He was regularly in public, at events, training, and doing chess event commentary. He did not look sick. Lots of messages from his friends and colleges mention feeling "forever guilty about not reaching out more often" and similar. I think it is safe to assume suicide. It's also an age that is hard for a lot of professional chess players. Most chess players peak before 30 and if not will very soon after. It's a mentally grueling sport. Many of them have a tough time transitioning to a world where they cannot compete at the top levels anymore (or at least they will slowly and continually diminish).

Turns out mixing your command and data pathways and then allowing untrusted data is dangerous. In other equally as shocking news, water is wet, fire is hot, and taxes are rolling around again.

While I'm sure some of this is doom and gloom about AI "takin' yer jobs". I think more of it is that CS at universities has strayed further and further from practical coding skills while charging more and more, and the value of said degree as a credentials has continued to plumet. I recently started looking for a new job opportunity, the thing that has been conspicuously absent from the list of requirements for the majority of the jobs is a "CS degree or equivalent". 10 years ago, that absolutely was not the case. 4-6 years of actual coding experience, or even 3-6 months corpus of cool programming opensource projects is worth way more on a job application that a crusty old CS degree (and I have one).

It's totally fine to say CS degrees aren't about teaching practical skills and about theory. That may be true (it certainly is in practice if not in theory), but don't think that Universities are gong to continue to see high enrollment for a degree that teaches very little that is practical for most of the programming field, while charging exorbitant amounts of money. The cost benefit analysis is simply not there.

Because inflation is "taxation" by another name and nearly transparent to the average citizen and thus it is prone to abuse by politicians.

Because this "opensource" data was so safe until now. Totalitarian regimes sucking up big data have been a thing for more that 20 years. This is just pathetic attention grabbing and value signaling. It's also a complete joke if the data was truly "opensource" as there are already thousands if not millions of copies floating around in that is really true.

Trump may be the first convicted rapist, but he is definitely not the first. JFK and Clinton would like a word. Then there's at least an argument for statutory rape from Jefferson and his slave lover.

Yeah. Why is this news? It's not surprising that a system from 2018 doesn't utilize SecureBoot. A purpose built system like this, it's even less surprising. Technically yes, this is a weakness, but it isn't one that is practically going to be exploited. If an attacker can get into your server room or lab and pull the hard drive, you have far bigger issues...

Um... It didn't? What are you even talking about? I don't like super woke nonsense either, but Arcane very much did not do that (haven't seen season 2 yet).

I think colleges have become a charade and largely need to be abolished. With the possibility of highly technical and theoretical fields, the degrees aren't teaching people useful skills, and are charging premiums for educations that are effectively worthless. Since everyone had a degree these days, it isn't even a gate keeping mechanism anymore. No one cares if you have your degree in most cases.

What are you even talking about? I literally go to a website, download an APK, click on the file, and click "install". There is no other phone ecosystem that allows that.

I have three app stores on my phone:

Google Play
FDroid
Aurora Store (Google Play, alternative that mostly uses Google Play backend).

Name literally any other phone OS that allows me to do that without rooting my phone? I can side load any app I want. I can root my phone without needing an exploit. I can develop for my phone without needing to pay a developer's license. I can make my app available for free in the official app store.

I'm not sure I can see what is "capitalist" about force wealth redistribution which is effectively what UBI is. You'd necessarily have to tax some part of your population at a much higher rate than UBI to fund UBI for those who actually needed it. The only other alternative is to print money, which would also lead to rapid inflation, and effectively tax everyone by lowering the strength of the currency.

Tax cuts, and UBI are both just different mechanisms of government forcefully and (I would argue) inefficiently redistributing wealth. I personally don't want either. I want minimal taxation and no carve-outs / handouts. To the extent that they "must" exist, they should be extremely small and targeted. Both you and the original responder seem to be trying to read into / attack my supposed political ideology without really understanding what I believe, which I think is highly irrelevant to the original points I made. But here it is (in this post), if you really want to go there.

I suspect you are trying to "own" me, but I wouldn't disagree with you, if the tax cut is large enough and general enough, and I would argue that we've seen similar types of market distortion when very large tax cuts have happened in the past. So in short, yes, you are right, and it further bolsters my concerns.

These studies fail to exhibit two very likely effects that are very hard to test, if UBI became "universal":

1) There is almost certainly a very serious inflationary aspect when this money goes to everyone. Basic goods and services can become more expensive because everyone reliably has some "extra" cash to spend.

2) Right now, these tests are effectively the gods picking you out of the crowd and giving you money. It doesn't feel like you're entitled to it, or that you can rely on it. So peoples' behaviors will be objectively different than if UBI were in place. People are still motivated to get a job and try to stabilize themselves because these programs will end some day and they never had reason to suspect in the past that this would exist. Fast forward to 30 years after UBI is in play. Everyone just assumes that they deserve this money and that it is always there. They are going to be far less motivated to get a job if they can survive on the UBI money because that money isn't going anywhere. It is now just "part of living". It's also no longer a wonderful gift or an opportunity to drag themselves out of poverty. It is just money they "deserve" that appears in their bank account each month.