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https://archive.is/JC2lo

They're not being held back by anti-progress haters, they're just straight-up ignoring the environmental agreement they voluntarily signed.

When companies have complete disregard for public welfare and dump the cost onto everyone else, that damage needs to be part of their value equation.

FTA -

That agreement, signed by a Boring executive in 2022, was intended to compel the company to comply with state water pollution laws. Instead, state inspectors documented nearly 100 alleged new violations of the agreement.

https://archive.is/DfOPg

I fail to see how the percentage of foreign born citizens is a problem in any way.

Americans don’t want economic growth, or don’t want foreigners in the country?

I feel like we should be honest - Americans are perfectly comfortable picking and choosing when laws get enforced. We do it all the time. We don’t treat every law as sacred. Enforcement is selective in a million other areas, from antitrust to wage theft to pollution. Nobody insists those must be pursued to the letter every single time.

So why single out immigration as the one area where “the law is the law” trumps any rational or humane appeal? It starts to look less like a principled stand on legal consistency and more like a cultural preference. One that just happens to line up with race and class anxieties rather than some universal devotion to the rule of law.

Norms and goalposts aside, what’s the value in adopting a formal policy of harassment against non-criminal, non-violent workers?

Congress can debate immigration laws on the books, but this cultural shift seems to be something else entirely. Instead of measured enforcement, it appears to be the normalization of cruelty. We're punishing people who are part of the workforce contributing to our country's economic output.

Seems like the real question is, what do we get out of this? Because it doesn't appear to be aligned with security or prosperity. It's just needless suffering, bureaucracy, and wasted resources.

https://archive.is/6rEAl

Maybe Musk should have done that review before firing all of those FAA employees last month. Maybe those jobs were important.

Compared to what, just rolling the dice? SpaceX isn't the only shop that can deliver against requirements.

Procurement bids should be transparent and avoid the illusion of conflict. This is the complete opposite of that. It's hard to take Musk's campaign against "fraud and waste" serious when he's awarding the contracts to himself.

The quote from Duffy indicates that the SpaceX team doesn't have any real knowledge about or experience with the FAA systems. Seems like they're being brought in just because they're a Musk company.

seems like we're ok crossing the line of "some people need killing," we just have rules on who's allowed to do it and the paperwork needed.

In the last 50 years, over 1600 murderers have been murdered by the state. It's a question of authority, not justification, and I think that's a much less meaningful distinction.

The fact that there's so little sympathy for the death of a CEO who, in their view, callously discards human life tells us the authority is a much smaller dealbreaker than the justification.

https://archive.is/Z0yFU

It's animating outwards. The article highlights how they're interfering with FEMA, sending death threats to meteorologists, and generally making things harder for disaster responders.

Blocks are (were) an easy line of defense for most of the lazy trolling. People could get around it but few bothered.

It might have not been ideologically consistent but it was effective.

I feel like The Atlantic has really declined. Every once in a while they'll put out something interesting, but for the most part their entire model appears to be writing for an aging population who is scared of change in the world.

https://archive.is/AXsHD

I think this just pushes the unsolved part to the middle. We'll never have an undisputed definition of the real world, as it is.

Clear cases like chinese NBA players aren't contested, but ugly social issues with layers of abstraction and contradiction.

I don't see how you can solve that problem without inserting bias in a different direction.

Seems like this could be one of the mechanisms to encourage that transition.

One persons stunt is another's advocacy.

I like quick low-stakes browser games like this, something fun and fast to wake up your brain with morning coffee. If interested, here are some others I've come across -

Linxicon - build bridges between two words (https://linxicon.com)

WhenTaken - use clues to guess where and when a photo was taken (https://whentaken.com)

Angle - guess the exact arc angle (https://angle.wtf)

Metazooa - deduce the animal species (https://metazooa.com)

Tradle - guess the country by its exports (https://games.oec.world/en/tradle)

Globle - find the country by proximity (https://globle-game.com)

https://archive.is/20240517211734/https://www.theatlantic.co...

they were gratuitously and violently destroyed, with shrapnel and debris flying in all directions.

these hydraulic press videos are popular because they crush things. they don't create artful unions, they pulverize.

a16z has halved their yearly rate of investor-led rounds. Are half of their 150 partners still doing "real work?"

Of course it would be silly for an outsider without any real knowledge of their complex operations to hazard such a guess.

I think there's a fair debate to be had around google's use of 3rd pty content especially in an age of AMP links and rich results.

Though I agree ancestry.com is following pretty standard practices here (they're not charging, robots.txt is followed, sources are attributed and linked).

But all of those things directly affect their every day lives. Your experience and the assumptions you've drawn are not representative for large swaths of america.

Almost none of a person's daily life is dominated by racial issues

I won't presume to know your race but many americans do not live with such comfort. Studies have documented how race is correlated to outcomes in everyday encounters such as traffic stops, employment interviews, rental applications, health care treatment, and school performance.

I would've thought a stopped vehicle without any visible lights would be much easier to detect with a lidar/sensor based system vs human reaction.

Do these platforms like BlueDrive and FSD not constantly survey the distance of objects in front of and around you? Or do they still rely on visuals like tail lights?

You can see this in the large outlier on Feb 12 2017, which coincided with a storm that delayed trash pickup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_12%E2%80%9314,_2017_N...

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-snowstorm-cleanup/

I think the risk to the carmaker is your customers getting used to the apple infotainment system. Maybe they start to see the car as less a Fiat and more an Apple car. Then the exclusive expires or needs to be renegotiated.