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Is the “Daily Express2 a reputable news source? Sort answer, NO!Slightly longer answer. The following is an extract from Rationalwiki, who I think have the definitive line on the Daily Express and its readers.The Daily Express online is like the Daily Mail online but even more vapid and sensationalist. Articles are short and lacking substance, and headlines randomly CAPITALISE words to emphasise what you SHOULD believe. Headlines frequently distort the truth, bearing no resemblance to the content of the article beneath. On 13 January 2018 the startling headline "NASA alien ADMISSION: Space agency reveals ‘we can’t hide them’ in bombshell video" did not in fact reveal the "Full Disclosure" long-predicted by UFO loons (often in the Express comments), but was an interview with NASA's assistant director, who said that science was so open that any discovery of aliens would be known by all and impossible to cover up. In other words, the headline deliberately suggested the exact opposite of the truth. This is a very common practice by the Express online. Every week or two it is applied to stories about Yellowstone, one of their favourite sources of Doomsday threat. Headlines such as "Yellowstone WARNING: Scientists reveal Yellowstone at ‘TIPPING POINT’ in dire new study. YELLOWSTONE National Park stands on the brink of fiery disaster, scientists have warned", complete with images of erupting volcanoes, might give the impression that a devastating eruption is imminent. However, as with every use of such headlines, it actually refers to the threat of bushfires and climate change turning woodland into grassland.. See also: Yellowstone volcano: Why are THOUSANDS of animals leaving the active supervolcano? THOUSANDS of Yellowstone-native species are migrating away from the active supervolcano, scientists have spectacularly announced, which referred to the annual migration of elk and not some imminent disaster sensed by animals.On 5 February 2019 they ran the alarming headline "Mount St Helens eruption FEARS: Volcano expert warns ‘I have never seen ANYTHING like it’". Reading the article showed that the expert was describing what he had seen when the volcano erupted in 1980, in other words "recalling" and not "warning" in any way.Many articles are based entirely on one unhinged or uninformed individual's opinions on the internet, rather than anything usually regarded as important, like facts. Almost weekly there are articles claiming that NASA is covering up yet another alien fossil or artefact spotted in photos of Mars, based solely on claims from one UFO obsessive on his blog. A dramatic headline claiming that Yellowstone was about to blow was based simply on ONE ill-informed individual's comments on Reddit: “The scientists say that even though that the volcano is overdue, it probably won't erupt in our lifetime. Even if it were to erupt, we should have up to two months of advanced warning to evacuate everyone in the ‘kill zone’. But instead of warning everyone two months in advance what if the scientists don't? What if the government gives no warning of the eruption, and just deals with the aftermath after it blows? The government will not warn the people of the eruption, because it will logistically easier to handle the smaller size of survivors.”. In other words, potentially anything at all could become an online Daily Express article if anyone made any sort of claim, no matter how unhinged, on social media.Frank Hoogerbeets, another charlatan who provides the Express website with sometimes daily articles runs a website claiming that he can forecast earthquakes. He makes sensational claims about upcoming disastrous earthquakes that the Express turns into shocking and dramatic headlines: "Earthquake WARNING: ‘Huge MEGA-THRUST to strike’ by end of February. A MEGA-THRUST earthquake could shake our planet to the core in the next few weeks"; "Ground-splitting EARTHQUAKE could hit by February 21 – shock claim"; "Earthquake WARNING: Totally DESTRUCTIVE tremor to strike NEXT WEEK - shock claim. A POTENTIALLY civilisation ending earthquake has been predicted within a WEEK", "Earthquake WARNING: Magnitude NINE tremor to hit by February 26 - shock claim. A MAJOR earthquake is on its way by February 26 and it could be compatible to the two BIGGEST tremors on record"; and so on. None of these events ever occur, and this individual has long been recognised as a charlatan, but the Express happily creates articles from his woo and reports real earthquakes as low as 3 on the Richter Scale (ie very minor) in order to suggest there MIGHT be something in it.In common with all right wing media, the military is fetishised for its easily-led readers. Thus a story about a British Royal Marine jailed for murdering an injured prisoner was met with furious comments that he was a hero because killed the enemy, the prisoner would have killed him if he got the chance, that more should have been killed, and so on. Contrast with a story about Pakistani soldiers beating a captured Indian pilot during the 2019 conflict: "Geneva Convention, mistreatment of prisoners"; "Many of these countries have declared themselves bound by the convention but have never observed it"; "You don't have to tell us this, we know how the heroes of Islam treat prisoners".Every few days they run articles about Michael Schumacher, with headlines claiming that they have NEW REVELATIONS about his health, or a MAJOR UPDATE on his condition. Without exception the articles are essentially the same - Schumacher's family or manager says that they want privacy and will not be talking about him. See for example "Michael Schumacher SILENCE BROKEN: Major update as manager opens up on F1 star's health".In keeping with its apparent desire to crank up its Brexiter readers into a murderous rage, it made stories that had nothing to do with Brexit seem as though they were. A small island that had limits placed on daily visitor numbers to protect its natural environment, was reported with the deliberately misleading headline "TOURIST CRACKDOWN: Britons will need PERMISSION to visit Canary island or face FINES". This had the desired effect of angering readers who thought that this was the EU once again picking on the British .Knowing that many readers are tinfoil hatters and/or Apocalyptic Bible readers, they report natural annual insect swarms from around the world, using words like ARMAGEDDON, BIBLICAL, APOCALYPSE and PLAGUE to trigger responses. Headline: "END OF THE WORLD: 'Biblical' plague of locusts in Egypt sparks apocalyptic WARNING. A LOCUST plague of “biblical proportions” headed for Egypt has sparked concern the end of the world is fast approaching, a Bible expert has shockingly warned. A plague of locusts not seen since the days of the Christian Bible is spreading like wildfire through Africa, along the Red Sea coast and towards Egypt and Saudi Arabia.Biblical prophesy also appears in the mainstream "News" section of the website, amongst articles that are as factual as the Express can muster. So you will see headlines about Brexit, the weather and the Royal Family, then: "Jerusalem Third Temple PROPHECY: How Third Temple will trigger END OF THE WORLD. THE Third Temple of Jerusalem is a prophetic sign of the approaching apocalypse, doomsday preachers have warned, as rumours circulate the Jewish house of worship is about to be rebuilt". Articles like this are a weekly and sometimes daily occurrence .Like flies around a fresh dog turd, providing an endless supply of crackpot and racist nonsense means that the Express website attracts disturbed readers from around the world. Many believe that Jews and/or Freemasons run the world or are planning some future takeover, but one free thinker decided that it was transsexuals who were controlling the media, politics and the Royal Family, and that individuals purporting to be male were in fact female, and vice versa. "Demon Trannees using their fiiilllth controlled media to continue lyyiing desseeeving and causing khaos", he suggested, and, "When you have a bunch of desseeving, liiiiing Tranz.gendur Baphomet Saytun worshiping TRANNNNEEEEZ controlling banks and causing khaos playing games with your Brexit, what else would one expect? " He may still not be the most unhinged Express reader, however.Readers of the online version tend to be more overtly racist and more gullible than even Daily Mail readers, a large number giving themselves usernames referencing Brexit, hating the EU or variants on ultra nationalist themes. Articles often dispense with fact, instead offering opinions that align with the readership and which are intended to both confirm readers' bias and trigger them into apoplectic, mouthfoaming rage. Headlines are often deliberately worded to achieve this end: hot weather is not due to warm air coming to Britain, but "AFRICAN air".Reader comments are frequently veiled racism, except when they are overt racism. Many commenters openly express support for far right and neo-Nazi groups, and confidently make racial slurs about any black or Asian person in the news. When the Mayor of Gdandsk was stabbed, on 14 January 2019, the article told readers that the Mayor was a progressive, supporting gay rights, and that the attacker was a violent convict who blamed the Mayor's party for jailing him. Despite this, reader comments included those suggesting that the attacker was a violent lefty who had stabbed the Mayor for being a right wing nationalist, or that he was a Muslim attacking a Christian. One suggested that in the past (ie the mythical time before immigration) people never used knives, and another "hoped" (wink, wink) that something similar didn't happen to London Mayor (and hate figure to DE readers) Sadiq Khan. The following day, once readers had finally realised that the Mayor had been left wing, their sympathies evaporated, but some still believed the attacker to be Muslim.A January 2019 article about DNA scientist James Watson being stripped of honorary titles for stating that black people were less intelligent than whites was met with enthusiastic agreement that yes, they were and they didn't need science to prove that, from readers angry that lefty scientists were lying to hide the "real truth". These keen white supremacists were happily