What have you seen that suggests this?

The FDA has rather strict quality control standards so my guess is these pharmacies have not gone through the process to be fully licensed. And another thing:

Yes...after the quality control of toys, toothpaste, dog food, and drywall from China, we're sure we can trust their quality with our pharmaceuticals.

France had a population of only 40 million at the time, so I think it would be rather difficult to have that many casualties.

The freedom to fork is like the freedom of speech. You have it, and you can use it, but there may be consequences when you do so there may be times when it's advisable to not do so.

It comes from nowhere. The time it takes or energy invested in searching is as irrelevant as the effort needed to mine gold or the cloth and ink needed to print bills.

That doesn't change the fact that bitcoins come from nowhere.

There's rules that govern how USD are created. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they're not being followed.

When you mine bitcoins you're pulling them out of thin air.

FTFA:

Do people even notice that? I mean, if I'm getting what I think is a great deal and it takes literally a fraction of a second more for the page to load I don't think I'm going to care.

The more options we have, the better the competition for one to win out, and the faster we get off of oil. To me it doesn't matter if they get better performance than Tesla right now or even the near future.

They're better off waiting until after they graduate and get asked for money for the endowment to make their move. While the endowment will survive for a long time, it's also used to help balance budgets for any of the other Harvard schools (Harvard Med, for example, does some heavy drawing when grant money runs low). That means that they still rely on new money coming in, and that's when graduates can start banding together and saying "we'll contribute when you divest". That will get the message across far better than now.

"Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer"

Well that's not too bad...I mean I want to get my daughter interested in this stuff too and...

instead of writing the code, she enlists two boys to write the code as she just does the design.

Huh, well, design is an important part of computer engineering, and...

She then proceeds to infect her computer and her sister's computer with a virus and must enlist the boys to fix that for her as well.

Ah, well..

In the end she takes all the credit, and proclaims "I guess I can be a computer engineer!"

sigh

This is partially what happened with the Kreyos. I'm passing on this.

There was someone before Katz? He was like 1999-2002 or so. Slashdot is...what...'96?

If they have good leadership skills, they'll get out of your way and provide cover. In which case you better have someone with serious technical chops to lead the group in a technical manner.

Honestly, it depends on the outlook of the boss. I went from technical to management and back to sorta technical/sorta management. The proper attitude for a mid-level manager especially for technical staff is "what can I do to make sure they can do their job?". And that's how I approached my staff at the time - what do they need from me, what tasks do I think they could be doing to further their career, what grunt work stuff has to be done and assigned to somebody? Balance all that out, make sure your team knows you are looking out for them (and take their side when dealing with upper management) and you'll have their support and enthusiasm. I wound up getting laid off and still talk to the people that used to work for me. They say I was one of the best managers they had, partially because I was technical enough to know what they were talking about, but also I was working with them before being promoted so I was almost literally in their shoes and could see their side of issues.