This would create incentive to kill people

So does life insurance.. but we still have that.

What we don't have anymore though because of that, is tontines.

Never heard of it, so just googled, but it's not obvious why these would be more preferable to annuities. As you get older above about 75, people tend to spend a lot less in general (assuming they don't need care support), so getting more money when you're unlikely to spend it anyway seems pointless.

I'd speculate that the regular payments on annuities would therefore be higher than tontines because insurance companies would be able to factor in average life expectancy to the pricing more easily, rather than having to budget for possibly all the money continuing to be paid out to just one remaining person who happened to beat the odds and live well beyond 100 instead of the average around mid-80s.

They are still around.

And common if you count retirement funds.

I would change it to "the expected natural life of the author" which is their birthday + 85 years. Regardless of whether they actually are still alive past that date.

So if an 86 year old writes a book they can't copyright it?

This can't work: life expectancy (of humans) can differ more than 30 years around the world, plus there are significant differences between men and women, and corporations - which often own copyright on work for hire - can live in perpetuity.

I would accept that as well, but crank it down to like 62 years since their date of birth, presumably by the time they would retire.

What?

Think this through some more.

Authors and artists are still creating after that age.

not really, when copyright disappears, so does the profit motive

sure, you don't have to pay royalties, but any other publisher can now publish too

so people feel better about having kids when its riskier?

Imagine shooting down a helicopter above your house, people r crazy

Helicopters typically contain people, drones do not.

$8000 is nothing for most companies, if you have 10 developers making 100k a year your burn rate is $4000 a day just for salaries.

$8000 also seems pretty cheap for 2PB of traffic? Looking at google cloud storage egress rates, $0.02/GiB (which is on the lower end, since it depends on destination) would be about $40k for 2PB.

You can see the consequences of this playing out in highly developed countries

At least they have an FAQ about it... not that I endorse ads baked into your TV

I have an iPhone with a lightning connector. I use a wireless charger at home and in my car, and AirPods pros. I used to charge with a cable, but I wash my phone regularly under the faucet and then the phone does not like to charge or corrodes the cheap cables if there is liquid remaining in there.

I exclusively wireless charge now, and happily continue keeping my phone clean.

The faucet seems a bit drastic. I got a 1L (about 32oz?) spray bottle of Isopropyl alcohol, and use a small spray amount onto a microfiber cloth to clean iPhone and iPad screens. It’s really cheap and seems to last a long time, as only a small amount is needed.

It will degrade the oleophobic coating of the screens quicker, but I figured that would wear off over time anyway. So far it’s been really effective at wiping off all greasy fingermarks in seconds. I like the window/glass type microfiber cloth for this.

Thought this was sarcasm till the end. Good idea

This could be series or sarcasm

Please no more mandated insurance programs.

insurers can be quite good at enforcing quality standards