Patents are designed to make it worth to invest in research and development, by granting a law-protected exclusive use for a period of time. If you put taxes on holding a patent, the developer/manufacturer will just add that on top of the consumer price (remember, exclusivity - nobody else can manufacture it), or will just not bother with the R&D in the first place, if the consumers are not willing to pay for that.

Some patent reform is probably warranted. Maybe a patent should be valid for a shorter period, or maybe it should not be possible to "extend" patents through various tricks.

I thought that was a complete no-no for republicans?

Tariffs are actually *tax cuts*. Karoline Leavitt told me so, very strongly.

I sent a Sternly Worded Form to their trademark / copyright department, since this is clear abuse of the freedom and privacy both the Mozilla and Firefox logos represent. Feel free to pile on.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/...

My prediction is that once WebAssembly gains direct DOM bindings you will see an explosion of alternatives (both shitty and non-shitty) frameworks for client-side apps. When developers can choose one language and use it on both client and server they will gravitate to that.

If that's Ubisoft's take on things, Ubisoft needs to get used to the idea that they're on my ban list for the foreseeable future, together with EA and some others.

On a side note: gaming companies that create 'games' that drive you to buy upgrades or credits or extras because the game frustrates you (much like candy crush): is it still a game then? I game to relax and have fun, not get stressed. If a game stresses me, it's a compulsion, not a game.

The WSJ is just a mouthpiece of centralized technological autocracy (right, Amazon?). I like that we have so much competition. I like that we don't have an FTC that gets sued by both providers and lawmakers for trying to do its job. I like not having hidden fees on my bills, and being able to quit when I want, without repercussions. And if that slows down network rollouts a bit, so be it. I really, really don't need 5g anyway. Maps, chat and browsing work perfectly fine on 4g. 5g will come. Sod technical autocracy. Make sure there's competition, and plenty of it.

The numbers reported are year-over-year inflation. So if inflation was 9% last month (i.e. september 2022 compared to september 2023) and it is now 3% (november 2022 compared to november 2023).

Your numbers would be correct if you started out with $100, kept them at home sewn into the mattress, and then for a whole year the inflation was 9% and then the following year was 3%. But it is a bit more complicated than that.

Yeah, exactly. And they are stuck in the past thinking they are running against an ex- president who is absolute not running, thinks Victor Orban is the leader of Turkey, and that World War II is yet to be fought, and that hummus is a terror-organization. (I guess the latter could be true if you classify garlic as a weapon).

> What UI platform do you use? Bootstrap? React?

React is a JS framework. Blazor is a C# based framework for the same thing.

With React you code in JavaScript or TypeScript. The templating "language" is JSX or TSX. With Blazor you code in C# (or another .NET language) and the templating "language" is Razor.

You don't need to use JavaScript with Blazor. You use C# which compiled to WebAssembly instead.

With Blazor (like React) you produce HTML and CSS. It is not tied to any specific design system. You can use Bootstrap, Tailwind, Material, Fast or whatever.

"Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. " 'All the doors in his spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for "you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.' "

- Douglas Adams (HHGTTG)

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Tell them we'll close our accounts. Maybe a few hundred thousand people threatening to leave will wake them up. I'm actually seriously considering it. I love(d?) reddit, but.. not gonna be worth it if it's their way or the highway. Time for some more... decentralized options.

WINE gaming has become so good now that you can run most steam / epic games fairly easily from linux. And with a little work Ubuntu and several other distros are really nice to live with. I think it's definitely matured into a very nice OS - and it keeps improving instead of devolving or trying to reinvent the wheel time and again for no obvious reason other than upgrade trends.

Seriously, if you're sick of Windows and have a little computer skills, Ubuntu can cover your bases well enough. It's not perfect, but it's better than Win11. Just migrate gradually (dual boot or whatever) so you can slowly customize it to your needs. And document what you change so you can review it later or rebuild if you need to.

They ain't part of the EU anymore, so shut up.

On a more practical note.. if 'piracy' is so widespread, maybe it's time for content creators to switch to a more pragmatic model - like setting a financial target for a series and relying on pledges to get the amount they need to produce it, and then once produced, just make it public and let everyone download it.

The copying of information is built into entropy and universal laws. Kids copy behavior, we copy ideas, cells copy dna. It's everywhere. Stop swimming upstream and work WITH it instead of against it. End the stupid control models and free up all those lawyers and judges to go do more important things, like preventing online harassment.