And just before grading it will say that you haven't read a single page, just skipped over them all, I'll be sure to leave some people in the class with more read pages so it doesn't seems to suspicious.

They say the lowest possible sum is $8 trillion, but probably $32 trillion.

You give them far too much credit.

Most of what you say is untrue and misguided, condoms, gas tax, rice giving, sewage and electricity. Since you only stated things out of the blue I'll do the same. Just stating lots of half-true factoids do no prove my nor your point, but I think it show that the discussion is a tad bit more complicated than a binary outcome.

You see while a 25% sales tax doesn't hurt me much, if you only have €100 left to spend every month, then the sales tax matters a lot. Also a when you have a good job a lot of your consumption is probably exempt from sales tax as some kind of bonus in the company where you work, and the guys slaving on for ~$10 per hour, but only when there are jobs.

That's a joke considering the current actions of USA in world politics. But it seems to be very reasonable statement, but if you do that to people who are not your citizens then you will soon see it done to you. First they came... and all that..

I was thinking the same, sending the "unmarked" package with some other kind of tape on would have been a nice comparison. But taped packages arrived fine in Europe, maybe we are just more used to red tape over here.

And by create I mean setup stuff with libvirt assign disks etc, not isntalling Ubuntu.. :-)

No sorry, it's 10 seconds to create and start a vanilla Ubuntu server install instance, of course that's when most of the disk is in cache. That 20 second was a couple of years ago, I should have run the tests again.

There are reasons why "no OS" is interesting, it does take a while for Linux to boot, I usually boot it in 20s on my virtual servers, making that 3s would actually allow me to save money. If they really were booting Linux, could process CPU intensive request by just buying an instance booting my OS and serving the request in 10s instead of 27s. But as someone said this can be compared with the not so novel approach called "applications".

So if you can boot Linux in 2 seconds, I'll agree that the annoucment is pompous.

You can read about that in the blog post I linked.

Basically what she posted was one of those "prominent person makes bad joke", which seems to be very news worthy, if I'm going to judge from what you see in the papers. What happened, i.e. being fired doesn't seem like a clear consequence.

I'm pretty sure this would have played out differently if a man had posted that picture (that's an opinion btw), but hopefully you have ample examples of men receiving death threats. I can just say in my experience the women who write on the net get more rape/death threats, than men.

But you are right a male would probably have received death threats, that's something we can agree on.

Most people you meet at confs are wonderful people, it's just that their creepy side can be very obvious around women. That said the Ada Initiative and PyLadies were at the conference and had a great time, so yes there aparently were lots of nice people there. Are all of them nice, hopefully, did someone behave creepy, and make stupid jokes about rape, most probably.

Actually I think she knew exactly what would happen, the same thing as always, people rape threatning her and calling her all kind of things. Amanda Blum's excelent blog post highlights the problem with Adrias behaviour but hopefully give you some insight to the larger problem.

If this has thought us something it is that there are some serious problem with sexism at tech conferences, even if you don't like what she did the backlash kind of proved her point IMHO.

Are you sure? What kind of phone and what kind of unimited data?