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Comment Re: I look forward to 2029 (Score 1) 209

Well, so far this century that has been a real challenge for the Democratic Party.

Not really, the left won the culture war. Even Republicans are afraid to oppose gay marriage these days (except some low level state politicians). Love is love. Trump just legalized hallucinagenics for some use cases.

Comment Re:don't think she knows what that word means... (Score 1) 54

building package tracking and international systems.

I don't think that's a real thing. "International systems" is something you'd say when you want to bullshit.

In any case, she got an EE degree but gave up on tech pretty quick and went the MBA route. She likes bossing people around more than building stuff.

Comment Re:Pulled Linux from Git;now owning 44m lines of c (Score 5, Interesting) 54

This is an advertisement.

It is remarkably light on detail. She wrote 100,000 lines...of what? We don't know. She's remarkably detailed when she is listing the products and offerings of Amazon. I now know the product names and branding name for their $1billion education benefit program, and their $2.5 billion child training program.

They're trying to appeal to employees, I can't figure out if they want to appeal to their current employees or hire more employees.

Comment Re:Doesn't matter, obsolete designs (Score 1) 121

So you _did_ understand the post

No. Understanding sentences from the post is not the same as understanding the post.

I can see that he thinks these data centers are a waste, but I can't figure out why he thinks that.

you have nothing left by ad homineim

Ad hominem is an argument of the format, "You are [insult] therefore you are wrong." I didn't say the poster was wrong, I just I couldn't understand his post.

Comment Re:Long-term solution: (Score 3, Interesting) 28

Or just require logins, and require a modest microtransaction of $1 to create a login, or explicit administrator approval. Longtime actual users and contributors will be exempt through the administrator provision, and bots are free to create $1 accounts (which are bannable for abuse) thus funding the project. New actual users probably woud not be bothered if the rationale is explained.
If it's really worth it for them to crawl endless random URLs until the sun burns out its fuel, make them pay for the privilege.

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