I agree. I live in desert climate, I can easily differentiate "dry mud" from "dirt". Dirt moves more freely, in the wind and underfoot.

I honestly think that is the real motivation: Let the foreigners die faster, so there will be less total competition for resources.

... use chips made by just 3 companies.

EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!

Make it very appealing to amass lots of debt now, for a short time; then jack up the rates after you have them by the short hairs.

It's very close to the drug dealer business model: the first hit is free, after that you pay full price.

Both methods fuck the customer, and consolidate wealth in the hands of a a few.

At least, that's what appears to be going on with my perspective looking in from outside the USA.

Totally agree.

Also, where will AI gain new knowledge after authors & content-generators stop creating "novel" content, and stop applying the real intelligence that feeds the artificial one?

I used to give free IT Support in yahoo chat groups in the 1998-2003 era. People stopped asking for help in those html-based real-time chat forums sometime around when Stack Overflow was getting started.

I think this news is just evolution that has no "right or wrong", only "kill or be killed, eat or be eaten".

I'm replying here about a much earlier statement: "everybody" benefits from roads; unless a person homesteads and manually grows/picks/slaughters all their food & water; then I agree the general tax fund seems a good place to get money to pay for roads. Also tax the personal automobile, so that people who use roads more, pay via more channels.

Did the master race disappear when I wasn't looking?

Android could offer global and per-app toggles to allow users the freedom of choice to balance security versus usabiltiy to suit the user's need. The OS should enable resource usage, not prevent it.

Android github app is not allowed to save files into pyDriod3 data directory.

Android file manager app is not allowed to copy files to/from ibochs android app data directory.

... the latest versions of Android put too many "protections" in place that prevent usability.

Gmail search fails to display any emails when one searches for subject:("something with | a pipe") even when right-clicking an existing message and selecting 'find messages with this subject'.

It's baffling how a company whose name is synonymous with the verb "to search" can fall so hard at searching through email.

It influenced people to abandon their jobs and families. That's pretty significant...

It's the second 90% that's hard.

This is why any time I give an estimate: double it an add 50%.

By example, if I want to automate some task and I figure 2 days to put the script together; it will take 5 days before it's production ready including documentation, monitoring and alerting. Those 5 days effort will take 3 calendar weeks since I'll get busy with incidents and other projects.