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"Black Holes - Gravitational theory and measurements of the visible stellar systems don't result in the working model of what is known about galaxies."

Not sure what you are talking about here. Looking at the orbits of the stars whipping around the center of the Milky Way (Sagittarius A*) indicates that there must be a very large mass there, but there is no light being emitted from that location with all the mass. Nothing but a black hole fits that description. In fact, the Event Horizon Telescope project is in the process of imaging the "shadow" of that black hole to see if it matches the predictions of the General Theory of Relativity.

As it regards dark matter and dark energy, they are admittedly place holders. But there are multiple lines of evidence for dark matter, just no direct detection yet (as in we haven't found a dark matter particle). Modified theories of gravity fail to explain observed properties of galaxy clusters as well as the characteristics of the CMBR, while dark matter does.

Wow, ten million spanning almost a decade, against the backdrop of the hundreds of millions of Twitter posts per day. Trump's own account has 55 million followers, by comparison.

Oh and glad to see Iran lumped in there too; we definitely need to be singling them out more, because reasons.

Well there's this analysis that graphed the data over time. There's no bell curve in the number of tweets during that time period leading up to the election. How curious.

It's as if the excuse for heavy-handed political censorship is all that matters, not what actually happened.

https://medium.com/war-is-bori...

The Arrival Of The Internet
This brings us to the 1980s, when The Internet first became publicly available. At the time, the existing common carrier laws were applied de facto to the fledgling Internet Service Providers (ISPs) because the only mechanism for access was a dial up modem. Information was traveling across a service that had already been classified as a common carrier, and although the type of information had changed dramatically from human voices to computer documents the mechanism for delivery had not changed at all. DSL providers, who used telephone wires to carry Internet data were classified as Title II Common Carriers and were not allowed to throttle traffic to and from any particular destination or charge an additional fee for that transmission.

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That's because the purpose of wargames is to test systems and get people used to doing their jobs under stress. They're not there so that young jackass lieutenants can show off how clever they are. See, if you were actually smart you'd understand wargames and why the military has them. But you don't. IYI in action. The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesnâ(TM)t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited. He thinks people should act according to their best interests and he knows their interests.

The circular IYI author is an IYI aspect made it impossible to get to the end of the article, because I kept rereading from the top trying to figure out how the circle was supposed to be broken... maybe it needs worse grammar and some misspelled words.

Alternate title might be Stupid People Can be Smart Too.

It’s OK to Be Dumb

Smart People Are Stupid

Everyone Else is an Idiot

Science and Intelligence What Are They

That's because the purpose of wargames is to test systems and get people used to doing their jobs under stress. They're not there so that young jackass lieutenants can show off how clever they are. See, if you were actually smart you'd understand wargames and why the military has them. But you don't. IYI in action. The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesnâ(TM)t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited. He thinks people should act according to their best interests and he knows their interests.

https://medium.com/@dvorak/5g-...

He and his life partner, John Sculley, tell more about the admag industry.

First, nice to know you care more about your pro-nuclear position than you do about providing solutions that help people more than by just lining the pockets of big energy companies.

Renewable energy in developing Countries.

and specifically, in India.

IF you're not willing to be sensible on the matter though then you've more or less outed yourself as not really caring about CO2 or overall long term environmental costs, and you are instead focusing entirely on your own little pet project and myopic view of the world.

Solar grid parity, a growing trend.

"String theory is falsifiable and could easily be tested by experiments.

If you want to blame anyone, blame the Americans for not building the supercollider in the right place and then not building it at all."

Do you have a reference for this assertion? I assume you are referring to the cancelled SSC, which was planned to accelerate protons to 20 TeV, far lower than the bolded value from the citation below. Here is a reference that indicates it might not be as simple as you say.