allowed by the Daily Express to say almost anything they wanted. Oddly, these Daily Express readers, so keen to accept a scientist's word on black IQ, adamantly reject all other science, particularly connected with global warming.Like the Daily Mail, the Express is typically outspoken against further European immigration, laments the downfall of the traditional nuclear family, and is highly critical of un-conservative, un-British "values." The main news articles often include telephone numbers for its readership to text message their opinions in relation to the article topic. These text-in boxes are typically of questions along the lines of "Should Britain leave the EU?" and "Should we shut down immigration to the UK?" Unsurprisingly these polls tend to produce results in the high 90s percent range, which is taken by readers to "prove" that their views are both valid and mainstream.Express Newspapers also publish a red-top tabloid (i.e. even more trashy and sensationalist), the Daily Star.The Express and the Star, along with some other red-top tabloids (The Sun, News of the World), are noted for morbidly milking human interest stories for as much mileage as possible, particularly cases of missing or murdered children. While it could be considered commendable to keep up the publicity for an unsolved child's disappearance, in the Madeleine McCann case of 2007, most headlines revolved around sensationalising accusations brought against the parents. Even in 2009, sensational headlines involving mostly speculative details and accusations continued to head the Express front page. Such coverage of the Madeleine McCann case led to the child's parents suing the Express and the Star for libel over accusations of their involvement in her mysterious disappearance. Sensationalising the most inane and trivial things on the front page probably hit its peak with a Sunday Express report that survivors of the Dunblane massacre were "shaming the memory of their dead friends" by... well, doing what perfectly normal 18 year-olds do, like occasionally swear and drink a bit.The online version is an alarming mishmash of poorly-written stories under clickbait headlines, by 2018 mainly on just a handful of subjects - Brexit, the weather, the British Royal Family, Donald Trump, crime, and Muslims (the last two subjects often reported together). The same stories are repeated many times throughout the website, with slightly different headlines and pictures and to an absurd degree, so that London Mayor Sadiq Khan's Twitter feud with Donald Trump was repeated over 40 times on the same day, and Hurricane Florence over 60 times. It reached a peak on December 13 2018, when Brexit appeared in 86 separate articles, leaving almost no space for anything else. On 3 February 2019 there were, bizarrely for a British news site, let alone a US one, 17 separate stories about Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog that predicts the end of winter. Headlines included, "Groundhog Day 2019 results livestream" and multiple variations on "Did he see his shadow? What did he predict? Who is he?"Frequently the headlines talk about how any diplomatic dispute is going to cause WORLD WAR 3, to the degree that there's an entire category for articles with that in the headline. Although articles usually show a byline, the articles themselves sometimes seem to have been written by a faulty computer program. A November 2018 article on a volcanic eruption said, "The terrifying tectonic display was recorded for hours and developed into a fearsome time-lapse". Another said, "A bolt of lightening also strikes the active volcano located in southern Kyushu which is home to more than 600,000 people. Thick smoke from the summit has reached over 4,000 metres and continue to pollute the pacific ocean island. The aluminous red laver dominates the night sky which can be seen from miles".On December 10 2018 an article on the F-35 fighter jet read,"Temperatures in Centigrade TODAY'S SUMMARY Although US makers Lockheed Martin says it should be reapplied at regular services, an RAF source said the all-over spraying may have to be carried out after every flight. North West: Early showers will ease to leave it mostly dry with some sun. Fresh north-westerly winds. High 9C (48F). East Anglia: showers. Drier winds. High 9C Northern Ireland: Scattered showers are expected, especially in the afternoon. Moderate winds. High 8C (46F). "This situation obviously has to be rectified before the plane enters operational service," said the source, London/South dry and fine with cloud. A brisk Wales: Scattered showers, heavy during the morning. Some sun too. "Moderate South: Early with spells of adding that defence secretary Gavin Williamson and RAF chief Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier had always been aware of the problem. Britain took delivery of the initial batch of F-35B Lightnings in June. Sunny periods and scattered later. Fresh north-westerly (48F). Lockheed vice president Jeff Babione acknowledged: "We inadvertently scratch the coating system, and we have to repaint it." North West Coast: It is going to with a mixture of sunny spells and these will be mostly light. A Moderate westerly wind. High 10C (50F). Another company spokesman said: "Stealth maintenance on the F-35 is East: Early showers, then sunny spells and patchy breeze. High 11C (52F). showers, then turning dry hazy sunshine. Fresh northwesterly South West Coast: It is expected damp with drizzle and showers Drier and brighter later. A strong wind. High 11C (52F). It requires less maintenance and is easier, more affordable and faster to repair compared to previous low-observable aircraft." But Air Commodore Andrew Lambert, a past RAF director of defence studies, said: "Lockheedbe bright East Coast: It is going to be mainly dry showers, and bright but with the small chance of a light shower early on. A moderate westerly breeze. High 9C (48F). "In and central sunny. day Martin says it's better now, but it takes just one scratch to give the fighter jet the same radar profile as a 747, then you may as well not be bothering."Despite being reported, the article remained up for more than 17 hours in this form.Readers flock to the online version to have their prejudices confirmed even more enthusiastically than with the paper version, their comments reflecting that. Fires of any kind are reported by the Express more often than they used to be because since the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy readers "know" that they are caused by "Muslims", or unspecified "immigrants" who are "looking for compensation", or "leftist terrorists", and they want to be kept informed of every "plot". A fire on Saddleworth Moor was attributed to - you guessed it! - Muslims, because Britain never used to get fires before, "no matter how many hot days we had." The same reader believed that fly tipping also never occurred before immigration began, whenever that was.As soon as news broke of the devastating fire that consumed much of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the world mourned. To the surprise of nobody, Daily Express readers didn't. "There has been a lot of desecration of French Churches in the past months, the invaders need the space for Mosques" said one. "You will have a nice new car park now ready to rip off the tourists next summer" said another. "I will laugh if the perpetrator is from the religion of peace" suggested a not-at-all insane reader. Other comments in a tidal wave of sympathy included, "cannot see what all the fuss is about...it was a old building..now you can build a estate for your friends from the east"..."It will be rebuilt as a Mosque"..."Was it a Act of God or was it one of his Profits [sic] disciples ???"..."The followers of the book of peace & love surely! They are certainly cheering in the UK so I read"..." The opinion of experts that it was an accident was derided by readers, who considered the speedy verdict to be evidence of a cover up. Of course it wasn't nearly as speedy as Express readers deciding instantaneously that it was Muslims.The Express, mindful of how far right its readership is, and how tenuous their grip on reality, ran a story with the headline "Notre Dame was 'no accident' – why France believes Paris cathedral blaze was Europe’s 9/11". Reading the article showed that "France" meant not the entire population of the country, but a handful of far right loons.Other popular theories, that for once didn't involve Muslims, included French President Emmanuel Macron deliberately having Notre Dame burned to deflect attention from his political problems, or to halt the ongoing populist "Yellow Vest" protests, or that the fire was lit by "Polish and Romanian" or "Eastern European" workmen, because apparently that is the sort of thing they do. The fact that these theories clearly cancelled each other out mattered not one bit; anything was more believable than "accident during renovation work". Exterior statues being removed a week earlier became "all valuables were mysteriously removed just before the fire", according to many, and TV images from one camera viewpoint showing one visible fire hose was "proof" that the French deliberately let the building burn. How this tied in with it being a Muslim attack is anyone's guess, but it "proved" to many that it was part of Macron's plot.President Donald Trump chipped in, suggesting that water bombing aircraft be used, and despite many experts on the ground in Paris saying that it would collapse the walls and destroy artworks still within the building, Express readers agreed that he was right and that failure to do as he said was further "proof" that the destruction of the building was planned. Or alternatively that it showed how inept the French were at everything.In October 2018, responding to reports of a fire at a gas works in London, readers began to suggest a new suspect; "the EU", who were lighting fires to cause panic and chaos, and "give British people a warning over Brexit", as well as hinting that it was Muslims wanting space to build another mosque. On December 22 2018, full of Christmas spirit, readers confidently stated that the operators of drones that had shut down Gatwick Airport were Muslims, despite zero actual evidence. Shortly afterwards, a probable