I don't agree with this at all. Android makes use a lot of Linux specific facilities that have nothing to do with POSIX. /dev/input/foo for one. Android kernels are Linux kernel forks. Any driver you add to support mobile phone hardware is going to be Linux specific. Saying Android is not Linux based is not accurate.

Is the AI going to take a vote on what's ethical or just do whatever a very small number of product people decide?

Does this mean the fan on my laptop will finally stop?

I'm driving back to visit my parents who happen to live on Nafus St. It's pronounced "Nay-Fuss". Using Android Auto, I hit he button on the steering wheel and say, directions to blah-blah nafus st. blah blah. Google comes up with some location on Davis St in Brooklyn, NY. I tried over and over and no luck. My wife, of course, insisted she could it, but couldn't. I finally spelled it out. directions to "N', "A", F", "U", "S. Google comes back and says directions "nah-fuss" st... Later that day when I got to my dad's house I told my him that he no longer lives on "nay-fuss" st, the computer has decided that it's "nah-fuss" and that we shouldn't argue or we might end up in brooklyn,

Eh. Back in the Windows NT days in the 90s, David Cutler went from VMS to Windows and proably implemented a lot of knowledge back into the NT kernel. However that has been 25 years ago and the current kernel looks in no way even remotely similar to what they had running then.

Why do you doubt that the Windows scheduler is pretty good? I cannot talk about the linux kernel, but I have met some of the kernel developers for Windows back when I was still a Microsoft MVP, I have gotten explanations on how and why some things were done, and I must say that indeed, the solutions so some of the problems seemed elegant. I used to write a lot of multithreaded code to put large amounts of data through some math algorithms on as much cores as were available, and throughput on linux vs Windows was about even.

We can certainly argue about the Windows interface and userland, and the many things there are wrong with it. But the modern day kernel level is indeed pretty good, and developed by some pretty good people. Just because it isn't linux or closed source doesn't mean it is bad.

I have no problem admitting that if I had an easy means such as a stash of 1 million bitcoin, I would choose to be obscenely wealthy.
But I would choose the certainty of cashing out half and be happy with 5 Billion worth of luxury and influence while still enjoying the outside chance of becoming 10 times more rich.

Personally, I think whoever in in control of that wallet knows that if they make even a single transfer is made, a lot of powerfull people will start searching and following the trail and not quit until they know who you are. Much safer to let sleeping dogs lie.

The ledger is public so all addresses with large balances are well known.
Is it possible that Satoshi has little pockets left in individual wallets? Yes. But even then he'd have to have bought them back via means that couldn't be linked to his original wallet. It is even possible that he, she or they, bought bitcoin at a later date on an open exchange and are still holding next eggs.

There are several problems attached to Satoshi's wallet.
It is well known, so any transaction would probably immediately trigger alarm bells around the globe, because who knows what someone is going to do with a reserve of a million bitcoins. It could start a panic or a run on funds, causing the price to crash.
It would also end anonimity for Satoshi. You can bet that any transfer that finds its way to an exchange will be scrutinized by the NSA or other such agencies. Once they have a piece of thread to pull on, it is likely that they would find the real identity of Satoshi. That is probably not a good thing for Satoshi because a) governments and the IRS would be asking pointed questions, and b) it is never a good idea to be known as an obscenely wealthy person if you don't have professional protection.

Agreed.

Back when I was developing in C on linux, I learned to use vim because the alternative was to continously dual boot between a command shell only real time kernel, and a regular redhat with graphics. After a day of cursing, I got comfortable enough with it, to the point where I defaulted to vim whenever possible, to do anything.

Still, for many random tasks, not using a mouse can be problematic.

She is free not to do business with Amazon.

If someone else, say the government, is renting cloud services in an Amazon datacenter, then using that government website is still 'not doing business with amazon'.

What she is doing is equivalent to boycotting any service or agency that gets their electricity from a given grid provider.

The sad reality of US politics today is that I can read your text and still don't know if you're trolling or completely serious.

Well since China and Japan combined bought more than 2 trillion dollars of US debt, technically THEY are the ones paying for it.

You don't have a firewall between your network and the internet to block anything that phones home?

Sure you can run linux. But noone cares about running an OS in the real world. They want to run their applications. And there are many applications that don't run on linux.

If you dual boot, you need windows, the diskspace, and the license anyway.
A properly configured Windows system works just as well as a properly configured linux system.

An OS is just a platform for using the applications you need to get things done. Most people don't give a crap about OS wars. They just want to do the stuff they want to do. Dual booting is just annoying and pointless unless there is a real reason why you cannot use just 1 system.

I've developed software on linux, and on windows. Both systems have strong and weak points.
If you call Windows a toy, that just proves that you don't have the same skill level on windows as on linux.