The present administration is an extreme case, but ALL administrations like tools that make what they want to do easier. So does just about everyone, but larger groups tend to take more extreme positions, because some of their members are more extreme, and they are supported by the other group members.

You really need the 0-th law for that to be a relatively safe position. Even that is going to hinge on your definition of "human".

Calling him a Nazi may be technically incorrect, but Elon seems to be favorably impressed by Hitler's actions. Enough so time cause emulations like MechaHitler.

It told me that I was a minor. I wasn't a minor when Slashdot first hit the web.

The problem is "How do you tell?". Certainly many things that claim to be evidence really aren't.
You can check that the code does what it claims to do. You can't really check that the claimed author really wrote it.

You're focusing on the US. What are other countries seeing? My guess is that they're seeing China as a more reliable vendor.

I will not write it, Sam-I-Am,
I will not offer colored ham!

Why do you accept that the reasons he give mean anything?
He wants to get rid of the power inverters. His excuses are just whatever sounds good at the moment. (That he wants to do it to cripple solar power sounds plausible, but I don't really believe it. That someone asked him to do it sounds more likely.)

Any good school for teaching art rather than art criticism would be hard. And would probably only teach one school of art. I doubt that hyperrealists would get along with romanticists.

Don't hold your breath waiting for it. Even if this is correct, you can't expect it within the current millenium.

Personally I *do* favor the "Nemesis hypothesis", but there isn't any good evidence. And there isn't any contrary evidence. If it's in the southern hemisphere then the Rubin sky survey should record it, but actually finding it in that mass of data would be quite difficult, and it might be in the northern hemisphere. And we'd be looking for either a quite black hole, a neutron star, or possibly a brown dwarf...and depending on which it was they'd have different orbits. (The idea is that they disrupt the Oort cloud via gravitational interactions, and those three are very different in gravitational strength.) The black hole would probably be hardest to see, since it wouldn't be expected to have an accretion disk. (If it did, we'd probably have seen it already.)

It may not have gained much traction, but that's because there's no real way to test it. Perhaps Rubin will find it (but it might be in the northern hemisphere). To me it seems much more plausible than most of the alternatives.

Try "There are *currently* many telltale". Things have been changing quite rapidly, and will probably continue to do so for quite awhile. (And many poor coders also have bad habits.)

Much better would be to exclude bad, sloppy, and repetitive code...but nobody sees that as applying to their own work.

Enforcement may be tricky.

Well, if you believe we're headed into The Singularity, then a time delay might be all you need. Certainly it's all you should expect to get.

It's a bit more than that. They're innovating in 3d chips. If they can't get ultimate density one way, they're picking another. So when they *do* get EUV...well...

That said, I don't know how they're handling heat, so perhaps they can't blend the two.