gas explosion that destroyed a house in Andover was also immediately attributed by readers to Muslims making bombs, despite the occupant of the house being a white English man. On 12 January 2019 a gas explosion in a bakery in Paris was attributed by commenters to Muslims, with many complaining that their comments saying just that had been censored.This raging misunderstanding of the world can be attributed to the Daily Express' history of stories that are at best distorted or misleading and at worst actual lies. An article about the reduction in numbers of children's books in British libraries was met with readers' own special theories as to why: nobody speaks English any more; "they" only need "one book" (ie the Quran); hardback books are being banned because unlike e-books they can't be rewritten to include "minority beliefs" about sexual orientation etc. An article about calls for high sugar cereals to be banned for the sake of children's health led one reader to conclude that the only possible reason was to pander to Muslims. This dislike of "nanny state" interference in personal choice is matched by the desire for the BBC and Guardian to be banned for offering opinions that they see as left wing, and for all MPs of a left wing persuasion to be removed and replaced with right wing ones.Articles often have odd angles, such as reporting that Fiona Bruce had been appointed new presenter of Question Time on the BBC, but focusing on who she was married to (Headline: "Fiona Bruce husband REVEALED: Who is Fiona Bruce married to? FIONA Bruce will be the new host of BBC's Question Time after David Dimbleby steps down tonight. But who is Fiona Bruce married to?"). Or "DONALD TRUMP will tonight address the entire United States government in the annual State of the Union speech, but is he the tallest US president? Donald Trump age and height: Is Donald Trump the tallest US president?"Readers who use the Daily Express to understand the world are conditioned into believing anything, no matter if it is untrue. A headline, "Meghan Markle to have 'gender fluid' baby - Duchess to insist on being 'co-parent' NOT mum" drew outrage and sneering condemnation of Ms Markle's "PC lunacy", despite the whole thing being made up by Piers Morgan and not "fact" in any form understood by thinking people. Ms Markle is a constant source of anger for many loons, her ethnicity being a real sticking point, and leading to criticism of every aspect of her appearance and perceived personality. Readers refused to believe that she was really pregnant, accusing her of using a cushion (the "evidence" being that it changed size, unlike a real pregnancy, obviously) and with a surrogate behind the scenes. "Peak loon" was reached when it was announced that Ms Markle and Prince Harry were to visit Morocco and readers believed that this was where they planned to kidnap a black baby and pass it off as their own ("The baby has to come from somewhere......too obvious what the plan here is...."; "It's a little TOO obvious. Morocco a country known for tr.a.f.ick.ing"; "Morocco is the country Obamas "rented" out their 2 from. Racially mixed and human-trafficking hub. Transparent agenda").(Note Quora obviously have quite a few of these Express readers - many of whom have regurgitated this nonsense here). Continuing…Shortly after the birth, readers continued to squint sourly at photos for clues, no matter how minor (or imaginary) in order to criticise her shoes, clothes, body shape, expression; and the fact that Prince Harry was holding the baby in the first official photo being proof that she no longer cared about it. Prince Harry's first short statement to the media was in a yard at Windsor Castle, but shortly after he started speaking he was asked to move to a position in front of stables for better photographs. This was of course proof, according to a couple of Express readers, that Meghan Markle was a megalomaniac who thought that her baby was like Jesus. And the official first images of the baby immediately drew from three unhinged readers the accusation that it was tightly swaddled not to keep it warm but to disguise the "fact" that it was one of those rubber collector dolls and that there had been no real pregnancy.Express readers could barely disguise their racist hate for Meghan Markle, but when challenged denied that their hate for her had anything to do with the colour of her skin and everything to do with her being American. They somewhat undermined their position when they suggested that names for her baby should be Winston, Mandela, Um Bongo, Ooga Booga or LeeRoy, that it "probably has an afro", and to "give it a banana". One, showing touching concern for the baby, wrote, "pale, thank god" when a photo was published. The Express website did its best to goad its most racist readers into continuing frothing hate, with multiple articles under misleading headlines (see above). "Royal baby: How Prince Philip reacted with SAVAGE comment after birth revelation" actually referred to his reaction a mere 71 years earlier on the birth of his own son, Charles, but was clearly intended to trigger its readers into gleeful joy at the idea that Philip might have made one of his notorious racist comments about the new, mixed-race Royal baby. And it did.Following this success the Express repeated the exercise with multiple headlines, all deliberately misleading, but intended to trigger dim readers: Royal baby REVELATION: How the Queen 'told crude JOKE' after meeting a royal baby [referring to Prince William in 1982]...Prince Philip royal baby name SHOCK: How Duke was FURIOUS over surname change [referring to the Duke being unable to give Prince Charles his own surname in 1952]...Prince Harry WARNED: Duke in 'DANGER' after royal baby announcement – 'Palace is LYING'...and several more.Frequent (sometimes daily) articles warn about the threat of asteroid impacts, breathlessly informing readers that a large rock, measured in multiples of double-decker buses or Big Bens, will come perilously close to Earth. On 22 November 2018 they ran the terrifying headline "NASA asteroid WARNING: 390 FOOT asteroid bigger than Big Ben on ‘Earth Approach’ on SUNDAY. A GIANT asteroid larger than Big Ben’s clock tower and the Statue of Liberty will zip past the planet on Sunday, NASA has warned." After much dramatic comment about the size of the asteroid and how much damage it could do if it struck Earth, tucked away at the very end was the admission that it would pass at a distance of 5,800,000 km, the equivalent of a car "dangerously passing" a pedestrian at a distance of 290,000 km. This template may be applied to EVERY Daily Express article about asteroid danger, the words "NASA warns" to be read as "NASA informs". Online reader responses never vary, hoping that the asteroid will hit the House of Lords, the House of Commons, EU headquarters, or whichever politician/actor/singer/public figure is currently hated by them.The online version of the Daily Express seems to attract many readers with usernames and avatars suggesting an interest in 1930s German politics or Nordic warriors, or simply a hyper-patriotic enthusiasm for England. Their comments are a charming melange of support for far right sentiment and a perfectly reasonable and understandable dislike of non-English human beings. Most articles about Jews or the Holocaust have comments blocked, to prevent the torrent of legally actionable neo-Nazi opinion that is inevitable with Express readers.Articles about refugees attempting to reach Britain invariably draw comments suggesting that the most sensible and practical solutions would be a high wall bristling with barbed wire (and machine guns and landmines) around the entire British coastline, equipping coastguard ships with machine guns and the authority to riddle boats and refugees with bullets, fitting swords to the wheels of Channel Tunnel trains, allowing refugees to enter the Channel Tunnel on foot before deliberately flooding it, and one particularly imaginative suggestion; filling the English Channel with sharks and crocodiles.In early 2018 the Express was bought by Mirror Group, owners of the traditionally left wing Daily Mirror. However, to avoid alienating the rabid right wing readership, the Express online edition continued to run dog-whistle articles on race, Islam, Brexit and immigration, enabling readers to continue working themselves up into mouthfoaming rage. Even slight reductions in the overtly racist tone were noticed by the readers, however, prompting comments that Express was now a "lefty rag" or even "far left garbage". The paper version was toned down slightly more, as the new Editor realised just how appalling a rag it had been under the previous ownership.The incoherent rage shown by readers towards the EU included the definitely true and not at all made up fact that the EU had chosen 12 stars for the EU flag because stars are a symbol of Satan. Those insisting that the EU chose stars "instead of dots" because they are Satanists had clearly not paid attention to the US flag, which presumably is more than 4 times as Satanic.As the date for Brexit loomed, Daily Express online ran endless stories of "betrayal", "threats", "invasion" etc that had little connection with reality, so that easily-led readers worked themselves into a seething fury, making endless comments about "treason trials", "quislings" and armed uprisings if they didn't get the Brexit they wanted, and making increasingly hysterical calls for anyone who voted against Brexit to be hanged, imprisoned for treason, or deported, as soon as Britain had left the EU. One reader believed that "Europe will be a colony of the UK within 20 years", and another stated "The British will not be prisoners in foreign hands without a fight to the death!" while another said "And it will be worth it! My life will end fighting for my Country against evil invaders and Traitors! Thank God something great is going to happen in our mundane boring EU controlled Country!" There were calls for the Army to demolish the Houses of Parliament and hand MPs over to Brexiters for punishment, and some stated that the SAS would side with The People and do nasty things on their behalf. Some readers hinted at knowledge of secret far right plans to do something drastic on behalf of "patriots" at