Initially anounymous places like Reddit and Slashdot will be significantly degraded as robots masquerading as humans make all discourse questionable and vulnerable to manipulation. This will require positive ID of users- and a corresponding risk to users who tour non-mainstream views.

Daveâ(TM)s not here man

I thought Bitcoin was supposed to be like gold, and act as a counterweight to the greater economy due to its finite availability.

Where is the democracy where any one person âoechoosesâ the winner?

Thanks for an OS that shuts down when I tell it to, kills a process when I instruct it to, only updates when I ask it to, and gives me full control over my entire system.

Moist excrement

Who is bitching about online shopping?

Whatâ(TM)s wrong with Teams?

Probably true, but it would be more impressive if it wasnt all funded by selling dirty coal to China

Itâ(TM)s Apple. They do what they want and you guys buy their products anyways

Vancouver really is a bit different where local property values are quite detached from our salaries. I'm thinking that Amazon providing decent paying employment for our local computer science grads will be largely a good thing as more locals can afford properties here while paying provincial and federal income taxes. There is a lot of land in Vancouver tied up with folks who declare no income at all because they don't work.

(I live in Vancouver) Many locals (especially families) have indeed been priced out of the city. They end up moving to Vancouver Island or the interior of BC or something because spending > 50% of your income on rent is not sustainable. However it's a bit easier for couples and single people are there are a lot of 1-2 bedrooms condos in the downtown area. There are thousands of units within easy walking distance of the new Amazon office and skytrain isn't far either.

I'll give you that when the CCP decided to act, they were decisive and made some bold moves. But the root problem here is the CCP's enthusiastic promotion of traditional Chinese medicine in the first place. They love to promote ancient Chinese culture and then take credit for it.

How many are currently infected but not diagnosed?

Spotify has the option to store music on your local device. Has the added bonus of saving battery power and data usage. As a life-long music collector, I have to say streaming services line Spotify have opened up a whole world of music to me that was erstwhile difficult to find and/or buy. And I canâ(TM)t see how itâ(TM)s not an overall environmental win versus printing CDs/LPs etc, moving them by trucks to bricks and mortars, etc