If for whatever reason you're particularly interested in the debate over how American children are taught to read, and changes over the past ~20 years that seem to have been quite damaging, I'd highly recommend giving the "Sold a Story" podcast a listen (here, or on the platform of your choosing).

TL;DL: many schools stopped teaching kids to read by sounding out words at that seems to have been a bad idea.

I think it well could.

I, a relative amateur when it comes to software development, was using ChatGPT to advise me on a personal coding project. I'd put it on par with sharing an office with an experienced programmer who could answer your questions and steer you in the right direction.

I decided to try out Claude Code and I'd describe it as more like asking that experienced programmer to do the work for you. It occasionally didn't do what I wanted when I under-specified my requirements, and I of course didn't have nearly as in-depth an understanding of its output as I do of the code I wrote myself, but for my little hobby project? The tradeoffs were worth it for time saved, and for the features I was able to implement that would have otherwise taken me too much time to be worth it.

There simply isn't anything left to hype. ~5 years ago, you could say that Bitcoin was going to really take off once governments started recognizing it, once major investment funds started trading it, once a Superbowl ad educated the public on the wonders of crypto, etc.

Those things have now all happened. The Bitcoin advocates got what they wanted. And the irony is, there's no longer a new shiny (plausible) thing on the horizon that might convince the average buyer that the price will go up in the future. It's a victim of its own success.

This is reminiscent of Richard Gatling's notion that his gun would make war so deadly that no one would be stupid enough to start one. And yet, here we are.

How is that different from the status quo? It isn't just autonomous weapons that can kill the wrong people. Just this morning I saw an article about a US missile that accidentally killed four Indian sailors in the Gulf.

If the primary concern is around "degree of error" (and not more difficult-to-quantify concerns about morality or ethics, which are nonetheless perfectly valid), there's some parallel to the conversation around self-driving vehicles. The question shouldn't be "Is the system perfect?" but instead "Is the system less error-prone than what it's replacing?".

Good point. I hadn't factored in the much shorter charging duration.

If you haven't already, figure out how you'll expedite your patching cycle. AI tools capable of exploit detection are also going to allow bad actors to reverse engineer patches and work out what the vulnerability was in the first place (and, presumably, use AI to then write the code to exploit it).

"Eh, we'll patch it within 30 days before the details of the CVE are released" is probably no longer good enough,

I have no doubt you can charge an EV at 1500KW given proper engineering, but this is a bad argument. If I somehow got my ICE car to generate 100hp while stationary for any significant period of time, I'd expect it to destroy the engine after not too many cycles.

Lacking evidence that someone decided to defy a court order, interfere with a police investigation, and risk the associated jailtime, I'm going to assume that Waymo simply doesn't retain the raw footage for longer than it takes to do the processing to anonymize faces. And given that it took 3 months for the police to get around to issuing them a warrant, that retention period may not even be particularly short.

And, from a privacy angle, good on them. I don't see how being able to identify a person's face would help with the core purpose of collecting that footage in the first place (monitoring/training self-driving cars), and so the privacy-forward stance is absolutely to get rid of the raw footage when it's no longer needed.

The business owner had surveillance footage showing that a Waymo was used as the getaway vehicle, which I'm going to assume was shared that with the police early on in their investigation. Despite that, the search warrant wasn't issued to Waymo until 3 months after the crime took place.

I guess we can quibble over whether that's enough to say that they aren't "investing effort" into the investigation. They certainly don't seem to have treated it as a priority and that lack of action allowed potentially key evidence to expire.

If I stole $40M from the CIA, I'd be worried about a lot more than extradition.

"Other" rare earths? Lithium is an alkali metal, not a rare earth.

Are you saying that this is one of them? At some point, yes, you will hit a point where a booster is uneconomical or unsafe to re-use, but that point is surely a long way off from one or two flights if the Falcon 9 is anything to go by.

According to the Pringles website there are a few ingredients that you didn't list:

I don't personally have them in my pantry, and I don't think I could find them at my local grocery store.

How would you recommend getting around for the 20-30 years before this urban redesign is complete?

I very much wish that prior generations had started the transformation 20-30 years ago, and I would support politicians who advocate for starting it now, but we have to be at least a little pragmatic about what to do in the meantime.