Bitcoins can be broken down to very small values. Allowing a bitcoin to inflate to a crazy value without impacting spend-ability..

The dark matter theory has always felt a bit contrived to me. But I don't have the background to make an cogent argument against it, nor have standing for my words to carry weight.

The All clears an ambiguity. This means the poster means that all the print drivers have most of their stuff in userspace. Rather than most of the print drivers are in userspace.
I don't follow printer drivers closely enough to know if the poster was right. I try and follow the nuance language, it is abused often.

Why own the car at all? Might as well be a service, no point in having "your" car a couple miles away doing nothing.
You could summon a car, based on all sorts of criteria. Mostly I see the big use case as a taxi-van, where a ride sharing system could be in place. Sure a person could request a private car, but I suspect that many people would be happy to share a ride with people who have been matched by computer as good ride matches.

They're sysadmins, They'll have the same sentiments as other federal employees that get downsized. Some will transfer to other USG jobs, Then they'll check the big iron jobs, fortune 500 companies, top500.org (some quasi governmental work there). University, State and Municipal IT positions.

The last stack of resume's I looked at was deeply disappointing.

They have a freakload of data. Where the access to the data must be secured, compartmentalized, logged, verified, and audited. Keys must be managed in a much more robust way. Ensuring that no data can leak between running jobs on a cluster.

There are going to be a freakish amounts of sysadmins/systemprogrammers/cybersecurity type all trying to meet the needed requirements. Then hoping that none of them get so rushed that they cut a corner, and leave a vulnerability open.

I'm sure that doing 10x work will result in full diligence.

Any reasonable computer type assumes that other reasonable type talk in MiB and GiB. Violating the convention brings you into the land of marketeers. As does trying to justify otherwise. Talking to someone who is a known unreasonable (a professor for instance) it is fine to use speak in the unreasonable vernacular. This is the same concept as one or zero based array indexing.

The Oxygen isn't going to just "strip off" Venus has a huge amount of Oxygen in the atmosphere. With little hydrogen the earth would have an incredibly thick atmosphere. Without life the O2 wouldn't be replenished and it would be an atmospheric compound.

We make fighter drones.. with frikkin laser beams attached to their heads.

Then some plucky human will get the bright idea of having crows do trash cleanup.. He'll build a device with a retinal scanner, that will let a crow bring trash to any container in exchange for food pellets. The system will keep the crows from gaming the machine.. This will be hailed as a boon to society, until our streets are barren of garbage, and then we start having scenes right out of Hitchcock's "the birds", as the birds will start proactively getting garbage from the hands, and pockets of the unsuspecting humans.

INCOME TAX + SS + Medicare + State Income + State and local Sales + Gas + property + plates + fees + utility franchise fees + workers comp tax + tolls +liquor taxes + other sin taxes + corporate income tax + a whole bunch of stuff
is going to come pretty dang close to the 51.1% for the median family.. The numbers can be moved around some, but taxes are paid something fierce. We just break is down into chunks that each seem fair, some of it falls on the employer, so it is hidden.
I'd take 51.1% total tax in a heartbeat to have really good government services. I'm paying pretty close to that for a system with few safety nets, few employee protections, and for insurance that has been pillaging the population.

Sweden isn't utopia. But I don't hear horror stories from my friends who are Swedish nationals.

Just loitering around the placed they were waiting for dialysis?

Some organism anchor in one place, and hunker down, relying on the external forces to spread their offspring. This has worked for plants for a long time. We have the ability to sense dangers that no other animal can, to plan an escape from a multitude of catastrophes. We don't wait around for misfortune to find us when we know it's coming. We don't stand in the middle of the street just because we will eventually die.

It isn't egotism to give the people a better chance at survival. We take the steps today so that there is a chance that we won't screw it up when it matters. Today we are the beneficiaries of the work done by the people of the last hundred years. It seems a waste to sit down on the railroad tracks and wait for the train to hit us. Doing this as a species is immoral cowardice.

Storm

And how did we make spider goats without psychics? I mean the cover story of genetic work is a good one, but clearly impossible.

It should have been "Do you feel more or less susceptible to the Dunning-Kreuger Effect than the general populace?"
but this put a little lipstick on the question.