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> Is this actually true? I mean Google obviously thinks it is otherwise they wouldn't be paying Apple $20 billion a year.

I wish someone would make a social media version of the North American house hippo commercial that ran in the late 90's.

That situation just requires a longer hose

It seems dishonest to leave out Windows 11 when talking about how MS is for announcing in advance what support will be. They did not give anywhere near proper notice about the TPM/…

Isn't that what happened to SVB?

This is actually a more apt analogy than I think you intended. We do have planes that can fly similarly to birds, however unlike birds, those planes do not fly on their own accord.…

> I'd also argue that being sold at a big box store is not really indicative of much in the 21st century. If you haven't already, I'd recommend spending some time reading about wha…

IMO the only thing that separates this from racketeering is that it's technically legal.

> Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here. From compromised s…

You could replace "money" with any specific area of human expertise. I don't need to fully understand how my body works because my doctor does. I don't need to fully understand how…

I am convinced that him not believing in it, getting paid a boatload to do a commercial stating he doesn't believe in it, then it failing is definitely the plot for a Curb Your Ent…

> Our third quarter revenues were $69.1 billion, up 6% versus last year or up 11% on a constant currency basis "Constant Currency Basis" seems to be the latest innovation in the no…

As I mentioned in another comment - there is such an effort underway https://contentauthenticity.org/ They don't intend to dictate who can authorize media, only provide a verificat…

It's not as far away as one might think. There was a demo earlier this year (Jan) showcasing the proposed 1.0 spec working in Microsoft Edge: https://c2pa.org/jan-2022_event/

There are ongoing efforts to enable digital signatures of online media. The idea is that you (or your browser) can validate that an image or video is unmodified from the source tha…

When someone uses Photoshop to create artwork, nobody believes that the Photoshop algorithm has any claim to be the author of that artwork. I don't see how the code behind e.g. an …

Without taking a concrete stance on the current state of patents - I developed something similar using GPU compute shaders while employed at AMD/ATI https://patentimages.storage.go…

On a global level? No. On a local level? Maybe? But consider that the US workers of the most valuable car company in the world (by a factor of about 3)are not part of the UAW, so i…

One is big enough to influence the global market price for it's product, the other is small and localized and has effectively no influence on the going market rate for it's product…

I'm not convinced that a single labor union has the power to influence the labor market outside of the specific company the union represents. This is not the case for OPEC who has …

No because the company has other options for labor - it can fire it's entire workforce and rehire, or relocate. The same can't be said for cartels which have complete control over …

Consumers do care about things like battery life. I imagine most consumers would prefer to stick with what they know (windows), but as the battery life/performance gap grows, peopl…

As far as I can tell, the ARM hardware linked is vastly inferior to the current M1 hardware, let alone M2. > But this is a multi-year journey which is likely to give Intel/AMD time…

I have faith in MS software development - I believe they can get windows on ARM working - but as far as I can tell, all non-Apple ARM hardware implementations are significantly lac…

I can't help but wonder what Microsoft's answer to Apple Silicon will be going forward. They don't really make hardware, but selling Windows laptops gets harder and harder the furt…