Sigh. For other people to want to buy stuff from the US, our stuff would have to be much cheaper. That would mean that dollar would have to become much weaker than it is, otherwise no one will buy anything.

I'm terrified of the fact that we live in a world where the overwhelming majority of humans are completely irrational, and completely immune to facts and evidence.

This has always been true. Just read some history.

Didn't we hash all these arguments out in the nineties? Not everything is a hierarchy! Well, duh!

The author needs to go and write 200K LOC in SmallTalk, Eiffel, Lisp and Erlang, and then come and report his experiences.

BFD. Omar won 75% of the vote in her district. She is not running for a national office. AOC also won in her district, what some old white guys in Alabama think is not material.

Dragonfly project was cancelled by Google.

Nice discussion by an airline pilot, also showing how this situation would look in a simulator

Yeah, but what if I hack an American bank, steal some money and the send it to you. Are you criminally liable?

When I interview I start with a question that is relatively easy that anyone who can code could solve. Then follow that up with a question that is more difficult that builds on the previous answer.
For example, I would ask a candidate to write recursive Fibonacci function (I would explain what Fibonacci numbers are). If they are able to do that, then I would ask them what would happen if their function was called like this: "fib(10000);".

Wrote production code in: COBOL, Assembler (PDP-11 and IBM 360), Pascal, Modula-2, Eiffel, Java, C, C++, Python. Fiddled with many others....(Ruby, Erlang, Lisp...)

What do you suggest then? That they and their children should starve? Be homeless? Suffer more?

Have you see the movie Tron? It's just like that!

This should not be called "Basic Income", but "Citizen's Dividend". After all all citizens own the resources of the country so they should receive a dividend.

Martin Gardner had included a section on "chiropractic medicine" in his book Fads and Falacies in the name of Science. He argued that it was BS too.

No need to ban. Just treat guns like cars. You need a license to own/use one and you have to have liability insurance.

Sounds like her read Utopia for Realists