Depends. If the tax is based on jobs replaced, not the abstractly defined number of robots that exist, it would have an impact. Also, monolithic solutions tend to be inherently less efficient than similarly developed defined ones, so limiting the robot models for a tax benefit would have another limit on their efficiency.

It's an issue that could be accounted for, if there were sufficient political will. If taxes from automation were committed to public good, there would likely be pretty widespread acceptance.

IMO it is more likely that we're more early than late (though an argument can be made that there's a sweet spot in between the two).

When the universe was lukewarm, I don't think the conditions existed for life to exist everywhere because there hadn't been enough stellar nucleosynthesis for there to be astrophysical metals (i.e. anything heavier than helium, with the possible exception of lithium at a very low concentration). Not much useful chemistry can be done with just hydrogen and hellium.

Additionally, planetary systems surrounding earlier generation stars are much rarer than those of the same class at the Sun. Planets that formed around earlier generation stars did not have access to a high enough variety of astrophysical metals to create the complex chemistries that chemical life requires and their host stars were likely too short lived to make advanced evolution possible, even if they had planetary systems.

Planets formed around stars younger than/with higher metallicity are much more likely to be gas giants that would have their own set of issues with the evolution of chemical life (e.g. much lower carbon presence).

The "optimal" time frame for the development of complex life on a planet would theoretically vary by its position compared to the galactic bulge its star formed in, i.e. earlier closer to the galactic center and later further out. Being closer to galactic core makes for a higher chance of being blasted by a supernova or other extremely high energy astronomical event, making for a higher chance of mass extinctions.

If most stars/planets formed much before our sun lacked sufficiently complex chemistry, and those formed much after it lack sufficient carbon and provide a host of gravitational/pressure issues that would inhibit technological development even if evolutionary life did arise, it seems likely that most planets potentially with advanced civilizations are of similar ages. With some slightly older examples nearer the galactic core and some slightly younger ones deeper into the spiral arms.

If you pick the right currency, Musk is already the first multi-trillionaire!

Unfortunately, they are people. Evil, narcissistic, sociopathic, detestable people. Dehumanizing them is easy because of how inhumane they are, but it jumpstarts one of the more verified slippery slopes that ends up "justifying" atrocities.

That being said, I'm all for them being stripped of every possession and asset they've ever had, sending every participant family member and associate put in a different high security prison for life, and possibly sentencing them under 13th amendment slavery rules with all revenue going to addiction treatment.

Because they're people. And they deserve all of the things our judicial system has to offer. As people. Evil, shitty, greedy, people.

The French made some attempts at making metric time a thing, but no one really liked it.

Do a barrel roll!

A significant number of his best investments were based upon fuckery that the rest of us aren't really able to enact, so "spite buy entire companies" or whatever isn't really any sort of opinion I'd listen to, either.

TBF, they've left that mercury tomb in China sort of alone.

It's the ratio of screen size to distance from the screen. But typically you sit further from larger screens, so there's an optimization problem in there somewhere.

One of them did, though! Irene Joliot-Curie got the 1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Her father in law lived with them after his wife died shortly after her first daughter was born. He acted as babysitter when Marie was working. They also hired a servant to take care of most housework and cooking.

There is no constitutional basis for moving the date of elections under any circumstances. Elections went on as normal during the Civil War and WWII, there's absolutely no legal, constitutional or moral excuse for cancelling or delaying them.