maybe not starve, but should scientists live in poverty?

the driver and the pedestrian both

I suspect they have a long tail problem with FSD. It might work fine 99% but that's simply not good enough.

what labor issues and regulatory roadblocks? the man is halfway to becoming a trillionaire. if anything there wasn't enough labor legislation and more regulation to spread the wealth a bit

elon could just as easily be producing EV cars as a single digit billionaire

I'm more than happy to criticize Elon, but seeing as he's only getting richer, I don't think he needs my advice.

But in this post, I'm criticizing people who demonize Tesla to stick it to Elon. That's going to hurt efforts to combat climate change. If you think billionaires getting richer is a bigger problem than climate change, I understand. But that's why global warming is getting worse--because even climate activists would rather fight different battles.

elon/tesla is not the only EV manufacturer, so idk why you are insisting on framing elon/tesla as some kind of climate messiah... in fact elon helped elect the most climate change denialist president in recent history so one might argue elon is actively hurting the global warming fight...

But that’s my argument. Having Elon support Trump was bad for the environment! We should have done more to keep him on our side!

I call your Frank Herbert machine dystopia and raise you the Ian Banks machine utopia...

I'm gonna call that raise: How does one get to the anarchist Culture when all the machines are being built by profit-hungry capitalists?

We build our own with data that we've collected ourselves ethically. Then we execute once the big guys are distracted.

the "protect da kids" narrative is just a veil to make us give up more privacy and freedom for "security"

a simple this seems odd / messy / un-pythonic is often enough

I mean China is not exactly a poster child for a benevolent hegemon - tibet / taiwan / uyghurs to name a few

all 3 places you mentioned have been integrated into china longer than the us has been a country

Are you trying to say that excuses the human rights violations happening there?

Besides, you're comparing it with the US which is also known for its human rights violations ever since the continent was discovered.

Is commit history that useful? I never wanted to look up anything in it that couldn't be solved with git log | grep xyz...

No-ish if you work by yourself, yes if you work with anybody else.

it's not just newspeak though. names matter. an advanced civilization, which USA being the richest country on Earth is, should not strive to get into offensive wars...

Richest, clearly.

Advanced? No free healthcare, no paid maternity leave, two weeks paid leave, no free higher education, etc etc.