By the same token, I was reading for years how China's construction market was the biggest bubble in history and was going to pop so hard the nation would be an economic black hole. Is that still going to happen or what?

Chinese people don't want to buy their garbage cars and they like China. Why would we?

...This is my embarrassed face.

I had previously assumed you were speaking of allocating $1M across all projects used by Google. In fact, you were speaking of giving $1M to each such project.

One would wonder what sorts of strings would be attached to such largesse. Still, that would indeed be game-changing and amazing.

Google could create a new corporate policy to provide a minimum of $1M/year to any open source project it uses.

That would be real innovation.

While acknowledging your noble intentions, no, it wouldn't be innovation. It would be cheaping out.

In the San Francisco bay area, $1.0E+06/year gets you maybe five skilled engineers. Set against the quantity of Open Source projects used by such organizations -- FFmpeg, GStreamer, OpenSSL, ssh, rsync, gcc, gdb, coreutils, nanopb, Samba, Lua, Python, Perl, Git, Vim/Neovim, Yocto, ImageMagick, Blender, the Pipewire framework, the Linux kernel, the Debian packaging system, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc... -- five engineers is miserly.

That work sounds like a great candidate to offload onto AI!

They're here illegally. Frankly I don't care if they're in a gang or not. They shouldn't have been let in in the first place. We already have problems with housing costs and stagnant wages. You don't think importing millions of people affects that? Next, and the part we'll never do, is severely punish employers who hired them.

Google appears to have understaken the expense of spinning up an ocean-boiling slop machine to automagically generate plausible bug reports, and then casually fire off an email to the maintainers.

Note that Google has not undertaken the expense of assigning an engineer to also write a fix.

That they are not doing that is a conscious, management-approved choice.

...Y'know how Google relishes in closing bug reports with "WONTFIX - Working as designed?" I think FFmpeg should close slop reports from Google with, "WONTFIX - Unfunded."

The problem is for every hundred "We've found a cure for disease X in mice!" stories I see, I see one where the cure that worked in mice didn't not work in humans. And it may not actually work very well because humans and mice are so different.

> Why would somebody who believes in objective truths like science, want to live in a country where the ruling class has complete, un-challenged power?

Why would they want to live in a democracy where the government flips every few years and the flips are growing increasingly large and insane?

Aside from all that money they paid you and the connections you made and all that stuff. Which hopefully will pay for you to retire somewhere else.

China is a serious nation and doesn't give away citizenship like candy the way the US does.

1) Ummm what? You know they make these things called ”stands" these days? Some of them are built into cases. 2) You do know the point of "podcasts" is to listen to them and not watch them, right?

The problem seems to be you do not understand how technology works. So let me explain how I use my iPad. Before washing the dishes, I put on a podcast and play it on the speakers. My hands are free to do dishes. If I am watching something, I flip the case so the iPad is standing at angle, and I position it where I can see it. I occasionally look at the screen while I do dishes. Hopefully you learned how people use technology.

America can't have walkable cities because modern American cities are literally designed so the middle and upper class can get away from 'minorities'. That means suburbs which can only be reached by car.

The same is now increasingly true of much of Europe, where whites flee the already walkable parts of the city to get away from the millions of 'minorities' their governments have imported over the last twenty years.

For me, my tablet never really leaves the house. But I use it in many rooms. I look up and follow recipes when making meals in the kitchen. I play podcasts and YouTube videos when doing the dishes in the kitchen. I watch videos in bed. Can I use a phone? Yes. The tablet has a larger screen.

This is what a tablet is. Bigger than a phone but not quite a laptop or desktop. There are use cases for this. In my house they are basically portable streaming devices. Someone is watching their show on the living room TV, grab the iPad/tablet and watch your show in your room.

So the service worker installs the entire Grab site to you phone? Grab handles food delivery, grocery delivery, package delivery, ride sharing, financial services, etc.. That seem extremely inefficient to load every single function to your phone just because you visited their website. Also I would imagine that working for Grab requires different functions than consumers. But according to you, every time someone visits Grab, it should install all these functions to your browser. I doubt it.

Maybe you should research that before suggesting a solution that has been available for 12 years but not used. But let's step back. If you look at all the companies in the US that do food delivery like Grab: Doordash, Uber Eats, Instacart, Favor, Grubhub, Postmates, etc. They ALL use native apps. All of them. Maybe you should ask these companies why they don't use PWAs.

You suggested a solution that Grab, Doordash, Uber Eats, Instacart, Favor, Grubhub, Postmates, etc. do not use. I pointed out maybe these companies know way more about their needs and solutions than you. Do you accept that?