Republicans equate being pro-market with being pro-big-business-agenda. The assumption is that anything that is good for big business is good for the market and therefore good for consumers.

So in the Republican framing, anti-trust, since is interferes with what big business wants to do, is *necessarily* anti-market and bad for consumers, which if you accept their axioms would have to be true, even though what big business wants to do is use its economic scale and political clout to consolidate, evade competition, and lock in consumers.

That isn't economics. It's religion. And when religious dogmas are challenge, you call the people challenging them the devil -- or in current political lingo, "terrorists". A "terrorist" in that sense doesn't have to commit any actual act of terrorism. He just has to be a heathen.

I'd rather pay $9.99 per month for what Netflix used to be before all the companies said, "I can milk these properties for more money if I create my own streaming service and cut out the middleman."

There may or may not be too many streaming services, but there are WAY too many streaming services owned by content distributors. You can't have any sort of meaningful free market among streaming providers if they're all just providing their own content. You still have competition among content providers at that point, but zero competition on the streaming itself.

I wouldn't call plant-based meat alternatives "healthy" unless your idea of healthy is dying of salt poisoning.

Apple was one of the cofounders of ARM (the company) in 1990. It did not create the architecture, though it likely had an impact on ARM6 (ARMv3 architecture) and later. Either way, the ARM architecture probably would not still exist if ARM (the company) hadn't been founded. The ability for multiple companies to design and manufacture chips turned out to be critical for its long-term survival and viability in the cell phone market and others.

ARM (short for Acorn RISC Machine or Advanced RISC Machine) is an acronym, and all letters are capitalized. Arm is something attached to your torso.

I'm not saying Apple Silicon isn't better than the competition — it is — but that's not a fair comparison. Raspberry Pi's performance is largely because they use Broadcom chips, which stay several generations behind the state of the art. For example, the Raspberry Pi 5 (released in 2023) was designed around the Cortex A76 CPU (released in 2018).

Disagree. They put blazingly fast single-core performance and roughly half the speed of a workstation-class laptop in the power envelope of a netbook.

• M5 PassMark CPU Mark: (28561 multi / 6001 single)
• Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX top-end laptop chip (56007 multi / 4745 single)
• i9-14900KS top-end desktop chip (60511 multi / 4828 single)

They're nowhere near the top overall, but their single-core performance (which affects perceived speed more than multi-core performance, typically) is at the top.

You really can make the comparison. Which one is best depends on the workload.

Yeah, that's about right. But Apple also uses those chips in desktop, where the comparison is not nearly as rosy.

Don't get me wrong, I love my M1 MacBook Pro. The battery life is spectacular, and performance is good enough. But I'd be lying if I said there weren't workflows for which Intel would be better. :-)

It's even funnier when Russian skinheads try using Fraktur for Cyrillic. I've seen pictures of some really stupid tattoos in "Fraktur Russian".

Apple Garamond; bring back teh '80s.

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But the NSDAP ultimately banned Fraktur, claiming it was a Jewish invention (Bormann issued an edict to this effect on 3 January 1941).

I'm not sure I can take you seriously on the topic of space travel when you're talking about Venetian conditions.

You say that as if there is an upward mobility path, start by working on the farm, then...where do people "graduate to"? Do they gain skills that would apply to higher skill jobs? That's the danger for society overall in AI, because people do need to start SOMEWHERE to learn the more advanced skills that AI can't do. Yea, you need a doctorate just to get a job, but those with a high level degree still won't have the job experience needed to do well in many jobs where experience teaches better than any classroom.

Jaguar has been dying for ages. In the five years of independence from 1984 to 1989, they did basically no R&D. They never made a profit under Ford ownership from 1989 to 2008. If anything, Tata revitalised the Jaguar brand, achieving major increases in sales year-on-year up to the mid 2010s, but they still struggled to turn a profit.

It's more complex than that. I think a majority of people under 40 probably do favour eventual independence at this point, but they don't necessarily see a viable path to achieving that. Overt moves towards independence risk upsetting the PRC and making the situation worse. Maintaining the status quo is seen as the low risk option.

But more generally, most of the people commenting here have no clue about Taiwan, only western propaganda on the topic. They don't know that the ROC was a single-party system until the late '80s. They don't know the ROC had martial law in effect in Taiwan from the end of the second world war until 1986. They don't know that the ROC claimed the entire extent of Ming China as their territory (more area than the PRC). They don't know that the ROC claimed Mongolia as part of their territory until 2002. People are shocked when you explain the history of Taiwan to them.

Seems to depend on location. In my home city in Europe, it was 3-4 times a day, even shortly after the war.

Numbers mean nothing once enough inflation is involved. But back in those same days, a mailman could support a family on his salary. Not a luxury life for sure, but enough to rent a place and put food on the table. Women working was still a somewhat new thing.

Yes, this stuff is moving digital as well. At different speeds in different countries.

Apple is nagging with its v26.1 update. V26.2 is coming out any day and will probably be the only update for all iPhones can run it (so no v18.7.3 for my 12 mini since Apple likes to push iOS users to the newer major iOS version).