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The applicability of software to the just advancement of society, its contextualization within the needs of the people who use it, a deep respect for these people and the software’s broader impact on the world, and the use of free software to acknowledge and fulfill these needs.
The principles of good software engineering, such that software built to meet these goals is reliable, secure, and comprehensible. It is in the service of this goal that I beat the drum of simplicity with a regular rhythm.
Setting a New Focus for My Blog
Drew DeVault's blog
The answer, of course, is that the competitiveness of unaided individual skill is depreciating by the week, and that the easier software becomes to talk with (often in a literal sense) the cheaper it is to replace what you might call human-level financial skill, and therefore the more critical it will be to be able to take advantage of superhuman-level one.
The AI CFO
marcelo.rinesi
Today, roughly 500 Americans are dying each day from COVID-19. At this rate, SARS-CoV-2 will be the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2023—about triple the threat of influenza.
Are We Still in a COVID-19 Emergency?
Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist
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