they would lose performance after 1-2 years, but not anymore
I definitely get battery degradation after 1-2 years still. A lot of phones have good enough total battery life now that it doesn't matter nearly as much, but it definitely still happens
Yes, but thats because your instance doesn't start federating with another instance until someone subscribes to a community from the other instance, your instance just won't have any posts to display
Or the laws of physics are just the same between all of the multiverses, and it's impossible to travel between them. Maybe the walls between universes are so thick that nobody will ever even detect that the other universes are there at all, making it basically the same as there being no other universes in the first place
right, but some movies show universes with very different pasts that still show a weirdly similar present. As you said, the smallest of things in the past should cause the present to be even more different, but in many movies that's not the case
Yeah, that's why I specified US, there are plenty of places where it's more of a gradiant, or where left and right are just two of many options. although unfortunately fptp is the norm in most of the world. The US is unusually polarized even among fptp countries, but countries that have better voting systems that allow for more than two parties are the exception, not the norm.
They already operate on the road without a driver behind the wheel at all, haven't they already "replace[d] a regular human driven car in its regular setting"?
The cars they're talking about here are fully autonomous, not driver assisted. It's a completely different stack from their commercial vehicles that are driver assisted, and they're not for sale yet.
That dream is a reality right now in at least a couple of cities. At this point its a matter of expansion and scaling, because right now it's geofenced into a couple of small areas
We trust our lives to wires all the time, brakes, acceleration, airplane controls, elevators. This is no different, you just put in enough redundancy to make failures safe
Fundamentally the risk to the community is similar, all it takes is for an instance administrator to decide to nuke the community and there'll be nothing we can do about it. But unlike on Reddit, there's no single administrator that can nuke every piracy community. There will always be a piracy community somewhere on Lemmy, even if it isn't this one
Exactly, the law definitely defines that the tools have to be commonly available with no restrictions or proprietary rights, and that any tools that don't fit under that definition must be provided free of charge. It also lists a few practices that are outright banned regardless of availability, like needing thermal or chemical tools. They've been very thorough.