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At Intel, nobody pays the grad student proportionally for their massive contribution to the bottom line.

Yeah, people - in general - tend to do this with anything novel, sadly - especially novel design. See what Steve Balmer said about the iPhone for a commercial example. For Engineer…

Are you certain that you're not playing with words to arrive at a predetermined conclusion? What is this "I" to which you're referring and how can you demonstrate that "I" does not…

I use AI systems to keep up with AI research. The telescoping has begun... and we're still near the bottom of the (super?)exponential curve.

Indeed, it's _you_ who are the human "resource" HR is managing.

Pratchett really got technology, imo. Sometimes it really is high energy magic, but most of the time it's just labourers you can't see being exploited. I especially enjoyed the lin…

Scale-free infinity.

The statement "(A)GPL" probably should've been written "GPL/AGPL"... apologies for the miscommunication.

Yes. The (A)GPL is there for a good reason (in part, this one - ensuring one's work and other's work on it remains free and open source and commercial freeloaders can't get a free …

Boils down to: if they want to make an example out of you, they will find some way to do so.

Lobby to socialise or externalise all the costs. Work to privatise only the profits. Typical mode of operation.

(it's not a basket case because it's nationalised, it's nationalised because it's a basket case - thank the automotive industry - and it's a national security asset)

Insufficient and negligent quality control systems design permits a single point of failure in manufacturing process specifically designed and funded to prevent such things - calli…

Journalists with articles and Politicians with laws... yep.

IIRC In git, the earliest possible commit date/timestamp is the Unix epoch. Interestingly enough, for this application (the .gitignore file) I'd imagine the offset from the epoch i…

What's wrong with that? They are. We can always make the finer distinction of "Von Neumann architecture inspired digital electronic computer" if you wish to exclude the examples yo…

Apple rarely delivers on promises that involve allowing people out of their walled garden. Remember that, for the longest time, just disconnecting your phone number from iMessage w…

The beginning?

The massive prevalence of physical junk mail would refute your argument that even a significant per message cost would dissuade abuse.

Yes. The employment of which is also euphemistically known as a "kinetic military action".

Because capitalism is a bad thing for rich people when poor people also get to do it like they do.

Maybe shouldn't have been given advanced notice at all, since it was during trading hours.

There are a lot more sheep than farmers...