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The Amiga had support for this in circa 1985. You could play 2-player competitive lemmings which was a game like nothing I've seen since.

What? Capitalism is just fine without the artificial notion of copyright.

We can pay labourers for their time producing works. We don't need pay-per-copy.

> I don't base my choice on what media to absorb on superficial criteria like the country of origin

Other countries, including the USA, advertise and hype their own content. Your preferences are deeply influenced by the country of origin, because advertising works.

This is the deliberate reason why this TLD exists.

ICANN sold out the internet.

If my house had a pest problem, I would need to hire an expert in pest-control. I need to do that without being an expert myself. How should anyone be able to hire someone with more experience than themselves, in your view? I've sometimes had to 'hire my own boss'.

Maybe the criteria for the problem was less "did they check these boxes" and more "could they be a collaborative mentor willing to work with even the junior members on the team" in the context of designing a system.

What's the sour taste -- what's the problem? Like, what's wrong with being interviewed by someone with less experience than you?

I know, but they don't. Outside of creative tech/art spheres, most people don't know much of anything about copyright, and telling them about "works expiring into the public domain" seems to violate their preconceived ideas about "property". It's tragic.

Most people I know don't have any concept that copyright does or should expire. They think if Disney makes a movie, it's Disney's movie forever.

You moved the goalpost from "in-depth conversation" to "order a cheese burger".

Adobe didn't create Flash. They bought out Macromedia.

With interface-typing, is there a right way to use the type system to declare "this function takes a (statically-certifiable) positive integer", not because it would fail to output a value for other numbers, but because its output would be incorrect or meaningless?

In scientific programming I've often wanted that, to push asserting particular constraints on values to the caller and/or the type system (whether that's compile-time or runtime type checks). But those constrained types would always match the interface of their unconstrained forms.

I'm not sure if this counts, but where I run into this sort of problem it's with conventional methods/operators, like `operator+`. I've had lots of bugs over the years from something doing string-concat or list-append instead of integer+, or vice-versas.