some point in the future ("soon", "any time now", "it's coming" or "now it begins"), and veiled threats to those who disagreed ("when 'Cobweb' begins you better hide").Sample from 16 January 2019 (usernames redacted): "Personally, I'm quite looking forward to civil war and taking back our country street by street. If the remoaners want to destroy our country, they will have to shut their gobs and fight for it". "I look forward to using my pump action shotgun against leavers. Stocking up with enough ammunition to fight WW3". "I suppose lynching is out of the question". "Don't give up so easily! They'll swing for treason yet". "...plenty of lamp posts available. This would be carried out to protect our democracy so not unreasonable". "...it is coming back in fashion,driven by the need to punish our traitors". "Levell (sic) Dresden again that will shut the dirty GERMS UP", "build those gallows in parliament square,and let the traitor hangings begin", "Time for these fools to be lynched...Time to sort this filth", "The time has come to storm Parliament and drag these remoaner Mp's from the house with ropes around their necks and throw them over Westminster Bridge and leave them hanging.." and so on.Reporting such comments made little difference.Despite being keen to destroy London and kill as many people as they could for democracy, the following month they were outraged at disruption to public transport by a climate change protest. Furious that it was lefties holding up trains instead of purple-faced Brexit voters burning the Houses of Parliament and hanging MPs, readers demanded that the train drivers run the protestors over, and police use live bullets on them.In the knowledge that their readers generally lack any kind of scientific understanding, the online version of the Express runs regular stories about the non-existent "planet Nibiru", linking actual research into likely outer "planet X" with Biblical prophesy, the pronouncements of doomsday eccentrics, and other conspiracy sources. An internet search for "Daily Express Nibiru" brings up dozens of examples of their crackpot nonsense. The date of Nibiru's attack on Earth keeps changing, when each claimed date passes with no cataclysm, but enthusiasm for such stories isn't dampened. Nibiru is reported variously to be hiding behind the Moon, cloaked to be invisible, moving around the Solar System in ways that defy gravity, and controlled by aliens who implanted chips into select humans so that they could warn the rest of us that the Rapture is coming when Nibiru finally arrives. The 2017 article "BRIAN COX ON NIBIRU: TV scientist breaks silence over Planet X end of the world prophecy" simply copied his tweet refuting the whole thing, but readers were not entirely convinced, writing, "This is the great deception. I'm a scientist and only started to realise the truth a couple of months ago. This story is half truth half lies (as with most things you hear). I'd urge you to do your own research beyond mainstream science. But there is not long left, please don't be ignorant, for your own sake", "like the boy who cried Wolf when it does arrive no one will believe and it will be too late","Firstly a sign doesn't do anything, it only lets you know where you are and what to expect, a Stop sign doesn't press the brake pedal, the sign described in Revelation 12 has taken place, if you read it you will see all of the other events are also takeing place, planet 7x, or Nemesis is in our solar system I have filmed it, I'm on Davypatt1 in you tube, that planet come up on the horizon at 6:30 in September 2017 ,Zeta Talk on you tube, gives an account of the effects on planet earth this planet will have, go look" and "NASA is pushing the Nibiru story because they want to divert people realising that we have NEVER been to the moon and that the earth is flat".A simple internet search for "time traveller daily express" shows that from 2018 an increasing number of stories feature "time travellers" who put self-made videos on YouTube, claiming to be from the years 2055 or 2087 or 3000, and bearing witness to terrible future events like nuclear war or alien invasion, or occasionally positive developments like alien computer/human hybrids who can live forever. As proof these time travellers often show blurry video on their cellphone that they recorded in a future city, some of which resemble scenes from sci-fi movies if examined closelyDaily Express - RationalWikiEvery country has it’s quota of obnoxious loons - the UK’s quota are largely Daily Express readers.

1 IntroductionChina is already the largest and most inventive economy in the world. It is about 37% larger than the 2018 economy of the United States at Purchasing Power Parity estimates. See the calculations (and the basis of these) in section 2 ofBased on the current series of events. Is the World truly standing on the brink of WW3 or a Nuclear War and will it destroy the human race and put an end to human civilization as we know it?The Chinese leadership acts in the interests of maximising the prosperity of all its people, obeying the “Mandate of Heaven”, and as long as it continues to do that, it will continue to grow at about three times the rate of the Washington Consensus economies. SeeThe United Kingdom and the United States of America Have Both Lost “The Mandate of Heaven”This likelihood is accepted by the IMF who, unsurprisingly, have got no idea about what to do about it. SeeNeoliberalism: Oversold?The hope that WC+ macroeconomics will “evolve” when it has shown no capacity for evolution during the last four decades is a hopeless hope.And if you want to see why the USA is powerless to act in the context of the economic rise of China, readGeorge Tait Edwards's answer to What can the USA do short-term and long term, to prevent a Chinese global domination of the economy and technology?The implications of the historically most inventive culture in the world continuing to grow at over three times the growth rate of the rest of the world are massive, and not more than partially visible yet. China is only part way through a 70-year long economic climb to become a more fully developed economy with GDP/head equalling that of the USA in 2043/4. (See para 2.3 of George Tait Edwards's answer to What are the three methods to looking at the GDP, and what is the best method to find the GDP with the reason? where this outcome is calculated.) I cannot foresee all of these developments. But very briefly, in the following sections will outline a few of these I can see.The implications of China’s rise are far too many and much too large to be fully listed in this answer. The changes set out below probably miss many of these and are the product of my interests and my viewpoint.2 The Major Changes Likely Due To Chinese Economic Dominance2.1 The Replacement Of Washington-Dominated International Institutions By Chinese EquivalentsThe IMF, the World Bank, and the OECD have all been peddling the faulty elite-serving macroeconomics of the Washington Consensus Macroeconomics /Monetarism/ Neoclassical-NeoliberalMacroeconomics /Financialisation /Austerity (WCE+). To say these economic prescriptions have not worked anywhere is to understate the poor results of that slow-growth clutch of policies, which have resulted inthe continuation of widespread poverty in nearly all the economies operating under the cosh of the WCE+ policies - see Washington Consensus Macroeconomics Is Not The Best System For Increasing Prosperity and Economic…the elevation of the minority rich above the majority interests of the people, with income increases and tax cuts for the rich funded by the reduction in income rises and social services for the majority of the peoplethe creation of widespread poverty based upon the shutdown of manufacturing industry in the previously rich and commanding economies of the UK and the USAthe aimlessness of the political leadership in the UK and the USA and their retreat into racialism, xenophobia and isolationism under Conservative and Republic leadership, andthe abandonment of US leadership of the key international policies of the world (reversing global warming, assisting green development, supporting multicultural developments, assisting economic development etc) under the Presidency of Donald Trump, who despite all the evidence does not believe in global warming.The natural consequences of these failed policies is thatThe Chinese will slowly but surely replace the Bank of International Settlement with a more useful institution which offers large no-strings loans (as opposed to the many-strings loans of the WCE+ set-up) at lower rates than those offered by the IMF, the World Bank, and the OECD; this has already started to happen with the low-interest long term loans provided by China to the nations being connected by OBOR. See the Report by Pinset Masons which lists the OBOR projects in the seven zones and forty-five countries set out in the Contents belowThe detailed listing of the thousands of the OBOR-linked projects partially funded by China shows that the scale of this international project is truly immense. For example pages 48 and 49 lists “Middle East Table 1: select projects in the Middle East’s infrastructure pipeline”and looks like this:Other similar tables listing the projects in the other six geographical zones are in that report. See the context report atOne Belt, One Road - OBORThat major report, previously available on the internet, is now locked into a subscriber basis and is atOBORThe PwC report on OBOR is still available and is athttps://www.pwc.com/gx/en/growth-markets-center/assets/pdf/china-new-silk-route.pdf and provides this interesting map:2.2 The Conception, Planning, Negotiation, Funding and Delivery of World-changing International Megaprojects such as the “One (land) Belt and One (Sea) Route” Is Something That Only China Can Do.Providing one total cost estimate for OBOR is not easy because many projects are still at the planning stage and those dependent on Western finance and Public-Private Partnerships might not proceed. But it seems that the total costs of the energy-improving, pipeline-providing, port-upgrading, road-creating, airport-extending, health-improving OBOR project now exceeds $5tr according to a recent report. See the report of the May 15 meeting