This Quantum Mind crap has been around since the 90s. It's just mysticism wrapped up in new jargon to sound all sciency to people who don't know what they're talking about.

It's not even a giveaway to rural communities, it's a give away to big telecom companies. There's already existing fees to pay for rural broadband. The telecom companies just take the grants and never end up building the stuff they promise and the government never calls them on it or forces them to return the funding.

...we sue AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon for the $400 billion of public funding they already received for rural broadband and just pocketed and we can use that to provide rural broadband?

If work were interesting, you'd be paying your boss to do it instead of them paying you to do it.

If you type in "Nothing's wrong" and do an English -> English translation?

The key here is "unsettled". I can't just drive to Seattle and grab a lot of unused land for free.

The problems with C++ aren't with C++ per se, but rather with C developers who switch to C++ and continue using C idioms (e.g. an array is int * instead of std::vector)

We Await Silent Tristero's Empire

The last few election cycles, the Pennsylvania GOP has been targeting democrats and non-voters in Republican heavy areas by sending out threatening letters containing a list of your neighbors, who they registered for, and if they voted, and threatening to send the neighbors similar letters after the election if you don't switch parties and vote.

If you write a song tomorrow, there will be a big corporation who has the power to sell the rights to that music without your permission, and you'll have to jump through their hoops if you want to get a portion of that money. They'll keep the rest as a fee for the privilege of them screwing you over.

Further more, if you try to sell the rights to your own song without involving them, they'll DMCA the results into oblivion.

This corporation will also be able to charge people for everything in the public domain.

There's also things like androgen insensitive XY where the Y exists in the genotype but is suppressed from expressing in the phenotype.

Even if there's a technical solution to the problem, given the general lack of competition in the broadband internet market, what makes the author think that technology will be available to most consumers within a few years?

e.g. In my area Verizon won't upgrade beyond 2Mpbs DSL. What makes you think they care about latency?

Negotiating the rights with the Kubrick estate was a giant legal mess... (j/k)

...does the Dropbox App even care about the low level details of the file system? Shouldn't they all look the same to it from an API perspective?

Is why so many companies have data breaches. They hire people who don't know what they're doing, but can jury rig a bunch of crap together so it looks like its working from the outside.