment by kamarg in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

kamarg — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:55:36 +0000

Where I live, it's common to see at least one person run a red at every major intersection and not just for left turns that couldn't be made due to cross-traffic. Quite often these drivers have expired temp tags which means they don't have insurance because you have to show you registered your vehicle to get insurance. Enforcement is awful so people have been trained to realize there's virtually no consequences to their bad habits. And if they do cause an accident, well it's not like the police will show up in time to stop them from driving off.

In fact, it's so bad that parts of the metro are reinstating red light cameras this year despite having decommissioned them years ago for similar legal reasons as what Florida has run into.

New comment by kamarg in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

kamarg — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:51:12 +0000

If you can't tell who was driving, you shouldn't be sending anyone a ticket.

New comment by kamarg in "Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles"

kamarg — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:05:48 +0000

The Hunt brothers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday

New comment by kamarg in "Dude, where's my supersonic jet?"

kamarg — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:26:44 +0000

> This seems incredibly inefficient. Is there a future for hybrid aircraft, which would feature both traditional turbofans and large batteries for energy storage?

I would assume the extra weight would make it not really worth the added cost and complexity.

New comment by kamarg in "The fight between doctors and insurance companies over 'downcoding'"

kamarg — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:47:00 +0000

> Recovery is beyond the scope of most small practices.

Seems like a business opportunity. Could probably work very similar to other collections agencies where they either buy the debt for pennies on the dollar or take a percentage of the collected amount.

New comment by kamarg in "Orcas are bringing humans gifts"

kamarg — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:48:47 +0000

Humpback whales have been known to defend other animals from Orcas. The food of my enemy is my friend type of thing I guess.

New comment by kamarg in "Making Florida More Flood Resistant Is Forcing Hard Choices for Homeowners"

kamarg — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:40:39 +0000

> With such a… fixed opinion, the hidebound government agencies can't allow themselves to think that the overall risk profile has increased

This is only true if policy makers are logically consistent. If they're not then whatever they feel like at the time goes. I don't think it takes much effort to see that logical consistency is not something that is highly valued by the people currently in charge.

New comment by kamarg in "Metamaterials, AI, and the Road to Invisibility Cloaks"

kamarg — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:50:16 +0000

I knew a guy that was extremely upset to find out that there isn't a lenticular garage door product so he could have it display an "animated" image as it opened/closed.

New comment by kamarg in "U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier"

kamarg — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:42:26 +0000

> This means people are okay with whatever is happening

Or it means the game has been rigged which is exactly the point of all the gerrymandering going on right now. Tons of people are not okay with what is happening but their power to replace their government representative has been or is currently being effectively stolen from them.

New comment by kamarg in "Amazon must face US nationwide class action over third-party sales"

kamarg — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:06:22 +0000

A lot of those things require you to give them your email to get the coupon. They could do that with a button as well but couldn't then follow up to let you know you didn't buy anything from them in 24hrs.

New comment by kamarg in "GPT-5"

kamarg — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:24:36 +0000

If the FDA was able to work faster/more parallel and could approve the process significantly quicker, would that have changed how many experiments you could have run to the point that you could have kept an intern busy at all times?

New comment by kamarg in "GPT-5"

kamarg — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:07:09 +0000

> Sure, you can scale it, but if an LLM takes, say, $1 million a year to run an AGI instance, but it costs only $500k for one human researcher, then it still doesn’t get you anywhere faster than humans do.

Just from the fact that the LLM can/will work on the issue 24/7 vs a human who typically will want to do things like sleep, eat, and spend time not working, there would already be a noticeable increase in research speed.

New comment by kamarg in "Human speech may have a universal transmission rate (2019)"

kamarg — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:17:20 +0000

Did you read his followup Echopraxia? How would you say it compared to Blindsight?

New comment by kamarg in "The future is not self-hosted"

kamarg — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:52:39 +0000

Mostly battery life I would think

New comment by kamarg in "Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers"

kamarg — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:20:46 +0000

> What jobs or opportunities were people posting Reddit comments or whatever getting that are now going to AI?

Content writing, product reviews (real & fake), creative writing, customer support, photography/art to name a few off the top of my head.

New comment by kamarg in "ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry"

kamarg — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:03:13 +0000

Good old Microsoft naming. I'll never understand how they can think it's a good idea to release multiple entirely different products and call them all variations of the same thing. One would think they would have solved this problem a decade ago and yet every few years it happens again.

New comment by kamarg in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot"

kamarg — Fri, 23 May 2025 13:46:40 +0000

> the risk should've been the same with google's index, and yet they're dandy!

Sure it should be but reality says Google has many more and probably better lawyers so the risk is clearly different.

New comment by kamarg in "The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule"

kamarg — Mon, 12 May 2025 19:42:44 +0000

Does this fix whatever method companies use to continue billing you monthly when you are issued a new card because the old one was lost/expired/etc?

New comment by kamarg in "More people are getting tattoos removed"

kamarg — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:55:04 +0000

Really depends on where you get it done. On your forearm? Not that bad. On your scalp? Hope you take a stick to bite down on while you get it done.