of the world leaders involved in the project atYour guide to OBOR, China's plan to build a new Silk RoadThe classification of projects into sectors (transport, energy, social & health and water and waste) illustrates the fact that OBOR is a major upgrading not only in terms of its usual description as a better road, rail, sea and air transport network but also in gas pipeline, energy generation and transmission and in local social and health and city transport services and desalinated water production and waste handling.The OBOR project could provide a template of international cooperation aimed at achieving other desired results such as reversing global warming or accelerating economic development or restoring the capital infrastructure after the devastation of the increasing violent storms.2.2 China is likely to emerge as the greatest world champion of an international programme of reversing global warming, becauseChina and Asia has too much to lose from the faster-than-predicted sea level rises and the much more violent weather and monsoonsthe USA has also too much to lose from the culmination of present world temperature trends, which if not reversed would lead to the future of US coastal cities as resembling Venice and with Florida becoming the Trump Saltwater Mangrove Swampbut the lack of understanding at the US top table could produce these results; andChina has the will and the means to do much more than it currently does (see China to invest £292bn in renewable power by 2020) and still has a lot further to go before China can fill the vacuum created by the lack of US leadership2.3 The Chinese 2003 Law of Small Business has helped establish and develop millions of Chinese SMEs and has resulted in these companies becoming the powerhouse of the economy - see Slide 2 (copied below) of Lijuan Zang’s excellent slide presentation at Contributions Of SMEs To China’s Economic Development which states that(Lijuan Zhang is an Associate Professor at Shandong University.)China is now changing part of its economic focus from export-led growth to more domestic-led SME-based invention and innovation. According to Hermann Simon,in his book”Hidden Champions Lessons from 500 of the World’s Best Unknown Companies” Harvard Business School Press, Harvard, Massachusetts, Hardback, 1996, p119“The only way to continual success is continous innovation.” China has set itself up to do that.At present, the most effective SME-supporting local banking staten is in Germany, where the Sparkassen Banks continue their historic support for the establishment and growth of German SMEs. SeeGerman public bank - Wikipedia which points out the scale and number of these German public banks:“The total assets of the Sparkassen amount to about EUR1 trillion. The 431 savings banks operate a network of over 15,600 branches and offices and employ over 250,000 people.[18] Savings banks are universal banks and provide the whole spectrum of banking services for private and commercial medium-sized customers.[4] 50 million customers maintain business activities with savings banks.[19]”The relevance of that reference is that the aim of Hermann Simon’s research was to discover why Germany with 81 million people was out-exporting China which had 1.37 billion people. SeeFurthermore, the development of world-beating innovators in Germany contrasts with the very low level of “Hidden Champions” in many other countries.Source: Calculated from the above table by me.Germany and the Germanic-banking nations have much greater rate of innovation - between 13.8 and 16.2 SME champions per million people - compared to a rate of about one per million in the USA and the UK. Furthermore, more updated data shows that Germany in 2016 had about 1,600 “hidden champions”and was rising to about 20 champions per million people. and as I remark in the source of this this data at“In the above table, China seems to performs very badly in the creation of SME world champions - only 68 champions in a nation of 1,374m people - about 20.2 million people per SME champion - about 0.3% as effectively, or about 330 times worse than Germany. But some Chinese SME are larger than Simon’s definition allows, so the number of Chinese champions may be definitionally understated.”And a deeper regional analysis of Germany’s rate of SME “Champion Creation” indicates that the old region of West Germany probably has a still higher level of champion creation than East Germany (which has not yet fully recovered the local SME-supporting banking system it had before the period of communist rule) and considering that the centralisation of the Sparkassen Banks from the over-2000 that existed in the year 1900 to today’s 431 banks, I estimate that the maximum rate of champion creation is probably about 25 “Champions” per million people.2.4 China As The “World Champion” Leader The relevance these observations is that when China creates a more extensive local banking system of the Germanic type in all the towns in all its provinces, there could be 25 “World Champions” per million people in China - that would be an estimated total of about 3,450 Chinese champions, over a dozen times more than Hermann Simon’s estimate of total world champions. The effects of that development will be immense.2.5 China is going to become what the UK was at the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851, “the workshop of the world” and what America was in 1946, the “most productive economy in the world”, based upon further high levels of SME invention and innovation and major factory investments.In future years China will mass-produce key personal consumer products which are far ahead of anything produced in the West and which will have no precise equivalent in any other country. It will be impossible for any nation to exclude Chinese products without losing access to highly advanced techology.Just to illustrate the potential of a few these products, the developments are likely to consist ofwearable medical monitoring technology, measuring and assessing key body function parameters and responses and continually (in the “internet of things”) transmitting that information to home computers, doctor’s surgeries and into a personal national health database for use by hospitalswearable automatic medical dosage armbands which will continually measure and optimise the blood levels of key control micro-nutrientssuper Very High Definition (VHD) 3D headsets with computer-information about location, local historical data and thousands of entertainment, education and information media channels - the definition of these headsets will exceed a 12 Megabits per second image, much sharper than the human eye can see, and capable of replay magnification latertotal recording and playback of 3D video conferences and personal meetings with Zimmerman excellent (not just pretty good) privacy for usersWhen patients were first hooked up to automatic monitoring equipment in hospital beds, doctors discovered that long pauses in night time breathing resulted in heart attacks. The vast amount of fresh medical information collected by computers and the data analysis of that new source in the context of DNA information is likely to lead to further major advances in medical understanding.The current attempt to deny microchips to China is sure to backfire, because China will respond by developing its own domestic Intel-challenging industry, and the quasi-monolopy of the West will be lost in the future due to that mistaken economic policy. It will be difficult to do that, but it will be done.2.6 Criminals are going to have a very difficult time. Face recognition software can already pick one face out of tens of thousands in a crowd. Total identification based on ID cards plus machine-assessed data (perhaps of the pattern of capillaries under the skin - more reliable and unable to be transfer-copied as fingerprints can be). DNA testing used take two days - it now takes two hours, and that 24X increase in the speedy reading of DNA will continue.See The Troubling Rise of Rapid DNA Testing2.7 The Automatic Creation of DNA Registers The dusts which appear in the air in sunlight are the tiny floating rafts of skin, every raft containing the DNA of people who were (or are) in the room. Ionisers and air fans can scoop that floating DNA from the air (or from the floor) and automatic future computer-based DNA testing can be conducted, bypassing the current system of consent. The rapid DNA readers of the future would not need to read all of the thousands of previously floating tiny DNA islands because complete analysis of each different helix of DNA is all that is required and the analysis of the first few sequences is enough to build an index. Everyone’s DNA is likely to become available on national computers as a byproduct of these close-to-immediate DNA testers. DNA is the ultimate better-than-fingerprinting ID system and cannot be misread or mistaken. This has immense implications that are too large to be covered here.2.7 China will have the best health systems, educational facilities and welfare packages in the world. There will be a negotiated and agreed length of the healthspan because modern medicine will, due to an improved epigenetic understanding, shortly be able to extend the period of healthy life enormously. SeeWhat’s Wrong With Big Pharma? – George Tait Edwards – Medium andHow To Live A Healthy Long Life – George Tait Edwards – Medium2.8 China will be the first nation to come to grips with the social, economic and political implications of the longer living society, because the Chinese leadership is in discussion with Professor David Andrew Sinclair. SeeThe Transition to the Long-Living Society Part 5 – George Tait Edwards – Medium andSome Economic Implications of The Longer-Living Society — Part 2I apologies for the repetition of source material these articles.One of the major implications of a longer-living healthier population will be the Chinese escape from the current labour shortage produced by rapid growth.You should note that Sinclair’s epigenetic research may enable the successful colonisation of the Martian tunnels. At present interplanetary travellers would have their immune systems destroyed by interplanetary radiation and would have cancer before they reached Mars. NASA has funded some of the epigenetic research of Sinclair to resolve that problem.3 Previous Answers on this Topic.See George Tait Edwards's answer to How different will life be in 2050 compared to now?4 AnswerChina is going to dominate the world trading system to an extent that the world has never seen before, becausewithin less than three decades and even at China’s recent lower rates of growth (of under 7% during three recent years as opposed to the previous 10% pa from 1980–2010)China matches the income per head of the USA andChina’s economy inevitably becomes over four times larger than the USAIt is likely that the current lower growth of China is a temporary phenomenon and resumption of much higher growth rates may re-occur if China adopts all of the precepts of Wernerian-Shimomuran macroeconomics. See George Tait Edwards's answer to Why is China the fastest-growing economy?We live in interesting times.

