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So government or public-private partnerships are your options

I see you haven't seen the IT projects I've been part of. ;)

Then why not withdraw it?

Also, statistically, it's likely that in any given year, there will be some place in the world that is anomalous. You can't just pick and choose certain areas, going to a different spot each year, as evidence of a problem, you need to look at things globally.

Just a small one

> In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science'. The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty. (2.9.30).

> The Party employs science and technology to curtail human freedom and privacy, and to control human behavior.

iPod

iPhone

no disk drive

UNIX-based OS goes mainstream

first mainstream OS with a GUI

iMac - making PC's 'friendly'

iTunes - made it cool to pay for music again

To name a few.

Both of which have had so-so reception. Certainly nothing like Jobs' industry-disruptive innovations.

Oh, I totally missed that news.

Apple has been stagnant since Steve Jobs died. His momentum keeps the company moving forward, but they haven't had a fresh idea since he passed.

Jony Ive?

I think you're probably wrong, but I consent that the article didn't present any information on the illness.

Sure, but you don't have to be an airforce pilot to say you're one at a bar. Why go to all that effort?

Did you achieve your dreams?

You can’t just send helicopters and dump water on it?

Time to update my emergency contact details in the company ERP system

> they had too many years and too much money to implement a usable solution

Oh man, that hits home

That's why they're always looking for fresh college grads, many of the older people wise up eventually.

It's difficult to blame Chinese students for not wanting to stay when they're being met with outright hostile rhetoric from the political establishment. Economic considerations completely aside, no one wants to live and work in that kind of environment.

I can't say castrating someone for doing it with a 19 year old at 21 is really any better.

Oh man, I totally forgot Stephen Hawking died until you reminded me. :(

Einstein!

How is it any less fair than the tariffs that Trump is throwing on anyone that pissed in his corn flakes that morning?

This is a great explanation of the issues we have with statistics. You see this all the time in other sports too. As a hockey watcher, fans always want “explanations” for a loss or losing streak. More often than not, it’s just bad luck, and the kneejerk reactions that coaches and GMs take often just make things worse.

Nate Silver did a writeup showing the math around how the winner of the Stanley Cup comes down to little more than random chance.

Do tell

Blocking a website is not “breaking the fundamental human right of freedom of speech and no censorship”, at least not in France.

The US is big into tariffs these days, why do they complain when the same treatment is applied in return?

Why? Is only the US allowed to practice protectionism?

The worst part is that there is only one sensor because having only one sensor allowed them to not document it and requiring pilot retraining. They just found a loophole to exploit, it had nothing to do with a single sensor being a good decision.

Yep, prior to Google the dominant SEO strategy was to spam keywords into hidden HTML tags invisible to readers.