If an employer allows proper rest breaks, they do it on their own dime. If the employer doesn't allow proper rest breaks, it's still on their dime only in a way beancounters have more trouble counting.

In this case, there's also the question of where to nap -- not too many employers would like to replace office/factory space with a bed. I suspect only "live at the office" tech companies will do this, both as they already have so many perks and because they will benefit more from better employee concentration.

This is something we saw coming, at least since the incident with Crimea. What plans were made for this? Or are they all pretending to be surprised?

If it is routinely inappropriate to enforce the law, they ought to change the law, not make exceptions for whoever they like.

These creatures take to land like a fish takes to water.

"Smile for the camera, sir!"

How about a rule that after n years, they must either hand it over to the proper storage facility, or grind it up and airdrop it over the idiots who keep preventing anyone from building a proper storage facility.

I bet everyone ignores the fact that the best-supported Intelligent Design theory is the one where the Intelligent Designer is the laws of nature. None of the other versions make any predictions, only offer explanations (because they can never say that this is how the designer must have done things.)

My pet peeve is people who think science is about "truth" or "explanation", when it really is about prediction. Something that gives the best "explanations" is the worst scientifically since things with the most explanatory power have the least predictive power.

Kind of hard to claim its libertarian if you can be put to death for rejecting Islam.

Were they buying and selling laws on the open market? If not, then it wasn't extreme capitalism.

Communism would be one form of extreme socialism, however it was never tried. (Not to be confused with people claiming it was tried)

No, what I'm saying is where is the log of which times the Google cars were driving autonomously and which times the professional drivers took control? If the drivers took control every 5 minutes, then it would be pretty much irrelevant how many total miles the cars logged autonomously.

No. No it isn't. There's a few individuals who could personally afford to send us back into an ice age. Just to give a couple examples,

But they have side effects. And perhaps they have side effects that won't become apparent until we try them on a large scale.

It would be a phenomenal record if it was 700,000 straight, uninterrupted miles. How phenomenal a record is it when there's two professional drivers babysitting it at all times? I've yet to see the logs of timestamps when the divers took control, so until then I see no reason for treating this as anything other than two professional drivers driving 700,000 miles.

No, we've done very little to purposely change the environment (and nothing at the global scale). Our various industries all give us guaranteed benefits (though not necessarily net benefit), and the effects on the environment are a side-effect, and comparatively small. If we decide to intentionally target the global environment, the effects could be much bigger.

I'm not saying climate engineering is a bad idea, but keep in mind that people are arrogant and overconfident. Test everything, even if it means going slowly. We don't have a backup planet in case there's a mistake, and we really can afford to wait decades before implementing these measures.

How many billions of headlines per day do you hear about censorship in China?

So long as they don't accidentally break some important system that they forgot to account for, I'm all for it.

So you've discovered that extremist Libertarianism would be bad. Guess what? Extreme Capitalism and extreme Socialism are also bad. And none of the three have ever happened, because people just aren't that stupid.