You are being very pedantic here.

Well then that's good for the US renewable energy sector, no?

Not always. Inflation often leads to higher interest rates. This puts a damper on financing for renewable energy projects.

Or the Chinese renewable energy sector.

No, because the US has fallen so far behind in just 10 years.

It’s not the knowledge and tech, but manufacturing-of and at-scale-use of renewables that matters here.

We can’t just-in-time install infrastructure a across the entire country in a matter of weeks or months.

That is always the only question.

In an empire in decline, sure.

Git is old and busted, jj is the new hotness.

You can assume higher density has "more crime" because the increase in people means if you want to keep the same absolute rate of crimes (which is the only thing people ever notice--every violent or sexual crime will be repeated in the news), you have to correspondingly increase the efficiency of crime-fighting, and American police aren't up to the task, even if they were motivated to do so.

The proper idiom is "You can only pick two". It doesn't say that everything is two of them, or even one.

Slot machines have very controlled results. They are regulated to a high precision of reliability.

I don't think that difference matters to the comparison.

It's not an inherent feature to slot machines, it's something we enforce because people got angry about the outcomes (i.e. fraud) when they didn't operate that way.

It doesn't matter because a dodgy slot-machine is still a slot machine, and the person using it would still be a gambler.

Then pulling the lever until it works! You can also code up a little helper to continuously pull the lever until it works!

We have a monkeys and typewriters thing for this already.

Just instead of hitting keys, they’re hitting words, and the words have probability links to each other.

Who the hell thinks this is ready to make important decisions?

It's not ready to make important decisions. But that's not the same as making important contributions.

Weird take on legality. They're working American jobs, breaking American law. Yes it matters.

I'm sure American law enforcement will get the chance to arrest them next time they set foot in the US. Or maybe DPKR will extradite them, who knows?

This argument is sophistry, the nature of gambling is that gamblers over-leverage themselves compulsively.

Gambling is bad anyway because it increases the wealth gap. And wealth is increasingly used to take away wealth from the less fortunate. (See e.g. housing market, where price pressure is caused by wealth).