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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

All languages have CVEs, C++ just has more (and C still more); so far in 2024, Rust has 6 CVEs , and C and C++ combined have 61 CVEs. For example, see this February 2024 example analysis paper.) For example, see MITRE list of Rust CVEs , including six so far in 2024. I think that makes it a valuable strategy to pursue.

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Home Screen Advantage

Alex Russell

Mozilla spokesperson The obvious strategy is to raise costs and lower the value of porting browsers to iOS. Browser makers have become masters of origin separation because they run totally untrusted code from all over the internet. This is another example of Apple creating barriers to prevent true browser competition on iOS.

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