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It used to be possible. I had college professors that did it for decades from the 60's until the mid-90's, when computers started killing off previously imaginable ways of life.

Acting, or according to your context merely "betting" against an adversary is fine, but this assumes the capacity to act against an adversary, and that the actions taken will be bi…

One could also refrigerate contained gases.

Not all people carry the same degree of influence over a market. Not all people act according to or within the rules of a market. Not all human behavior can be scoped to a form of …

The point being that it assuredly is trivial, but also potentially a gaping hole left open across a wide array of software. In these sorts of situations, as with the Y2K bug, the p…

Or maybe human behavior and personality consistently resists the enforcment of technical rules, and watches for, and then willfully denies attempts to restrain behavior it (subsets…

Or more likely, the flowery language is just so much feel-good journalism, paired with the whimsy of a film editing audio technician enthralled by his own doings.

Bah! Cargo cult is a much more nuanced concept. That primitive peoples would blindly imitate in pantomime, the behaviors of an industrialized society, disembodied from the original…

Fair enough, maybe the development team for this particular component is much larger than I'm imagining. Maybe I'm being naive about the head count at work behind the scenes on a p…

It honestly doesn't matter which company is pioneering these technologies. I simply no longer look forward to the future that awaits. "Scores": { "Anger": 0.0, "Contempt": 0.0, "Di…

You are deluded. Modern internet developers don't do this sort of thing. Not what you've described. Not as you've described it. It's never about deploying features that can't be ex…

Pffft! Yeah right! Like you've ever met a developer who would risk the extreme likelihood of platform incompatibilities across a disparate menagerie of hardware platforms and mobil…