Uh - maybe auto accidents and deaths for a starter

With human-driven cars, crashes result from mistakes made by drivers. With computer-driven cars, crashes result from bugs and vulnerabilities in software. Without wide deployment it's pretty speculative to assume the latter will necessarily be less than the former. At least with current technology there is no way for a malicious attacker to simultaneously cause thousands of car wrecks from the comfort of his sofa.

Perhaps Google's attorney had lunch with the head Chinese censor and "forgot" to carry home his briefcase full of unmarked, non-sequential large bills.

What isn't a Node.js replacement?

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I've biked on Mass Ave and it didn't feel suicidal to me either. Urban cycling in Boston is fairly safe and easy. But "light" traffic in LA is heavier than the heaviest traffic I ever saw in Boston.

Perhaps you haven't visited LA. Traffic there is different from traffic everywhere else. It's omnipresent, all times all places - it's atmospheric. Imagine for a moment the worst traffic jam you've ever seen in your city. Or, if you live in a small town, way worse than the worst you've ever seen. That would be what Angelenos call "unusually light traffic".

Central LA average is probably more like 4mph in heavy-ish traffic. But the actual speed of cars at any given time ranges from around 35mph to barely inching forward, and can change quite suddenly. Not a very safe place to bike.

And how!

Clearly you haven't spent much time in American airports.

We Americans see the British as our cultural brethren, owing to the long intertwined history of our two nations. As England goes, so too shall America go. Thus we mourn for the Brits' loss of the freedoms that inspired our own. So too do we fear that our own regime may follow the UK down the path to open tyranny.

I'm offended by people who are easily offended.

I wouldn't be too surprised if there were some Ruskie military intelligence types working overtime to stir up some new troubles in the Middle East. The Saudi gub'mint isn't exactly popular with their subjects, are they?

and military equipment

For certain values of "healthy" that include "largely dysfunctional".

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