I would be more curious about future (Apple) processors, now that those exploits have surfaced. I wouldn't be surprised if those CPUs were already developed, for the time once these design faults surface publicly, though.
I also wonder if it's necessary to have a system fix (or the safari javascript fix is sufficient) on iOS for current devices, since only checked/signed code can run from the app store, and even if there's a future jailbreak it'll compromise the system a more convenient way.
I know that it's policy to downvote sarcastic/non-constructive comments, but this is fairly poignant I feel. How on earth can someone come to the conclusion to arm teachers and effectively train an adult to shoot a child, instead of just controlling the supply of high-powered and semi automatic firearms.
Apple clearly aimed the new macbook pros at creative professionals (and wannabe end-consumers), hence the touchbar and the enormous trackpad. They got rid of the glowing logo to make the screen thinner.
Anyways, Apple could afford to offer the dopest machine for software developers, without all the shenanigans, but with all the usability and performance.
From what I recall, the creative professional market has always been their intended "Pro" market. It's unfortunate that they are unwilling to offer a MacBook Pro Developer Edition, but it's not surprising given Apple's history.
but that's different. There's only a limited amount of btc you can mine, whereas currency can be printed as profligately as you like ... it's more like "gold" in that sense ...
Interesting point. I wouldn't say profligate since creating a new coin, and getting people to adopt it is far less trivial than printing a bundle of notes. But, I think you're right in pointing out that it is a side-channel through which more money can be "created", but in this case it's not a fiat (government) policy decision.
Yes, the point being that it is (generally) easier to control a few government decision makers than exactly everyone who can make a website and start a cryptocurrency first node.
There are many international institutions that check such things (IMF, or just the international money markets, etc). Basically everything that the cryptocurrency-libertarians folks keep on ignoring: turns out such problems were basically solved already.
Market freedom leads to consolidation which leads to the exact opposite of competition.
This is why the United States, contrary to popular opinion, is not a purely capitalist nation; it is instead a hybrid between socialism and capitalism. Reasonable regulation protects the free market.
Its simply false that market freedom always leads to consolidation. There is a very complex interplay between transaction cost, information problems, scaling economics and so on. You are just throwing out populist phrases because they sound good.
The solution is not to declare some kind of neo-progressive trust busting but locking at individual industries and figuring out why they are consolidating and if it will be bad.
In this case Disney can only do what they do because massive help from government protecting their intellectual property. Intellectual property, both patent and copyright, need reform. This is the relevant practical problem here.
Because the whole point of a market is that it acts as a process to discover the most efficient way to do something in a complex system.
Every individual market has huge amounts of complexity by itself and competes for the same resources as many other market creating huge amounts of complex dependencies.
If in these system a particular structure emerges, there is reason to think that it is actually pretty efficient compared to most alternatives.
Just willingly going around trust-busting because 'cooperation are evil' or some other popular phrase is a terrible idea most of the time it will hurt more then it does good.
If you want to do something useful make sure the citizens have rights and that there is a good legal system to arbitrate the interaction of people, companies, non-profits, clubs and so on.
Real change happens because a change in the rules of the system, not in a temporary heroic political trust-busting campaign to score political points.
No. Intellectual property is the real issue here because this is what allows Disney to do these things.
Whatever your intention you used a populist argument that anti-market people have used for 100s of years, and given that there huge numbers of companies still in existence that argument should have been disqualified by now.
Just stopping a merger does not change the underlying structure and will accomplish little.
I honestly don't care if Disney owns all of media or not. What the market does is little of my concern as long as it doesn't conflict with my own interests.
I assume you're a strong proponent of laissez-faire, then?
Ok, so let's get rid of copyright. Now the embarrassing problem is that markets are terrible at incentivizing the creation of what-was-previously-known-as-IP.
― Winston S. Churchill