Many companies have used Haskell for a range of projects, including:ABN AMRO Amsterdam, The NetherlandsABN AMRO is an international bank headquartered in Amsterdam. For its investment banking activities it needs to measure the counterparty risk on portfolios of financial derivatives.ABN AMRO's CUFP talk.Aetion Technologies LLC, Columbus, OhioAetion was a defense contractor in operation from 1999 to 2011, whose applications use artificial intelligence. Rapidly changing priorities make it important to minimize the code impact of changes, which suits Haskell well. Aetion developed three main projects in Haskell, all successful. Haskell's concise code was perhaps most important for rewriting: it made it practicable to throw away old code occasionally. DSELs allowed the AI to be specified very declaratively.Aetion's CUFP talk.Alcatel-LucentA consortium of groups, including Alcatel-Lucent, have used Haskell to prototype narrowband software radio systems, running in (soft) real-time.Alcatel-Lucent's CUFP talkAllston TradingHeadquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Allston Trading, LLC is a premier high frequency market maker in over 40 financial exchanges, in 20 countries, and in nearly every conceivable product class. Allston makes some use of Haskell for their trading infrastructure.Alpha Heavy IndustriesAlpha Heavy Industries is an alternative asset manager dedicated to producing superior returns through quantitative methods. They use Haskell as their primary implementation language.Amgen Thousand Oaks, CaliforniaAmgen is a human therapeutics company in the biotechnology industry. Amgen pioneered the development of novel products based on advances in recombinant DNA and molecular biology and launched the biotechnology industry’s first blockbuster medicines. Amgen uses Haskell;To rapidly build software to implement mathematical models and other complex, mathematically oriented applicationsProvide a more mathematically rigorous validation of softwareTo break developers out of their software development rut by giving them a new way to think about software.Amgen's CUFP talk.Ansemond LLC"Find It! Keep It! is a Mac Web Browser that lets you keep the pages you visit in a database. A list of these pages is shown in the 'database view'. "Antiope Fair Haven, New JerseyAntiope Associates provides custom solutions for wireless communication and networking problems. Our team has expertise in all aspects of wireless system design, from the physical and protocol layers to complex networked applications. Antiope Associates relies on a number of advanced techniques to ensure that the communication systems we design are reliable and free from error. We use custom simulation tools developed in Haskell, to model our hardware designs..Antiope's CUFP talk.AT&THaskell is being used in the Network Security division to automate processing of internet abuse complaints. Haskell has allowed us to easily meet very tight deadlines with reliable results.Bank of America Merril LynchHaskell is being used for backend data transformation and loading.Barclays Capital Quantitative Analytics GroupBarclays Capital's Quantitative Analytics group is using Haskell to develop an embedded domain-specific functional language (called FPF) which is used to specify exotic equity derivatives. These derivatives, which are naturally best described in terms of mathematical functions, and constructed compositionally, map well to being expressed in an embedded functional language. This language is now regularly being used by people who had no previous functional language experience.Simon Frankau et al's JFP paper on their use of HaskellRead their 2013 job advertisementBAE SystemsAs part of the SAFE project, BAE has built a collection of compilers, interpreters, simulators, and EDSLs almost entirely in Haskell.CUFP 2013 talkBazQux ReaderBazQux Reader is a commercial RSS reader. Its feeds and comments crawler and a part of web-server are implemented in Haskell.BetterBetter, formerly known as Erudify, is a learning company built around the mission of making people better. We are an unusual mix of a software company, a consulting firm, and a creative agency. This tight integration enables us to deliver innovative, high-quality courses to our customers. Founded in 2012, Better is based in Zurich, Switzerland and New York, USA. Better is fully invested in Haskell; Most parts of our back-end system (web-servers and learning logic) are written in Haskell. Haskell is also used in most parts of our front-end system.bCODE Pty Ltd Sydney AustraliabCode Pty Ltd is a small venture capital-funded startup using Ocaml and a bit of Haskell in Sydney Australia.Bdellium Hawaii, United StatesBdellium develops software systems that enable companies in the financial industry to deliver new customer services that grow their business. Bdellium uses Haskell for heavy lifting analysis in back end infrastructure.Bluespec, Inc. Waltham, MassachusettsDeveloping a modern integrated circuit (ASIC or FPGA) is an enormously expensive process involving specification, modeling (to choose and fix the architecture), design (to describe what will become silicon) and verification (to ensure that it meets the specs), all before actually committing anything to silicon (where the cost of a failure can be tens of millions of dollars). Bluespec, Inc. is a three year-old company that provides language facilities, methodologies, and tools for this purpose, within the framework of the IEEE standard languages SystemVerilog and SystemC, but borrowing ideas heavily from Term Rewriting Systems and functional programming languages like Haskell. In this talk, after a brief technical overview to set the context, we will describe our tactics and strategies, and the challenges we face, in introducing declarative programming ideas into this field, both externally (convincing customers about the value of these ideas) and internally (using Haskell for our tool implementation).Bluespec's CUFP talk.BumpBump use a Haskell-based server, Angel, for process supervisor for all their backend systems, and for other infrastructure tasks.Haskell at BumpCapital IQWe have been using functional programming here at S&P Capital IQ in Scala, Haskell, and our homegrown reporting language Ermine, since 2008 for financial analytics.Capital IQ's CUFP 2013 talkChordifyChordify is a free online music service that transforms music, from YouTube, Deezer, SoundCloud or uploaded files, into chords. There's an ICFP experience report explaining how Haskell is used for this: José Pedro Magalhães and W. Bas de Haas. Functional Modelling of Musical Harmony: an Experience Report. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP'11), pp. 156–162, ACM, 2011.Circos Brand Karma SingaporeBrand Karma provides services to brand owners to measure online sentiments towards their brands. Haskell is used in building parts of the product, specifically for back-end job scheduling and brand matching.CircuitHubCircuitHub aims to be the AWS for manufacturing, enabling hardware companies and makers to instantly quote designs and scale from prototype to production. We are also proud to host a large collection of open hardware designs. CircuitHub uses Haskell for our core services and algorithms.Credit Suisse Global Modeling and Analytics Group London, UK; New York City, New YorkGMAG, the quantitative modeling group at Credit Suisse, has been using Haskell for various projects since the beginning of 2006, with the twin aims of improving the productivity of modelers and making it easier for other people within the bank to use GMAG models. Current projects include: Further work on tools for checking, manipulating and transforming spreadsheets; a domain-specific language embedded in Haskell for implementing reusable components that can be compiled into various target forms (see the video presentation: Paradise, a DSEL for Derivatives Pricing).Credit Suisse's CUFP talk.DetexifyDetexify is an online handwriting recognition system, whose backend is written in Haskell.FynderFynder is an online booking platform. We use Haskell and clojurescript, all stitched together with nixosSee more in their original job posting.Deutsche Bank Equity Proprietary Trading, Directional Credit TradingThe Directional Credit Trading group uses Haskell as the primary implementation language for all its software infrastructure.Deutsche Bank's CUFP talk.Eaton Cleveland, OhioDesign and verification of hydraulic hybrid vehicle systemsEaton's CUFP talkEaton's experiences using a Haskell DSL[Ericsson AB]Ericsson uses Haskell for the implementation of Feldspar, an EDSL for digital signal processing algorithms.Ericsson's Feldspar compilerextensiblNew Zealand-based company. Provides a variety of software development, consulting, operational support services worldwide. Both Haskell and Ur/Web are actively used for commercial projects.FacebookFacebook uses some Haskell internally for tools. lex-pass is a tool for programmatically manipulating a PHP code base via Haskell.Facebook's CUFP talkFacebook's HaXL system is open sourceFactis ResearchFactis research, located in Freiburg, Germany, develops reliable and user-friendly mobile solutions. Our client software runs under J2ME, Symbian, iPhone OS, Android, and Blackberry. The server components are implemented in Python and Haskell. We are actively using Haskell for a number of projects, most of which are released under an open-source