We'd put 10s of thousands of accountants, auditors, and IRS agents out of business if we fixed this thing called a tax code. Instead of
We try to find some technical solution to the issue that becomes another set of logic driven by rules sometimes in conflict.

Wasn't Intuit sued for deceptive practices over their "free filing"?
Yet here we are wanting to give them more taxpayer funds?

Shame on us for voting for these idiots.

A country with human and industrial resources like India could manage several dams and reservoirs to deal with some but not all fluctuations in rainfall. 80% of their rainfall comes during monsoon season as well.

I don't think you can blame "Climate Change" but the increasing population in India.

Average Monsoonal Rainfall and percentage of deviation from "normal"

Year rainfall(mm) Pct Diff From Normal
2015 764 -13.0
2016 989 12.5
2017 960 9.1
2018 919 4.5
2019 870 -1.1
2020 881 0.1
2021 993 12.9
2022 886 0.7
2023 876 -0.5

Population (according to the World Bank) has gone from 1.299B to 1.43B over those same years.

People have characteristics that eventually can lead them to obsession or compulsive behaviors; call it what it is then an addiction. I've seen people obsess over social media and invest hours a day in unproductive endeavors wasted on social media. Christ! read a book, volunteer for something but get off the fucking cell phone! Honestly, the problem is the cell phone or specifically the smartphone. With so many apps looking for your attention, time or resources start with downgrading that instead of something simpler. If it doesn't exist anymore is no reason not to push manufacturers with our dollars to simpler solutions that don't put an addictive system in your face.

Infosys et al. represent the worst in terms of IT outsourcing. They'll promise the moon they quickly try and "train up" incompetent, underpaid staff "offshore" to fulfill the contract. Companies that outsource without holding any outsourcing firm accountable for delivery and quality deserve what they get.

Craptacular experience there MS. How about allowing the customers to decide what bloat embeds their desktop? Yes I realize that most if not all of that code wasn't used but it also represents a possible attack vector, slows your system down and wasn't requested!

Generative AI model can't distinguish abusive vs. non-abusive content. If you're training a model, I think one of the first things would be to distinguish content to filter out these things.

Blue Origin is behind the curve, they haven't even achieved orbit yet after years of work. A damming point of shame for Blue Origin is now even Amazon is using SpaceX

It can do 1.7 Gigaguesses a minute.

That's what Debit Cards were supposed to be originally but invariably those were issued by banks who had to pay network fees to use the same terminals that credit cards used. Those terminals/networks etc. are cost components as are the transactions processed at a bank. If the gov't wants you to use digital currency there will need to be technology costs associated with dealing with that as well. It's a panacea of dumb. As for privacy, nobody needs to know that I gave that stripper a $20 tip for services rendered. In the new digital currency world, she'll have to pay tax on that $20 and I'll owe a $10 transaction fee for using a service that the gov't doesn't approve of.

This is an old problem with a new twist. Yes, Log4J has a security hole but so do a lot of other dependencies whether FOSS or paid for. What's missing is the critical stable production support called for in SDLC practices. It never gets factored into a project but it's still a necessity. It's no different than keeping your car's tires properly inflated by checking them periodically. If a company comes in and does a vulnerability scan, management needs to own the risk if there are compromised dependencies the system owners and IT management need to prioritize the remediation including but not limited to early retirement of the system. There's also another aspect that's being overlooked in a lot of these responses, most security threats are from within an organization.

Another aspect of this as a best practice avoid bringing in large built-in dependencies that try to do too much. Log4J is an example of a great idea that went down a rabbit hole of bloat and feature creep.

Governments have been proposing the elimination of cash because of the "hidden" costs of distributing and managing cash. Australia has removed hundreds of ATMs as they try to force citizens into using debit and credit cards everywhere; it's also creating a backlash.

yes it was according to this 2021 release. but IBM spun Watson Health in 2022.

ML algorithms are a known, reliable quantity. The medical field already uses them for the analysis of EKG strips for possible heart issues. Doing this with X-ray images is a rational step with appropriate follow-up with a professional for any medical treatment.