Users have largely been trained to click okay when asked to give permission without thinking.

The mishandling of how they rewrote section 174 of the tax code also caused a lot of layoffs of developers.

Only in the US but ZIRP and redundancies have been worldwide

Patents and trademarks are the only ways to create legal monopolies. They are/were intended to reward innovation but despite good intentions are abused.

Not exactly. For example, Major League Baseball has been granted an anti-trust exemption by the US Supreme Court, because they said it was not a business. In some cases in which firms have been found guilty of violating the anti-trust laws, they were fined amounts minuscule in relation to the profits they gained by operating the monopoly. Various governments in the US outsource public services to private monopolies, and the results have sometimes amounted to a serious restraint of trade. The chicanery goes back a long way. For the first decade or so after the passage of the Sherman Act, it was not used against the corporate monopolies that it was written to limit; it was invoked only against labor unions trying to find a way to get a better deal out of the firms operating company stores and company towns etc, etc. Then Teddy Roosevelt, the so-called trust-buster, invoked it under the assumption that he could tell the difference between good and bad monopolies and that he had the power to leave the good monopolies alone. 120 years later, we are in the same sorry situation.

Intellectual property restrictions cause harm even when used as intended. They are an extreme rest restriction on market activity and I believe they cause more harm than good.

Patents, trademarks, copyright, deeds and other similar concepts are part of what makes capitalism what it is, without them capitalism will not work because they are the mechanisms that enforce private property.

Good luck with that. When 3/4 of the world laughs at your patent what is the point of patents? IP only works when everyone agrees to it. When they don't it's just a handicap on the ones who do that benefits nobody.

They know it’s cheaper to buy/lobby congress to limit their liability and will do so long before they payout real money.

There are extended certificates that did matter in our sales process for some hosted solutions back about 15 years ago if I recall right… no one has ever cared since…

I cut my teeth developing for the web using GoLive and will never forget how they used tables to layout a page from that tool…

Yann was a researcher not a productization expert. His departure signals the end of Meta being open about their work and the start of more commercial focus.

The start?

Dystopian society.

Interesting stack. I’ve been working on doing something like this with Apple specific tech. Swiftdata is not easy to work with.

I think it’s the same reason windows is inportant to desktop computers. Software was written to depend on it. Same with most of the software out there today to train being built around CUDA. Even a version difference of CUDA can break things.