Same for ACM. I think it’s good as it’s easier to read. But sometimes I still write names (e.g. as Mueller et al. points out, the color blue is actually red [666]), to highlight something. But that’s maybe for 5 out of 100 sources.

There is no culture of unions in IT. But there should!

The contribution to the community is weak. I recommend the authors to work on their study design and to basically redo everything in good.

I think most of these seeds are modified in a way that they don’t reproduce. This is what creates the dependency of farmers, they have a well growing plant with good harvest, but need to buy the seeds year for year.

The problem discussed in the article is that people that develop new plants are working under a high uncertainty, as big cooperations have patented a variety of plants and could make claims that some of their “inventions” have been used to develop new one or that new development look the same than their patented “development”.

I think patents were a good idea then we used to have many small companies. But in today’s economy it is overly used and slowing down innovation instead of making innovation attractive for inventors.

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There were passengers on the flight. I would feel highly uncomfortable after this incident to be on another plane of Delta.

The company is still worth over 100 billions. They do something right.

Otherwise I agree with you. It’s almost hilarious to see fail after fail (as long as you are not in the plane).

Well, it fits the company. They are well known for heavily underpaying their workers (dirty cheap subcontracts), resulting in an less then good service of delivery.

Seems like a smart function. I would not feel safe in a Boeing at the moment.