I love the roadmap ideas for this. I'm a heavy user of pocketbase and I'm very happy with it, but I'd be more than happy to see this type of solution become more common and address needs like multi-tenancy. I'm also stoked to see the focus on performance (though pocketbase does excellent in this regard as it is)
Thanks! Happy to hear more ideas, if there's something you've always wanted :). PocketBase is great (and as I just learned, it has recently gotten even faster). One of my main goals was to expose more of the raw SQLite goodness.
Brendan Eich said "ECMAScript was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease". I think the general sentiment is shared fairly broadly.
I'm not a lawyer, but I have a few trademarks myself, and I believe it's possible to apply for a trademark even if the language or term predates it. However, if there's a significant gap between the language's release and the trademark application, that could raise other questions. For example, if JavaScript was created in the '70s but Oracle applied for the trademark in the late '90s, when the language became popular, that could be a more complicated case. In this instance, though, there's only a one-year difference! It's quite common for businesses to file for trademarks after they see value in protecting a term.
By the way, when I filed my first trademark application, Sun Microsystems filed an opposition. What a coincidence! This was before Oracle acquired them.
There is a real irony to how clueless he is about the complexity and vast sets of requirements these systems have. High IQs and programming are cool and all, but these systems are bigger than these kids.
There is arguably no non-political angle to this. I’m not sure how you’d describe what appears to be happening without it seeming biased.
From here in Canada it looks a lot like the fascist takeovers I’ve read about since middle school. The playbook is bizarrely tight to Hitler, Mussolini, hints of Stalin, etc. I didn’t expect this in my lifetime. Or rather, I imaged I’d see it coming sooner.
What would seem like a reasonable, measured response right now?
It’s worth adding here too that Musk’s own purported ambitions are entirely political. He has even gone so far as to claim he has given up on democracy. Ironically, he also claimed this election was crucial. DOGE is a politically motivated program.
This is all worthy of intense scrutiny and concern
They weren’t the only ones building it, for what it’s worth. They were well aware of that.
If you knew a country wanted to build a weapon to cripple your own country, and you had the necessary skills to build that weapon, would you feel come compulsion to try and build it first in order to protect your family and friends? To protect yourself?
I’m routinely pulled out of it for a moment to appreciate how genuinely interesting and thought-provoking the writing is compared to what I’ve been seeing for years now.
Maybe I watch the wrong stuff, but I’m glad I gave this a chance. It’s so fun.
If you're using business income to invest in yourself as an individual, that's pretty illegal where I live. Maybe it's different where you are.
The extent to which I can invest in myself is using business supplies or equipment for personal tasks here and there. Like, print some things or use some software I didn't pay taxes on.
I know some people go as far as driving their work vehicles around, but that's totally illegal both in terms of insurance and tax purposes here.
> The relevant ruling on this subject came in 1994 in a case known as Hess v. Commissioner. The plaintiff, a self-employed exotic dancer, had implants that expanded her bust size to the size 56FF. For tax purposes, she treated these as a deductible business expense on her schedule C. The IRS contested her deduction.
But that aside, it seems to make sense to make the business and person the same when the business is you. No one else can truly replace that exotic FF dancer. Her clients die with her, and won't truly be replicated no matter what.
Odds are someone can be trained to do your paperwork and run your business. That may be the distinctive factor.
There is nothing I can do to engrave my body in a way that benefits by business. It’s an interesting case, but it seems to make sense. Buying a car for myself to use for my business doesn’t make sense at all; it’s actually bad for my business and creates a significant liability.
More applicable might be training, courses, certification etc (where you can clearly demonstrate a business purpose related to your current line of work).
At the very least, corporations must realize that they only function due to the commons. Tesla needs people to have roads to drive on, no? They require their supplies, workers, and goods to travel by roads to facilitate the work they do. Can't the company chip in a bit to ensure Americans have the infrastructure required to use their products?
It's arguably negligent to stockholders to run a socially unsustainable business, but they look at things in terms of quarters rather than 10 years from now, so...
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