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This process has a descriptive name, enshittification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification), and it seems to apply to most internet services.

Gorbachev sent the tanks rolling in Lithuania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Events).

Though it remains in the environment even after the operation and civilians will be exposed to it. This has been the case in e.g. Balkans (https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/world/radiation-from-balk...) and also in Iraq (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/us-depleted-ur...)

No. Wifi router needs the MAC address in order to provide a service to the user, thus it is allowed to collect the MAC. GDPR allows collecting personally identifying information if it is necessary for providing the service.

"We're Facebook for middle age people.". Isn't that just Facebook? At least that is what all young ones say - that it is used by middle-aged people

This was also my first thought. FB gets a lot of information on people's actual behavior wrt their contacts (who do you contact and how often), and this for people all over the world.

Well, in case of electric heaters used to heat a home the efficiency should really be measured in terms of "how much electricity is consumed if the heated room is kept at constant 20C measured at e.g. center of room". This is somewhat dependent on the quality of the thermostat controlling the heater.

Then, I think that there are some real differences found in the efficiency of the heaters.

And for a cynical take on the "modern engineer brings advances to middle age" also taking into account social aspects, Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/86) is good reading.

They didn't buy Nokia's patents. They bought Devices & Services business unit (the one making the phones) and a 10-year (non-exclusive) licence to Nokia's patents, which obviously are needed to make the phones. Does not sound like a patent troll move on part of Microsoft.

Another (probable) software failure due to unexpected scenario was the Mars polar lander http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Polar_Lander#Loss_of_commu...

The failure review concluded that the probable cause of loss was that the landing system software apparently interpreted the deployment of lander's legs as touchdown and shut down the descent engines. The vibrations caused by the deployment of the legs was not taken into account when designing the software.

I second the suggestion to add support for templates for most well-known publishers. For example, in CS even having Springer and IEEE 2-column templates supported would have been enough for me when I was involved in writing papers. I think that when you have publisher template support for the few major publishers in a field, there is much less of a barrier for the researchers in the field to start using authorea. This would IMO not be in conflict with the long term vision of moving papers to web but rather a first step in getting enough users for the publishers to listen.

Yes, kids will play with anything. However, the way they use toys to play will be individual.

My daughter preferred cars and trucks while young (under 4 years). She would cover the garage with blanket for the night, put her small truck to swing etc. The style of play was very different from the way that I saw boys playing with similar toys.