I believe that the search term you can look for is constant time equality.

Won't this breakdown if you need to pull new changes from the original project?

No. Written against the documented APIs and extension points.

"in ways that the maintainer may or may not approve of" does not sound like using the documented extension points.

And when did work done by humans stop existing between 1924 and 1990? Because that's the type of change we are talking about.

Well considering that she had a bunch of secretaries doing typing for her as a bank manager then transitioned to a world where there were no typists anymore was a pretty explicit change from her perspective.

She never learned how to type on a keyboard so you do the math

Well the math is that the amount of jobs done by humans in that period of time is above zero.

The math is: her job disappeared so she had to retire to a low income housing unit funded by HUD in Houston

So stealing trade secrets is legal in China?

Or do they publish all their IP on a government site for all to see?

They introduced more and more IP laws due to requirements from the WTO[https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/acc_e/completeacc_e.htm...]. At first they didn't prosecute them, then they did but only for foreign companies, and now we're at the stage where there's essentially legal parity.

Basically they had to play along to western rules that were baked into global institutions. But now they're getting to the point that they can start to lead the conversation.

Some further reading [0] could be a book like To Steal Is An Elegant Offense from William P. Alford for a longer history of the relationship to IP within Chinese society.

0: https://www.sup.org/books/asian-studies/steal-book-elegant-o...

> At first they didn't prosecute them, then they did but only for foreign companies

Funny how that works.

> Basically they had to play along to western rules that were baked into global institutions

Like making it mandatory to have a Chinese co-owner own 50% for all businesses created in China? I don't remember seeing that in the WTO rules.

> Some further reading [0] could be a book like To Steal Is An Elegant Offense from William P. Alford for a longer history of the relationship to IP within Chinese society.

Thanks for the book recommendation!

> Like making it mandatory to have a Chinese co-owner own 50% for all businesses created in China?

I'm not sure what this hat to do with IP laws, could you explain?

> Funny how that works.

It seems to make sense to me, but what are you suggesting?

Rich how? What's the budget deficit again?

But yet we find money for the largest military in the world - and much of that goes to military equipment and bases that military leaders say they don’t need and for tax cuts.

How much money do you think it would take to fund the shortfall for every rural fire department?

Deficits are a policy choice, not an inevitability. The budget was balanced at the turn of the century but Republicans under G. W. Bush decided that meant they could cut taxes, especially for the rich. They did that again for both Trump terms, before COVID. Unlike the financial crisis or pandemic, there was no emergency driving those decisions and the massive debt increases were entirely voluntary.

If we can pay them in virtual dollars, no problem

More and more content can't be bought at all due to streaming platforms. That's a real problem.

Didn't the South Park contract predate the Skydance takeover?

Yes but Paramount was already debating whether to bribe Trump and clamping down on news shows that reported anything critical of Trump.

Grandpa forgot that they paid him bribes but his handlers will quickly remind him of it.

If you explicitly request it which means you need to know about it.

OpenAI can put that in the system prompt for their CTO-as-a-service once, and then forget about it.

Or you need to guess that it exists, or you need to scan for places it exists.