The strings can become excited to higher modes, which is a prediction specific to string theory and in principle observable. The energy necessary to make these excitations depends on the radius of string theory’s extra dimensions: The smaller the radius the larger the energy necessary to excite the strings. The most natural scenario puts the radius of the extra dimensions at the string scale: on the order of 10^19 GeV, give-or-take. In this case, testing string theory is hopelessly out of reach of the LHC, which reaches ~10^4 GeV at maximum, even with the recent upgrade.

Spectre ? They couldn't license the rights to Existenz?!!

I addressed the Opal issue in another post, but what it boils down to is that someone made a complaint (before the CoC was even in place!) and it eventually resulted in a CoC being adopted. However note that the CoC they did adopt does not apply to things said outside of official project spaces, so would not apply to the tweets she was complaining about anyway, and she accepted that publicly in a Medium blog post: https://medium.com/@coralinead...

Note that the guy in question was not banned or removed or sanctioned in any way, all that happened is a CoC stating explicitly that those kinds of transphobic statements should not be made in official project spaces was adopted.

So if we are talking about making a mountain out of a mole hill... I think the people meta-complaining about it are blowing it out of all proportion.

Your second link is 11,000 words, estimated reading time 1 hour. So TL:DR I'm afraid but generally speaking false rape allegations are an issue we should all be concerned about, but nothing to do with a Code of Conduct.

Guess it's time to move to FreeBSD.

Mark Twain would certainly agree, yes.

But I remember seeing virtualization-related commit-messages in FreeBSD, that indicated being sponsored by Microsoft. There are even official FreeBSD images for the cloud.

I think, the company would like to have alternatives to Linux work well on Azure. If only to keep Linux from becoming a monopoly — a monopoly, Microsoft will be unable to control...

Such results raise questions about the company's ability to monitor for low-quality information, and provide another example of the problems platforms run into when relying on algorithms to police the internet.

When did (some) westerners turn into wilting violets? Do they think Batboy is a real person every time they buy groceries and see a tabloid at checkout? If these assholes had been pushing this censorship crap in 2002, anyone questioning the march to invade Iraq would have been slandered as a conspiracy theorist and censored*.

Then there's the fact that the people calling for said censorship can easily be hoist on their own petard, as happened to ThinkProgress after they cheered for Alex Jones being deplatformed. The Weekly Standard picked a nit with an article they wrote on Trump's nominee for SCOTUS, and so FFB throttled them. Because FFB trusted a science-denying, Iraq war loving Bill Kristol rag to do "fact checking".

*To those who say it's not censorship if the government isn't involved, I'll refer you to the Congressional hearings where senators demanding big tech companies do something about "fake news", and the fact that FFB is relying on the Atlantic Council to police their platform - an organization that receives direct funding from the US military.

Besides the hundreds of billions of lines of code that would need to be translated, COBOL does fixed point math exceptionally well which is why banks used it in the first place.

If developers are serious about replacing COBOL, they need to focus on fixed point math and then figure out how to make a compelling financial case for using it. Change for the sake of change is not a reason to spend the money to change a language.

https://medium.com/@bellmar/is...

So cool to see companies and organizations like Skycoin's Skywire is also in this space: https://medium.com/@lawrenceqh... Bit concerned about Facebook's role in this with the way they monetize their customers without their permission. Skywire has financial incentive but more of individually owned in concept than Facebook.

nobody knows since the data is _only_ monthly.

No it isn't. One article written by one lazy journalist is not the only data available.

Uber has said that the reason for the decline is drivers working fewer hours. According to Uber, more than 50% of their drivers now work less than 10 hours per week.

The job market today is stronger than it was 4 years ago, and it makes no sense for workers to accept half the pay they did then for the same job. People are not that stupid, and that is NOT happening.

Nassim Taleb uses The New Yorker as one way to identify what he calls Intellectual Yet Idiot:

"More socially, the IYI subscribes to The New Yorker. He never curses on twitter. He speaks of “equality of races” and “economic equality” but never went out drinking with a minority cab driver (again, no real skin in the game as the concept is foreign to the IYI). Those in the U.K. have been taken for a ride by Tony Blair. The modern IYI has attended more than one TEDx talks in person or watched more than two TED talks on Youtube. Not only did he vote for Hillary Monsanto-Malmaison because she seems electable and some such circular reasoning, but holds that anyone who doesn’t do so is mentally ill."

https://medium.com/incerto/the...

