That has always been it.
People calling for "meritocracy" almost never stop to discuss HOW merit will be measured. They use flawed measures that are convenient to them. That was Young's point in popularizing the team, to begin with.

Right, because social responsibility does not matter

Part of the issue is treating C and C++ as the same language (or basically the same). Writing memory-safe C++ is trivial with a modern compiler.

Daniel Penny sneaked up behind his victim and choked him to death for minutes while other passengers warned he was killing the man.

Penny's victim never saw him nor did he address him specifically. He did yell "he didn't care" and willing to go back to jail in a car Penny was riding in at the time.

We do have an appetite for socialism, but we as a country will pretty much lose our minds if the "wrong" group benefits. Here is MS investing 3bn to counter the effects of AI in India https://www.techradar.com/pro/... If this investment went to affected groups or communities on US soil, it would create an intense legal and social backlash.

I'm sure his lawyers are very frustrated with him. He has (and continues) to make WPEngine's entire case.
Just look at the judges order, it's filled with his social media comments. https://www.documentcloud.org/...
Then instead of simply complying (this is an injuction, WPE hasn't won anything), he taunts the judge who will be deciding his case. That's moronic to say the least.
Something is clearly going on with him.

I'd love to get some Slashdot coverage of Bluesky's opensource and data roots.
1. Bluesky is a public benefit company (they can legally prioritize keeping their data open over profits)
2. Bluesky is federated (can bridge with other federated systems)
3. Uses the open-source AT protocol

I'm much more excited about these things than the rest of the plafform

I'm surprised I haven't seen posts about Bluesky's opensource goals and roots. 1. Bluesky is a public benefit corporation which has the goal of keeping data open and portable in its charter. The company can defend against a hostile takeover just by showing the buyer would close access to data, etc. 2. Bluesky is federated and uses the AT protocol. https://atproto.com/ It can be bridged with other protocols

But it's ok, they won't be selling you out to advertisers, they'll show you the ads and be the middleman collecting money in both directions.

Not that it matters much, VR is pretty fucking pointless once the novelty wears off.

Facebook has been doing this since forever.

Why would he buy something near the peak of its bubble?

Besides, it is only going up like it is because people expect the US dollar to crash as America begins its second civil war. They wouldn't be digital goldbugs if they didn't entertain fantasies of collapse.

What these numbnuts are too dumb to understand is that they can't actually use their bitcoin without a functioning Internet, and not only does the president, legitimate or orangewise, have the "kill switch" at their disposal, and plenty of "national security" rationalization to use it, the infrastructure itself will be damaged by the partisan fighters seeking to deny any communication advantage to their enemies. Their stupid fantasy is unavoidably self-defeating.

Oh, look, it's Palladium 2.0.

Of course, Apple did it in phones and hardly anyone raised a fuss, and those that did were drowned out by the fanboys. Now that shit is everywhere.

Stallman was right.

We should be doing everything we can to ensure that everyone who wants to vote gets to vote, and that their vote is actually counted.

Anything less is an implicit invitation to violence.

I thought the whole point was that everyone was "non-binary" in the future because gender roles are stupid and obsolete.

Of course the "non-binary" chick looks like a woman cross-playing Wesley Crusher. Which is to say, she looks exactly like teenage Wil Wheaton wearing more than the usual makeup.

The degree to which women wore makeup on Star Trek was particularly absurd. Either everyone would be doing it, or no one would, and it would die out like other absurdities, like wearing ties.

If the show were internally consistent, there would be no trans people, because their technology would be such that no one would be identifiable as trans without a genetic scan, and even that would be insufficient if they had their DNA rewritten. You might as well cast anyone and call them trans, otherwise it seems to be making the argument that trying to look like the opposite sex but failing is the point of being trans.

And I would love to see the outrage from both the SJWs and the alt-righters if the show were to feature people changing sex for the hell of it, and not to align to a gender identity, like in John Varley stories. That would be too woke for the woke.

The botnet uses proprietary software written from scratch

I hope they don't sue the malware researchers for violating their copyright!

Though if you wanted to make it sound maximally pretentious, you should have said

The botnet is a bespoke proprietary solution