And?

Currently patents are predominantly used to prevent interoperability and impose costs.

It comes with the territory; IMO if you don't occasionally have a few comments go negative, you're probably not saying anything of value.

Allow me to translate: “It a near certainty that they will fuck you over eventually; the question is will it be next year, next decade, or will you win the lottery?”

https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/math/0411418 for the in-browser html rendering

It's not just a loop; it's a knot!

I never thought I'd have so much sympathy for Kate “Forgive me, Mr Data; I am not accustomed to work with non-living devices that… Forgive me again. Your service record says that you are alive.” Pulaski, but here we are.

It is entirely possible (if perhaps unlikely) that the correct theory of everything is a relatively straightforward expansion of the current standard model.

> No one would use the other maps because other maps are worse.

Do you realize how many commercial driving apps are based around OSM data?

Days since my last exposure to “I'm sorry, you're absolutely right, that's wrong”: 1

Because of shitty over-zealous blocking, probably.