D-Coder

Because NOT enriching uranium worked so badly for Gaddafi.

All it takes is one ultra-rich individual to say, "I'm having my bots build a bot-building factory and giving them to everyone who wants a bot. For free (after all, bots are doing all the work!) Or a hundred bots, who cares. They're free, bots are doing all the work anyway."

> If the average person does not know what an autopilot does

The average person does know what an autopilot does, they're just wrong.

I think the example you provided supports that.

A billion years of kludges.

> I don’t understand what the current crop of political leaders >thinks<

There's your problem.

For news about things that are going right, I suggest https://fixthenews.com/. You can get a free weekly email about progress in energy and the environment, national economies, health and medicine, crime etc (or pay for a longer weekly email).

If they have a family.

So: half (1+5) of them made it at least 50 days without cancer, and the other half made it at least 50 days with a smaller tumor? This sounds excellent to me. I agree that the sentence you quoted is overselling, though.

Humans aren't 100% perfect drivers. The question is not, "When will FSD reach 100%," it's "When (if ever) will FSD be better than humans."

You should definitely demand your money back.

I found that a weekly meeting for a language-learning group worked great. Your family and even your friends learn, "Oh Wednesday evening, D-Coder's busy."

I've managed to learn Esperanto fluently without ever moving to... er... um.

> They don’t have to censor because their sources censor for them.

If the source has not put something on the web... how is anyone supposed to get past that? Or am I misunderstanding your statement?

Sending the tech from 100 years in the future to today is not directly comparable to sending today's tech 100 years back.

By 2125, military aircraft will probably be silent, able to rapidly ascend to 100,000 feet (out of visible sight), and maybe even invisible. So people today, faced with properly-done future technology, can't see it at all.

Here's my analysis:

If an alien intelligence has reached Earth, it has technical capabilities at least a century ahead of ours.

Either (a) they do want to be seen by us, or (b) they don't care if we see them, or (c) they do not want to be seen by us.

For case (a), we would have unambiguously seen them by now.

For case (b), we would have unambiguously seen them by now.

For case (c), with their advanced technology, we'd never see them.

So... I very much doubt that an alien intelligence is here.

This article links to a longer, more detailed article: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/doge-elon-....

"that one time I did the stupid thing in high school"? I think most highschoolers do a stupid thing about every eighteen minutes. You did great!

"Cars are a lot safer now" does not seem related to "40 years ago, it was common to fix your own car" to me.

My favorite is JANFU: Joint Army-Navy Fuck-Up.

That's what the boattrails are for.

https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1668403778611-4f20c4afc816...

_Washington Post_ just had an article about why (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/12/america-r...).

"In 1984, a German historian compiled 210 explanations historians had suggested for Rome’s fall, from lead poisoning and barbarian invasions to Christianity, moral decline and gout.

After studying dynamic civilizations such as Athens, Rome, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy and the Dutch Republic, I can attest that there is no single explanation. Each golden age had its own character and its own downfall."

"The detective, the murderer, _and_ the victim."

You say that like it's a bad thing.

> which got me uninvited from a bunch of meetings.

So, not a total loss.

How do they know which five papers to read?

Blame Alfred Nobel, he set up the original categories. According to Wikipedia his goals were prizes "which annually recognize those who 'conferred the greatest benefit to humankind'". Perhaps he didn't consider math as directly benefiting mankind.

There are probably 37,392 papers on this. So your "should" is probably just impossible for humans.

Unfortunately HN does not support use of the Sarcasm font.

/s

"Beginning Oct. 1, motorists with a Clean Air Vehicle decal will no longer be able to drive solo in carpool lanes because the program was not extended by the federal government..."

So it's a special EV privilege that is going away (because of the Feds). Now they'll be treated like other vehicles. Not as bad as the headline could be interpreted.

> I don't understand the dig here. Is that that Elon is required to memorize the face of every single person he interacts with?

That he is required (well, expected) to remember the faces of people he _fired_.