Just look around what they produce

Exactly, a thin wrapper around results from public research, almost nothing novel or valuable

You seem to have no idea how the world works. Stop dreaming your romantic wishes

Right back at you

Companies do hardly any real or worthwhile r&d, they do product design and marketing. Universities and public research institutes are the only place where any actual science is done.

This is already the only way scientists make a living

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Germany is cheating, you only need to be like 20 to get most of this list, hell two thirds of them are still current technology

comment it with some bullshit about avoiding race conditions

Lmao, amazing

Or, he could pick a city of a million people and dedicate his fortune to just ruining that city. He could deliberately fund the campaigns of the worst candidates imaginable, and offer them enormous fortunes to deliberately destroy that city.

Or, he could pick a country of a few hundred million people and dedicate his fortune to just ruining that country. He could deliberately fund the campaigns of the worst candidates imaginable, and offer them enormous fortunes to deliberately destroy that country…

Lmao at the slogan “EasyToys home delivery service. We always come.”

This is getting so tired. Take it up with Facebook.

This is why you can’t afford a house

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Dialup? In 2006? Pretty sure we’d had ADSL for well over five years by then, pretty sure everyone had switched where I lived (not USA).

No, I don’t think that’s sustainable, nor is it sustainable to act as if it were true. Given the lack of resources we have compared to Google or Meta et al., the only way to make it work is to stick with something for the long run, and bake in protections in both the technology and the organisational structure. Being opensource and federated goes a long way there, there’s no real reason why something not for profit would have to enshittify. But people won’t put in the effort to keep building it if they think that’s inevitable.

Those places aren’t nearly as shitty if you have CEO money

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