I don't have first hand knowledge, but I've heard they have major bureaucracy and logistics problem.
Is there any news on this front?
Upping their military spending is great, given some certain people a bit further east. Unfortunately if bureaucracy limits things, it might not be so great
The author's used statistical control methods for socioeconomic factors.
Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to measure the strength of associations between adolescent cannabis use and incident psychiatric diagnoses, with adjustments for sex, race and ethnicity, neighborhood deprivation index, insurance type, and time-varying alcohol and other substance use.
I think this is the study. They controlled statistically for a variety of factors that various people in this post are assuming had interactions.
Also, the author's are from a variety of reputable universities and institutions in California.
Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to measure the strength of associations between adolescent cannabis use and incident psychiatric diagnoses, with adjustments for sex, race and ethnicity, neighborhood deprivation index, insurance type, and time-varying alcohol and other substance use.
I think Google should have enough data by now though. If you put a residential address in, probably easy to park.
If someone puts in a theatre and then spends 20 min driving around the center/downtown, they are probably parking. Then you can count the walking time at well.
Same for someone parking at giant American Walmart with a huge lot. Google can track and already tell what mode of vehicle you are using. They do the statistics to estimates parking times under various conditions.
It won't solve it in rural places, but even in Europe people sometimes thing driving is faster, when it's not. In California cities, I remember buses were often very fast, but people don't believe it because they go off Google maps and ignore parking
Sen. Wyden’s proposed Billionaires Income Tax (BIT) would tax the wealth gains of billionaires and those with consistent income above $100 million. Currently, such investment gains are only taxed if the underlying asset is sold. But the ultrawealthy don’t have to sell to benefit. They can secure low-interest loans secured against their rising fortunes and live luxuriously tax-free. Under Wyden’s plan, such wealth-growth income would be taxed every year just like worker wages are now. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated this proposal would raise $557 billion in new revenue over the next decade from just a small number of ultra-wealthy oligarchs.
I don't like wealth tax for a number of reasons, but a capital gains tax on unrealized gains that phases in after a certain amount seems very fair. The phasing in is important because average people's homes and other assets should be untouched imo, but after a certain amount of unrealized income it should be.
I'd also suggest taxing secured low interest loans as a form of realized capital gains.
I would also suggest allowing taxes to be paid in stock shares (eg. not USD). It might prevent liquidity market issues
For work. The code goes like 8 levels of abstraction. I'm trying to figure out how to unravel it.
Even a code flow/branching diagram would help I think