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I understand something like a GMC Suburban or a Cadillac Escalade, but the Porsche Macan (in article thumbnail) and many other compact SUVs take up the same curb space and about the same weight and length as a standard sedan.

• Porsche Macan (SUV): 4400lbs, 186.1"
• Honda CRV (SUV): 3285lbs, 184.8"
• Audi A4 (sedan): 3700lbs, 187.5"
• Pegeout 508 (sedan): 3290lbs, 187"

vs

• Cadillac Escalade (SUV): 6200lbs, 211"
• Range Rover (SUV): 6025lbs, 207"

Unless they put weighted meters at every parking space, would be interesting to see how they enforce this. Compact-SUVs are useful and are well equipped for their weight (AWD, safety features, space-efficient).

Here is a cool chart showing weight vs road wear. Not sure how scientific it is, but shows cars around 4000lbs are considered normal wear.

Unless the goal is to move drivers to the subcompact-sedan form factor.

• Mini Cooper: 3144lbs, 159.1"
• Citreon C3: 2226lbs, 156.7"

Then they could make low cost parking spaces ~170" long and any cars that do not fit in that would have to go in the bigger spaces with a higher rate. Very curious how they would implement it without costing the tax payer too much.

I'd call the genre cowboy bebop, but wouldn't want to insult the show

Sounds like you are a real pleasant person to work with

I appreciate your opinion. I know that the qualification I made is a controversial one as everyone wants to be an 'engineer', but I'm still confident it holds. Applying physics is not purely at the atomic level. In web development, one of the physical challenges can be bandwidth, however, while most people claim to concerned about bandwidth, in reality they don't do anything about it. Minifying code is cool, but that's not doing any engineering by itself. Calculating the throughput your datacenter can dish out for your 1million users as you write a function that optimizes load vs lag of streaming video, that's engineering.

Thinking about user interaction and experience is more psychological than it is physical in most cases. Designing the user experience of a medical device or cockpit switch are both not automatically qualified for engineering: unless, you are designing the medical interface to overcome spasms that someone with Parkinson's has, or, the cockpit switch is designed with a plastic mix to survive the temperature, vibration or weight requirement, it's going to be more of an art-than-science. I'm not saying one is worse, but we need to make the distinction between designers, developers, scientists and engineers.

I understand that everyone wants to be an engineer, whether for pride or just to feel more important (hell I want the engineer title too). Unfortunately, the tech industry (with arguably one of the most conflated egos) liberally tossed around software engineering to every role to attract talent and I don't see that changing. It's a profession, so whatever you are being paid to do will determine if you are engineering

I typically tell people that engineering is applying physics. If you aren't directly interacting with the physical world, you are most likely a developer.

Working on an app, no matter how complex (or unessarily convoluted) generally makes you a developer. If you aren't thinking about impact of clock cycles, actuation/hardware interfaces or sensing, there is a high chance that the work you do has little to no risk or a chance of failure that is governed by the physical world. As said in other comments, engineers design and sign off on things. There is an implication that there is an unknown constraint, unlike a fully observable software environment.

Curious why the down votes? I think it's fair to say this news has been pretty remarkable and has even made it on the news stations. I think a lot of people are probably learning his name right now and makes him seem 'valuable' if the board asks him to come back.

Hmm I wouldn't say left vs right wing is equivalent to some videogame good vs evil slider. Everyone can be selfish, it's not a 'right wing' trait. To enjoy a respite from feeling unsafe, having human defecation on the street, and being yelled at for no particular reason doesn't make you a sinner.

While I agree we should be solving the root problem of homelessness equitably, the headline is misleading as I know many people on the left were also happy to have clean streets for a while.

I have run payroll myself. When you run payroll, a company pays taxes to the government. Every paycheck. There are taxes the company is liable for and not employees.

But companies also pay taxes before even paying you. So they'll pay 140k to pay you 120k which you'll earn 100k (along those lines)