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As long as this companies keep investing in marketing over customer satisfaction and real value generation for shareholders the scenario is going to be the same regardless of covid etc. As you pointed out Refused is a good example: focus on business fundamentals, that's it.
Wow! I just went back some 20+ years ago going through 8051 instruction set while at the University. It's amazing how versatile and useful it still is.
You're absolutely right. Most software development will be impossible today without resources like SO.
From my (very) personal point of view, I think consciousness has nothing to do with sensor or motor functions...we know so little about what we (as humans) and "conscious" beings really are that we're always in the realm of conjectures. Self-awareness is a so complicated subject to define anyways.
More fragmentation.. awesome!
I really enjoyed the book. An awesome intro to lisp!
Wow man that's awesome! Congratulations..
I really like JD's comments on this Bitcoin madness. This is going to end sooner than later and people is going to get hurt (in their pockets). Greed is good.. but at a reasonable level.. all cryptocurrencies are being fueled by greed.. nothing else.