What sort of absurd post is this, modded +5 insightful? "used to be a decent country"??? Are we just going to ignore that little thing called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ? Are we going to ignore that 13% of the population essentially enslaved (de facto) the other 87%? It's pretty easy to have a 'decent country' for 13% of the population if you enslave the other 87%, isn't it? If you were a black person (according to /., they don't matter, I guess), SA wasn't a 'decent country' that's sort of slid into decrepitude. I'm not suggesting for a second that the government of Ramaphosa isn't corrupt & shitty. It is. They're horrible managers, and are definitely running the country into the ground, but let's not for a second forget what SA was pre-Mandela. A slave state where 13% owned everything on the back of oppression of the 87%. That simple.

Took careful calculation to find the location to see this.

A 2018 study measured two particle per gram, or a thousand per median movement. Hypothesised passed up the animal food chain, though beverages have a bit too.

One of the early conversational computer interface. Star Trek beat HAL a couple years with a talking computer.

Easiest way to regulate is to charge a tiny tax, like a tenth of a cent per share per trade. That would put friction in the system. I believe Elizabeth Warren proposed this.

China built like 16 around major cities. But only a couple in Wuhan saw some use.

They have a good teacher in the US leader :-)

The intubation rate flattened earlier than many models predicted for several reasons. Govenors and President cajoled manfacturers to build ventilators.

Auto, appliance companies rapidly retooled to make tanks, jeeps, aircraft, guns, etc.

So a lot of people will still need gasoline. 100% of airplanes use kerosene. A handful of demo flifgts show biodiesel wirks too.

1) You can qualify for asubsidy 2) Work health insurance is based on average age of workers. ACA may be cheaper if you are younger. 3) ACA depends on location. Yours may be cheaper than the companys. Obtain online quotes and find out.

It seems like are in the middle of Asimov's Last Question

Seems like a horrible idea - what if the company makes a real loss and can't pay the tax? There's a reason that we tax profits.

I see a fair number of academic and government codes now appearing in github. That puts them under source control and make files. Sometimes bug management and documentation. These are all items mandatory in the software industry and used to sparse in crappy student code. It can also be good publicity for code authors in future job hunts.

At the AGU meeting meeting last month a talk said that 75 character message was optimal. Some ancient computers still have 80 character buffer. A short, direct message like "A nearby earthquake has just occurred. Take cover." Messages with more details could be broadcast later. Damaging earthquakes have shorter warnings versus ballistic missles- 5 to 120 seconds vesus 17 minutes. It is based only a single station impulse be interpreted as an earthquake with a rough magnitude estimated. More precise determinations of quakes like at the NEIC require hitting several stations across the world. This is too late for a warning in most cases. The US is fourth country to implement a quake alert system. (Painfully slow due to low funding.)