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There are countries where getting a SIM card always required an ID or passport.

The powerful are always wrong when they are white men. Otherwise, they are always right.

Indeed. For scripting languages, it's usually Python people moving to go and Ruby people adopting Elixir.

I feel this is more about IT departments lowering their bar to satisfy their staffing needs fueled by lowering the bar in the previous round. It's a vicious cycle and a well known one, even in other fields.

Because many "engineers" do not have a solid understanding of the field, companies have been exploiting that by using and promoting solutions that would have been otherwise dismissed with very annoyed faces. Even docker would have been dismissed, as "cool but it has safety issues, so go home and redo your implementation".

About 30% less efficient

You are not very far from what could be the reality. According to some research the Solar System has 10% less hydrogen than other galaxies, so Bussard ramjets will have an harder time

It's a very interesting story, thank you for sharing it.

The videogames industry got overcrowded over time. Videogames became more about money as the big names exploited the growth of the sector. There are good titles coming out, although it seems they become fewer in ratio.

Most big names push away game designers to favour software engineers with elements of game design. That could have worked 15 years ago, but with the increased competition, the need for proper game design has increased.

Finally, the people that made videogames 15 years ago were mostly engineers, but I get the impression they also had a better understanding of game design.

Hence that time was the golden era of videogames because it was when the key people in the industry made their careers. Todd Howard (Bethesda) and Jess Schell (Disney/Schell Games) for example were in the line at that time, but now are in management positions.

Because game designers where having an hard time in the videogames industry, they turned their attention to other areas: board games. Board games are indeed in a great period now, with many independent makers finding success.

So if you want to have again a good time playing games with friends, go for board games.

Kubernetes' success is partly due to its novelty, as it happened with Mongo and Node when they were novelties.

The next-gen cloud systems (storyscript, darklang and so on) are embedding kubernetes, or the features provided by it, in their platform, so the end users do need to interact with Kubernetes.