With the reaction towards Covid is pure coincidence.

May be more intelligent and organized populations were able to respond faster and to recover first, but as a result of their organization and intelligence, not as the result of their prompt response.

Only people bellow certain tresshold should get it. There is a huge pool of people without skills beyond dishwasher or basic labor. Some struggle to follow basic instructions. The /. crowd seem not to have meet them. But believe me, it exists, and it's huge. That's the problem with a high minimum wage. So many people have skills that are already way under par of $12 hour. They cannot bring value for what they are paid.

I just started to like it.

So many people is trying to run exploits against XP at the Kremlin rigth now, and the Soviets are tracking back the origins and counter playing with the wannabe crackers.

US Army had to interfere with the internet traffic so to avoid Americans not to enter into discord due to fake news. It is presented as a good thing that just happened. Americans lost any little left discerning capabality and now the military is tasked with protecting their thoughts. We are at the bottom already.

It's hypocritical to take a half stance. Certainly many computers used in every US war are running Microsoft basic products like OSs and data bases. It's evident software is becoming a weapon. What do they suggest? leave the development to Russia and China? Humanity is far from leaving in peace, in the meantime you better keep up.

Drivers, burger flippers, mechanics,

A $3M expense from Google is not a considerable sum. They are cheaping out by only expending that little when you consider all data they store and are pseudo-responsible for.

Just expire all their Windows licences. I am sure Microsoft has a way to justify it somewhere in the EULA.

I am fed up with the "lesser evil" solution of killing the less amount of people by self driving cars. i.e. the proposition is that if there''s one passenger in the car and three people are crossing the street and the car options are to ram the pedestrians or fall to a cliff killing the passenger, then the second option should be taken because it preserves more lives. Wrong. The system should choose to kill the dumbest. If the three people are jay walking on a highway and should not have been there, then there's your answer. Summon Darwin and ram the pedestrians.

ahem, I meant David!!

I am impressed by all the sour bitching about RoR in /. If you tried, and cannot learn it, then programming just might not be for you. Granted, it might not be the perfect fit for everybody, but RoR has an impressive merit on the growth of the web. 10 years ago I discovered it, and the framework taught me how to structure complex business applications and back them with proper unit and integration testing. Today we run a company on the 6 digit revenue that is backed mostly by RoR. Thanks Daniel!

If the theory was true, most cancers would have to occur before the peak of reproductive age, not after

May be the bot is just a success in being a female teenager and nobody wants to acknowledge that.