Something along these lines:
https://medium.com/@bgourlie/n...
https://medium.com/@rvagg/the-...
https://archive.is/TIcAa
https://galpotha.wordpress.com...

Oh and then the cancer of banning speakers like Douglas Crockford for making people feel "uncomfortable."

Something along these lines:
https://medium.com/@bgourlie/n...
https://medium.com/@rvagg/the-...
https://archive.is/TIcAa
https://galpotha.wordpress.com...

Oh and then the cancer of banning speakers like Douglas Crockford for making people feel "uncomfortable."

You sound like a Fox News viewer.

Fox news huh? How about right from another horses mouth. Don't worry, they ARE going after you on your other social media accounts.It's not like we don't have examples. Holy fuck! Look at that, we've got just another case for wrong think. Oh, and this one too. Just to show that the Mike Pence rule applies too.

So, sure, one may find specific combinations of infrastructure somewhere. For example:
https://sourcingjournal.com/to...
""The next China is not a where, it's a how you do business," he said. "But Africa seems to be the emergence of the next China." Africa today is much like China was in the late 80s and early 90s, McRaith explained. There's little there, but the continent is developing. The first thing to consider, however, McRaith said, is that the sizable continent cannot be discussed as one region and understood as such. Africa is big enough to fit all of the world's major players within it: the United States, China, India, Eastern Europe, Japan, the U.K., Spain, France, Germany and Italy, among others. "Africa is of a scale we've never dealt with," he said."

But it may be harder than you suggest. For your example of Nairobi, consider electrical infrastructure:
http://www.afd.fr/en/reliabili...
"The poor performance of Kenya's energy sector hampers the country's economic development and poverty reduction strategy: per capita electricity consumption is low, the country suffers relatively frequent power cuts, and small proportion of the population has access to electricity, while the average tariff in the last five years was $0.15 per kilowatt hour, one of the highest in sub-Saharan Africa."

And:
https://medium.com/@kyleschutt...
"You will be robbed in Nairobi, inevitably. No one really talks about it because it is a bit awkward, but it should be discussed. You should know what to do. Except for my sister, everyone I know in Nairobi has been robbed, especially if they own a business. After all, the city's nickname is Nairobbery. ..."

And:
https://travel.state.gov/conte...
"Terrorist threats remain in Kenya, including those aimed at U.S., Western, and Kenyan interests, within the Nairobi area, along the coast, and within the northeastern region of the country. Terrorist attacks have cumulatively resulted in the death and injury of hundreds of people since 2011. Over the last year, most incidents have occurred in the northeastern border region of the country; there have been no major attacks in Nairobi, Mombasa, or other major cities in the last two years. ...
CRIME: Crime in Kenya is a regular occurrence and Kenyan authorities have limited capacity to deter and investigate such acts. Violent and sometimes fatal criminal attacks, including home invasions, burglaries, armed carjackings, muggings, and kidnappings can occur at any time. ..."

Can large businesses set up generators (or locate near cheap hydropower perhaps), hire private security (ignoring some of those thefts mentioned were inside jobs), build gated compounds for executives and their families, and so on? Of course, but it all adds to the costs and risks of doing business.

Work ethic is a complex topic -- and note I said "hierarchical" work ethic, meaning people's willingness to submit to a big corporation versus their desire to work for themselves and/or their family, village, or tribe. One study from 2011 comparing Chinese and South African work ethic:
https://www.emeraldinsight.com...
"South Africa is a developing country, and within this context, it is essential to be economically competitive and proactive. Various sources reveal that the national productivity has been traditionally low, and continues to remain low. Within the context of the international arena, this is unacceptable. If South Africa is to become a recognised role player in the internationa

Uhhh yeah about that, Google was given start up funding by the NSA, so sorry but horseshit. In fact if you look at most of the now "too big to fail" corps like GOOG,FB,APPL, etc you'll find government funding or sweetheart deals during their early phases so..."private" business my ass, unless crony capitalism is a free market I call horseshit.

