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I haven't had the time to look into recent and past history, but my intuition points at failed empires having similar "elites" starting to stagnate innovation for the sake of "protectionism" - whatever that means.
More of this please! Outside the box thinking! Yes and yes!
I made it a rule of mine to only buy my next hardware upgrades from such companies. This is the future that leads to a human race that is knowledge focused. Closing off technology with contrived schematics and patents encourages the masses to stay ignorant.
More of this please.
Aside from the gross privacy invasion it specifically looks for Muslim/Islamic related extensions.
Having a lot of connections working at Microsoft and Western tech industry, I'm not surprised with the targeting of Muslims.
I never mentioned anything about "clean code".
You haven't worked or serviced any engineering systems, I can tell.
There are fundamental truths about complex systems that go beyond "coding". Patterns can be experienced in nature where engineering principals and "prevailing wisdom" are truer than ever.
I suggest you take some time to study systems that are powering critical infrastructure. You'll see and read about grizzled veterans that keep them alive. And how they are even more religious about clean engineering principals and how "prevailing wisdom" is very much needed and will always be needed.
That said there are a lot of spaces where not following wisdom works temporarily. But at scale, it crashes and crumbles. Web-apps are a good example of this.