The fact that Alice Huang (who was born in Hunan, not Singapore) was a spy for the MSS (Ministry of State Security) has been completely and thoroughly denied by the Chinese government.

Vaccination has been opposed since the early 1900s because at the point of treatment, it hurts, with no obvious benefit (at the point of treatment). Your kid is crying because they are in pain, and no sane person wants their kid in pain. Of course, vaccines are worth the pain.

Some of these activists pushing the narrative are sincere. These people are useful idiots.

Others, like Andrew Wakefeld, are in it for the money. He wanted to sell an alternative vaccine, and make money. Others are doing it for the clicks, just like any meme these days.

Your entire citation is an interview with Saddam. Saddam didn't know what Bush was thinking.

Yeah, this is a really basic level networking problem. If you took networking 101, you should have learned it. There's clearly some incompetence in the design at some point along the way.

A thousand login requests every four to five seconds is definitely something that was considered in the era of floppies. If anything, people thought about that kind of thing MORE often back then because bandwidth was scarce. A common approach would be to use exponential backoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There are obviously design issues in the billion dollar system.

I notice you completely omitted what Bush was thinking.

It's click-bait. You know the equation.

Money + Beauty = eyeballs

Indeed, but it was accidental. I'm not sure the significance either way.

Maybe they should fix reviews on their own site before trying to handle the entire internet.

Amazon isn't trying to do anything. Amazon execs are trying to make proposals that increase their impact factor, hoping to get promoted.

His latency is high but you have to admit installing him as a router would be an improvement.

Bush harnessed the chaos of 9/11 to invade Iraq. What a waste of a crisis.

Wow, I would have done it for $1 billion.

It might be.

They are, they do. It's called "responsible disclosure," but it was named that by gaslighters.