In the field of medicine, people renamed a whole bunch of disorders (e.g. Aspergers) because they were named after Nazis. Nobody threw this big of a tantrum.

I present the medical term retarded as a counter example of people throwing a fit over medical terms. If you like there's a great article about the silliness of appeasing the easily offended as the new words then become offenders themselves. https://medium.com/s/story/the...

Any group with disproportional representation of any race is — by the progressive definition racist. Blacks in the US comprise about 12% of the population, so it may be excusable for a group of fewer than 10 to not have any. But Whites are a majority, so any group of two or more without a single White person is racist. Case closed.

Now, as we also know from the same progressive teachers of the people, denial of racism is in itself racist. Yes, I'm looking sternly at you, racist, you have been exposed.

If you are really really asinine about strong typing, you can declare types in Python https://medium.com/@ageitgey/l...

Look at how Apple treated Gab's app and tell me that's not a desire to deny them on purely ideological reasons. Hey look, we found something racist, no app for you.

Twitter, meanwhile, gets their app approved despite the fact that they are notoriously pro-racism when it comes from non-whites. You can write the most racist bile all day long about us, get reported and Twitter won't take the posts down. They also get past that same Apple policy enforcement despite being a haven for bigotry and that being a no-no to Apple.

Considering the number of appeals they went through, I refuse to believe that that was a lone employee and uncoordinated. The government is perfectly justified in operating on the assumption that there is massive collusion to keep out alternatives.

Since you didn't seem to want to look up my earlier reply here it is.

This is actually the whole problem. Congress has not given the Internet common carrier status. When the Internet was primarily delivered over the telephone system (DSL and dial-up) the Internet was sort of given common carrier status only because the telephone system was classified as a common carrier. Cable systems never had common carrier status so ISPs that provided Internet access did not fall under common carrier rules.

In 1996, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 codified a distinction that had already been essentially the practice of the FCC between 1980 and 1996. Services that rely on the existence of the network (e.g. websites and pay-per-call 900 services) were to be classified under Title I (information services); the transmission of those services over the existing telephone network would remain Title II (common carrier). This makes perfect sense: websites aren’t transporting your data anywhere—they receive your request and respond to it; the ISP transports those requests and responses. However, the 1996 act abstained from classifying the new cable broadband Internet Service Providers under Title II, leaving this new “high speed” Internet industry essentially unregulated. In addition to this lack of classification, the 1996 law sought to reduce regulatory barriers to entry in both telecom and broadband by softening the laws of the previous regime as set in the 1934 act.

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You keep stating that the Internet is set as common carrier under law. This is false. It is also false that ISPs are set as common carrier under the law. The telephone system is set as common carrier so if you are getting your Internet access via the phone system then your Internet is sort of covered by common carrier requirement but if you get your Internet via cable there is no common carrier status.

This is actually the whole problem. Congress has not given the Internet common carrier status. When the Internet was primarily delivered over the telephone system (DSL and dial-up) the Internet was sort of given common carrier status only because the telephone system was classified as a common carrier. Cable systems never had common carrier status so ISPs that provided Internet access did not fall under common carrier rules.

In 1996, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 codified a distinction that had already been essentially the practice of the FCC between 1980 and 1996. Services that rely on the existence of the network (e.g. websites and pay-per-call 900 services) were to be classified under Title I (information services); the transmission of those services over the existing telephone network would remain Title II (common carrier). This makes perfect sense: websites aren’t transporting your data anywhere—they receive your request and respond to it; the ISP transports those requests and responses. However, the 1996 act abstained from classifying the new cable broadband Internet Service Providers under Title II, leaving this new “high speed” Internet industry essentially unregulated. In addition to this lack of classification, the 1996 law sought to reduce regulatory barriers to entry in both telecom and broadband by softening the laws of the previous regime as set in the 1934 act.

