Librem 5 is a phone that focuses on security by design and privacy protection by default. Running Free/Libre and Open Source software and a GNU+Linux Operating System designed to create an open development utopia, rather than the walled gardens from all other phone providers.

Permit to rent your own property?
Restrictions on where, when, and how you may build on your own property?
License to drive your own car on the roads that your taxes paid for?
Requirements to buy certain goods at certain prices (i.e. healthcare)?
Inheritance tax on the money that you worked all your life for and wanted to leave to your own children?
Restrictions on how much water your toilet can use or what kind of light bulb you can buy and sell?
Demands that your cell phone and all your data be made available to the police at their whim?
Police that spy on your location and intercept your communications?
Laws that allow the government to come and take your property if they feel like it? Only if it's imminently in the public's domain of course... this power will never be abused!
Politicians that become extremely wealthy... all on a government employee's salary... they simply made very wise investments!

What's the matter, citizen? Don't you want to be a good citizen and support your country? You do, don't you, citizen?

Just be grateful that you live in the freest society on the planet! Yes, the very freest and least corrupt! You're welcome.
Now pay your taxes so we can turn around and give the money to those who don't work so they'll vote for us. There's a good lad.

Since you're so brilliant why don't you write a bunch of books about economics and educate us all?

Nor even on /.

So those aren't beheadings and hideous tortures happening in Mexico and the Middle East?
Sub-saharan Africa, Brazil, and El Salvador are all wonderful and peaceful places to live?
There's not a quiet genocide currently taking place in South Africa?

I could go on, but I think most people get the point.

1. Is someone forcing these people to work for Uber? If they're working for Uber of their own volition then how is it wrong? What right do you have to be outraged at how someone else chooses to spend their time?

2. Some money is better than no money. Earning a small amount is better than earning none. Earning a small amount (i.e. $3 per hour) is better than earning a miniscule amount (i.e. $0.50 per hour). And so it's better to have a job than to not have a job; it's better (probably) to have a crap job than to be a homeless beggar.

3. Do the stats take every situation into consideration or just lump all the money together and take the average and then compare people against the average? For example, is it fair to compare a weekends-only driver to a driver that's working 70 hours per week? Surely the 70 hour driver is earning way more than the weekender. But if they both are working in such a fashion that their work is worth it to each of them personally then how could that be wrong?

At any rate, what's your solution? What do you think the problem is, exactly, and what should be done about it?

You didn't directly say it, that's true.
But it was heavily implied because your post attempted to contradict the OP.
Perhaps you didn't mean to imply what your own opinion was so much as to simply take the OP down a peg or two?

So by "thin C layer" you meant the libs that the OS comes with not a layer within the program?
I guess I misunderstood you. I'm sorry.

I work on a VR project at my day job (basically a video game). Your statement that we use a "pre-made" game engine is basically like saying that nobody does any "real" programming if they use a library or some code that someone else wrote. In other words: yours is a no-true-scotsman statement.

We used both C++ and Unreal Script when we were using UDK (Unreal Engine 3). But everything we do now with Unreal 4 is C++ (and some Blueprint stuff to hook the GUI together).

Yes, that's the problem domain. And how do you think these things get implemented? With code.

You're not really correct on all that. Also Lint and other static analysis tools are useful. John Carmack has some great insight into all this and how static analysis tools can help and fit into game development. As evidence: the Doom 3 source code is pretty generally very good.

There's absolutely zero need to use C. C++ will do exactly the same things (possibly in exactly the same ways) with absolutely no extra overhead compared to C and C++ will do so in an easier, safer, and more readable fashion than C.

Do not misconstrue my statements to be derogatory toward C or C programmers! I'm simply trying to pedantically point out that there's no need to have a "thin layer of C" between C++ and the kernel.

A "well regulated" militia is one that is fit, disciplined, capable of marching together, obeying orders from their officers, and fighting effectively.

Such things were rather on the mind at the time because the discipline, equipment, and training of the British regulars made them formidable opponents compared to the farmers and hunters that made up the American army.

The term "regulation" here has more to do with rules and discipline than with restraint, curtailing, or limiting.

It would have been... if he hadn't referenced other people's opinions to try and make his own seem more "right" or legitimate.

I think this question is a good but tricky question. I think mankind has been struggling for thousands of years to really nail down what it means to be conscious, to think, to understand, to know. The best I response I have is a wimpy one: "People are intelligent, people know and understand, people are conscious. Machines are not."

If you don't know anything about machines or people then this answer won't help.
If one wishes to be intentionally obtuse or if one really wishes to equivocate then again this answer won't help.
But for those who are honestly interested and know a little something about what a machine is and how it differs from a human then I suppose such people don't really need a rigorous dictionary definition to explain to them the difference between themselves and a washing machine.

Well, I should think that TFS and TFA did a pretty good job of it...

Argument from majority is a form of argument from authority. It's fallacious.

Again: argument from authority.

Dijkstra talked about this. Everyone here who uses terms like "the computer sees X as Y" or "the neural net thinks that A is actually B" or "the AI was mistrained" is making a fundamentally erroneous mistake: the computers do not think. The algorithms do not understand. The machine does not have vision; it does not see.

Does your air conditioning filter understand the difference between air and dust?
Does your cell phone's finger print reader or facial unlocker recognize you? Does your mirror?
Do your headphones speak English? Does your microphone understand what you're saying?
Does Google maps know where you are? Does a paper map know where you are?
Does your thermostat know the temperature of the room? Does a mercury thermometer?
Does your calculator know or understand mathematics? What about an abacus?

I understand that such idioms are handy and sort of get the point across: I use these idioms myself sometimes.
But slashdotters are supposed to be intelligent; are supposed to actually know and understand what the machines are doing and how they work. We are supposed to understand the difference between slang and reality when it comes to technology.

Don't be fooled by the jargon. Don't mistake a complex system with complex inputs and outputs for "understanding" or "knowing" or "intelligence".

Neural nets are nothing more than automatically calibrating digital classifiers. They're nothing more than statistics.
They're not intelligent.
They do not understand nor comprehend.
They do not "see" nor "recognize".