It's small enough a nation or some billionaires could bring it close to earth and mine it.

I think the subject of your post explains it clearly: You are not a lawyer.

This is a law firm that wants to use this material to show that they have the legal muscle and expertise to do so. It's fantastic advertising if they can borrow Disney's power and reputation to make themselves a reputable law firm that took a swing at a known corporate bully and emerged unscathed.

It's also common for drafts to miss one or more cycles until there's a strong consensus. If there's a lot of controversy, then they aren't going to approve the draft. The committee doesn't want to have to replace the memory safety model with a new model and syntax in the future after thousands of companies and projects locked into the wrong model.

Getting a proposal accepted is an incredibly high bar that requires many stakeholders to express an interest in it, including the details of the proposal. The author here clearly is just being overly sensitive and dramatic. The Rust community likes mini-dictator savants. The C++ community likes consensus and peer review.

We're clearly reaching a monetization crisis for AI companies, now we need to redefine the metrics to avoid popping the bubble(butt)

It may not be cutting edge, but if any western brand had done it they would sell it as a disruptive innovation based on pure genius. Let's give credit where credit is due; the Chinese have built systems of production and a skilled workforce that is hard to compete with. It's not possible to do in a purely capitalist economy. It requires centralized planning and collaboration across industries. It requires companies not maximizing profits today, so that an industrial ecosystem can emerge in the future that is more productive than in a greedy model. So the genius of Chinese production is not the product, but the system and the political system that makes their production competitive.

Sex is the last tier of physical needs, you seek it out when your more basic needs are met. Americans are being squeezed at work more than ever, threatened to be replaced by robots, threatened with losing their retirement, threatened with losing their rights, threatened with losing the environment. The shift since 2016 is palpable, the ruling class doesn't even try to mask their hated for us or their plans to eliminate us. One might think, "fk it, I'll just enjoy the time I have left," but those folk are doing fentanyl, ketamine and coke and aren't having sex either because they're too busy with their new found hobby. Conservatives are temporarily a little happy, because they think they have an ally in their corner running things, but he's obviously just propping up the same system of oppression in the way his liberal counterpart did(without opposition from liberals). Give American working people hope and they'll go back to the party. Otherwise, I suspect 4x4 lumber and high carbon steel plate will be in high demand soon and it'll be a different kind of party.

This is a big reason I don't use one company for my cell phone and email(eg Google Fi and Gmail). I need my cell phone to stay active in the event my mail provider randomly bans my email. I think the same generally applies to android/apple phones where your email determines your ability to fully use your device.

Europe is run by the US. This process will continue until Europe wakes up and stops following whatever the U.S. tells them to do.

With any luck our capitalist overlords will end all humanity and maybe life on this planet within a few years. All so a handful of people can live better than the rest during the time we have left.

Well tested small updates are a good thing. You can quickly roll them back if an unexpected issue arises with little consequence. The key being, well tested, and having a contingency plan.

That doesn't align with my experience. LLMs don't understand code, they infer it. The best effort at computational bug checking so far is Rust's analyzer. A model written by deep human thought.

I've noticed across many apps that obvious bugs are making it to production. I think we're witnessing the impact of "AI" coding. Catastrophic software bugs at AI scale! Yay!

Is what I'd call the intelligence of CEOs and politicians. They don't need intelligence, they need a brittle mirage to keep funneling public debt into private pockets.

Fusion is actually much more solvable than QC. One might even call it solved. Literally, all you have to do is make the reactors big enough. The main problem is fusion competes with the fossil fuel industry and would disrupt power balances around the world in ways the establishment isn't willing to risk. The U.S. decided under Bush Jr to become the top oil producer. So you'll see a world war before they allow anyone to bring a production scale reactor online.