dcgudeman

Free money? I honestly don't understand comments like this. It's as if you aren't even trying to make sense. Amazon would have been bailing out Roomba so if anything this would have cost Bezos money.

Small world! We spoke about this at the QCon dinner.

No, people actually disagree about cultural changes. Not sure what kind of world model you must have in order to believe that ANY society wouldn't suffer from "culture wars" as it evolves. I suppose you believe that the entire prohibition episode in US history was also orchestrated by "the rich"?

no, it's a python library, get a grip. Also "This lesson has been learned countless times"? No it hasn't, since when has a package manager developed by a for-profit company hurt the ecosystem?

because people what to use rust for developing linux and the preferred toolchain for that is GCC

because it is where you go to do video conferencing.

honestly, that's how I read this article. Not sure why so many people seem to be agreeing with him... I guess it speaks to the general understanding about how to use python type hints

The USA is not particularly susceptible, you just are exposed to more stories about it happening in the US. It's happening all the time all over the world.

Not sure if this question is a troll but in the off chance it isn't here is a sample budget for the Australian government https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Depart.... It looks like the average revenue for a given year hovers a little under half a trillion dollars. So yeah they can afford it. The idea that "their coffers are empty and their balance sheet is negative" also indicates serious ignorance about how governments finance operations. I'd suggest you start with the country you currently live in and understand how your own government finances its operations. That will likely help you understand how Australia does it.