You're giving way too much credit. I think he's just a jackass sharing conspiracy theories about people he doesn't like.
Oh god I remember a debate at work between two guys trying to decide if Stephen Colbert was really conservative or not, and therefore good.
Lots and lots of others have laid off. Presumably some better companied have added jobs in the meantime.
Thats been my experience as well. On SO it seems much more likely that the answers answering a different question have a negative score.
I never once actually asked a question there. Partly because most of the time, the question I was asking had always been asked. However, I have found the correct answer to 100s of questions there. Usually through google/ddg/kagi searches.
This is interesting because a huge amount of AI "knowledge" comes from stack exchange.Now I'll go read the other comments and article to see if that's already been mentioned :)
I heard a legend that there was a time where it wasn't true.But then humans come up with all kinds of weird shit.
I'm on Jerboa which still somehow doesnt support animated gifs, so for me just says Just when you think Voyager is down for the count(Picture of a wrestler laying down and not getting up)
OK, how about Eris