Decided what? You don't own everyone in your culture. You can't tell your neighbors what to do.

I worked a construction job. I got paid to help build a house for somebody. Now that dude won't continue to pay me because the house he hired me to build is completed.

Moral of the story: get on the ownership/investor side ASAP.

Nationalism will doom the planet. Globalism is the way forward for humanity. Consider, 500 years ago, it would take days to travel to two cities within the same country (for example Berlin to Munich.) Now, people can travel to any country in the world in less than 24 hours. Within a few centuries there would inevitably be little to no cultural differences. Tribalism will lead to evil -- note various cultures will still be studied and preserved the same way people do Celtic dance today.

I dropped the world's biggest deuce -- a new national and international record -- in the lab today. Does it mean anything? No. Nobody can benefit from it. It was in a lab. It wasn't a field deployable deuce. It required eating a special blend of day-old bean burrito and last night's leftover chicken vindaloo.

I get claustrophobia just looking at at it. 200 meters is way too thin. It needs to be at least 500 meters wide. The high speed train idea is good, just make it a bunch of towns on a maglev line. 100 km long, with no place more than 10 mins from condo door to hospital, fire service, movie theater, and shopping.

Can't the cut the fiber optic spool with a laser? Or F it, can't they take down the drones with laser turrets? A kilowatt laser ought to be enough.

Just fucking use lasers.

We need some idealism back. The world got pretty uninspiring.

Do it on flat terrain.

How often do the switches fail by switching to CUTOFF? And what's the probability of two switches mechanically failing simultaneously? It seems like an astronomically low probability event. Even one switch turning to cutoff by itself would be a big fucking deal .. and the premise here is that two switches failed within one second of each other?

Before any pilot gets on a plane they have to sit in a room by themselves for 5 minutes with a loaded gun on the table.

The issues they are facing are with the structure. The Raptor engine hasn't had any issues. The problem they are facingnis that they need the vehicle to survive re-entry unscathed yet deliver a large payload to orbit. They need the solution that can be robust using up the least possible weight.

Dude goes from being CEO of a $3 billion company to an individual contributor writing code in a subdivision of a subdivision within Google? That is bad ass, if true.

I'd like to see the statistics on vacationing in the 1950s instead of how people claim to remember it. You bring up a good point mentioning the Flintstones, a lot of people think highly of the 1950s era when they're just basing it on nostalgia, cherry-picked coverage, and what they saw on Leave it to Beaver or Happy Days, which are scripted TV shows. Look at actual statistics to see what the real story was. People may have, for example, felt safer .. but that's because they didn't know better.

Conditions today are better than in the 1950s by almost every metric.
Home ownership rate in 1950s was below 60%, today it's 65%.
Unemployment rate was around 4.5% .. which is around what it is today.
Murder rate was about 4 per 100k, which was a historical low (it was well over 10 in the 1930s). Today's is about 5 per 100k and reducing.

I agree. I meant to say that the robot is not going to go nuts and cut people up like crazy like what the people I was replying to were asserting.