They didn't work for Steve Jobs because nothing would please Steve Jobs.

Since our Hubble volume will contain finite amount of matter-energy forever, the Bekenstein bound applies and thus the Hubble volume can only contain a finite number of distinguishable quantum states. After some point, all possible thoughts in that Hubble volume would have been thought, and any new ones will be repeats of ones that previously occurred. Even if you could be alive in this situation, would you want to?

Thanks for the interesting post. It reminds me about Nietzsche's theory of eternal recurrence. But here is what the philosopher Georg Simmel had to say on this matter (as summarised by Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufman):

Even if there were exceedingly few things in a finite space in an infinite time, they would not have to repeat in the same configurations. Suppose there were three wheels of equal size, rotating on the same axis, one point marked on the circumference of each wheel, and these three points lined up in one straight line. If the second wheel rotated twice as fast as the first, and if the speed of the third wheel was 1/pi of the speed of the first, the initial line-up would never recur.

Please read the Wikipedia page on "eternal return" and cyclic concepts of time; you'll find it interesting.

On the contrary, if enough people start using this that it becomes a fairly common practice, the police can no longer single out one person and claim that their behaviour is suspicious. This absolutely should be adopted by everyone.

My experience on the Nexus 10 has been the opposite. KitKat was so bad that I had to go back to jellybean after a couple of days. Lollipop, on the other hand, has been smooth, light, and rock-solid; no issues at all. Best release for this device ever.

Every Nexus back to the Nexus 4/7(2012) has images for 5.1.0 or 5.1.1. That means, every Google released device released in the last 3 years is up to date. You can argue about whether 3 years is enough time to support their devices, but they are supporting their own devices. Devices sold by manufacturers, instead of Google, are not Google's direct responsibility for upgrades. At least be straight forward about your claims. Google's devices are Nexus devices. GPE or whatever it is you're talking about aren't Google devices. They're just not manufacturer themed. The updates for those devices still originate from the manufacturers and not Google.

Indeed. My Nexus 10 dating from 2012 is running better than ever on 5.1.1. If Apple had other companies selling iOS devices, I doubt they'd have done any better at preventing fragmentation.

Now if your company policy says "50% must be of minority" you end up hiring the top 5% of white and top 50% of minority. Of course the new white employees will outperform the minority ones simply because you got crÃme-de-la-crÃme of the whites and merely "above average" of the minorities. And of course the disparity will cause frictions, rift in the team, disparity of handled workload and worse code quality on the average. Oh, and the company policies will protect the minority employees, punishing the whites who confront them for worse performance.

Perhaps this is the price society must pay until the historical consequences of white supremacy are reversed?

Now that would interest me.

My wife does every this every night, yeah!!