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there is no ROM in the linked github repo

The fact that you think NYC doordash delivery workers are driving is a good indication that you're out of your depth on this topic.

AI is largely unpopular outside of the tech & business worlds. Most laypeople see it as falling on a spectrum between unwanted and annoying (google getting worse, AI chatbots proliferating in every app and site) to actively harmful (jobs being replaced by ai).

The fact that comments agreeing with this sentiment get downvoted here isn't a huge surprise, hn is firmly inside the tech/business world.

hn is not a single person, there are a variety of people here with a variety of experiences and opinions and biases.

Great analogy! Unfortunately we are the sulfur breathers.

The first point is true of most employment, unless you're one of the ~10% of US employees with a union contract. Your paycheck is always subject to the whims of your employer.

I don't have a great solution for the 2nd issue you pose though. Raising the pay of elected officials is often politically unpopular, but you're certainly right that one makes more in the private sector than as a junior congressperson.

you guys won, what do you want?

New england's suburbs & small towns are the outlier in the US. I grew up in the south and my experience exactly mirrors that of the CA resident you're responding to.

No amount of cultural change is going to make suburban charlotte a good place for 8 year olds to bike alone.

Because you have to live in a society with those other people. Because that's going to be YOU in the future. Because it's going to be your kids, your cousins, your neighbors.

Was apartheid South Africa not an ethnostate then? Was the US south during slavery not an ethnostate?

I almost wonder if your comment itself is Israeli propaganda.

I had this experience a couple years ago. I hate dentists man