Why would I eat something like that? Non-ripe bananas I can really do without.

I know it's fun to rag on China, but your statement doesn't even make sense. If someone is valuable enough to warrant a travel ban, they aren't going to murder them for expressing dissent.

The best system is social democracy. Government in charge, not corporations, and government working for the electorate thanks to an electoral system that provides proper representation.

It works because it's not authoritarian, but instead gives individuals a real stake on society and in government. There is a strong social contract that is upheld, where as in other democracies like the UK and US the social contract is more of a scam than a deal.

Not just the testing process. We've decided that leaving junk in orbit to reenter randomly is no longer acceptable so you have to demonstrate to a high degree of confidence that you're going to be able to reenter on target before you're allowed to go orbital. Starship in particular is gigantic, made out of steel and designed to survive reentry. If that were screwed up it would be a lot worse than the just-barely-enough-to-do-the-job that most rockets are made of.

It does not. You just show how completely clueless you are about engineering.

That is pretty cool!
Now we only need an Obsidian plugin for it!

If it was a truly object oriented system, you could put a spreadsheet into a cell :P

Those cells/panels exist, too. They are called PVT. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Current batteries are basically "painted".
Still with continued "research" and development, the last 100 years never was a glimpse of a chance to have batteries like we have them right now. The manufacturing technology - and material science - was simply not there.

Nope the answer is not nearly always "no".

It is just so that not on all break throughs anyone is interested in investing the time and money to make it mass market ready.

In this case however: it is already ready. There is one UK company doing it, I think one Canadian, too. And: dozens of Chinese companies.

Who said anything about a "ban"? It is really simple: Prove to be an expert driver and get coverage for $100M and you are allowed to drive. Get coverage for $1B if you are just a regular driver. Btw. German standard is around EUR 10M already, most do EUR 100M or "unlimited" though.

One of those rare occasions when Betteridge is wrong.

Musk has been quite open about this with Grok AI. When anyone discovers it going off message, he has his engineers "fix" it.

Waymo's system has better sensors than humans do too. The have lidar mounted high up, cameras all around, and a computer that "looks" in all directions at once. They can see hidden pedestrians that a human driver can't from the driving seat, that sort of thing.

Thing is, Waymo is concentrating on safety first, with an expensive sensor suite. Some other companies like Tesla are trying to cost reduce their systems aggressively, and as a result they are much less safe. Musk and some of the other tech bros seem to think that just being as good or a little better than a human is enough, but they also seem to be aware that legally speaking being liable for thousands of vehicles that are only a little better than a human is a huge liability. Rather than improve the tech, they lobby to change the law.

With solar it's more about the economics. PV is highly cost optimized so even if the new tech can scale up, it has to also be extremely cheap.

Yes. One prime example for the Dunning-Kruger effect is driving skills. For reference just look at accident and injury statistics. No appliance or industrial system with a safety record this bad would even be legal.

If you want somebody that is a bad driver and knows it, I am one. I never caused any accident, but I stopped driving as soon as it was possible. These days I do not even own a car.