Yeah, how can a conspiracy that ties together jews, gays, muslims, academics, marxists & feminists are trying to overthrow the white male Christian western culture be a calling card of the far-right?

Cars aren't so bad, it's the idea that everyone has a personal vehicle, uses it as their primary transportation & then expects to have a safe place to store it for the entire day once they arrive into the densely packed urban areas.

Already happening. Google Beto & you get some news stories as the top results. CNBC reports on him being in the CDC, some local paper reports on his fundraiser, Fox News reports on the murder fantasy stories he wrote for CDC.

Forget the tuition money, they have a $190M endowment. That's money they can get at without asking the state for a dime.

Feels more to me like left-wingers are trying to paint socialism and social democrats with the same brush in order to drag up Cold War prejudice to demonize them.

At the same time, centrist corporate Dems would love to claim that it's socialism and erase actual leftists.

...and crypto is really easy to hide when you declare bankruptcy or get sued for bad debts.

It's not just the degree, it's passing your professional engineer exams & getting certified that allows you to take a protected title. Just like you can go to law school but you're not shit until you pass the bar & med school grads aren't shit until they've done a residency and passed their boards.

Community Android development is pretty much dead anyways. Google drops code for the core OS & tells hardware manufacturers what they need to implement to make their hardware work against a Google code drop.

As they say, "if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid".

Smart and successful people tend to think that they've got the Midas touch and everything they touch will turn to gold. Hawking talking about AI is just as far outside of his wheelhouse as Trump is when talking about politics.

OpenStack is one of those half-finished open source projects that doesn't really give you all the pieces to do the job. A lot of people think it means you can have a turnkey private cloud with zero admin overhead - like AWS without paying for it. The reality is that keeping it up and running still requires a competent ops team.

Everyone else has spent time & money drawing talent out to SF. It's the highest concentration of skilled developers you're going to find anywhere. You can't just ignore that huge talent pool.

AOL was the one that bought Time Warner back in 2000, not the other way around. The combined company has since spun off AOL but the current corporate entity is the same pile of money that started life as AOL.

Smalltalk was pretty big in industry before C++ (and later Java) took over. You might not see it much anymore but it was pretty widespread in the late 80s through mid 90s with large business customers.

It's ilk like Slashdot?