Your analogy doesn't stand up to even the most cursory of examinations.

When you hire a photographer to take a picture, do you need to hire more photographers to update that picture to run with more recent operating system releases?

Do people worried about private sector competitors typically publish ML papers?

I'm in the USA. A $100,000 / year programmer with a wife and 2 kids, living in the USA would pay roughly $30,000 per year in all forms of taxes. It varies depending on where in the USA, but it might be $25,000 in Florida or Washington and $35,000 in NYC.

If you lived in Sweden or Finland, you'd give pay roughly $50,000 of your income to the government. Let's assume you're in a lower-tax US state and go with the higher $20,000 differential.

For that the Finn or Swede gets a much better deal on health care, university tuition for their two kids, and retirement benefits.

The American family needs $28,000 per year for medical care. If they are in an average employer-sponsored health plan.

https://www.beckershospitalrev...

Already, the Swede or Finn is up on the American by about $8,000 per year. Don't even bother comparing quality of the product in the USA to that in Finnland or Sweden. By all society-wide measures, they're healthier and live longer and spend less. American Health Care, you can get better outcomes, but you cannot spend more.

Add in the differentials in university tuition (a very large cost for American parents) and the "Heat, food, housing or healthcare, you can have any two you like" retirement program that is the US Social Security/Medicare mess and the average Swedish or Finnish family is far better off than financially average Americans.

Why is it this way? Welp, the American system is not setup for the benefit of the majority of the population. It's setup to fleece the majority for the benefit of the Plutarchs. The majority of Americans are suckers who have been sold a "USA is the greatest at everything" bill of goods.

NOAA's 2020-2021 Winter Outook from October 2020.

Some thoughts:

1. Sometimes the most likely outcome isn't the way the dice land.
2. Weather is difficult to predict... correctly...more than 5 days in advance.
3. Texans setting up an unreliable power grid is not surprising.

Telling people to "shut up", specifically Trumpsters who insist the election was stolen, was not the starting point. The starting point was: Prove it in court. Trumpsters tried mightily to present evidence. They failed. Being Trumpsters, they are expanding their claims: Not only was the election stolen, the judges, some appointed by Trump, are all part of the Deep State plot to steal the election. And now we're at the point of telling them to "shut up." So, STFU already. The election is over. Trump lost. Move to Canada.

You get it on the third word, but then you drive right past it, off a cliff of stupid.

Millions of years. Conventional wisdom says we do not have thousands to wait before climate change starves us out.

Are we "Great Again" now? Can we stop Making America Great Again?

FREEDUMB!!!

How do undocumented immigrants get protection from prosecution in the USA?

Borders and taxes are for poor people.

At some point in your chain of reasoning there's probably a trust/faith black box. Why? Because absolute empiricism/rationality in every aspect of ones' thinking is time- consuming and exhausting.

For instance: Will you spend a decade to get an advance degree in immunology before you get vaccinated or are you going to trust your physician's recommendation?

Must of us software developers have little to no control of our work environment or assignments. What we do control is how we react to the work environment or assignments.

In my first management position, I had a really smart guy working for me. More impressive than his well-above average programming ability was how he'd find a way to turn the most boring programming assignment into something interesting. I learned from him to focus on my perspective on the task at hand and make things interesting/fun. Even if it's fixing a bug in some old COBOL program, there's a way to frame it as an interesting puzzle and make the best of it. More than any other single thing, this is why I still enjoy programming after 30+ years of it.

Florida, with a population of 21.48 million is having 175 deaths per day, on average over the last week. 8.15 per million population.

source: http://91-divoc.com/pages/covi...

The European Union with a population of 446 million is having 62 deaths per day, on average over the last week. 0.13 per million population.

Florida's rate is 62 times higher than the EU's adjusted for population.

The very first word of the headline clearly shows us the complainer is seriously confused. You don't own Facebook. You don't own "your" feed. Facebook owns you and sells you to their customers (advertisers).

... says an old and out of touch racist white dude who thinks his goatee makes him look young and cool.