How much is H-1B visa fee? It looks weird it is possible to fund anything significant with such a thing.

I wonder how they plan to make profit from a browser.

We are heading to the situation where patching the kernel will be faster than patching applications:

Kernel upgrade: no downtime

Adjusting a parameter in Java application: wait for 4 minutes for Glassfish to restart

Submitter wants a "widespread compiled language that has good ties into FOSS".

What about plain old C? Otherwise, second best choice seems C++

Posting porn: wrong

Expressing your identity by posting porn: good

There is something weird in this logic.

According to the paper, computer remains below human average level for Pacman. Does that means AI failed to reverse engineer Pacman's ghost behavior, including their bugs?

Sure, but there are much less children in LA than the number I used, which is the whole population.

It is more like "Crimea is ours. Deal with it". Obviously Russia never intended to take over Ukraine, as their army could be in Kiev in less than a week if they wanted to perform a real invasion. We talk about Ukraine, a failed state, versus Russia, a major nuclear power.

But of course, invading western Ukraine, where a lot of people hate russians, would mean dealing with a fierce resistance after the military victory. This is probably the reason why they did not do it. Invading Crimea, which mostly contained russians, made sense, invading Ukraine does not.

The soviet system had many problems, and I am glad I did not live in it, but central planning have some merit. Spatial projects could never come true without it.

There are huge parts of public sector that operate far enough from unqualified politicians to maintain the ability to actually work. But I guess the situation depends on the countries.

You forgot to take into account the private sector efficiency, which is usually obtained through negative externalities: crushing workers, polluting...

Of course someone will tell me that public sector pollute as much because laws allow it, and has lazy and unproductive workers...

1.3 billion USD is a huge amount of money. Wikipedia tells me Los Angeles total population is 3958125 (how precise!). If we use 1.3 billion USD to buy a computer for every resident (which is much more than every children), individual machines can still cost up to 328 USD, which seems to be more than an iPad's price.

Sumarry says:

How much is it more expensive than private industry? Boeing and SpaceX are not philanthropists, they will do the job for profit.

I am surprised lobbies had not already obtained such a measure in Australia.

It looks outdated now that similar laws are dying in other countries. In France the law was voted but it seems the government is not willing to enforce it. Perhaps it is related to the ruling that considered Internet access is human right.

But on a smart card, asymmetric cryptography can be used. The private key is generated by the chip on user request. It is not supposed to leak outside of the device.

As I understand, this SIM debacle is only possible because the cryptography used here is symmetric, which means the telephone operator must have a copy of the SIM key.