I grudgingly concede the point, but I may or may not hold an actual grudge about it.

> Roman's primary mirror "is about the same size as that of Hubble's, but at 80% less weight

While accurate, it's not the right way to express the idea for something that will be in free fall. It's 80% less mass. Nobody has to hold this thing up over a significant gravitational source - it will have no 'weight', what it will have is momentum based on its mass.

It's going to be GTAV with nicer graphics and then degraded by attempts to maximize DLC and online subscriptions.

>the challenge for the rest of the country is to keep these about 33% utterly deranged people under control.

They're strong because they were tolerated. They came out from under their rocks and were not immediately chased back under them. They coordinated. They kept pushing and every time someone tried to be 'reasonable' instead of recognizing the pattern and putting a stop to it, they advanced.

They're not going to give up that perceived advantage peacefully. The ones in office will do everything they can to further corrupt the system, and if that fails they will straight up refuse to give up.

You can't actively tear down academia and scientific institutions and simultaneously advance in the space sector. You can't burn the economy to the ground and launch a lunar mission.

Space is difficult, and space is expensive. You need smart, educated, driven people and enough economic productivity to support them.

On the other hand, if you're trying to steal some of the glory of an existing institution without worrying whether it will even be able to launch a firework a decade from now without a fatal accident on the launch pad... yeah, go ahead. "Trump Science Academy" it is.

I suspect you were just asked to be nice, and through a combination of spectrum OCD and insufficient cognitive therapy, you decided somehow you were being asked to do something wrong.

So you helped elect an ignorant sociopath. Congrats on that. Maybe you should have attended more of those cognitive therapy sessions.

No. To your entire manifesto. Your path leads to us drowning in American propaganda, and right now we have an excellent example to the south of us showing the end game.

- An English Canadian

Ancient Rome made amazing aqueducts. One day they had built all the ones they really needed and with no new projects for a new generation to learn from, they quickly just forgot how to make aqueducts.

"Big Tech" is now entering this phase. In a generation all innovation will be gone.

900$ for a base model with 256GB SSD is pathetic.

Then make it retroactive. Donate the proceeds to the victims of this program who had to train their replacements.

Not in 2003 it wasn't

Her name is Pamela Jones, she was a paralegal. She's done real interviews in the past. She was/is real!

Translating garbage code creates even worse garbage code. I remember years ago a company I was with hired a company to translate COBOL to Java.

It was still crap when it was all over and the project was flushed. The biggest sin was the naming conventions used by the original code were maintained.

I've migrated code from one language to the other, and the best end results I've achieved were when I reverse engineered the original code and wrote the new code from scratch. It took longer, but in the process we discovered bugs that were then corrected in the new code. I loved it when the QA people would come back to me and say the results weren't the same, only to discover the original program had an undiscovered error.

I'm sure simple programs can be converted this way. My prediction is the big programs that no one wants to work on will still be crap code no one wants to work on after being converted. If they even run right.

With executive pay at all time highs and the gap between executive and workers larger than ever, I would agree. This is a failure in the system where boards of directors are not holding executives accountable. The system can't hold for long.

It's not that bad yet, but I think it is a lot closer than the average American believes it is. All the mechanisms are in place, they just haven't been fully employed yet because they're being pushed a little at a time so there's no big incitement to revolution.