"Calling theories"... Hypothesis was used in the quote. In fact "theory" doesn't appear at all. So you're arguing against some other statement.

"... the simple fact is that much of the modern world would simply not work if the words "hypothesis" and "guess" were equivalent." Incorrect. Reality doesn't give a crap how words are used. You apparently do and are taking umbrage. Fine, just don't act like what you're writing is fact. It isn't.

"... rather than mysticism and magical thinking." Or hypothesis.

Says someone who isn't getting any.

Got nothin' to do with bein' an old timer. My gaming mouse has a clickable scroll wheel and a set of twelve side buttons. It's simply a can't adapt thing.

Bad phrasing on your part. There is no incremental cost of enabling IoT on a device. There is replacing said device. I'm past 60. I still have my grandmother's waffle iron and it works fine, cotton wrapped cord and all. Many, many things have lifespans that will make the IoT very difficult to integrate into a current someone's life without great expense and waste and so they simply won't. The "ubiquitous" IoT will be late this century at best.

"Why wouldn't they?" Most are non-OCD.

That understanding was based on a scare program. The truth is quite the opposite.

Ghost it. Besides, your translation is just a manifestation of your supposition, not what will happen.

Pajama Boy and posse aren't very in sync either, you know.

Do you honestly believe that having a higher commit count indicates anything at all about "playing well with others"? From the article:

We measure team productivity by the number of commits by team developers recorded in either the main repository or any of its forks in a given quarter.

It could just as easily be argued that it indicates sloppy technique or a battle of egos.

You are incorrect. Patents and copyrights done on your own time and not relating to company assets are yours.

My guess is he consulted any number of alchemy texts trying to figure out how to transmute gold.

It isn't often that we actually use a wordprocessor now, its all done online...

Who exactly is this "we"?

I do not have Java on my machine and I use OpenOffice.

Since it's a demonstrable and, he's more accurate.

But not all of them. Not even all climate scientists.