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Other than that it's a clever (and yes, entertaining) way of displaying margins of error.

No dispute that it's clever and entertaining. These are undesirable qualities in a reliable source of information.

Can you imagine reading a scientific journal in which the data narrative was deliberately engineered to keep you guessing until the conclusion? You would be right to raise eyebrows at a publication that is investing in your attention rather than its own accuracy.

There's no dire consequence here, it's just slightly dystopian that US presidential elections are unapologetically leveraged as a vehicle for mass entertainment by the press itself.

I'd venture further to say it's a perversion of "news" for a news site to be injecting garbage into the data for entertainment purposes.

Don't want to pay for engineering work? You can get it for free!

All you need is to rack up a decade of experience, then put in 60 hours a week plus 20 hours of professional development to keep current on the latest technologies. If you're reading this you already have everything you need.

What, that doesn't sound very appealing? Alright, here's my card.

The tenth time this caused me to lose data and when my home server shut itself down and failed to boot, I set my internet connection to "metered", which Windows graciously seems to have respected.

Now I don't get any Windows updates, but the possibility of joining a botnet is preferable to the certainty that Windows will ruin my work.

I'm glad that Microsoft is making the internet a safer place.

It _did_ trip a lot of BS detectors.

The sound was drowned out by the overwhelmingly non-technical consumers of the game's PR. It's the modern day version of selling snake oil.

Technology progresses, but human nature doesn't.

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Actually, the point of the app store was distribution. That's what the 30% cut was for IIRC.

Nobody was paying Apple 30% because that was cheaper than distributing yourself. They paid 30% because without paying that their app wouldn't get discovered, by design.

Now Apple has decided 30% only buys you the privilege of being able to pay more to be discovered.