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TigerPlish has this right - plus streaming services DO use the fact that you stopped after 15 minutes.

For instance, check out this article about why "Everything Sucks" was cancelled by Netflix: https://www.businessinsider.co...

I've read several articles about how Spotify uses a track's "skip rate" (how many people skip it after listening to just a small amount of it) to judge whether to move it from smaller playlists up to bigger playlists - and whether or not to recommend more songs like that to you.

Another crazy example is that Netflix pays attention to the type of _artwork_ (icon) you like to stop on or click. For any given show there are dozens of possible icons... and Netflix serves up the one it thinks will be most enticing to you: https://medium.com/netflix-tec...

This is true "big data" - these services collect every single thing you do so they can tailor the service to you.

And PraegerU, a conservative non-profit group that produces educational videos on conservative issues

Its a sad fact that "conservative issues" is now just code for antisemitic propaganda. Conservatism having been reduced to nothing more than white straight evangelical pride is wrecking us. Be better.

While the society was distracted by the talk of imaginary "nazis", Communists — adherents of the far deadlier, indeed the deadliest, school of thought known to humanity — have crept in on us, and are even fielding national politicians already...

Of course. It's much easier to mislead the ignorant with flummery.

The ignorant can assess that on their own, can't they? If you're advocating for faith based propositions, you should consider the ones that have stood the test of time.

Also, there is a very interesting graph on the previous page depicting the AMI-related deaths for both sexes, with female deaths due to cardiovascular faults being in sharp decline since 2000. So either something happened around that time that made women less susceptible to dying from a heart attack, or something else took over as the big lady killer.

Here is the same graph (not divided by gender, though). The trend increases and decreases, To some degree matching cigarette consumption over the same period. Of course medical care has improved also over that time. Male cigarette smokers dropped more sooner, and farther, than women. There were more male smokers, too, so they had farther to drop. Currently rates between the two are the same.

The link between cigarettes and heart disease doesn't explain everything but it does explain a lot.

The comments here are mostly in two groups: (1) those who feel that programming is fundamentally simple and anyone should be able to do it, given simpler tools, and (2) those who feel it is fundamentally difficult and not everyone can do it.

Those in group (1) point to languages like Python and Basic as proof that anyone can program. However, there is an important issue that is missed in most of the comments: How productive a language is for the original programmer, versus how easy it is for someone else (on your team, or another team months later) to figure out your code and be able to modify it safely. These are very different things.

For an organization with lots of teams, it is very difficult to create maintainable, shareable code. It really takes a professional. I have been in many organizations that had to deal with "the end user computing problem". These organizations undertook large efforts to get code out of the hands of users and into the hands of professionals where it could be maintained properly.

Should it be so hard to code? No, but we are kind of stuck. The OSes and frameworks keep getting more complicated; and worse, the fundamental technology choices that underpin most things were deeply flawed choices - we are stuck with approaches that make things brittle and unnecessarily complicated. Thus, I see little hope of non-professionals being able to write code in the context of those flawed frameworks and technologies.

the rest is potentially a way to get sued if you demonstrably dropped profit and/or shareholder suffered through it

Stop repeating stuff you've heard stupid grown-ups say.

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfo...

https://medium.com/bull-market...

You mean like banning straws under threat of prison sentence? They did it. Jail time for a plastic straw.

Yeah, I didn't believe this so I looked it up.

I couldn't actually find anything on the penalties SF is planning to impose, but it does sound like you've confused Santa Barbara with San Francisco along with a little fake news from Fox, the Daily Mail and Donald Trump Jr.

Santa Barbara wants to lock up straw users? That'd be outrageous, if it were actually true

Santa Barbara is considering a straw ban — and no, you won’t be jailed for violating it

Latchford pointed out that, since Santa Barbara’s plastic bag ordinance went into effect in 2014, “we haven’t had a single fine.”

