This is the one time I disagree with Betteridge's law of headlines.

Pounds? What is this, the dark ages?

Based on the exponential growth of data, it's more like the sun going supernova, or at least turning into a red giant.

This is named after the Flight of the Conchords song.

Who buys movies these days? Just stream them. Do you really watch the same movie enough times that it makes sense to own it? I can count on one or two hands the movies I have seen more than once.

I don't fall into any of those described categories. I guess that means I'm not a person?

Also https://xkcd.com/1098/

Google's left hand never knows what the right hand is doing. Less than a couple of months ago, Google released Hangouts for Business under the name Hangouts Chat. And thus the product branding confusion continues.

This is all rather ironic (even hypocritical), given that San Diego Comic-con has always been about blatantly ripping off comic and movie design property in the form of attendee costumes. (Of course that's fine by fair use doctrine and artistic license, but the irony remains.)

I'd wager that store location is more strongly correlated with income bracket than it is with skin color.

I found a copy of the virus that was used to exfiltrate data from Sony Entertainment's computers and then wipe them (supposedly the virus was developed by North Koreans, in response to the movie The Interview, but actually, my own forensics suggest that the authors were South Korean). In the process of studying the virus, I must have accidentally double-clicked on the executable in Nautilus when I was trying to drag it to move it into another directory. For whatever stupid reason, Nautilus is set up to run Windows executables in Wine when they are double-clicked. A couple of minutes later, I noticed files were starting to disappear all over my hard drive. I panicked and held down the power button for 5 seconds to hard-shutdown the computer. Sure enough, when I rebooted, I discovered that tens of thousands of files were gone. It's a real victory for Linux compatibility with Windows when Wine can run viruses just as well as Windows.

And I'm sure that Yandex boosts the ranking of Google search results in their listings, since fair is fair.

It all starts with bad programming languages that give you enough rope to hang yourself with, or a gun to shoot yourself and others in the foot with. I'm not even a Rust fanboy, but consider Rust for future projects, as it is probably the safest language today (at least from a security point of view). And even better languages are coming.

Public Service Announcement: deep learning is not even Turing complete. It is simply fancy nonlinear regression that works well on hierarchically-ordered domains.

I'd rather hear it straight from an autistic. At least they say what they mean at all times, and they don't mince words, lie or attempt to manipulate. We live in a screwed up social world.