"It's no biggie, everyone does it. It's just how us governments play tag. Don't worry, people, it's totally normal." Riiiiight.

I've made the poor decision to have Walmart change my tires and perform an oil change. I can't imagine allowing them to work on my body.

Intel's naming system is a mess, and this change isn't enough to correct the issue. Back when I had a retail store, customers were often confused by the plethora of options. Several times, customers would recall the marketing from 20 years ago, and assume the Pentium was still the top product.
My explanation was always a car analogy; The Atom is like a scooter, the Celeron is the Geo Metro, the Pentium is the slightly larger economy sedan, a Core i3 is your typical comfortable car, the i5 is the sporty version of that car, the i7 is a Corvette, and the i9 is a Ferrari. Then you have the business-class chips that are more like dump trucks, and are best ignored by the average consumer.
That's a mess. I'm not a marketer, so I couldn't say what should be done, but I'm positive that this isn't it.

I find it fascinating that he refers to the Foundation Trilogy as 'fundamental' to the formation of SpaceX. That series was not about technology, but rather about human psychology, and using it to control the populous. It even works out ways to create a fake religion to manipulate the masses, and develop a secret organization that pulls the strings from the background.
That's an odd series to base your spaceflight company on.

Since the summary doesn't bother to say (after prompting 'who?' several times), it was the security guy, Priore. The 'insider' was the guy who designed the security system. He did it to stay financially afloat. It's like a poorly-written, low-budget ripoff of Leverage.

They are US citizens and they can leave anytime. Furthermore, poverty is not a barrier to picking up and leaving.

I'm guessing you're not part of a minority.
They could, technically, 'leave anytime,' sure. And be homeless somewhere. Most of them are unemployable; after all, they have a big black mark on their resumes: they've been living all their lives, unemployed, on the most high-crime res in the region. Would you hire someone with that resume?
It's very hard to get out of a ghetto situation. Not only are they undereducated, but they have no opportunity to find work. It's hard to get a new home elsewhere when you've only ever known the res, and don't have the opportunity for work elsewhere. It's a rotten situation up one side, and down the other.

These communities are already getting massive amounts of help.

First off, you're wrong. They receive very little (a couple hundred/month if they enroll in a special welfare program. That's it.) In the 90s, the government built a bunch of houses, and moved everyone into odd little communities. Those have seen fallen into states of disrepair, as nobody could afford to live in them; lipstick on a pig and all that. They need education above all else.
But more to the point, I never said they needed Federal aid. As a libertarian, I believe strongly in private aid organizations (my favorite charity is a particular homeless shelter which is completely privately funded.)
Have you ever been on the Pine Ridge Res? If not, you have no idea what life there is like. I have traveled the western half of the USA, and have never seen a res as depressing and dismal as this. Even the Rosebud reservation, just a couple hours to the East, is substantially better. But if you recall in your history books, the Sioux, specifically the Oglala Lakota, were despised for their refusal to surrender to the USA. They're the tribe that ambushed Gen. Custer. They've never been seen as equals with the rest of America, and the bad situation 100 years ago has lead to the bad situation they live in today.

Deadwood is a much nicer gambling city, and it's about an hour outside of Rapid in the other direction, near a bunch of other tourist sites. There's one casino on the res, but it's in the middle of nowhere, and doesn't have a lot to offer that deadwood doesn't, beside the fact that it's located in the ghetto. I'm honestly surprised it's able to keep its doors open.

I live adjacent to the Oglala Lakota Reservation. It's a massive ghetto. I'm not surprised in the least that the expected lifespan is so short -- in fact, I'm kinda surprised it's that long. The poverty here is worse than most people realize exists in America. The hardest part is that there's literally no industry for these people to use as a means to climb out of poverty. They receive enough allowance from the government to stay alive -- and that's it.
I'm not a native (heck, my dad wasn't even born in this country), but I feel deeply for our fellow men & women on the res. The USA forced them to live there, forced them into the ghetto -- and now they're too impoverished to ever leave. There's no work, no hope -- the res is the most depressing place imaginable. The lifespan information should be used as an indicator of how badly communities need help.

Another funny option would have been if it "accidentally" played a McDonald's commercial when prompted with that question.

There's a reason soldiers paint their faces black while on stealth ops.

The algorithms generally tend to identify an individual based on relative (i.e. comparison-based) facial structure. In order to have a facial structure to measure, it must identify the eyebrows, eyes, nose, jawline, hairline, etc. The way it identifies these features is based in contrast from one element to another; when hair and skin color are similar (such as with a platinum blond like me, or with a dark-haired, dark-skinned individual), there's a lot less contrast there to measure.
Furthermore, with darker skin, shadows aren't as noticeable, so the shadows that would otherwise allow measurement of eyebrow prominence or jawline will also be much harder to identify.

In my computer shop, we provide a lifetime warranty with all of the machines we sell. I've had customers act quite incredulous, but it really doesn't cost me much. Why? Because it's only to the original purchaser, and I know that nobody is going to keep their computers that long. For the few odd ones who do (just a week ago, I replaced an IDE hard drive in a Windows XP computer I sold new), I build a lot of brand confidence at very little cost to me -- the replacement part only cost a few dollars.
Tesla's risk on this really isn't that high; the people who buy $80k cars generally don't keep them for very long before wanting an upgrade. Plus, for the poorer who would normally lean towards a used car, they might be enticed into a new car with this, since it's something that you literally can only get with a new car. Essentially, he's created a brand new reason for people to buy new; the depreciation doesn't look so bad, now. Full coverage insurance isn't cheap, even if you're only planning to keep the car for 3 or 4 years.

I'm pretty sure you misinterpreted what the author suggested. I don't think they were suggesting that we 'should' dump waste in the oceans; rather that the food chain and other natural processes create a 'dead end' for the pollutants in the deep sea, which is where they're trapped and accumulate indefinitely.

The real problem is the addictiveness of cigarettes. If it were an activity that everyone could stop whenever they felt like it, it would be no worse than any of the many dangerous sports available to us. The difference is that skiing isn't addictive to the point where people spend an hour or more every day, 365 days/year doing it, and have withdrawals if they have to skip a few days.
I've had 3 family members killed by smoking. All 3 were hopelessly addicted, wanted (and tried) to quit, but couldn't. You're the lucky one, and you're in the minority; your ability shouldn't be used to an excuse to sentence others to death.