erikj

Wasn't it how everything worked back in the early mainframes and timesharing days?

This is incorrect. The oligarchs took vk.com away from Pavel Durov (the founder of vk.com and later Telegram) by force with some help from FSB, then banished him from Russia. Both Pavel Durov and Telegram are now out of the reach of these oligarchs, and Durov has no desire to aid people who robbed and exiled him.

Fusion propulsion would be very beneficial to any space operations beyond the Earth's orbit. I think NASA have a project investigating this technology.

Was it bad enough to abandon all investments made into its development and jump to the less successful competing platform instead of incrementally improving MeeGo/Maemo?

Nintendo and Sony are a tiny insignificant speck of the market compared to all the OpenGL ES compatible devices available. I guess every smartphone vendor not called Apple is ran by Khronos idealists. Besides, the latest Nintendo device officially supports Vulkan.

I think you're underestimating the strength of the US government. A lot of things happened since the 18th century.

I thought "serious" meant at least one million error-corrected qubits or so, and it seems to me that we're at least two decades away from this. The article is talking about the 50 qubits milestone without proper error correction.

I presume you are talking about ScriptX created by an Apple spin-off Kaleida Labs? I'm reading about it right now, and I don't see any specific features useful for language-oriented programming, not even Lisp-like macros. From what I can see it doesn't seem to encourage this approach to software development at all, it looks like some kind of Smalltalk derivative with multiple inheritance bolted on.

"Discussions about race/gender" is also political discussion, it's very strange that the author doesn't understand this unless he has some implicit intentions here and separates these topics on purpose.