I don’t know where “the politician” went with that comment, but for me the more pressing conversation is whether we want a society where many are struggling and some make a billion dollars.

You benefited from society, clearly, which is not to say you didn’t work hard. But it seems entirely reasonable to me to ask you at that point to give back. We can knock plenty of people back to mere “hundred millionaire” status, they’ll be fine, and we can do a whole lot with that money.

There are examples I can think of with a more traditional governance structure that did well: Apple, Amazon, Microsoft.

Stop outsourcing the cost of your vision to the rest of society. Especially when it’s peanuts to you and meaningful to, in this case, the host of what they call an apartment and you seem to think is a test course.

Or did they just mean that they’re not renting VPSs but only metal from the cloud provider?

In my mind I was so excited that there was another provider not just paying one of the hyperscalars but at a minimum colocating and owning more of their stack. https://blog.railway.com/p/heroku-walked-railway-run

A client sends the language header or the list of supported fonts not so that the server can "do whatever they want with this data." There is (or was) a real reason for it when we came up with these standards.

The fact that website providers, or more specifically ad-networks, have chosen to use these for other purposes is breaking that implicit agreement.

(edit) but you're probably right that i'm expecting too much.

If what you’re positing were true wouldn’t they have outperformed their peers before ascension as well

That's how I understand OP, if that's legally true or not, I don't know.

There is value in the larger organization being able to consume documentation and commenting on it and contributing to it.

There is conceptual value in some of these things, but I find it to be overstated and the downsides entirely ignored.

Most documentation systems have a version history.

And most documentation systems are far easier adopted by people other than engineers.

This is the equivalent of pointing out that figma has x, y, and z benefits and designers are fluent in it, so we should be using that for documentation.

Though it will only validate your point.

I'm curious about this from a legal perspective.

Apple has and (probably is still) extending unpublished entitlements to developers that allow for behavior that is not publicly documented.

Your point is absolutely correct and as far as I can tell you pointed it out genuinely, not facetiously. Edit: read other later posts here: didn’t know about the bacteria part. Learned something today!

This is absolutely not my area of expertise but intuitively there are two categories of energy sources: one which releases co2 (or other climate change impacting gases) and one which doesn’t. Wood, oil, gas, coal falls into the former. It’s just a question of time as you say until the loop closes. Solar, wind, thermal, etc would fall into the latter as far as I can tell.