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Yeah. And then two people hijacked a plane to free Indira gandhi. This is the definition of terrorism as it is using violence for political purposes. Congress have those two party tickets and backed them in elections.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bholanath_and_Devendra_Pande...

I also dislike that we have to constantly add "we are not defending modi". It comes from their belief that the only ones who criticize Congress are hindutva nationalists bigots. As if congress did nothing to receive the ire of the people.

It would have been better if reinfection was described as "you'll test positive again, but it will be milder". Instead the media was full of articles saying "immunity lasts only 6 months"

India has been a secular state for 70 years, and it is not becoming Islamic. We can stay secular or become a Hindu theocratic state. Becoming an Islamic theocratic state is not at all a possibility.

If you really think there's a chance, i am willing to bet on it. Free money for me.

I don't agree with any of the posters in this thread advocating that India become a Hindu state.

But your viewpoint is also troubling for me. Do you not think there is an undercurrent of theocracy in Islam? Do you think that there is nothing wrong with the countries in that list? India is still far more diverse, liberal, accepting than any of those countries. You can't simultaneously think that India is horrible for minorities but these muslim majority countries are not.

Is that bias/unfair advantage?

Most indians working in FAANG in USA tend to be immigrants. So comparing them to their share of population is ridiculous. Even if you limit yourselves to second generation indian American, they are not the same socio-economic background. I guess having rich and education focussed parents is now considered unfair brown privilege.

Hmm,i wonder why i as a non immigrant don't qualify for this citizenship even after paying all taxes, including FICA

I don't think so. It seems to me that are policies are very clearly targeted to tax income earners, not capital owners.

If that is your understanding of the phrase "basic functionality for level 5", can GM announce that they are installing two cameras in each car and now they have basic functionality for level 5?

If basic functionality does not need to be sufficient, then even the tiniest necessary thing is basic functionality? Like installing a camera on each new car? In that case, Tesla already has basic functionality for level 5 in terms of both hardware and software.

"Basic functionality for level five isn't level five."

I'm surprised you say this totally seriously. For me this means that level 5 will be this year, and then there might be extra new cool features, which are not necessary.

Basic functionality for level 5 sounds like both necessary and sufficient to me

Hell, it needs to be better than you with a "train is coming, I'm going to slow down" driver assistance.

If you tell me that no such driver assistance exists, just apply it to scenarios where it exists, like lane keep assists and automatic emergency assists

This video from 2016 (https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...) saying "the driver is there just for legal reasons, the car is driving itself"

This page (https://www.tesla.com/support/full-self-driving-computer) says "Will help us enable a new level of autonomy with regulators approval"

And many many more for Elon Musk's Twitter and various appearances.

This video from 2016 (https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...) saying "the driver is there just for legal reasons, the car is driving itself"

This page (https://www.tesla.com/support/full-self-driving-computer) says "Will help us enable a new level of autonomy with regulators approval"

And many many more for Elon Musk's Twitter and various appearances.

Theae stats are often quoted by Musk and Tesla to suggest that driverless cars are here and safer than human drivers, and the only thing preventing them are regulators. They are never quoted to imply that driver assistance makes driving safer, which i believe they would.

So, one has to compare computer vs human. In fact, more than that. One cannot compare modern technology to one from the previous century. So one must compare computer to the best passive driver assistance that one can develop for humans. So Tesla must compare a driverless solution to their own driver assistance solutions aiding drivers, and not the "average car on the road"

Only one car manufacturer's CEO and fanboys speak about how technologically advanced it is and how driverless cars have been here since 2016.

There's no mixed messaging?

The driver is there just for regulatory purposes, all cars self driving in 2016!, cross country summon in 2017, coast to coast autonomous drive in 2018, Tesla self driving taxis in 2019, FSD making teslas worth 250k$ in 2020! Etc etc

There are a lot of statements by Elon Musk

Your last paragraph is the most important one. Autopilot is driver assistance, and it shouldn't be a surprise that it helps. But these results are comparing human + computer vs human, and does not in anyway indicate that the computer alone is better than a human, let alone a human + computer, which should be the benchmark.

The value of Bitcoin is not just the blockchain. It is the distributed consensus on it being the correct blockchain. So, Bitcoin relies on others believing that this version of the blockchain is authoritative.

Nothing like this in gold. It is an atom which does not require any extra belief from the society.

Can you show instances where congress (INC) was censored?

> How would you know if it's gross negligence or an accident?

That's a different question from "what difference does it make"

> What consequences are you thinking of that we haven't already done? Sanctions, trade tariffs, political condemnation of an authoritarian state? There are many steps to pressure China before an open war is declared.

> Hilarious that we want to punish China but we won't punish our own politicians.

Why not both? I think Trump is already punished a bit, he lost the election.

That's my point. Labor doesn't have equal rights as capital

I as an individual add value to society. I generally become profitable by providing other people a better alternative labor/services than competing humans.

Can I also get zero income tax rate? Can I also get the freedom of movement to move to tax havens and hide my existence and income in a web of different identities?

They are suggesting that the treaty has a loophole that companies can make shell companies to outsource profit to non-signatory tax havens.

Of course, that is stupid. That loophole is what happens now, and the point of such a treaty would be tariffs or sanctions against non signatories.

Not that it's happening, but would it be a bad thing?

So many things to unpack here. Please keep in mind that Tesla and Musk are masters of misrepresenting statistics out of context.

So, when you said that "Tesla cars" kill humans at a lower rate than "human drivers", could you provide a source for that? Or did you mean the regular claim by Musk about teslas being safer by 100% than an average driver, which means that an average tesla car while running autopilot in almost always highway conditions in almost always sunny conditions has lower fatalities than the average human driver, who will skew older and more accident prone, driving on average roads, in average conditions, with the average 10 year old car with less safety features.

Never in any of these statements have i seen any discussion of pedestrians deaths, but it makes sense right? How many pedestrians are on highways where autopilot is mostly used.

> Corporate landlords won't be able to lobby quite so fiercely against new construction, upzoning and rent controls.

This sounds like a good thing to me. Why will it turn out badly?

I've seen this argument, but i never understand the people making this argument. China is called the factory of the world, and it is undeniable that a lot of chinese labor force works in manufacturing. So if jobs weren't lost due to outsourcing, then what are these industries and jobs doing in china? I think the standard response is that usa's manufacturing output has increased, but comparing 1970s manufacturing output to 2020 isn't at all fair. You need to consider the alternate world, where globalism wasn't this big a force, and most manufacturing stayed in usa. There would be even more manufacturing in USA, so globalism did lead to job loss.

30 cases, but only 2 deaths i think.

> is it the "old homeland" bullshit Israeli propoganda loves to spew ?

How old does something needs to be for it to be bullshit. Because the land palestinians have lost is now pretty old too, and their claim is subsequently bullshit. They should just accept that Israel exists, it won various wars, and now owns a lot of land where palestinians used to live.

For eb2 and eb3 visas, For chinese and mexicans it's similar. For everyone else, no.

Your argument is all over the place, and it literally says that i said originally. That the differences are caused by a variety of reasons and not just racism.

For example, you started with saying that white women are racist for not teaching black men properly. But then changed it to say that it is cultural because black men are in single households. Said the same thing for asian americans, and pretend to say that i said that asian americans do better because they are genetically smarter. No i didn't mean that. The strictAsian american parent is a stereotype for a reason.

In the end, reparations are a bad and illiberal idea. I can probably never give any example of how it can go bad because you'll just dismiss it like you did.