license.Factis' HCAR submissionfortytools gmbhLocated in Hamburg, Germany, we are developing web-based productivity tools for invoicing, customer management, resource scheduling and time tracking. While using Javascript for building rich frontend application in the browser, we use Haskell to implement the REST backends. Additionally, we do occasional project/client work as well.Oh, and of course we develop and maintain Hayoo! :)Functor AB, Stockholm, SwedenFunctor AB offers new tools for ground-breaking static analysis with pre-test case generation of programs to eliminate defects and bugs in software very early in development. Functor collaborates with the JET fusion reactor run by EFDA CCFE. JET is currently the largest reactor in the world of its kind. At Functor, almost all development is done in Haskell but also to some extent also C and Scala.See more in the Functor AB job advertisementFunktionale Programmierung Dr. Heinrich Hördegen, Munich, GermanyWe develop software prototypes according to the Pareto principle: After spending only 20 percent of budget, we aim to provide already 80 percent of the software's functionality. We can realize this by constructing a 2080-software-prototype that we can further develop into a full-fledged solution...Galois, Inc Portland, OregonGalois designs and develops high confidence software for critical applications. Our innovative approach to software development provides high levels of assurance, yet its scalability enables us to address the most complex problems. We have successfully engineered projects under contract for corporations and government clients in the demanding application areas of security, information assurance and cryptography.Galois' 2007 CUFP talkGalois' 2011 CUFP talkGalois' retrospective on 10 years of industrial Haskell useGoogleHaskell is used on a small number of internal projects in Google, for internal IT infrastructure support, and the open-source Ganeti project. Ganeti is a tool for managing clusters of virtual servers built on top of Xen and KVM.Google's ICFP 2010 experience report on HaskellVideo from ICFP Project Ganeti at GoogleGlydeGlyde uses OCaml and Haskell for a few projects. Glyde uses Haskell for our client-side template source-to-source translator, which converts HAML-like view templates into JS code.Group CommerceGroup Commerce uses Haskell to drive the main component of their advertising infrastructure: a Snap Framework based web server. Haskell enabled quicker development, higher reliability, and better maintainability than other languages, without having to sacrifice performance.HasuraHasura is a BaaS/PaaS focussed on keeping things DRY and letting you write custom code with the tools you love. We're building a micro-service platform christened Instant APIs for web & mobile apps (alpha release scheduled in summer 2015), and we used Haskell as the core programming language to build it.Humane SoftwareWe develop enterprise systems with de-coupled, asynchronous Haskell backends and Javascript UIs.For our current customer, an Internet connectivity provider, we wrote a solution for monitoring multiple remote machines and analyzing gigabytes of traffic samples. Haskell proved an excellent tool for the job. We were able to replace legacy systems in a granular, piece-by-piece manner, while delivering new features.Hustler Turf Equipment Hesston, KansasDesigns, builds, and sells lawn mowers. We use quite a bit of Haskell, especially as a "glue language" for tying together data from different manufacturing-related systems. We also use it for some web apps that are deployed to our dealer network. There are also some uses for it doing sysadmin automation, such as adding/removing people from LDAP servers and the likeiba Consulting Gesellschaft - Intelligent business architecture for you. Leipzig, Germanyiba CG develops software for large companies:risk analysis and reporting solution for power supply company;contract management, assert management, booking and budgeting software for one of the worldwide leading accounting firm.IMVU, IncIMVU, Inc. is a social entertainment company connecting users through 3D avatar-based experiences. See the blog article What it's like to use HaskellInformatik Consulting Systems AGICS AG developed a simulation and testing tool which based on a DSL (Domain Specific Language). The DSL is used for the description of architecture and behavior of distributed system components (event/message based, reactive). The compiler was written in Haskell (with target language Ada). The test system is used in some industrial projects.IntelIntel has developed a Haskell compiler as part of their research on multicore parallelism at scale.Read the Intel Research paper on compilerIVU Traffic Technologies AGThe rostering group at IVU Traffic Technologies AG has been using Haskell to check rosters for compliance with EC regulations. Our implementation is based on an embedded DSL to combine the regulation’s single rules into a solver that not only decides on instances but, in the case of a faulty roster, finds an interpretation of the roster that is “favorable” in the sense that the error messages it entails are “helpful” in leading the dispatcher to the resolution of the issue at hand. The solver is both reliable (due to strong static typing and referential transparency — we have not experienced a failure in three years) and efficient (due to constraint propagation, a custom search strategy, and lazy evaluation). Our EC 561/2006 component is part of the IVU.crew software suite and as such is in wide-spread use all over Europe, both in planning and dispatch. So the next time you enter a regional bus, chances are that the driver’s roster was checked by Haskell.JanRainJanRain uses Haskell for network and web software. Read more about Haskell at JanRain and in theirtech talk at Galois. JanRain's "Capture" user API product is built on Haskell's Snap webframework.See Janrain's technical talk about their use of SnapJoyride LaboratoriesJoyride Laboratories is an independent game development studio, founded in 2009 by Florian Hofer and Sönke Hahn. Their first game, "Nikki and the Robots" was released in 2011.Keera StudiosKeera Studios Ltd is a European game development studio that develops mobile, desktop and web apps.Games: The Android game Magic Cookies! was written in Haskell and released in 2015. Other games include Haskanoid, now being developed for Android, and a multi-platform Graphic Adventure library and engine with Android support and an IDE.Reactive Programming and GUIs: Keera Studios is also the maintainer of Keera Hails, an Open-Source reactive rapid application development framework, which has been used in Gale IDE and other desktop applications. Backends exist for Gtk+, Qt, Wx, Android's native GUI toolkit and Web DOM via GHCJS. Keera Posture is an open-source posture monitor written in Haskell using Keera Hails and Gtk+.Web: Keera Studios also develops web applications in Yesod.See the Facebook page for details on Android games and ongoing development.LinkqloLinkqlo Inc is a Palo Alto-based technology startup that is building a pioneering mobile community to connect people with better fitting clothes. We’re solving an industry-wide pain point for both consumers and fashion brands in retail shopping, sizing and fitting, just like Paypal took on the online payment challenge in 1999. We started deploying Haskell as the backend language recently in August 2015, in an effort to eventually replace all PHP endpoint APIs with Haskell ones.Linkqlo's iOS app from App StoreLinspireLinspire, Inc. has used functional programming since its inception in 2001, beginning with extensive use of O'Caml, with a steady shift to Haskell as its implementations and libraries have matured. Hardware detection, software packaging and CGI web page generation are all areas where we have used functional programming extensively. Haskell's feature set lets us replace much of our use of little languages (e.g., bash or awk) and two-level languages (C or C++ bound to an interpreted language), allowing for faster development, better code sharing and ultimately faster implementations. Above all, we value static type checking for minimizing runtime errors in applications that run in unknown environments and for wrapping legacy programs in strongly typed functions to ensure that we pass valid arguments.Linspire's CUFP talkLinspire's experience report on using functional programming to manage a Linux distributionLumiGuideLumiGuide is an innovative software company which specialises in smart parking and guidance systems for both bicycles and cars. LumiGuide developed and installed the P-route Bicycle system for the City of Utrecht in 2015. This system guides cyclists via digital, street-level displays to available parking space in a number of parking facilities in the city centre. Utrecht is the first city in the world that has a system like this. The detection technology is based on optical sensors which are independent of the bicycle stands. The sensors are mounted to the ceiling in indoor facilities and mounted to poles in outdoor facilities. Every minute, one sensor detects 40 to 60 parking places at the same time in either single- or two-tier bicycle stands as well as (stand-less) free parking places. Bicycles that exceed the maximum parking duration ('orphaned' bicycles) are also detected and the system will automatically keep a log of pictures of the orphaned bicycle which can be used as evidence when the orphaned bicycle is removed by a facility operator. The usage of the facility can be monitored with web-based control software. LumiGuide also develops the indoor and outdoor digital displays which can be controlled using the web-based control software. We are extensively using Haskell and NixOS.MicrosoftMicrosoft uses Haskell for its production serialization system, Bond. Bond is broadly used at Microsoft in high scale services. Microsoft Research has, separately, been a key sponsor of Haskell development since the late 1990s.MITREMITRE uses Haskell for, amongst other things, the analysis of cryptographic protocols.The New York TimesA team at the New York Times used Haskell's parallel array library to process images from 2013 New York Fashion Week. Haskell was chosen based on its fast numerical arrays packages, and ease