"the way Macs get those numbers is by heavily optimizing their CPUs and the software that runs on them."

Intel and AMD also optimize for specific very large customers.

Anti-trust is not a necessary condition for scalpers to control the market. Competition between the scalpers might provide some relief in the last minutes prices, but there is still incentive for average scalped prices to remain above list prices.

The market failure is that the performers suffer a reputational hit that the scalpers don't, since the scalpers are selling to a subset of the fans. The performers are thus incentivized to sell below the market clearing price which provides the surplus for the scalpers to capture.

Counterpoint: the "owned by" is no longer followed by "actors". UA sold itself to Transamaerica on the basis if its financial success, then sold to MGM on the basis of its financial failures.

The thing you smugly insist that other people put in the labor to accomplish does not actually persist when people do it.

Counterpoint: good-faith skepticism and criticism requires engagement, because you have to learn about the subject to identify its problems.

See "The Center Has A Bias" https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flucumr.pocoo.org%2F2026%2F...

From the actual article:
"According to Counterpoint Research, the same few brands with the biggest RAM market share also control the global NAND market — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron." (Those three companies control 62% of the supply of NAD Flash and ~95% of the supply of DRAM.)

So if they see the AI demand as a bubble that will burst before they could recover an increase in investment in manufacturing capacity, then they would also see the AI demand for NAND flash as a bubble that will burst before they could recover an increase in investment in manufacturing capacity.

They thought they were in on the con (which identifies them as the true mark).

Do the editors write the summaries or do the submitters write the summaries?

Internal combustion engines are *supposed* to go boom.

"I'll never understand how fines are a tiny portion of the theft. It should be the whole amount stolen plus damages."

Why do you want the government to get more money than the victims?

" imagine what they an do now."

We don't have Stanley Kubrick any more, just Steven Spielberg. That's why all the astronauts have to be divorced moms.

"if subscriptions would automatically pause on a price increase"

Press this button before $DATE to continue at $NEW_PRICE with no interruption.

Press this button after $DATE to resubscribe at $NEW_PRICE+1 if you experience an interruption in service.

If there's one thing they'll like more than a silently recurring charge, it a penalty for being slightly late for a silent deadline

"bubbles popping"

All of the constraints mentioned are supply-side, not demand-side.

That may obscure a market bubble popping, but is not evidence of it.

"Humor works."

Are you sure? Have you tried it yourself?

"You have to admit"

Consider you provide neither evidence not anecdote to back up your claim, I don't have to admit a damn thing.

"I suspect some unknown, microbiome interaction is at play"

See, even you don't believe your own claim.

-1, offtopic

Regardless of the correctness of Shawn Forno's claims, they are not relevant to an unexpected change in melt-off *rate*. His claims might (or might not) be relevant to a change in snow cover, but that is not what is being reported.