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Q: Why is this stock so valuable? A: Duh, because Musk is worth a kajillion dollars and everything he touches is gold!
Q: Why is Musk worth a kajillion dollars? A: Because he holds so many shares of extremely valuable companies, silly!
States existed before modern democracy, and the nation-state as we know it evolved from European kingdoms and aristocracies. States exist today for a convoluted variety of historical reasons; certainly not exclusively "the interests of its native people"
I think things have improved a little bit over the past few years – one large retail park near us advertises "late opening" (7 pm! ha!) on Thursdays — but it's still difficult to run errands during the week. I don't understand why it makes sense economically to only have your store open when no one with a 9-5 job can shop there.
Ironically this is almost how it works in England: https://homemove.com/content/what-is-leasehold-property-comp...
...but they do? Google pay gives them your credit card and transaction details; any time your bank sends a statement to your gmail account, Google has that, too.
Am I missing your sarcasm?
> Here is a startling fact: in 2014 there were 142,417 housing starts in the city of Tokyo (population 13.3m, no empty land), more than the 83,657 housing permits issued in the state of California (population 38.7m), or the 137,010 houses started in the entire country of England (population 54.3m).
aka market competitors reverse-engineering for interoperability
No they can't, because developer tools run on developers' machines. You can't trust your code running in an environment you don't trust.
> Since our efforts began in 1986, the incidence of Guinea worm has fallen by more than 99.99% to 10* human cases in 2025
I'm sure there's plenty of incompetent nonprofits out there, but there's plenty of incompetent for-profits as well.
There's no functional difference between
"Hey npm says this is vulnerable, we need to fix it!" / "Nah, later."
and
"Hey Mythos says this is vulnerable, we need to fix it!" / "Nah, later."
It seems like any giant organization eventually develops its own software center of gravity.
I don't see how Anthropic or OpenAI survives being eaten by DeepSeek et al from the bottom of the stack and Google from the top.
You're the one picking arbitrary social distinctions and pretending they're immutable natural ones. Why is race mixing different from hair colour or religious mixing?
[0] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/august/human-ancest...