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Exactly

It is a little more complex than that. You cannot only consider how big is a country or how big is its grid.
If the Europe would be hit by a solar storm, assuming that not all of it was hit we can recover the grid in about a month and the blackout would not be longer than maybe a week.

But a solar storm would destroy also everything else, so how big is the grid is really irrelevant when you basically have every other piece (excluded the few hardened enough) destroyed.

Any country with competent leadership could have squashed the zombies in a couple months.

True but you underestimate people stupidity.

All this also doesn’t take into account how creators gets paid.

If they want to make money in such system, they can simply host their node and use something like patreon to get paid.

(yes, there should be the option for a node to not be able to share a video and to stream it only to subscribed users, but that does not seems to be a big problem)

But even running an indexer on a YT-like scale would need serious money, even if you spread the hosting and streaming load around.

True but probably doable since it would be way smaller.

And for most users, this would not be attractive, as you probably would have to torrent the data first and view it later.

That's a good observation.

Then there is the issue with responsibility. If someone throws e.g. CSAM into the system, who could be held responsible?

The uploader. But I get that could be difficult.

Who would have to deal with DMCA notices?

Only the ones where the DMCA is valid. Which means US.

Who would deal with issues like “Dictator X demands all videos showing him in a bad light to be removed immediately!”

Do you realize that in many place such a request could be simply ignored until the dictator X does not get and order by a judge ?
Not to say that these are not real problems, but a distributed system is much more resilient to them, with the good and bad implications associated.

And: Opening a payment system is a serious can of worms, especially if you need it to work internationally.

That's a point that is more problematic since such system could|should not use something like paypal or similar services.

The gig economy is nothing new in itself, it was already present, the only thing these companies did is to make them "modern". Here were not uncommon that people got some gig works to have the money for holidays (teenagers) or to round up salary from time to time.
It is not a problem per se.

The problem is that the gig economy is the only way to have a salary for some people, for various reasons.
That let the companies to pay way less because they have a big pool to choose from and have not any obligations (or advantages) to have a stable set of employees and to resort to gig workers only in peak times.
And that is true expecially in place like the US where the llabor laws are ridiculous.

The article say about 500/600 meters deep. No mention if on the sea floor or not.

esla… How many new models were made since he got in?

None. But without Tesla you would not have neither all the other models from other car companies. Tesla just started it and demostrated that it is possible to produce an electric car with a decent look (and better that some ICE cars in my opinion) at a time when most of the electric cars done by other company were just some ugly proof of concept (excluding a very few cases) to show at this or that event.
And I read somewhere that what Musk wanted from Tesla was to set the stage, as far as I remember he said that it was ok if Tesla bankrupt after setting the stage.

SpaceX? They got billions to get us to Mars. They never go beyond the super easy part in rocketry, low earth orbit. Anything beyond that is where shit gets really hard and we’re still waiting. All I saw was billions of tax dollars wasted in blown up rocket after blown up rocket and SpaceX cheering nluke idiots over a blown up banana.

Considering that everyone else was not able to do even that, I would not call SpaceX a failure. And it is not that NASA did not have its fair number or launch failures, tbh.
You talk about beyond low earth orbit like something way harder, but it not really true. SpaceX put a Tesla in a orbit beyond Mars with a Falcon heavy some years ago, and they still have (and use) the Falcon Heavy.

Hell, they obliterated a launchpad because btgey were dumb enough to not understand flame diverters…

True but they were trying to launch a rocket that nobody else even tried to build. I would say it is fair that they make some mistakes.

Colonizing the bottom of the ocean would be orders of magnitude easier. Or the South Pole. Or Kīlauea’s open lava pit.

While it is true that you have different sets of problems to solve, nope, they are only cheaper to get to, not necessary easier to colonize, except maybe the South Pole where you just need to build something that only need to withstand the cold, which is easy enough and you could go outside without a space suite or something similar.

The problem with colonizing Mars is the cost, which have as a consequence the cost of everything you send to that place.

But in the end I think that we already have all the basic blocks for a base on Mars (or the Moon) and what it is stopping us is the cost of putting everything together and send it.
We already know how to build isolated environments that can must stay sealed for month or years (subs and International Space Station), we already know how to recycle things like air and water, we already know how to produce vegetables in cramped spaces and with low or no exposure to the sun (think of every weed farm inside houses ;-) ) and minimal water needs, we already know how to develop and deploy complex industrial control systems and so on.

They are a relic from the time when the only way to build a base was to find one of them and claim it. When they added the option to build a base where you want (not remember which update) they left them in the wild even if somewhat rarer.

If you find one you should still be able to claim it as your base.

Yeah, the AI absolutely is a problem.

AI is noto a problemi by itself, the problemi is that most of the people who make decisions in the workplace about these things do not understand what they are talking about and even less what something is capable of.

My impression is that AI now is what blockchain was some years ago, the solution to every problemi,which was of course false.