Lol. That's up there with the [1-bit Bloom filter](https://www.xkcd.com/2934/)
It's hard to make this point without a normative argument, but by analogy to land, a company is not only the land but also the workers laboring on it. It's reminiscent of serfdom. The serfs are attached to the land, and…
There's not much to stop what you describe, other than the trust you place in a native app when you install it. Super common experience to have to give superuser access once during an installation process, and most bets…
Path dependence -- just like the default 80x24 character terminal window size that goes back to the VT100 of 1978. A curious historical hangover. GUI defaults are obviously less consequential, though.
Lol. That's up there with the [1-bit Bloom filter](https://www.xkcd.com/2934/)
It's hard to make this point without a normative argument, but by analogy to land, a company is not only the land but also the workers laboring on it. It's reminiscent of serfdom. The serfs are attached to the land, and…
There's not much to stop what you describe, other than the trust you place in a native app when you install it. Super common experience to have to give superuser access once during an installation process, and most bets…
Path dependence -- just like the default 80x24 character terminal window size that goes back to the VT100 of 1978. A curious historical hangover. GUI defaults are obviously less consequential, though.