They mentioned in their presentation yesterday that they use software in their fixed storage to simulate inertia to help stabilize renewable heavy energy grids.

They’re not banning anonymity. There’s not a goldilocks zone for free speech. There’s not some quantity of censorship that is desirable, censorship isn’t really quantifiable like that, and every time you prevent someone from sharing their earnestly held opinion, you are hurting discourse,

A warmer northern climate should mean more agricultural output overall.

The problem is that if they reject FISA, that rejection will be blamed for the text terrorist attack or whatever, and we will be right back where we started. If they're going to really reign this in, they have to be smarter, or more aggressive than that.

During WW2 the Japanese used balloon bombs to bomb the mainland US, so this is a known method of attack.

When the feature first rolled out, they were getting a lot of false positives from roller coasters. I doubt there's a need for geofencing, they just need to look at the data and figure out how to filter out the non-life threatening skiing incidents. But certainly if a skier falls off a cliff or collides with a tree or something, they want to it send a distress call.

So you are suggesting that all we need to do is rebuild all our cities to be denser so that public transit will be a reasonable alternative to driving. That is much, much harder than making self-driving cars. It's probably not even possible without significantly revising our environmental laws and adding a healthy dose of tort reform (though we should probably do that anyway, the best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago and all that). Even if that is politically achievable, it would cost tens, if not hundreds of trillions of dollars and take at least several decades. You're talking like you can just wave a magic wand and make it happen. That's not how the world works. Even if it takes 20 years to perfect self driving cars, they would probably be ready long before we could get started rebuilding cities in earnest. I'm not saying we shouldn't do it, just lets not pretend it is a perfectly reasonable alternative to self driving cars.

Anyone who has worked in this field knows what the problem is. There is absolutely no need to be more productive or try to cut costs at all. The housing market is completely locked down, so you are mostly competing with existing houses, which are selling for a million dollars apeace. That's a lot more than a house would really cost to build if you were worried about the cost. So you can afford to keep a bunch of dead weight around, waste materials and hours, take a long lunch and bill it to the customer. It's a fucking disgrace. I know a 16 year old who is making $40k/year working in this industry. I have worked with him, he is not incredibly productive. No offense to him, most 16 year olds are still figuring this stuff out. But the industry is in a sorry state, and they need cost pressure if they are going to do better.

If they decide to "fine" one of my customers over a transaction they made on my site, could I be partially liable for that? I feel like it may be better to stick with more professional payment processors who won't steal money from my customers based on some kind of political agenda.

Fault lines won't be an issue for a tunnel any more than they are a problem for a surface road.

Tunnels are much more resistant to earthquakes than above ground infrastructure.

In the 1800s, you could use eminent domain to buy and demolish buildings that were in your way. In the 1800s, homeowners couldn't sue to block a project because it will harm their home value, or destroy their view. A lot has changed since then to make new infrastructure development much more expensive or impossible in many cases.

The monorail can't run on a normal road, so all they had to do was block the rail expansion. Teslas can, so you'd need some kind of new law prohibiting robotaxis at the airport.

Nothing about autonomous driving is cheap at this point. And they would have to do a lot of testing and regulatory work before it would be allowed, which would cost money and take of time. You wouldn't want to do it from day one, because there might be other issues with their proposed system that wouldn't be self evident, and all that effort may be wasted or need to be redone in the end. This is a small scale system and paying drivers isn't a huge expense today. And keep in mind that the system Tesla is working in might eventually be available to them with no development work on their end. Also, consider the fact that TBC is mostly concerned with drilling the tunnels themselves. They don't have a self-driving team.

Think of it like you would think of a company hand-building a prototype before entering full scale production. You probably wouldn't suggest that production should be fully automated before they begin testing. Not only would that delay testing, but it would mean more work to fix any problems you find. The people at TBC aren't idiots. They're not going to waste a bunch of money trying to roll out an automated system early just so they can delay getting real world results.

I don't know if you are serious or not, but the obvious benefit of tunnels in the urban environment is that they don't have to be built above ground, which can get very pricey and be very inconvenient for everyone.