Didn't you see all the buzzwords? This time, it's 3D printed! Just wait until we get the Blockchain ChatGPT space outpost simulation!

I don't understand. You're free to be a dissident and to protest under those systems. So people do. How is that "avoiding" dissident protest? There's probably more dissident protest under those systems than in "disagree and we'll kill your whole family" systems. I'm not trying to straw-man you. I just don't follow what you're saying.

I'm also somewhat befuddled as to a non-authoritarian communist central planning of production. Is it like Production for 2024 shall consist of 0.03% Brooms; 0.00001% Cars; 0.000045% Telephone poles; ... ; etc. and then all in favor say "Aye" ? I personally think communism has a shot at working among small groups, but above Dunbar's Number, it becomes necessarily authoritarian. And interaction between the small groups will tend toward capitalism. At a macro level, all you've done is increased the base capitalism decision unit from 1 person to 150 people.

I'll grant that I'm straw-manning some of this (say, direct democracy instead of representational democracy), but I think the conclusion is reasonably sound.

I think you are missing the significance of the words "require" and "rely." I don't have a problem with the Indian government fact-checking whatever it wants to. I do mind that it is considered the sole authoritative source.

I would have similar reservations about the U.S. government. It's free to say "this is false" all it wants. Where it runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution is preventing others from disagreeing or YouTube from showing those dissenting assertions.

But sure, "racism" or something.

To save someone else the horror of actually RTFA:

They paid him $281 million in 2019, so maybe he's doing okay for himself.

The last study I saw on this (probably on /. but I'm too lazy to look for it) nominally said "Any amount of alcohol is bad. The only redeeming characteristic is that if you're in an awkward social situation, a small amount of alcohol will help people talk to each other. Stop drinking as soon as people can relate to each other."

The flow chart looks like this: If you're lonely and at high risk of death for loneliness-connected factors, find a group you think you might be able to join. If you're having trouble getting started, drink a little. If a little booze doesn't work, try a different group. Abandon as soon as you can connect on other points in common.

Yeah. I see this as "Self driving cars have cameras constantly rolling, so they record rare (but impactful) bullshit that meatbag drivers also have to deal with."

To get bus fare home to Carolina? Connecticut seems an awfully long way to go for some petty larceny.

If that really worked, they'd print it on copper cables, too.

Agreed. Once you get a design working with additive manufacturing, you can order cheaper mass-produced versions of parts you want lots of while you iterate on the parts you want to change. The exciting part of this is that they passed Max-Q with a fully printed rocket. It didn't shake to pieces, so now they can tweak bits as needed, knowing that the whole chassis can be made in-house.

But you know how it is. Everyone on Slashdot is simultaneously smarter and more cynical than the people sending cans of air to space.

Hah. It's definitely a typo for "steering." I thought you knew that and your initial post was being intentionally dense for laughs. So I decided to run with it.

I feel a little bad now that I know you were in earnest. Carry on.

It's probably the wheel that touches the street. My vehicles have four each.

Agreed, that argument is not what they really care about. Their big concern is how far civilization veers toward the pathological case of "only selling as many copies as necessary for desired concurrent readership anywhere in the world," for reasonable values of "desired." That's a genuinely interesting situation, and I don't have the crystal ball to know what might happen to authorship if it happens. The printing industry obviously becomes extremely niche.

The publishing industry's hope is to kill the service before people use (let alone rely) on it. Which is why this is particularly important:

There's a no-paywall link upthread to the whole article. That's how I read it, anyway. I don't subscribe to the WSJ.

"Hmm"

Yes. From TFA:

The article is more even-handed than I would have expected, given that the publication's sibling company is party to the suit.