This easter egg is prominently featured in "Ready Player One", a sci-fi novel released in 2011 that was/is wildly popular among nerds so I guess most people know this little bit of trivia from that book.

For the average driver, who doesn't know how to brake better than ABS

It bears mentioning that when ABS was allowed in Formula-1, every driver used it. I guess that's because Ayrton Senna was a pretty mediocre driver, right?

It's difficult to have those kinds of open discussions because doing so means talking about how the porn industry and its products are often harmful to women.

And how it's different from any other industry?

(Also, why "women" instead of "people"? I don't see the harms of the porn industry to be really gender-specific.)

I know that reading the article is totally unslashdotty, but the article says that Musk *is* paying taxes, $455M in 2014-2018.

I guess it's a bit more nuanced than that.

Facts and figures can be very misleading if missing proper context and / or details so you need a great deal of domain-specific knowledge to know how to interpret those figuers or you could come to totally bogus conclusions. Point in case: even batshit crazy conspiration theories tend to be based on actual facts and figures - it's just that these are either cherry-picked or totally misunderstood by the theorists.
This is something that I guess most people are aware of, even if not consciously so not accepting something as true just because it's based on facts and figures is totally legitimate.

I was not talking about being minimalistic but being ugly.

Ikea is (mostly) minimalistic and (mostly) nice to look at. Tesla's interior is minimalistic and ugly.

Tesla M3's CD value is 0.23, the same as the current BMW 3er, Audi A4 or Alfa Rome Giulia, so apparenly there is room for styling. Also, the interior of the Teslas are exceptionally ugly, applying some European taste there could go a long way.

At the end of the day this code signing and OCSP process works exactly the same way as on Windows (aka. Windows SmartScreen aka. Windows Defender SmartScreen) and linux. I don't hear anybody complaining about that.

Yeah, it totally works like that in Linux.
Except that it does not. Not at all. None of this horrible privacy intrusion is there.

Please stop making up shit to defend Apple.

If the physical world, we have real scarcity in the form of natural resources and production capacity. But in the IP world, there are no such limits, so we artificial scarcity in the form of temporary monopolies enforced by copyright and patent law.

That's patently bullshit.
It may be true that the second and subsequent copies are very cheap to create but to create the thing that can be copied still takes very real and substantial resources.

Well, there's a tried and true method of executing this, as demonstrated by Phoenix Software with the IBM PC BIOS: one team looks at the code and writes a functional specification based on it and the other team (the actual Wine developers in this case) implement this specification.

That is a very poor strawman.

Well, the Three-Body Problem is basically about the horrors and injustices of China's Cultural Revolution and justification for xenophobia.

You are probably referring to this incident:
1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident

The programmer, in all cases, must be able to enunciate what that desire is. If you can teach her to write that down in a clear and concise way, using plain [local language], translating those instructions to a particular programming language is trivial.

That sound deep but I call bullshit.
It's hard to really understand what "clear and concise" is until you actually start programming and start to see your instructions in action. And it's not just 8 year old kids but in the early days of computers actual mathematicans were surprised to experience how different was actual programming to what they thought it would be.

Frankly, if that's a concern he can put a Beowulf cluster of Threadrippers into his basement and use a Ryzen 3600 as a desktop machine.