How did Apple ensure that?

I worked at a vertical (hydroponic) farming start up that raised a couple hundred million in funding, valued at over a billion, unicorn and all that. The controllers in the farms themselves were RPi class machines that talked to Google's IoT service. They were manufactured to order (no video ports, for example), always online via LTE modems, and they were stable and did their jobs well.

Python 3 was released in 2008, Python 2 in 2000, so Python 2 has been known to be on the way out for longer than it was around when Python 3 dropped.

> McDonalds is now pioneering a kiosk ordering system.

Pioneering? I first used a kiosk at McDonald's in 2015.

Americans are like the guy or girl who was hot growing up. They never realized how much good-will they had gotten from past generations and some amazing PR. How much economic power they derived not from their economy, but the US dollar being the world's de facto cross-border currency. Even from their position in the Cold War, a bastion of self-styled freedom against Communism's oppressive totalitarian fist.

Now they're pissing it away for nothing. China is building soft power throughout Africa. Europe is cutting itself off from them. There's a trade war with China of some sort, which is hilarious when you consider a large part of the products imported from China are literally not made in the US.

All to pad a few billionaires' pockets, to make a few people even richer.

> who is head of state of their nation matters less in their daily lives than who is mayor of their city.

Unless you're black. Or gay. Or trans. Or a woman. Or anything but a straight, white dude. The Federal government has a massive influence on state governments, like it or not. From funding to the makeup of the supreme court.

The whole point of EU membership is that it is a trade off between benefits and responsibilities. The moment the UK pulled that Article 50 lever, it told the EU it no longer wanted to be part of it. Why should the EU have given it some sort of sweetheart deal? To show other countries that if you leave, you too can get a better deal on trade and free movement than you have now? Maybe they should've given the UK a vote, just for old times sake? If anything, the EU had been too lenient on the Brits, constantly giving in to their tantrums, giving them exceptions, so when they asked for the biggest one and got a firm "no", they lost their minds.

I went through the PowerPC to Intel move and it was amazingly easy and the speed of the machines went up _so quickly_ that I never regretted it for a second. I'd love them to move off x86. Working on machines that don't make any noise (like my MBA or iPad) is awesome.

It worked extremely well. Competition skyrocketed, prices dropped. If the government actually got off its ass and fulfilled it's mandate instead of being corporate lapdogs and kept them from re-merging, you'd have a lot more than 4 major telcos in the US... which is still 3 more than you had in 1983.

I sometimes forget how out of touch with reality the users on sites like Slashdot and HN are. Facebook has been a place to find work for years now, with massive groups centered around all sorts of jobs. I'm on a local group for people working/hiring in food production (restaurants, catering, etc) and there are 36 thousand(!) members. I got a friend who does prep work and bartending, said she hasn't found a job outside of Facebook in 2 years.

One of the things that I hate about SV/VC culture is that they deride the companies that you're talking about as "lifestyle" companies. You're either a disruptive unicorn or you're nothing. It's a horrible make-or-break culture that doesn't do people any good.

The current US administration already got this for free from eastern troll mills and /r/The_Donald.

I dunno man, I live about 8 hours from my job... by air.

I know a bunch of people who work for Google and none of them do it in SF.

If everybody had to plan having children according to worst-case scenarios, no one would have children, and you wouldn't exist.