Yeah, California utilities are spending a lot on wildfire prevention because they’ve repeatedly sparked fires that burned down towns. Makes electricity expensive for everyone

I believe it is mostly nitrogen fertilizer that’s in short supply, not potassium.

I treat numeric estimates of launchers destroyed very skeptically. The US has a history of double-counting and counting decoys.

I do expect that a lot are being destroyed, but its a very far cry from that to claiming that the Iranians won’t be in a position to have a lot go through in a few days

You can’t register it for on-road use, with an exception for automakers who agree to destroy the car within a year.

Yeah. It imposes a huge set of risks for leadership if that surveillance system is compromised.

Those have the same problem, but less concentrated ownership

Globally, the Chinese automakers are taking a huge chunk of market share.

They’re effectively banned in the US, which is why you can’t buy a decent new car for $7000

For a lot of people, the main risk with a taxi is being attacked by the driver.

Not exactly; they’ve got a remote worker facility where they’ve got about 1 person per 100 cars, who maps out what to do in situations where the software can’t handle it, but doesn’t do a full-on remote-drive. This enables them to gracefully handle the long tail of situations the software can’t do yet, so long as not every car hits it at once (as with, say, a power outage causing all traffic lights to fail in San Francisco, or flash flooding causing issues all over Phoenix)

Depends on whose. The Waymo ones do remarkably well. Other makers aren’t nearly as good.

Not a chance of that happening. Too many groups in the mideast want to kill their neighbors or impose their version of religion on everybody else. Way more likely to end up with a bunch of places that have flipped oppressor and oppressed but are just as bad as they were

Problem is that even when guilt is crystal-clear, that’s not enough to result in consequences

Turns out it had a view count limit that I didn’t notice. Here’s an archived copy; not a completely trustworthy archive, but they seem to be accurate on this one.

ICE doesn’t actually wear badges as a rule; they usually just have a mask and body armor, with other clothing being random, often military-style items. Their body armor may say "police " or “dhs” but usually does not even say “ICE”

There’s no real way to tell them from cartel gunmen.

The local cops also bear significant blame here; they took a cane from a blind man and beat him up and arrested him because they didn’t have a language in common with the victim. This is what led to ICE taking him

There are very different levels of responsibility for different people. Dude who started shooting is going to prison. Folks who showed up dressed in black but had no idea what was coming should not.

I think they’d be happy do deport all the brown people and use people from southern Europe as slaves

I think it’s more like Thiel looking for any reason whatsoever to take down Gawker.

There are regular protests outside their main engineering office in Palo Alto.

More that congress operates on a go-along-to-get-along basis by default, and it takes some serious popular rage to change that

They respond to public pressure. We didn’t have that at the necessary scale at the beginning