The problems is other who are standing on the same shoulder of the same giants, even the original giants themselves fail to turn this theoretical advantage into actually being
> better/faster/cheaper than everything
So do talking down SpaceX based on that makes no sense.
Watch 'Mars Industrialization Roadmap' by Casey Handmer. That is exactly what he is addressing. He literally mentions the 'I, Pencil'. And btw a million people is the goal, not 1000.
Because hackers tend to believe in the idea that automation and advanced AI causes a reduction of jobs and the destruction of middle class. This leads to a lot of rich people who control the AI and robots and a lot of poor who can't find jobs.
To counteract this, Basic income is a good idea because it allows for low risk job switching, furthering education and a small bureaucracy but extensive social safety net.
As a Swiss let me give you my opinion of this. First I will say that I voted against this.
Lets be honest here, the 'minaret' issue is extremely minor one. I does not effect large numbers of people and it does not effecte them in a particularly strong way. Based on first principle I voted against it, but was not the most important issue for me or for Switzerland.
Most of the time the results Switzerland gets to usually are really good. Many things that passed in other countries did not pass in Switzerland.
I think that the argument that Swiss democracy is bad because of this minaret example, is extremely weak. If that the best argument you can bring against the Swiss system, then its doing something right. You can't find cases of gross misjudgment or fiscal or social issues or anything like that? I can find stuff like that in most other countries.
The Swiss system can also be used to remove stuff from the constitution. So this minaret stuff need not be there forever.
Edit: One addition I would make to the system is that if a law is rejected by a 'human rights' evaluation group, it needs to pass with 2/3 majority.
That is a very one sided view of things. Lots of assumptions that have been proven false over and over again. If you actually look into the economic research on this questions you will quickly see that its very hard to make a case against immigration. Anti-immigration economists have to make arguments such as "over a period of 30 years immigration reduced the real wage of people without a high-school degree 5-8%". And that's of course a terrible argument that does not hold up in comparison with the positive effects.
Essentially xenophobia is the only reason why people are against immigration.
The idea of basic income is not to replace jobs. The idea is to give you the basics of living and food. Then you can take on additional work of some kind to improve your overall income.
You could live with 1500 if you really wanted to. Its not impossible.
JS is just not a good language as a compiler target. If you hade an Bytcode with all the right low level types and features it would be easier to optimise for the VM implementers (mozilla, google ...), you could modify JS without changing the VMs, languages would not be blocked by the speed of JS, faster languages would be possible. It would be easier to make languages that are very diffrent from JS work in the browser.
Your solution work but a haskell interpreter in js will never have good performence but if you could make a GHC backend that comipiles to "web bytecode".
> better/faster/cheaper than everything
So do talking down SpaceX based on that makes no sense.