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> Jesse Lyu trusts his Tesla’s “self-driving” technology

Why? The guy he bought it from doesn't.

Musk says he is a technologist. Musk says he knows a lot about computers. Musk says the last thing he would do is trust a computer program:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-pushes-debunked-...

The "but that's not the real Musk" game doesn't work anymore. They aren't "ill-advised" retweets. They are who and what he is. Increasingly they are all he is. Musk is the crank on Twitter.

Musk spends all day, every day showing you who and what he is. Believe him.

Here are two exercises for you:

1. Musk is keen on criticizing many governments, both foreign and domestic. Can you find for me a single criticism of the Chinese government from Musk?

2. Musk likes to spread conspiracy theories. Musk says he is a technologist. Musk says he knows a lot about computers. Musk says the last thing he would do is trust a computer program:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-pushes-debunked-...

Can you reconcile Musk's position that he would never trust a computer program with his claim that Tesla has a full-self driving computer program that does full autonomy (this time for sure!) and everyone should trust it (it will save lives!) and buy it and rent it and hail a robotaxi?

> A weak Europe is in the interest of those for whom regulation is an inappropriate limitation of their power

It is the natural instinct of oligarchs everywhere.

The solution is don't buy the products of the companies Musk is associated with.

The article talks about Musk's attacks on free speech, including his SLAPP lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

The more I hear about this Elon guy the less I like him.

Not many people use Emacs and the ones that do don't need support.

Ukraine would love it even more if Russia got out of their country.

The war can end tomorrow. All Russia needs to do is get out of Ukraine. All of it.

Easy to do, simple to achieve. No more Russians or North Koreans need to die.

> Trump told the court that TikTok was an important platform for his presidential campaign and that he should be the one to make the call on whether TikTok should remain in the US—not the Supreme Court.

That's all it comes down to really. Trump's interest ahead of any national interest.

Myanmar is precisely the example. You could not have picked a better example to make my case.

> For that, you'd need (at least two) roughly equally matched adversaries controlling the armed forces.

Or you have a military weakened and degraded by a pointless war of choice in Ukraine.

And you have many armies controlled by oligarchs and warlords looking after their own interests (like Prigozhin).

And you have many separatist movements, such has for example a movement for Siberian independence.

And you have a power vacuum after the head of a mafia-style state is deposed or dies.

After Putin all bets are off.

Exactly this is happening in Myanmar right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42572620

Precisely this situation is unfolding in Myanmar right now. The junta is so weakened that they have no choice but to turn to China. Chinese troops will be in Myanmar soon to protect Chinese infrastructure investment:

https://www.rfa.org/english/opinions/2024/11/23/opinion-myan...

https://theconversation.com/chinese-security-companies-are-p...

https://www.voanews.com/a/china-backed-election-raises-fears...

If Russia decides to have a civil war, China will do the same in Russia.

Then you have oligarchy.

That would make the answer "no". Putin's Russia will end with Putin because it has the same problem that all autocratic regimes have: succession.

After Putin, the oligarchs will scrabble about trying to get the most of what's left. If it gets really bad Russia will descend into civil war. Russia just recently had a mini-civil war with Prigozhin's rebellion.

If Russia ends up in civil war then China will invade Siberia under the guise of peace keeping to secure the resources it currently depends on from Russia.

China will cut deals with whichever oligarchs win out and part of the deal will be that China takes territory that they see as historically Chinese (such as Outer Manchuria).

You can build a ternary computer if you want. Donald Knuth would approve.

> But intelligence agencies insist on having access to innocent citizens' conversations.

Intelligence agencies also stockpile software vulnerabilities that they don't report to the vendor because they want to exploit the security flaw themselves.

We'll never have a secure internet when it's being constantly and systematically undermined.

> or watching a movie in a bed

The battery doesn't last the length of a movie? Are you getting hardware decoding of the video?

> What this means for Brewer is that even if he does achieve his asking price, he will still be walking away with little to no profit after a decade of ownership. 'Given the amount we paid for the flat and have invested in its renovation, I would have expected to put it on for £5 million ($6.25 million), not £4 million ($5.02 million),' he said

So.. he'll remain as rich as he is. Oh noes, the humanity.

Thunderbird: https://www.thunderbird.net

A guide on using iCloud Contacts in Thunderbird: https://danielbrinneman.com/2022/12/12/sync-icloud-contacts-...

Well, you can do the C implementation then.

Don't see it as a problem, see it as an opportunity.

> none of Tesla's investors have pulled Musk aside for an intervention

This one is complaining publicly:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-stock-price-...

> Okay, maybe this doesn’t belong on a list about JavaScript, but we really could use a little less JavaScript. Of course, I am referring to WebAssembly,

Yes, but the proper answer is a lot less JavaScript. WebAssembly is the brighter future.

I can develop in all languages on the desktop. WebAssembly similarly enables all languages on the web.

Not true. The way you can stay in business is by socializing your costs. The more handouts and subsidies you can get from government, the longer you can stay in business despite the inefficiencies of your business.

Walmart and McDonald's are good examples of this.

Right, like how Walmart and McDonald's are subsidized by taxpayers.

Businesses like Walmart and McDonald's should pay their own costs without relying on the crutch of the public purse.

If these businesses are so inefficient that they can't survive without handouts then it is good and proper and correct that they die off and be replaced by more efficient businesses.

So, straightforwardly, you believe Walmart operates the stores it does, employees the people it does, and has the profit it does because of taxpayer subsidies. And you're happy to take on the cost of that welfare even if you don't shop at Walmart because Walmart is so inefficient that without state subsidies it would no longer operate or employee anyone. And you must protect Walmart from its own incompetence and distort the market so Walmart doesn't have to pay its true costs and so it can survive.

You probably don't think of yourself as a socialist but socialism is what you're wholeheartedly advocating for here.

And the welfare state you're supporting the worst kind of socialism: corporate handouts for privatized profits and socialized costs.

It's already started. China sees Russia's annexation of Outer Manchuria as a great historical wrong:

https://lansinginstitute.org/2024/02/16/chinas-global-triump...

China has reverted to using Chinese place names for cities and regions in the Far East. e.g. "Vladivostok" is now officially "Haishenwai":

https://cepa.org/article/goodbye-vladivostok-hello-haishenwa...

https://asiatimes.com/2023/03/china-eyes-russias-far-east-re...

Russia is in demographic decline. China simply has more people to throw at the problem, even amid it's own demographic decline:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/russia-tomorr...

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-population-drop-2046-worst-c...

Killing off even more Russians in a pointless war of choice in Ukraine isn't helping matters.

Musk supports and encourages and endorses the Chinese government.

Musk is keen on criticizing many governments, domestic and foreign.

Can you find for me a single criticism of the Chinese government from Musk? I'd like to see it.

Well, there's this:

https://interlinearbooks.com/

> That just makes those people unemployable, and will need food stamps even more. Nobody is going to hire people who cost more than the value they produce.

You're subsidizing those wages with your tax dollars. You're paying billions per year to make those low incomes livable. In the end it's just corporate welfare:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...

https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/a-downward-push-the-impact-...

It's not the case that they wouldn't employ people. They're not employing people now out of the goodness of their heart.

If they paid living wages (as they should) you'd pay less. Good businesses pay their costs.

But as it is, the likes of Walmart and McDonald's are privatizing their profits and socializing their costs.