"minimum publishable unit"

You're right, it's a long-recognized problem, but a viable alternative has yet to surface.

Well, computer science has sort of deserted universities into corporations, where most impactful R&D is now conducted, and work is judged by people's willingness to use it (open source), or to pay for it (commercial). Does it really matter whether Hunggingface publishes a "scientific paper" or a good postings on a blog? Doesn't seem to...

A flamethrower negates this... Like instantly.

Which reminds me, almost never should you write a serious response to what at first appears as a genuinely clueless AC.

I wonder what are the comparable figures for manpower? It's not like only drones are dying...

It's like trademarking Osama Bin Laden's Bagel Store.

Oh jeez, that guy. It figures.

That's what said, Nimbyism applies to any kind of development, energy generation or other.

Whereas with, say, nuclear, there are a significant number of people who just don't think it should be done anywhere, whether or not it's within 100 miles of them. Same with oil. Same with coal.

I can't think of any protests against solar in general. Although I'm sure there must have been some conflict about developing particular sites, same as if they were going to build apartments or anything else.

If nothing else, they are re-telling it for each new generation, in the current movie-making style.

Although such a big box office implies a lot of other viewers too.

The price of bitcoin in Euros is still going up an awful lot.

People talk about making a 401k for everybody instead of SS, which amounts to what you are saying. I am pretty sure the market has some limit to how much capital it can absorb and still give a good return. A company's stock doesn't go up unless they find a useful way to make even more money out of it. I think there must be a saturation point where companies cannot find additional useful ways to expand their business with more money, especially if everybody else is too. There is only so much passive investment gains (free lunch) to go around - not that the size of the pie has a hard limit, but diminishing returns.

Right, i.e. in a Waymo, not a Tesla.

Fair point. But whatever corrections we have done are far, far short of backing out what can be done with the resources we have. I.e. making a budget and sticking to it. (I remember when Al Gore campaigned on his SS "Lock Box"... and of course lost.)

I guess isolating these two markets with tariffs was a pretty disastrous move for US electric car-makers then. Tesla's market share in China is about 1/3 of what it was in 2021.

It's a funny name, I wonder if that's just a direct translation from Chinese, which might have a different idiomatic usage of the term, and not what it will be called in other markets.

Openâ'container laws generally prohibit open alcohol in the passenger area of vehicles on public roads. I suppose this is because the driver can so easily hand it back and forth with a passenger. For self-driving cars this makes no sense. So at some point they would have to change the laws to allow that half-bottle in the self-driving car, no matter how fully self-driving it is.