Yes, but they're saying that if you retire drivers for doing things like that, you'll be mistakenly retiring 99 humans for every replicant.

Notice there's no kernel level anti-cheat systems in single player games?

Not anymore that I know of, but shit like that has happened. If people stop being wary, it could happen again.

But as an EV, it comes with all the associated political tribalism baggage

90+% of people won't even know, though. If the owner is one of them, they win (a few people snickering behind their back, but the owner has no idea what the issue is, or that there even is a problem at all).

And if the owner does happen to know it has tribal connotations, they still have what, maybe a 15-30% chance of guessing which tribe? So they'll notice that some people hate them, and they'll correctly attribute it to the truck, but the tribes might match, making things extra confusing.

Which, I guess, is indeed a downside. So there really is something to your complaint, but even so, for most people, the tribalism will pass by unperceived and unsuspected.

While it provides your privacy, it would also make you stick out, would it not?

Not if lots of people do it.

I've always assumed everyone considers the number one dumbest individual that they personally know, to be smarter than Trump.

I suspect they won't actually tax all that much. The income from tariffs will likely raise so much that...

It sounds like you're saying they've raised taxes on "ordinary people" so much, that they won't have to raise taxes again.

From looking at everyone's reaction to this, I wonder if maybe people might support a constitutional amendment to make funding research hospitals become one of the government's powers/responsibilities.

Curing cancer, and many other health-related things, e.g. preventing spread of bird flu, are popular and people generally want that. Unfortunately, the constitution doesn't (at least not anywhere I can find) authorize the government to work on that.

We could try hacks like calling it "interstate commerce" or maybe even "national defense" but even if you win a court case on that, it's forever vulnerable because another court would see it a different way, and we're in a New Age where precedent is generally thought of as irrelevant (e.g. Dobbs). You can try to look it those ways, but it could be taken away at any time.

Should this be changed? Make health research and monitoring explicitly among Congress' powers? I'm not even sure how to phrase such a new amendment to include the right stuff but not be too open to abuse.

It wouldn't be surprising if NSA still has access, but we should always keep in mind that Snowden is over a decade out-of-date now. Not that NSA has likely scaled down, but it's at least possible that defenders have successfully tightened up since then.

I'd really just like a small gfx device with a consistently low power draw, low need for active cooling, made with quality components that don't give up the ghost after two or three years of use, and with quality FLOSS driver and source code support.

You might want to check out IGPs. Both Intel's and AMD's have been pretty good in recent years.

And when Xi finds out he'll have to download the Equifax torrent to get SSNs instead, he'll be discouraged by the risk of getting caught seeding. Discouragement all around. That's how you win.

Yes, tomorrow they're announcing their "Wear Granny Down" bot.

sue everyone that has [any] idea vaguely similar to theirs

If that sound undesirable to anyone, I hope you'll join me in supporting Microsoft in Apple's "look and feel" lawsuit.

A society without scammers and pedos is not real-life society. If a model does not include them, what else did the model overlook?

I suspect only a tiny fraction of 3D printers are used to print guns. There are so many other things to print.

Yet, the ones which are being used for guns, are the ones which are constitutionally protected, such that it's illegal for the government to try to prevent it. It's everyone else (e.g. people printing pet toys, computer cases, or whatever) who NY arguably has the right to regulate.

So I can't believe this is about guns. Almost anything else makes more sense.

And of course the idea of telling people what software they're allowed to run is laughable. No user would have reason run the sometimes-it-decides-to-not-work fork. What's in it for them?

That level of government interference is going to piss off a lot of employers and WFH employees.

Dictators might get away with it in third world countries, but I think if they try it here, those dictators will find that they were only able to be dictators with corporate support.