I understand that advertisements provide revenue that many companies need to operate. Given the choice between paywall and ads, I'll choose ads most every time.

But you are spot on, ads should be minimally invasive. Ads should always load after content loads, never before. Ads should be low-priority as far as processing and bandwidth are concerned. And of course, ads should never be obtrusive, such as popping up over content or displaying right under the mouse when you hover over something that can be clicked or having sound.

I am definitely in the .NET camp. But if you are interested in functional programming and you have to work in the JVM, you might want to consider switching to Scala. It's pretty good stuff.

.NET Core will now use semantic versioning. I'm not sure if .NET Framework will do the same... I don't know of anything planned for 4.6 that violates the rules of semantic versioning.

The overall synchronized release of .NET will now be labeled by year, e.g. ".NET 2015".

A point of open source is to remove the ability to "extinguish". Microsoft doesn't want it any more? Who cares what they think, the community will decide if it lives or dies.

That argument is a slippery slope. Say the data is racist. The algorithm is not racist, so what sense does it make to attack the algorithm while ignoring the data?

Even if the results of the algorithm are racially skewed, is the result worse than the status quo? I seriously doubt it. Remember that the problem this algorithm is trying to solve is not whether there is racial bias, but whether crime can be prevented by targeting repeat offenders.

Interesting, I thought the most basic and oldest function of email was sending a message.

You do realize that the entire point of having a trial is to lecture a judge or jury? If they already knew the answers, there would be no need for a trial.

That is answered by the former quote:

Breaking encryption that is not breakable does not fall under any sense of the word "reasonable".

And I don't see why it has to be one-or-the-other. There can still be automated buses that services main routes, and smaller automated buses/taxis that work on a reservation system to drive people to and from the main bus system.

Correlation != causation

For all we know, it is lifelong virginity that leads to Star Wars.

Depends on if it's a generic floor or a dynamic floor.

I'm not even going to pretend I RTFA, but I did notice this in the abstract:

I'm not sure what it means by selective, whether it is something that can be applied temporarily, or if it can selectively target locations of pain.

As for safety, rear-facing seats are much safer in the event of a crash, even for adults. I hope they become mainstream with the invention of self-driving cars. There really would be no need for passengers to see the road.

Honestly, I was very surprised that chose Windows 10 over Windows One.

Agreed, this is the big takeaway, that they are moving off 6.*. The reason they skipped 7, 8, and 9 is rather obvious, that Microsoft wanted to align the kernel version with the product version.

It's not like skipping 7, 8, and 9 causes any additional compat issues.