Looking at some of the linked examples, I did not feel convinced at the style similarity. For example:

> In the spirit of building something in the public domain, Mr. Back and Satoshi also both created internet mailing lists dedicated to their creations — the Hashcash list and the Bitcoin-dev list — where they posted software updates listing new features and bug fixes in a format and style that looked strikingly similar.

That paragraph links two release notes: https://www.freelists.org/post/hashcash/hashcash113-released... https://web.archive.org/web/20130401141714/http://sourceforg...

They do have a similar "release notes rendered with Markdown" feel, but the actual text has some obvious capitalization and tone differences.

This is, yes you were robbed, but what if you want to partner with the bandit later?

They'll just rob you in your future interactions too.

But what if the robber becomes a monopoly and you have to partner with them in the future? Who's gonna save you? Government?

Then you get to enjoy mandatory robbery.

The problem is, they'll find there is typically already a good solution to their problem, and then they'll have nothing to write about.

There are much easier ways to convert the US military budget into someone's personal wealth.

A prior bug discussed here was against a file format only used by specific 1990s Lucas Arts adventure games titles. Obscure enough that discussion of the bug report itself was the only search results. Your video player is unlikely to even attempt to open that.

> If the first page of results would contain the answer to your question

You can find complaints on this site, not too long ago, that Google was failing to have good results anymore. I don't feel the ranking has particularly improved since then.

Technologies often have rapid, and obvious, effects on writing. The telegraph services charged by the word, so an abbreviated style that became known as "telegraphese", developed.

And it doesn't have to be that direct. Novels have been hugely influenced by films.

Look into US retail space per capita. It has far exceeded other nations for some time. Some retail store CEOs have directly discussed too much supply.

> Look into US retail space per capita

Recommend a source?

It was harder for you to quote that and ask me, than to figure it out on your own, so I'm going to pass.

AI was already supposed to have replaced all of us.

> The sad reality is people _want_ apps

I went to a gas station and they had someone offering to pay customers if they'd install their app. Discount gas for X months. No one seemed interested.

People do want apps for things they do quite often, but that's mostly social media or video games. The hassle of install and account setup simply exceeds the benefit of rarely used apps.