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It is also the number one factor in Covid mortality, once you discount old age which is non-discretionary.

they only had 13 employees and now they have something like 500 They are not all engineers. I’ll bet most are account managers looking after big advertising spenders.

The one sort of surveillance schools need is live webcams so parents can monitor lesson content

I am sure there are Windows NT machines still in service. I think my Dad has one in his basement. Should Windows forever support NT? If they were offering an online service, then y…

I would agree if't s a non-EoL products. This, not so much. A company should not be permitted to just declare something “EoL” if it is still in widespread usage. They made it, they…

When I containerized MongoDB, Docker helpfully inserted an allow rule into iptables, opening up MongoDB to the world. This is crazy. Your network should have been on a private IP a…

It is such an obvious development, if not to replace so to complement. But perhaps there are challenges around it that are not obvious? You might be surprised how scant and expensi…

AFAIK, the "defund the police" chant was supposed to be in response to American police forces buying army vehicles and gear. That is not a thing in Canada In the UK they scream “do…

The reason it cannot be discussed is because the us president decided to politicize the issue front and center. That inevitably forces the heavy hand censorship Flip that around: h…

low-intelligence people mainly from the college educated What would you call going $200,000 into debt for a non-STEM degree? College education is no sign of intelligence, it’s ofte…

Probe, probe, probe, that’s all they ever do. But they know and Facebook knows that no action will ever be taken

Admit racism exists and is ascribed to you. You are clearly a racist then, admit it

That doesn't sound like an unbiased removal of politics from the workplace to me. I think I would be out of the door, too. Why, do you "assume bad intent" and "make unsubstantiated…

This is the only instance relating to offensive social media I've ever heard of where someone got reassigned and not fired Yes it's very strange isn't it, I wonder what the reason …

I always thought Microsoft would be a natural buyer given the tech stack and Microsoft's support for developers. The heyday of SO is long over and all the serious Q+A takes place o…

When you are a consultant or contractor, you still have assess to kiss and jerks to take orders from. You actually have to work a lot harder at keeping the folks in charge happy. A…

Although not a cyberattack it reminds me of the massive supply disruption and culling that occurred in the UK because of the mad cow disease Still a form of information warfare att…

remember back in the 90's that there was talk about building out a business focused Internet. They exist. Radianz, BPIPE and several more.

Maybe 80% of the people that opine on this subject are in category 3) Category 3 is actually “what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander”

my impression is that those threatened boycotts won't really cause much damage to companies It still boggles my mind to see multi-billion dollar multinational companies cowering in…

“Military grade” means “made by the lowest bidder” in reality

Reminder that Facebook and Twitter banned users for talking about the lab-leak theory. Youtube accounts also got demontized/banned. Let's call it for what it is - employees of Face…

I would choose to be a colonist in a heartbeat, if the opportunity ever arises. I know full well I'll probably die there or even on the way. Life there is going to be hard work, an…

Assessment can never be done by non-experts. They do not understand the subject matter and cannot even judge which journals are good. It just makes no sense. The problem with this …

traditional media was so aggressive in shutting it down and "confirming" its falsehood Agreed, all of them did it for the same reason and mutually reinforced each other, an extraor…