Pushing for compliance rather than maximum penalties is similar to how they've handled public smoking bans and bans on throwing away certain recyclable material (e.g. plain cardboard) where I live (not California).

I really am not familiar with the public defecation situation in SF and I doubt you are either so I won't speak to that, but your other claim:

You mean like decriminalising the act of purposefully infecting other people with an incurable deadly disease? They did that, too

No, they did not. Knowingly exposing another to HIV is still a crime.

The co-author of the bill explains:

Last week, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 239, a bill I co-authored to modernize California’s HIV criminal statutes by treating HIV *exactly* the same as other serious and deadly diseases such as Ebola, SARS, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis: as a misdemeanor. Under current California law, only HIV is treated as a felony, and you don’t have to infect anyone—or even create a risk of infection—to be guilty and go to state prison.

SB 239 doesn’t eliminate criminal penalties for reckless behavior by people living with HIV. Rather, it simply aligns our criminal treatment of HIV with how we treat every other serious infectious disease in existence: as a misdemeanor.

We Modernized California’s HIV Criminal Laws & the Right Wing Attacked

And this should blow your mind:

In 1994, Texas became the first state to repeal its HIV criminal laws, according to the Center for HIV Law and Policy.

Nor do all other states treat exposing another to it as a felony.

HIV Crime Laws: Historical Relics or Public Safety Measures?

And finally - and I admit I'm going out on a limb here because I've never lived in California, but I don't think SF is considered "Southern California". According to Wikipedia, it's "Northern California".

So who's crazier? The San Franciscans in Southern California or Texans? Or the states who never made it a felony in the first place?

"liberal arts" means that you had to take English and other things unrelated to your science degree.

Everybody who got a science degree at a real University has a "liberal arts degree."

The alternative is to go to a trade school, where you don't have those extra requirements.

https://medium.com/conversatio...

TALEB: Then, the root of that, my feeling, in the Anglo-Saxon world is the desire—this is why they call it liberal arts education—to aristocratic ties to themselves.

Again, let’s talk about the Greco-Roman world. You had the trivium or quadrivium, absolutely nothing practical about them, the rhetoric, the grammar, some things. The liberal education was what people learned in order to become aristocrat and idle upper class.

Then you had the real professions of becoming a baker, how to do something with wood. And the English, the upper class—of course they didn’t want to be working class, so they sent their kids to learn that stuff. And this is what came to America.

Education is split in two. You have technical education like law—not technical, but professional education—law, medicine, what else? Engineering and all these things, and then you have mathematics. If you look at it historically, the engineers didn’t really connect to the other ones because the Roman engineers did not use Greek geometry.

We only started using Greek geometry late in life after the educational system started including mathematics for these people. Engineers built cathedrals without clear geometry. It was actually more robust.

Geometry will give you these ugly corners. Before, we didn’t even know what the right angle is. Before, it was more involved, it was rule of thumb, and it was different. They had the separation, segregation.

So what you want to do? Is this liberal education that’s contaminating the rest? Or is it the technical that’s contaminating the expectation of what education should be like?

You say, “OK, this is the kind of thing you do like piano lessons on the weekends.” You read Homer and stuff like that. It’s important, and you become civilized. Stuff you do to be civilized and be able to have dinner with the vice president of the World Bank, these are the things you do. And these are the things you do to get you ahead in life.

Your problem has been a known problem ever since you had Rome and Greece competing.

Bryan Caplan and Nassim Nicholas Taleb on What’s Missing in Education (Bonus-Live at Mercatus) https://medium.com/conversatio...

It's ironic that, for a while, the kids going to the votech classes were considered the "less intelligent" people. These days, with the rise of STEM programs and magnet schools, it's the smart kids that get training in high school on more practical or technical skills such as programming, electronics, etc.

