KorematsuFred

Agreed but I am pointing this out because the claim here is that Tesla's autopilot managed to keep lane on a relatively simple mountain road. Different drivers might get very different impression from the title.

May be. We have not seen future. But that is not the point and a person who is claiming there is "zero evidence" is mistaking absence of evidence to evidence of absence. Arsetechnica has published several articles on this topic in past and are available to read on Wikiepedia page for the OS.

General information suggests this is one of those long term things if successful would be massively game changing.

> Google develop 3+ different OS's?

It wont. From what I understand this new OS will replace others over time. Also it is way better than existing options.

I have never understood the demand for "right to repair" laws any ways. Don't you know the terms of repair before you buy the device ? Simply don't buy an iphone if you want to repair it yourself. If there is enough market for repairable devices someone will make them eventually otherwise you are only imposing a huge compliance cost on everyone else and slow down innovation for many companies.

Also would like to point out that if you think the road is dangerous please keep you hands on the wheel. It is irresponsible and you might get charged with reckless driving even if it is was otherwise a genuine accident.

Since when did drive to Santa Cruz became "dangerous" let alone "one of the dangerous" ?

However I agree that if you find that drive "dangerous" you are probably a far below average driver and hence Tesla might do better.

It is very natural. Land can be used for multiple purposes. 100 years ago agriculture was very important activity and it made sense to own more rural land. Today the amount of money I spent on buying a tiny house in Palo Alto would buy me 50acre ranch in Texas. But I am not interested that as that 50 acre ranch is unlikely to be a valuable asset 20 years down the line.

From what I know in India Churches owns more land that Indian Army.

Good for Facebook. It is also a high time American government stepped up its game to protect American company's interest from overzealous and corrupt governments around the world.

We do not know. I am sure the banning email must have mentioned something but it was far too vague and non-actionable for us.

I think it is very healthy and good for major companies like Facebook or Youtube to create kids versions of their apps to keep our kids safe, to make sure parents understand what their kids do online and also to have better compliance with law.

The government on other hand is hell bent on destroying some of the most successful american comapnies at the expense of its citizens.

Facebook surely needs to figure out a way to break the duopoly of application walled gardens otherwise it will remain at the mercy of Google and Apple who are only going to tighten the screws going forward.

Google is pretty good at weeding out bad players and all these bad examples are often on margin. Unfortunately the bad guys are getting more and more sophisticated. Google is not entitled to admit every publisher into their program but needs to provide enough assurance to advertisers that their money will be well spent. Hence they are likely to make mistakes on side of caution. This hurts developers like us but it benefits a business like Google.

Sadly, there is no clear quality alternative to Google as of today. I have worked for the adnetworks that boast to be second to Google but in reality are pretty disgusting and filled with crappy advertisers and even shady publishers.

We have done this in past. At one point we had 4 LLCs with 4 adsense accounts each making $30K per day. There was nothing fishy here it was perfectly legal and 100% legitimate traffic. Over time we even split our large website into multiple domains under these 4 accounts to make them profitable. Google eventually banned all 4 over time without ever telling us why. We shut down out company eventually.

This in general is sound advice however most large cos will have the ability to detect cluster of ids that are owned by same person.

- Beware of impersonation. It is a felony offense. When you create accounts give the same first name and last name. There are many forms where you have to answer questions like "Have you ever used any other alias?". While 99% of times it is fine, there are rare cases where you might get into trouble. I know some people who did.

Sorry that is misinformation. The article you have quoted is also completely incoherent. What is the point of comparing dates of when India placed first order with when UK targets complete vaccination ?

- The Indian government had never placed a substantial order or prepaid for an order to the SII in order to ramp up production until the numbers started spiking.

India had placed order for 14M vaccines in January. an by March 16 had placed order for around 120M vaccines. Cases spiked after that.

- The SII at one point was running out of storage space so they resorted to selling to western countries at higher margin to free up some space and get more capital.

The space has nothing to do with the exports. SII is obligated to export vaccines as per their licensing terms with AZ. (Indian government might engage in coercion and prevent them from honoring it, but that is a different tale).

> https://i.redd.it/r4ybk9b3w3u61.jpg

This article is some kind of shoddy job of stiching unrelated facts to create a story.

Indian government made a major goof up. They put unreasonable price controls on the vaccine manufacturer and harassed a lot of people involved in the process. With low price controls there was no way for SII to raise capital, not to mention their gamble of stockpiling vaccines did not pay off because of that. Indian government passed down the responsibility of subsidizing the vaccine to SII instead of taking it on itself.

Some government folks even openly wondered why GoI should even bother paying SII. This is the old socialist mentality.

Yes. This is an important point to note. USA is sitting on 30M pile of AstraZeneca vaccine which is not even approved in USA. They could have simply sold it to India.

USA is also stockpiling, glass, containers and other raw material which USA is not technically short of.

On top of this German Chancellor yesterday said that "we allowed India to become a pharma powerhouse but now we have to rethink". This is because India is producing cheaper vaccine.

The whole thing is a sham. If you don't have ration card you can still buy it by paying a higher price to the 'dealer' who then secretly puts it under the account of someone else who is probably dead.

None of that you have stated is even remotely relevant to the discussion at hand but appears like a bait for some kind of flamewar. I will not take this bait.

> Should the same litmus test apply to your post about the Indian condition?

Obviously. But my post is about not making assumptions about what poor people want and rather trust that they have an agency.

I do acknowledge the difference, what I am trying to highlight that perhaps dole is not what they want. Perhaps the poor people are not interested in staying indoors in return for dole and would rather risk their lives to seek things that value more than dole. It is not the lack of dole that is causing the failure of lockdowns.

