I mean, who wiuld have thought that this was going to end upnin a commercial world model? Every mature Pokemon Go player?

Libre Office's UI is not great and also pretty ugly, and, yes, clunky. But in comparison to Microsoft's Ribbon-UI, it still takes the (looser)-crown by a mile. Can't stand both of them, but if ever in doubt, I'd take the better - and cheaper - one.

for these guys is they are that good," - how to sound like a dumb, cliche staff sergeant in a bad movie script.

I don't know about NY-salaries, but including school holidays, 70k a year should get me a private teacher per pupil, right?

That's just pathetic. In my late teens/early twenties, I read about 2-3 novels a week. Calling someone who reads 1/10 of that a "Megareader" sets a very, very low bar. It's ok-is for a moderate reader, but you're privably a really slow reader, have very little time or are just not interested in a book, if you take a month to read it. (Unless it's like a 1000+ pages/letter size 9 philosophical tractatus)

letâ(TM)s skip the battery thermal tests, what could possibly go wrong?

Perverts, obviously. When it's about the internet, never underestimate the power of porn and cats.

it's not discontinued, but in "maintenance" mode, meaning no new features and bug & security fixes for some time until it becomes too old to be supported by newer OSs.

Well, looks like succeeded in the past - and you cannot expect nothing more of a billionnaire.

his own company to himself to artificially unflate it's value (which will probably be a total loss after one day at the stock market). Did he just found Shodan?

It reiterates my view of AI as the great equalizer. You're doing generic art? Be afraid of AI. Your're middle management but your job is more about selling yourself than actually doing competent work, and if you give generic or stupid instructions, people will work around that? Be afraid of AI. Really, it's not true for everyone (roto-artists come to mind), but in most professions, if an AI can do your job, you're already a waste of everyone's time.

regarding the current political climate in the U.S., I would not trust ant "scientific" output that comes at the behest of the gang of idiots at the top.

I'd be surprised if the NASA manages a manned moon landing by then.

Minecraft is a digital copy of Lego (with the idea probably stolen from Douglas Coupland's book "Generation-X") - and with a limited variation of "bricks". imho Lego should go the other way and introduce some redstone logic.

I might not be that old, but in the late eighties we already got Lego kits with electric lights (only you had to attach them to a battery compartment) - I can't imagine that it killed my imagination back them.