“...I’d rather be antifragile than smart.”—@nntaleb https://medium.com/conversatio...

I'm way more interested in how the bitcoins were obtained in the first place. How can you access a coinbase or similar account with someone's phone number?

Do you really want to know? You may read this blog about how he lost the control of his coinbase account due to the people in telecom company. 2FA doesn't help if the registered phone number to the account is changed.

1st, do they post about their conquests? If so, they are probably Americans, but sometimes they are russians and some linquistic oddities can give them away.
2nd, Russian Troll and intrusion detection and countersecurity operations are ongoing, if not very successfully, given the ease of attack and difficulty of defense.

I use authy (Google authenticator, improved edition) and just load all my soft tokens in there. Very good program.

I have even followed a very frustrating process to load in my PayPal authenticator in to it.

https://medium.com/@dubistkomi... (really recommend that for PayPal users)

Screw SMS authentication.

Social media is real-time entertainment; not to be taken seriously.

All media is entertainment. You want real news, go to your barbershop.

what a corporate boogeyman!!! https://medium.com/naijadailyf...

I have to cup me this new macbook as soon as it gets released. So much processing power and speed in one laptop, bravo http://www.medium.com/androidr...

But you've got to be intentionally deluding yourself if you think Trump wasn't in on it.

Because Trump is a fucking idiot. If he was "in on it", so was the FBI/NSA/CIA, who moled Trump's campaign and wiretapped it before they had any excuse for an investigation. Which means Mueller would have had this evidence, in which case he would have presented the evidence to Congress and you would have had articles of impeachment two fucking years ago. The rest of your post is the tired old Gish Gallop that proponents of weak or cultist ideas are prone to use:

The term Gish gallop refers to a fallacious debate tactic in which one barrages one's opposition with a deluge of individually weak arguments which take far too long to debunk individually in a way that sustains the audience's interest. This is all Russiagate amounts to. When Russiagaters tell you that there's "too much smoke for there not to be fire", they are unwittingly telling you "I've been won over by a Gish gallop fallacy." Every single aspect of their argument can be easily debunked without exception, but since there's so much of it and since pundits are assuring them of its reality so confidently, they believe.

Every few weeks there's some major new "bombshell" revelation which Russiagaters get all excited about, only to have people read the actual information in the "bombshell" and find out it's not actually anything incriminating or particularly remarkable. Take all those "bombshells" together, though, and you create the illusion of something real. That's all this nonsense is.

Forgotten? No. VP8 lead to VP9, which is used by YouTube and Netflix. The work on what was to be VP10 was merged into AV1, which also includes contributions from Cisco's Thor and Mozilla's Daala.

VP8 hasn't been forgotten so much as its development has been continued.

Amazon did care about short term results, and generally hit or exceeded their short term targets.

That is completely not true. Here is every letter to shareholders from Jeff Bezos since 1997. Read the letter from 1997 and then you'll understand. Amazon hasn't given a shit about short term financial targets since their inception.

If you don't like a woman/minority in a movie or think they couldn't act, it's not their fault, it's just because you're a sexist and/or racist!

Worse is "color-blind casting"... except "color blind" refers exclusively to casting minority actors in white character roles, because it's a full on sjw feakout and boycott movement if a POC character is played by a white actor... the evil whitewashing! Don't forget, 'color-blind' is actually a tool of white supremacy. Judging people by the content of their character instead of their color of their skin is now racism, and anyone who doesn't judge someone by their skin color, and then hold them to lesser requirements (except Asians in intellectual things, they don't count and should be brought down a notch), is a racist.

Hyperthreading v. hypervisors is a really difficult and long topic to talk about. There's a lot of information and performance comparisons on the net and in the end it boils down to the type of work that you're doing.

https://medium.com/data-design...
https://medium.com/data-design...
https://medium.com/data-design...
https://www.phoronix.com/scan....
https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/...
https://blog.heroix.com/blog/s...

Also, last time I checked OpenBSD is not widely used as a virtualization platform.