of parallelization.Model analysisHaskell in the NewsroomNICTANICTA has used Haskell as part of a project to verify the L4 microkernel.Read the Dr. Dobbs article on using Haskell and formal methods to verify a kernelNRAONRAO has used Haskell to implement the core science algorithms for the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) Dynamic Scheduling System (DSS).Source code available on GitHub.NS Solutions(NSSOL) Tokyo, JapanNS Solutions has employed Haskell since 2008 to develop its software packages including "BancMeasure", a mark-to-market accounting software package for financial institutions, "BancMeasure for IFRS" and "Mamecif", a data analysis package. "BancMeasure" and "Mamecif" are registered trademarks of NS Solutions Corporation in JAPAN.NVIDIAAt NVIDIA, we have a handful of in-house tools that are written in HaskellOpenomyOpenomy's API v2.0 is developed in Haskell, using the HAppS web platform.OblomovOblomov Systems is a one-person software company based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Founded in 2009, Oblomov has since then been working on a number of Haskell-related projects. The main focus lies on web-applications and (web-based) editors. Haskell has turned out to be extremely useful for implementing web servers that communicate with JavaScript clients or iPhone apps.Oblomov's HCAR submission.Patch-Tag: hosting for DarcsNeed somewhere to put your Darcs code? Try us. Patch-Tag is built with happstack, the continuation of the project formerly known as HAppS.Peerium, Inc Cambridge, MassachusettsAt Peerium, we're striving to bring a new level of quality and efficiency to online communication and collaboration within virtual communities, social networks, and business environments. We believe that a new environment that supports the effortless sharing of both information and software will enable a level of online cooperation far beyond current Web-based technologies -- modern programming techniques will enable the creation of more robust and more powerful programs within these environments. To this end, we're building a new software platform for direct, real-time communication and collaboration within graphically rich environments. Peerium is located in the heart of Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.PlanIt9PlanIt9 is a Yesod-based web application for defining, planning, scheduling and tracking tasks. It's designed to be fast, simple, collaborative and cost effective. We're currently signing up users for our beta program.PlumlifePlum is replacing light switches with Lightpads; a capacitive touch dimmer that is internet connected, clusters with other Lightpads in the home for group control... Haskell composes our cloud services and Erlang is used for the embedded software in the Lightpads (hot-code reloading, easy node clustering, etc...). ... We use Haskell extensively for all of our cloud services software at Plumlife ... Amazing language and ecosystem.Qualcomm, IncQualcomm uses Haskell to generate Lua bindings to the BREW platformSQreamAt SQream, we use Haskell for a large part of our code. We use Haskell for the compiler, which takes SQL statements and turns them into low level instructions for the high performance CUDA runtime. We also use Haskell for rapid prototyping and for many auxiliary utilities.Parallel Scientific, Boulder, Colorado.We are using Haskell to develop an ultra-scalable high-availability resource management system for big clusters (millions of nodes). A key element of the design is to provide scalable and reliable mechanisms for communicating failures and coordinating recovery transitions.See Parallel Scientific's CUFP talkRenaissaince Computing Institute, Chapel Hill, North CarolinaThe Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), a multi-institutional organization, brings together multidisciplinary experts and advanced technological capabilities to address pressing research issues and to find solutions to complex problems that affect the quality of life in North Carolina, our nation and the world. Research scientists at RENCI have used Haskell for a number of projects, including The Big Board.RENCI's CUFP talk.SamplecountSamplecount develops mobile, location-aware sound and music applications. They are currently using Haskell for prototyping their server-side soundscape streaming components and as a cross-platform build tool for their mobile applications and frameworks.Sankel Software Albuquerque, New MexicoSankel Software has been using Haskell since 2002 for both prototyping and deployment for technologies ranging from CAD/CAM to gaming and computer animation. We specialize in the development of user-friendly, large, long-term applications that solve difficult and conceptually intricate problems.ScriveScrive is a service for e-signing tenders, contracts, and other documents. We help our clients close deals faster, decrease their administrative burden, and improve their customers’ experience.Siemens Convergence Creators GmbH AustriaSiemens CVC uses Haskell since a few years in the space domain. Starting with small tools like data conversion and automation of scripting tasks over installers we use Haskell currently for Space Protocol Proxies to allow connect different space systems (e.g. Cortex to NCTRS or SLE to NCTRS with COP-1 handling). The main use is currently a Simulator implemented in Haskell which handles parts of NCTRS (or SSB), the ground station and parts of the satellite to be able to make closed-loop tests for the SCOS-2000 based Mission Control System. It is in use for testing and debugging of the Mission Control System and for checking implementation of new features. It has served for various, currently active missions and also is in use for some missions to come.Signali Portland, OregonSignali Corp is a new custom hardware design company. Our chief products are custom IP cores targeted for embedded DSP and cryptographic applications. Our specialty is the design and implementation of computationally intensive, complex algorithms. The interfaces to each core are modular and can be very efficiently modified for your specific application. System-level integration and validation is crucial and is the majority of investment in a product.Soostone New York, NYSoostone is an advanced analytics technology provider specializing in algorithmic optimization opportunities in marketing, pricing, advertising, sales and product management. As the preferred language, Haskell is used intensively at Soostone in numerous applications including customized machine learning algorithms, models/simulations, real-time decision-making engines, DSL/EDSLs, web applications and high volume APIs.Standard CharteredStandard Chartered has a large group using Haskell for all aspects of its wholesale banking business.Starling Software Tokyo, JapanStarling Software are developing a commercial automated options trading system in Haskell, and are migrating other parts of their software suite to Haskell.Starling Software's experience building real time trading systems in HaskellSensor Sense Nijmegen, The NetherlandsSensor Sense is offering high technology systems for gas measurements in the ppbv down to pptvrange. We use Haskell for the embedded control software of our trace gas detectors.For more information see Senor Sense's position advertisementSilk Amsterdam, The NetherlandsSilk investigates and develops new ways of creating and consuming online content. Their Silkapplication makes it easy to filter and visualize large amounts of information.Silk's blog on why they use HaskellA review of SilkSkedge Meskedge.me is an online scheduling platform that allows businesses to completely automate the process of making appointments, such as customer visits, job interviews, and tutoring sessions.See more in their CUFP talkSee their 2014 job advertisementSuite SolutionsSuite Solutions provides products and solutions in support of large sets of technical documentation based on DITA for general technical documentation, and other more specialized XML and SGML formats for specific industries such as the aerospace industry. Many of Suite Solutions' products and solutions, such as the featured products SuiteHelp and SuiteShare, are written in Haskell.SumAll New York, New YorkSumAll aggregates various public streams of data such as various social network data into useful analytics, reports and insights. We are in process of rewriting our entire data-processing backend in Haskell. What attracted us to the language is its disciplined and uncompromising approach to solving hard problems and managing complexity. We truly believe that the language and ecosystem is ready for prime time and will give us competitive advantage in the industry.Tabula.comTabula is a privately held fabless semiconductor company developing 3-D Programmable Logic Devices. Haskell is used for internal compiler toolchains related to hardware design.Tsuru Capital Tokyo, JapanTsuru Capital is operating an automated options trading system written in Haskell.Tsuru Capital's HCAR submissionTupil Utrecht, The NetherlandsTupil is a Dutch company that built software for clients, written in Haskell. Tupil used Haskell for the speed in development and resulting software quality. The company is founded by Chris Eidhof and Eelco Lempsink. Currently they build iPhone/iPad applications in Objective-C.Tupil's experience building commercial web apps in HaskellWagon San Francisco, CaliforniaWagon is a modern SQL editor: a better way for analysts and engineers to write queries, visualize results, and share data & charts.We’re a team of functional programmers writing apps and services in Haskell (and Javascript). We love to teach and learn functional programming; our team is humble, hard working, and fun. Read our engineering blog to learn more about our stack, how we combine Haskell, React, and Electron, and what it’s like working at a Haskell-powered startup.We're hiring Haskell engineers based in San Francisco, learn more about the roles and our team!WeedreporterPage on weedreporter.com is a news site in the up and coming cannabis industry, featuring news stories from around the world and USA. This includes news stories about legalization and medical Marijuana. The site is built using Haskell and Postgres. Haskell has allowed us to build a site with fast load times.