The trick is not to go after his wealth. The trick is to go after his family's wealth: bankrupt and jail his kids. If you don't, you just leave disgruntled rich control freaks free to attempt to *retake* the kingdom after daddy is dead.

Fair enough. It deserves to be known widely.

Strawman argument. The company can fail after the funding runs out.

Correct. And a choose-your-own-adventure novel also doesn't pass the Turing test.

It's called being a sharecropper. If you game on someone else's server, you accept their rules. If you want your own rules, then run a game on your own server instead.

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Starving American sub-minimum wage earners is sadly necessary. Someone needs to encourage them to start hunting the rich folk for food and leather garments before next winter!

If you can implement an emulator in the target system, then in principle you would only have to simplify/optimize the combined system of instructions until you find a minimally equivalent set of instructions on the target. Which would be for sure a complex task, but theoretically doable I think. I'm not qualified to comment further.

Yes, some aspects of the US nuclear umbrella were always threatening, all the way back since the Suez crisis bullying. It was also obvious that US protection guarantees were not going to survive Salami tactics.

Man I feel old, I remember the days when one wouldn't be caught dead having not anything at all against JS!

I imagine archaeologists of the future scratching their heads saying something like:

"What were those primitives thinking, not yet having anything for JS, the Double Helix Code of Zombotron The Magnificent! Savages! All Hail NPM!"

I "C" what you did there!

Lemon, man! Watch what you twype!

No question, given the choice it will have to be a skilled worker with AI. If the company wants to survive that is. Remember the saying "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing".

Oh, crud!

That's the problem, when a company is betting its existence on a single product offering or customer. When something changes, their existence has to change too.

Diversification is not just for portfolio managers, it also helps companies survive to do business another day..