I'm not sure wind and weather are solved. Planes, ships, and to a lesser extent cars/trains are still lost to weather quite frequently. Yes, we can track it better, but people still have to go about their lives in inclement weather. Knowing where it is does not mean we never have to deal with it.

Also, as others have noted elsewhere, hydrogen is still an absolute pain to work with. It's better than it was, but that doesn't make it safe. In-flight fires are still a nightmare on planes - it'd be much worse if the only thing keeping you in the air is a massive hydrogen balloon.

All this is apart from airships being slow, unwieldy, relatively low altitude, etc.

What is worse, government censorship or digital censorship through big tech? Remember when all these corporations banned Trump at the same time? Imagine not being able to buy from Amazon when there is no retailer left. Imagine not being able to listen to music or watch movies when all of it is only available through streaming. What about having all your email deleted because a Google bot flagged your account. Or being shadow banned in social media, having no impact on any discussion.

> What is worse, government censorship or digital censorship through big tech?

Government, no question about it. Twitter doesn't throw you in jail.

As somebody who is banned on Twitter for unclear reasons, I can unequivocally say that this is preferable to being thrown in jail or fined by the government

but there isn't one retailer or one social media service so why should I imagine fictional scenarios when considering your question?

And what was the purpose of said law again? If i increase the price of cars by a 1000x, am i not deciding who gets to buy and then use one? I'm making it harder to buy cars with the intention of less people using it, just like carbon taxes and the like.

And what exactly one exercises by doing that?

I'm not sure I understand the question, but the exercise I'm talking about is pulling up the federal sentencing guidelines and working out a guideline sentence.

There is only a small number of good mechanisms (such as the one you pointed out) in the world. In today's world this is a problem. People and groups of people need to bring something different to the "table" in order to get or stay relevant. In essence, every now and then people have the worst of incentives to pump and hype some exotic technology in order to secure that good old government money.

You can choose to believe Waymo (and all other SDCs who say the same) or not. No one's going to show you source code on an internet forum.

I'm not sure what you're getting at. Both the US and most of Europe have been openly providing militarily help to Ukraine.

Yeah the us and Russia are at war here the battlefield just happens to be in Ukraine. It’s a limited war though.

Because they provide a service?

never seen this before and i have been to a few hospitals, only payed for parking.

It is a race to the bottom nevertheless. While on one side minimum wage is pushed higher, on the other technology gets cheaper. Eventually even burger flippers will find themselves out of a job.