Democratic nations should absolutely establish remuneration schemes to support Open Source developers, according to their (both funders' and coders') abilities. Where necessary, developed countries should support developing ones because were talking about mutually beneficial infrastructure anyway.

What remains something of an issue is that the regimes that have, as part of their existential struggle, been exporting authoritarianism to democracies (disinformation, trolls, corruption), those regimes will get also a free ride... But perhaps that is a price worth paying.

Nevertheless, with authoritarianism (and worse) now again on the rise (thanks to the People's Republic of C, Putin and their vassals and useful idiots) there are more people needing security from their "government" than ever before. And it's the good, decent people authoritarians always want to eliminate.

Code as if you wanted to protect Mandela, Liu Xiaobo or Magnitsky from state sponsored terror. You know they're not the only or last of their kind. These people depend on security right now.

One day the "unknown open-source coder" will be Time Magazine's Person of The Year. For many of us it's been that way for decades already...

Actually night sky ordinances are more about pointing nights downwards (like its done in some towns of Arizona and Idaho) as opposed to getting rid of them completely.

Sorry but that is just (tankie?) BS.

This link details the process.

https://www.asiasentinel.com/p...

There was inertia certainly, but when other former British colonies were starting to become independent, the People's Republic of China was being put through various violent phases by its dictatorship. During the "Cultural Revolution" the CCP tried staging violent uprising in Hong Kong too and the UK were threatened with PLA invasion of Hong Kong if they tried to instill democracy there.

After the 1997 handover it was the (ethnic Chinese) Hong Kong tycoons and the compromised business classes (with mainland China profit interests) who became main local backers of the CCP-installed puppet regime while CCP-aligned ("United Front") political stooges started running the administration.

Please try to avoid making sweeping authoritative claims about issues which you clearly neither understand nor know enough about.

Evolutionary advantages propagate if they impact the ability to foster children. That's the reason, typical old age problems (eg teeth etc.,) don't show the same evolution where caries resistant teeth naturally evolve. Heart disease impacts older people, and since having heard disease in old age does not impact you having children in your young age, it does not get "evolved" out.

Technically it is true.

In January the Chinese regime "warned the world" not to ban flights out of the People's Republic of China or else.

The WHO then parroted that same message in their official capacity.

https://twitter.com/WHO/status...

PS. My Slashdot .sig is probably more than twenty years old by now. Watching the CCP steamroll their non-Chinese colonial subjects, civil rights activists and increasingly the freedom of expression globally though all these years while "business must go on" hasn't been easy.

It does not matter if the test is 100% accurate. A lot of healthcare related stuff is controlled by licensing bodies who will never approve this. Why would they approve something which puts their members out of business.

Just use the vim source code

For astrophotography, many open source software have the ability to get the images off Canon and Nikon SLRs. So the API is available, and I guess a linux software could be easily written

Their home market of the People's Republic of China is supposed to be up and running while the rest of the world is dealing with the pandemonium of their making and Lenovo, who've owned Motorola since 2014, are among the favourite giant corporations of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

So why feel sorry for them?

And the state planners and computer scientists of a certain very large communist dictatorship with massive investment in AI were shocked, SHOCKED, upon learning this.

Yup, 60 years for country of birth is India. EB2 current year is 2009. It hasn't moved at all for past few years.

https://marshallbrain.com/mann...

Replace the person managing the workers, instead of replacing the workers.

We need atleast 200 people looking at the taxi when it flies. However only hundred people looked at it.

Seriously, how does it matter whether 100 people or 10000 people looked on? The article seems oddly focussed on how many people were looking at the Taxi