I will always remember where I was and what I was doing when I first learned about such earth-shattering, epoch-making news.

I think you are being optimistic here.

Those guys sure die following their passion - but they do die.

I did not even know that site existed. I'll probably find out about its replacement.

It is, in all likelihood, logistic growth. Which implies that, for all anybody knows, this might be the start of the plateau region. Or it might not.

They seem to working really hard to become one of the most obnoxious, despicable companies in existence.

And to use your own DNS server: it is not such a difficult task these days.

For as long as institutions keep focusing on the number of papers published by researchers in order to promote the latter, researchers have every incentive to publish as much as they can. Also, the fact that publishers have a vested interest to publish (they get money from those who want to be published) does not help. Anyway, I remember reviewing a paper which was very little more than a rehash of one of the authors' previous papers setting N = 5 . Never mind what N was. I rejected it, but I wonder whether they still got it published somewhere else, after paying.

Because you did not provide the funds for doing so. Had you provided them at the time this would have been investigated immediately.

Well, that's why they are managers; otherwise, they would be doing actual work.

As long as manufacturers keep the prices so high, these gadgets will stay firmly in a small niche. In the case of Samsung, their penchant for bloatware (and particularly bad bloatware too - Samsung's software sucks to high heaven) that can't be removed is another incentive to steer clear of them.

Like Amazon, but that's given. Anyway, checking out their deals the gist of them seems to be that one can get deals on crap that practically no one wants in the first place, whereas appealing stuff is being sold at the usual prices. Prime Day has become a scam.

Me and my dirty mind: that's what I thought it was called.

That means doing unremunerated work for Amazon. So that's how the spineless coward makes his money. Fuck you, Jeff.

A flaw in a plane built by Boeing after their merger with McDonnell Douglas, when the MBAs took care of the operation to the detriment of engineers. I sure have seen this kind of thing before.