Imagine how cheap it could’ve been if we started 50 years ago.

If someone hires a former Facebook employee to work on their social network, is that patent infringement?

No. If that employee then implements features that FB has patented? Probably yes.

Probably when it was beaten in both features and cost by the alternatives.

In other news, snow blindness is on the rise in suburbia.

Always has been. In many ways, Lemmy resembles the Reddit of 10 years ago.