And what makes you think they don't? And if they do admit it internally, what good will it do to announce it externally? You seem to equate silence to ignoring the issue.

Low income in Palo Alto area? What's that? $200k annual household income? :P

You have to first go to school before you can drop out. :)

Yes, yes, a handful of police officers breaking the law means all police officers are assholes. Just like a couple of citizens breaking the law means all citizens are assholes. Great job, everyone.

Honestly, this is simple to solve. The police should start taking videos of everything they do as well. If an edited video pops up of them doing bad things, then they can simply post the video from their perspective. Now no more "look at this video of a cop beating this innocent man" AFTER the supposed "innocent man" kicks the officer, except not on camera or edited out. Mass surveillance works in every way. Govt. -> public -> police -> public.

What's wrong with that? Lots of people are trying to live forever. You know that guy who owns Oracle? He wants to live forever too, plus probably every other billionaire. Hell, all emperors of China tried to live forever. Larry/Sergey are the only ones who are doing it with the expressed purpose of helping humankind.

If Alphabet/Google has its way, you can scratch out the last two lines -- you won't have to get old or die.

I think it's still just a simple matter of people still thinking of Alphabet as "Google".

You mean, like the people in Bangkok who are feeling the problem of sea level rise every day (of course, they're also doing it to themselves due to over pumping of ground water)? Even if they stopped pumping water, that 2.5mm/year is still going to drown them very soon. Then again, I'm guessing they're all just "selfish self-centered coastal living fucks that have no sense of scale", and are all above the poverty line...oh wait....

Given healthcare costs going up due in part from pollution, we just need to slap these costs onto radiation/toxic gas/sludge/CO2 producing coal fire plants and you'll see those figures fly right up. I don't think we even need to get to carbon taxes before these coal plant operators go belly up.

I don't know, but I thought most left-leaning people in the US aren't against gen4 or above anymore? Furthermore, I think the argument against nukes are more nuanced -- most people aren't against nukes...they're against crappy nuke constructions, like Fukushima. But because they don't have any way of controlling the construction process, they go for the outright banning action.

I also do find it interesting that the Tea Party has slightly better scientific understanding than the average non-Tea Party-er. But given more data from this link, it seems to me that non-Tea Party Republicans are the true scientific illiterate population (not only do they have to lower their own average, they have to also be low enough to drag down the positive contribution of the Tea Party members).

You should really reread the post of the person you're responding to. Let me put it in a simple way: the coaching schools explicitly paid more to show their ads when is a male on the other end. That or others (non-coaching service) paid more to show their advertisements when it's a female on the other end.

No thanks. Why jump through hoops for direct memory access on a JVM when one can just embed the JVM on top of WebAssembly?

No thanks. I don't want a VM that has mandatory built-in GC and a bunch of other nonsensical limitations. Provide me one which I can allocate and commit virtualized memory and a safe method for system access with all the facilities/opcodes of an ideal modern multi-core processor.

Do people not also see the connection between increases in privacy breeches and global warming? Exactly. Correlation != causation, otherwise we better stop going to see the doctors.

I think it's the other way around -- people are moving to the cloud because they see themselves as bigger targets and can't adequately protect their own systems compared to another company who spends billions hardening theirs. If the hackers can spend 2 seconds breaking into your system vs taking 2 years to penetrate Google's, I'm pretty sure they're going to infiltrate 500k servers like yours instead of bothering with Google's. This is probably also why CaaS is the big new thing now.