I would rather see Universal Basic Employment that UBI. Having sufficient employment opportunities in private industry would obviously be most preferable, but paying people to do something rather than nothing is still better for both society and the individual, I would suggest.

Not a smart strategy. When you stress your employees to make some of them quit, it's the most employable (i.e. competent) employees that jump ship first. The ones that struggle to hold down that job at all are the ones that hang on for grim death. I've seen this first hand as a software development manager.

WTF, I've somehow fallen into some weird parallel universe. Where am I?

US Acquired By Israeli Investors, Ending US Control of US

Is this better or worse than the typical human software developer?

It's a murder mystery if they do it right: https://www.theguardian.com/us...

... predicts farmer.

... then help fix it. I'm just hearing a lot of complaints about a feature-rich image editor that a small number of people have put YEARS OF UNPAID WORK into, so that you can have a free alternative to the expensive commercial option. It's a long way from perfect. You can go and buy Photoshop if you prefer. But at least show a little gratitude.

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Methinks Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies.

https://whythefuckwasibreached...

It's not the language that's the problem, it's the developers. You can write fast efficient code in Java, JavaScript or pretty much any language really.

Unfortunately though most working developers today think that being a good developer means being familiar all the esoteric features of abominably heavyweight frameworks such as Spring. They don't think about clock cycles, stack depth, the complexity of the object graphs they are creating, or any of the stuff that developers from the last century had to care about.

The death of Moore's law may be a good thing in the longer term. It means we will have to start caring about the kind of code we're writing again.

First Betteridge - ... Damn.

Do you know how many hours I've lost to that game?

It allows for the possibility of digital transactions in NZD between private citizens without any intermediary. (Such as a bank.) Right now that is only possible with physical cash.
You would probably lose the untraceability of cash transactions.
The open question is how useful that is to the private citizen.