I was born poor. One american idea that does resonate with me after coming to USA is that a lot of poor people do not see themselves as poor. While their struggles are real they do not see themselves as losers but rather see themselves as strugglers who will eventually make it some day. They make life better for themselves and others. That was the case with my family. We lived in a house whose floor was basically painted with cowdung, roof leaked, we could not afford meat and we borrowed newspapers from others to read. Yet, not once we would call ourselves poor and demand that someone else take care of us. It would be insulting for our pride.

A lot of well off people in India and USA automatically think of poor people as losers or without agency. They then propose that government must help them. Guess what, other than a small fraction of poor people most DO NOT want that help. They would rather prefer to do what they want to do. Poor people do not want your food, clothing and shelter, they have their own desires. We can not possibly know what they are.

India is an extremely social country and lockdowns have much bigger costs for people. If people are angry and fed up and willing to risk their lives, I can understand. I do not think assurance of food or money per month will keep them indoors.

What we need is some humility to recognize that just because someone else has less money than we do, that does not reduce their self worth or gives us the right to know "what they need".

PS. Shortage of food was not a problem in India during last lockdown it is not a problem today either. Food Corporation of India has a record stockpile of rice right now.

This might sound like a dark humor but yesterday the issue of Oxygen shortage came up in Supreme Court of India. (For the uninitiated Indian Supreme Court acts a bit like village elder where they can give any random order to government for any reason even if there is no actual lawsuits under consideration.)

Supreme court asked Government what their plan to increase Oxygen supply is and if they are planning to import it. The government's response is that they have floated a "tender" and have received 3-4 quotes. (Note that, many hospitals in India right now have < 24 hours of Oxygen supply).

Supreme court then asked government to force steel and petrolium factories to divert their oxygen to hospitals because steel and petrolium is not important. :)

> you would lock down and provide income/food/capabilities for people to live regardless of their social/economic status.

You are mistaking democracy with other virtues. income/food/capabilities do not come from thin air, it is eventually generated by people and under lockdowns when most economy is at a standstill this is incredibly difficult. So even the "redistribution" does not work that well. India is also a far poorer country so there is not much to distribute in first place.

> locking down isn't why poor people hurt, locking down and doing nothing to feed them does.

What we need is some humility that we do not fully understand what others need and the only way to find it out is by giving people freedom. Poor people in India right now do not want anyone's alms. They are more interested into going out, doing what they want to do rather than just get food clothing and shelter. The previous lockdown did ensure that everyone had food clothing and shelter through government and private charity efforts but people were in general pretty upset.

I think we should stop assigning blame to democracy just because realities don't match up our expectations, partly because we are not infinitely smart to understand what other people want.

EU is not a country. It is a maze of red tape that applies its regulations to its subjects without any consequences to themselves or any accountability what so ever. UK left EU for a a reason and more countries will follow suite soon.

> The first term makes it possible to buy everything under the sun and the latter makes it advantageous to do so. We've already seen this in media; but Congress likes the idea of having Disney be the cultural imperialism arm of the US Government. Congress also liked the idea of Big Tech being it's propaganda arm for a while, too; until they realized that Big Tech wasn't going to play ball in the same way Hollywood does.

All these are good things for USA. USA burning its tech sector might be good for EU but not good for Americans.

20 years later some nativist American politician will ask why USA is not a leader in tech anymore and will run on 'Make America Geek Again' campaign.

This is a race to bottom where US is finally competing with Europe.

> "The Americans, the FBI, the CIA and everything else, they were brilliant. I mean, I fell in love with America, because I've never been treated so well," he said. "Everybody there really looked after me. And they just thought, oh, it's this silly kid getting himself into trouble."

Hell ya. Imagine that happening in 2020.

> But surely we can come up with a better comparison than one of the most evil secret police regimes ever to exist.

So we have to be thankful that we are "allowed" to spend our life's saving on fighting a lawsuits against a trillon dollar government ?

For every such case there are probably 100 other people who folded. There is no difference between those cases and cases where stasi might have done the same thing. It is 100% same.

> but it overlooks the ability of corporations to game the system via one or two self-interested jurisdictions.

This is a feature of the market system and not a bug.

> Some jurisdictions don't provide much in the way of public goods (small island states) or see an opportunity to raise some modest taxes on money they would otherwise never see (eg the Netherlands).

Again, this is a feature and not a bug.

> So you end up with the (individual) taxpayers of some countries subsidising these corporations, other countries profiting modestly and the corporations keeping most of the tax money.

I do not understand the use of the word "subsidy" here. Corporations are keeping the money they have earned themselves is not a subsidy. Not to mention all the money that corporations earn eventually belongs to the individuals who receive them in the form of dividends or capital gains.

> A rational country in the this market would set taxes to balance out the public goods provided.

There is zero restraint on what is a "public good". Governments like to take over everything and control everything. Without corporations being able to influence policy and be able to move their money abroad we would end up in pretty bad state like California where you spend billions of dollars on a high speed train that goes from nowhere to nowhere and will never really complete to transport anything useful.

I am not sure why leaving more money in hands of people like Joe Biden or Donald Trump should be seen as anything but pure evil at this point.

Sure but then the US military and its associated establishment surely seems like one of those malevolent people in the world.

US taxpayer money is being spent in protecting Saudi Arabia and Pakistan two largest sponsors of all kind of Salafi terrorism all around the world. Most of the terrorists were funded and armed by USA.

Entire south american political instability has USA behind it.

IBM was at no fault to work with Nazi Germany. What appears wrong in hindsight may not be that clear during those times.

Note: US government funded and fueled Taliban that eventually resulted in 9/11.