FYI, I believe that Bear was also Poul Anderson's son in law as well.

Great way to cut down on freedom of speech on a massive scale. Good thing that US courts have decided that copyright requires some human content.

From Wikipedia: In the United Kingdom, the Locomotive Acts was a policy requiring self-propelled vehicles to be led by a pedestrian waving a red flag or carrying a lantern to warn bystanders of the vehicle's approach.

Hate to nitpick, but the "public" Apollo missions stopped at Apollo 17. You just blew their cover!

An additional contributing factor might demographics. Consider the baby boomer population. This is often called the "Pig in the Python". During the 1990's, there were a large number of educated baby boomers in their 30's, in an environment where there were fewer open slots of any type above them. So there may have been a greater incentive to "create your own slot" by doing a startup.

Anyone see any correlation between these machine learning results and results with real live humans? Now think about the effect of all the adaptive algorithms on social media driving individuals to ever stranger and more isolated information bubbles.

The main problem is that users become too relaxed and complacent. Solution: activating autopilot will bring up HAL's eye on the screen with a "Good morning Dave" (regardless of time of day or name of driver). When autopilot finds a situation that it can't handle, it can say, "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that". When the user takes control away from the autopilot, the autopilot can say: "I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal."

Wait, sounds familiar somehow...

Another possibility -- the LIDAR profile of a pedestrian slowly walking a bike could have resembled a something that the computer was designed to ignore. For example, signs on the side of the road, or fences, would generally cause a lot of false signals unless the system was designed to ignore these.

Scene: Home office, Manafort look-alike is typing on his computer. "Now how do I alter this spreadsheet? -- Gates will know". Overhead shot lets us see him starting to type an email. Cut to Mueller look-alike in a large office with an FBI logo on the wall. He is giving a high-five to other individuals wearing dark suits and sunglasses. Cut to Putin look-alike, saying "Need to alter a pdf? Get Adobe Acrobat Pro!"

It seems to me that the SEC could just set up a website where employees can submit a complaint in encrypted form. The employee can then report internally. If there is retaliation, the employee submits the encryption key to the SEC. Problem solved!

Having gone through all this myself, my advice would be: "assume you will be average". Will this particular career let you have a decent life if you end up being about average in your field? If not, consider something else.

I agree, and in pretty much all of the examples cited, after giving an initial funny answer, Musk went back and clarified with more technical detail. Personally, I learned more about the BFR approach, and I enjoyed the jokes as well.

Certainly, something that should be preserved as a presidential record.