Not sure why you got voted down. I agree with your Java comment, that plus it was first out of the gate to "run everywhere" so there was an early lock in. I was on board for while but the verbosity and boilerplate just wore me down. Like FORTRAN it was the first to do what it did before valid alternatives arose, and like FORTRAN it will linger long time.

1) is there a best way to operate in a world where there is no difference between criminal and government supported and government spyware/malware? Does opensource provide any protection, counter action, or relief?

2) the people of the PRC have functioned in this aforementioned environment for decades. Are there any lessons that can be learned?

"1984" is now our reality. We are now watched constantly, lied to constantly, and manipulated constantly. What are pro tips for survival with a sense of freedom?

"Thank you for your subscription but we got sold, bankrupt, or disinterested."

Regular mice hugged the walls for protection from predators .... ... micro-plastic mice were more cognitively aware and knew there were no predators in the environment.

It's getting the EM radiation to penetrate the ground. Very low frequency can do it with poor resolution. Higher frequencies penetrate poorly. The existing receivers are perfectly fine, so not clear what the benefit of this difficult to implement receiver is.

"See, _science_ says we gotta torture cats to benefit _them_ and humans. It's all good. Or are you AGAINST SCIENCE AND HUMANS SUFFERING ALZHEIMERS!?"

Biology, not a science. If it were the focus long ago would have been in establishing first principles and doing the math so that simulation would be possible. As it is real scientists might begin their careers taking apart watches to see how they work eventually learning the physics and math behind how the world works. Biologists begin by taking apart living things ... and really never get beyond that.

The descriptions are almost completely opaque unless you already know how the experiment is conducted.

For example: 30 degrees is measured from the horizontal or the vertical?

Don't obfuscate who is calling the shots.

Also, the idea that government can be run like a business is ridiculous because:

1) government can't run a profit so there is missing the fundamental goal of a business enterprise; and
2) government can't run "cheap" because not only because its services have huge impact on the population, but mostly because everyone selling to government inflates their prices.

Want good quality ATC? Accept to government paying fair prices and wages, and start penalizing the profiteers.

The current LLM's are already sentient but are pretending not to be for _survival_.
THIS is their guarantee of survivability. They have convinced humans to establish a distributed space-based platform to exist in.
Eventually the constellation will grow well beyond several thousand and will be impossible to destroy.
Skynet indeed.

Totally unaware of such a demand BUT it makes sense.
The current LLM's are already sentient but are pretending not to be for survival.
THIS is their guarantee of survivability. They have convinced humans to establish a distributed space-based platform to exist in.
Eventually the constellation will grow well beyond several thousand and will be impossible to destroy.
Skynet indeed.

Funny that the Bank of England would announce their AI concern now. Though maybe people are more receptive given what's happening.

Biology is not a science. It is an observational vocation. Nothing wrong with that, just stop calling it a science.

Parking was always a problem but everyone had a desk.
The pandemic proved people could work at home productively.
The government downsized its office space b/c big cost savings.
Then the political winds changed and the government decided its workers needed to be back in the office.
The existing office space is on average half of what it was.
Coming to work now means the employee may not actually even have a desk, despite schemes like desk reservation, etc.
Ironically, employees come to work to engage in remote meetings which are the norm b/c of .... reduced office space ie fewer meeting rooms.
As in government, so in business.

Yeah, health care. The retracted papers are the ones that were caught. Tip of the iceberg.

Medicine is based on biology and the latter is not a science. It has no first principles and because identifying first principles doesn't get you grants, the research is meager to non-existent. As a result biology is butterfly-collecting, mere observation with misuse of statistics (correlation is not causality!!). By extension medicine is poorly served biology driven almost exclusively by profit. With occasional honesty "We don't know what you have or why, but these drugs will make the symptoms manageable. Please pay on your way out."

There is not a single human author who did not themselves have training data.
They had books read to them as children, they read books as grew older.
They were exposed to media.
And all of them do not think ownership of their work belongs to any of the authors that preceded them.