I wonder if it dulls other senses the opposite of blind people who develop more sensitive hearing.

Follows from the article, those who had little to lose who stand to benefit from overturning the system

I'd like to see indefinite support powered through emulation under a modern CI server hardware with rigorous automated test-suites, with maintenance potentially supported in part with AI.

But someone else should do this, of course.

Between i486, i586 and i686 there's been a steady drumbeat of Linux distros and kernel itself deprecating support

It's enriching and maintaining the stockpile of weapons-grade uranium that's the harder part, as Iran has found out.

The equilibrium between demand and supply has the supply curve impacted by a whole host of policy choices.

Eg housing is impacted by cost of permitting, regulations, cost of materials and labor etc.

All of these things can be improved by policy.

There's a strong argument that especially infrastructure but housing should be built with people on work visas.

Just like 3.5mm headphone jacks and MicroSD card expandable storage.

They're hard to find even on lower end devices any more, despite more ports being a premium/pro feature in other market segments.

> poverty is now concentrated in places where growth is harder to achieve, and population size is rising fast. Around seven in ten of the world’s poor are in sub-Saharan Africa; the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Nigeria alone account for a quarter of the total. If current poverty rates persist, rapid population growth means that these three could be home to more than two-fifths of the world’s poorest by 2050.

The world permanently funding cash handouts in highly corrupt countries sounds like a terrible idea.

Sounds much better to investing in infrastructure and improved governance to make the growing issues in sub-Saharan Africa more like the success stories in Asia and other parts of Africa.

Harder to steal infrastructure. But obviously still possible especially before and during construction, and after during maintenance contracts.

Creating a fake app that people believe is secure or anonymous is an easier way to run a police sting operation than first making a significant breakthrough in Distributed Systems around the Byzantine Generals Problem.

For your conspiracy theory to be true, at some point a honeypot/sting operation must actually end and arrests be made and the evidence be used in court.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield