wealthy well-connected persons usually get sentenced to death without trial.

Not to mention all the work she did for Kung Fu.

"When you snatch the pebble from my had you will be ready Grace Hopper."

You don't understand Imagery and Hyperbole are the only ways you can really get grant money. As they say around the global disruption research facilities "If it's not the end of the world it is the end of the budget."

Does money buy political power, or does political prowess get you money?

My guess a bit of both, but leaning more on the prowess.

Speaking form experience causes hearing loss now? Don't experience so loud then.

It's just like how you might buy 110V AC current from the Power company, except that during heavy usage hours that drops to 55V and during peak it sometimes even drops below 20V, stutters or even stalls out for long periods of time.

Or better yet leave the resources in the hands of the people that earned them to begin with.

But, but, but the poster behind the laptop has an AT-AT on it. Maybe they could build one of those instead?

Hmm, I look at the temperature outside, then I feel the temperature inside. When we're trying I'd say it works pretty good.

Yea, but you can get that 20% of the content like 10 times faster than the USA.

Now it seems every post on any day is an unfunny joke.

Interestingly I was never taught to do addition/subtraction like that but have always done it that way. It helps me to quickly get to something close when estimating and also get more precise by thinking a little more through the steps.

It's all about limiting the number of steps you have to memorize and being able to break a problem up into a few easier smaller problems.

I haven't used it but the jist I get is that your build system, rather than just outputting an application package that then has to be installed on an OS outputs a complete container that can then be run with zero other dependencies in all your QA/test environments right up until deployed to production.

The answer to too much government is more government to watch it.

They made that money by exchanging it for goods and services that others thought of as more valuable than the money they handed over. Society has already shared in the profit.