> Also...a "boffin" sounds like it might be a garnish or a side on that plate of pasta. Talk American, comrade.

The Register is a UK site, and they are inclined to speak British rather than American English.

The IRS recently updated their estimate for the tax gap to be 470 billion dollars a year for 2017 through 2019. That is a number well short of seven trillion dollars a year, even with some reasonable increase since then.

It is logically impossible for the claim that there are no laws of nature to yield reliable knowledge about future conditions. Try to do solid state electronics without quantum physics or any physics at all. Everything we know about science and engineering is premised on the idea that we know something, not the incredibly irrational presumption that we know nothing.

Do you live downstream from a dam? What reason have you to believe that it won't collapse tomorrow? For that matter what reason do you have to believe that you won't melt through the floor in the next five minutes? Do you really think that positing a theory of universal ignorance is going to lead to practical applications that help anyone live longer, better, or healthier? Why would anything actually work if there were no laws of nature to connect its function today to its function tomorrow? The idea that there are no laws of nature is so absurd it deserves to be classified with brain-in-a-vat theories. It is one step removed from solipsism.

The type of physics that leads scientists to issue sophomoric claims like there are no laws of physics (or anything in nature that corresponds to them) has never led to any advances in science or technology. It is stupid talk, like those philosophers of science who will not concede that it is probable that the sun will rise in the morning, or that there is anything to science beyond conjecture and refutation.

The U.S. is not a genocidal police state threatening to invade its nearest neighbor, for starters.

It should be considered engineering malpractice to put anything as complex as a web server on a device with firmware that cannot be updated. What are users supposed to do - replace everything whenever a serious security vulnerability is discovered? With something else that is likely to have serious but unknown defects the day it is shipped?

Unlike a proprietary blob from a vendor like Microsoft, Boa does not have to go unmaintained just because the original developers have lost interest in it. It is open source and if it is popular new developers can and should create a compatible fork if not arrange to take over the project as is. It should go without saying that there is no excuse for shipping software with serious vulnerabilities, especially when maintenance is feasible.

I agree that both are useful, just that the Linux devs chose the wrong one to assign to CLOCK_MONOTONIC, something with which they probably agree. Of course if they did assign time since boot to CLOCK_MONOTONIC the other one would need a name like CLOCK_RUNNABLE or something.

CLOCK_BOOTTIME is only better than CLOCK_MONOTONIC (on Linux) because the developers made a fundamental design error when they adopted the latter and don't want to break ABI or source compatibility.

I have always wanted to arbitrage orange against grapefruit but my commodities broker says that is just not practical.

Under the ACA insurance rates for major medical plans are community rated so testing positive for anything shouldn't affect the rates you have to pay. Rates are allowed to vary based on age and a couple of other things, but not pre-existing conditions.

My point is merely that this is not likely to hit the big time until they can figure out how to build electric planes that carry more passengers. Efficiency concerns.

Serving a major route with planes that only carry 19 passengers would be like trying to fight a forest fire with hummingbirds. There aren't enough landing slots available and it would be cost inefficient and uncompetitive.

There are many routes that are 250 miles or less, but how many of them normally carry no more than nineteen passengers?

I am not sure what the point is of granting tenure to someone who does not have lawful permanent residence in the United States is. If you do have tenure, lawful permanent residence, and follow the law why would you leave short of undue persecution?