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Obviously, as can be seen from the word "International" in the name. (See also: "World League", etc, etc ad nauseam.)

Why would you necessarily need to be "active" in the first place? If you're obviously invited only as a "seat filler" (and why else would the meeting be boring?), I see nothing wro…

Well, if the technology were even all that good, maybe. (Also, "innovation" just for "innovation's" sake is stupid. Lots of new shit is just that: shit.) And no, him being gone in …

I might have bought the stuff about Austria, if it weren't for the tinfoil-hattery about Sweden. The authorities there were investigating Assange not because of any American phone …

But that moment is gone.

Ouch - weird metaphor (or simile, whatever) in the very first sentence: "Pam is a product manager driving her team's roadmap." Huh? You don't drive a map; you use it to guide your …

Yes, logically / mathematically it seems it must be: Those additional people also contribute their 40h/wk, so more work gets done in total. That should be sufficient to support eve…

Who was arguing that technology is reducing our material "standard of living"? There's more to life than one's material standard of living. I think people were mostly talking about…

If you've been getting over $500k/year for years, you are "rich people". So no wonder you're not going to blame yourself for anything.

> Do you think you're conversing with a 14 year old, struggling with abstractions? Sure sounds like it.

Don't project your Potemkin village as "reality".

> But a lot of people disagree with you and think it isn't turning to shit They're wrong. Their little corner might not be, but the world as a whole is. > and in fact for most peop…

Or even worse, speak with Wales.

Funny thing is, that goes for the social sciences too, IMO. All a matter of having an open and curious mind, I suppose.

Could be (I have no idea), but it sounds like that would be possible to investigate only by complicated laboratory tests. Not a visible change that makes it easy to calculate age b…

> Having limited liability through some kind of corporation can be nice. I think this is the main point and benefit of the whole thing. It can be difficult and/or expensive to set …

I suppose there is one possible rather significant benefit, depending on where you live. If you're going to be an independant contractor, a freelancing "gun for hire", you may want…

> I think it's important to start by saying that using Lotus Notes only as an email client misses the bigger picture No, it's not important to start with that. I already mentioned …

"Join"... Sigh. Disgusting LI-slop language. Say "be acquired" when you mean "be acquired".

You can say "acquire", as the URL you linked to does. It's more honest than the mealy-mouthed "join".

But fortunately, you're not one of those idiots who immediately jump from that to the conclusion that "This article must be written by an AI!" — right...?

> At a time when personal computing was very much the model, it was like someone had sent this software from the future. The future, and mainly from the past: In the literal sense,…

I've only ever used Notes as a mail client, at a company I did consulting work for decades ago, for most of the 00s. (Yeah, sure, we'd heard that it was more than an email client -…

So what? A big piece of rock costs much less than half as much as an engine. Are you going to start putting big pieces of rock into your cars in stead of engines now, mr Ferrari Bo…

Maybe the median literate population member talked like this. :-)