What's the story behind the paywall? Okay, subscription wall. The headline and summary, while disturbing, is missing important information such as WHEN this happened.

It's a goddamn SIMULATION! You can get any result you want with a simulation.

Because that's where the money is.

Military customer buys product. Product needs repairing. Military tries to repair it. Soldier or civilian gets killed or injured because the repair wasn't done properly. Who gets sued?

I mean, come on, Grand Theft Auto? It's kind of on-the-nose. Did they bust the union with bats?

The consumer thinks that having a great score means you're going to get any loan from any lender you want at a fabulous rate. That's totally false. Banks only care if they can make money off of you. A great score means you pay things off quickly. To a lender, that means they can't suck interest out of you.

A better question is what types of classes does this happen in. If STEM classes are inflating grades, that's one thing. If students of underwater intersectional basket weaving are getting As, that's another. Nobody needs more ego-inflated students with useless degrees.

"Competing priorities" is another (weasel) way of saying "reusable rockets". We've already been to the moon several times with stupid expensive single-use rockets. That's how NASA has operated and is their general mindset, the shuttle notwithstanding. We'll get there by the deadline with a modern single-use rocket but so what? SpaceX's goal is to get there and back over and over quickly with the same rocket. That's what makes their approach much more difficult but ultimately more useful and less expensive. Launching Starlink satellites is a way of funding the goal without being beholden to the whims of politics.

Not only that, but people are relying on third-parties to keep the data available 24/7/365 until the end of time. I can tell you for a fact that if a company goes under, so does your data. I had an SVN repository hosted by a third-party. The company went tits-up and al of that data is now gone. There might be a backup of it somewhere but it's inaccessible to the company's customers. This is really no different that relying on some physical media to store data. Long gone are 7-inch, 5-inch, 3.5 inch floppy disks. Gone are Syquest disks. Gone are magneto-optical disks. Gone are Zip drives. Gone are magnetic tape drives of bunchteen flavors. CD-ROMs are probably still readable... if you can find a drive for them. Compact Flash probably still work. SD cards and Micro SD cards, plenty of those around... if you can remember what was on them because you can't easily label them. Oops, did you roll over one with your desk chair? Sayonara. External hard drives? Oh, did it use some long-dead interface like SCSI? Heh. And the drive is also hopelessly stuck. Not to worry though. Most of that data wasn't important anyway.

No real CS student (aka hacker in the vernacular sense) is ever concerned with A let alone B or C. They are only interested in exploration of technology and how to make it do things that the designers and gatekeepers never intended. Read Steven Levy's book.

Think all of that wind and solar was free? And while we're on the subject, the Salt River Project in Arizona boasts that they are a non-profit company which means that any "profit" doesn't really get returned to the customer but rather to upper management.

Only the UN would expect first-world countries to slit their own throats because a bunch of third-world countries did. Sometimes I wish that line from Heavy Metal were true "The UN? It's been turned into low-rent housing."

I live in Arizona. No time change here. Plenty of obese people here and people are having strokes all the time.

I had an HP laptop that had this feature. The screen is so bouncy that it makes the experience useless. And fingers are not precise pointing devices. Do not want.

It seems like each streaming service comes out with a new series when none of the others does in order to string you along thinking that something else good might magically appear.