It doesn’t matter that much for Broadcom customers. Apple isn't going to sell their chips to anyone else. It's the same situation with CPUs where Apple has a core that's as good or even better than the best x86 CPU. Neither Intel nor AMD are particularly worried because they don't really compete against Apple directly and Apple won't sell those chips to anyone else of the companies who buy CPUs from AMD/Intel.

The only people who see any benefit are Apple customers, but If place this into the category of nice to have, but not the kind of thing I'd expect to notice. No one is particularly threatened by Apple's chip being better because Apple doesn't sell chips, they sell iDevices.

Advertising will get there first. There's more incentive and a better feedback mechanism. Movies will hold out for a while, but television is already overrun with programs that are just dressed up advertisements that it won't take long for it to be consumed.

Indeed if you don't accept science into your life you are left as a subsistence farmer who'll premake die before 40 of a preventable disease.

Fortunately for you, accepting it into your life is the default choice and you don't need it in your heart when you visit the hospital, just in the minds of the doctors.

You can of course really walk the walk and go back to leeches and rebalancing the humours. Of course if you do that you should also fuck off off the internet and not be a massive hypocrite benefiting from science while being a moron about it.

Also I would add that most accounts don't need a password.

Any account that has a "reset by email" option doesn't need a password. It's precisely as secure as your email account so they may as well send a one time token link to authenticate.

Loans usually come with interest usually charged so the interest rate is more than the expected loss (i.e. amount lost * probability) for whatever that estimate is worth. Generally both the lender and borrower expect to turn a profit.

Don't get me wrong, socalizing the risks (i.e. bailouts) and privatizing the profits (i.e. profits) happens all the time, and is bad. Bit I don't think a government loan is de-facto that, unless the terms are specifically designed that way.

It would work a lot better if Cloudflare and any competitors would adopt a model that allows companies to easily use any of their services and rather than subscribing to one company's service to implement a pay-as-you-go option. That way if Cloudflare gets hit websites can flip to using something else on a temporary basis. Companies could even load balance across the different services so that all of them are always getting a little bit of use. This isn't particularly good for any one company (who would much rather prefer to be a sole contractor and get all of the business) but it makes it practically impossible to take out websites by taking down Cloudflare. If any one provider has problems everyone temporarily switches to the other providers on a temporary basis until service is restored and then they can move some or all of their traffic back. This makes for a far more resistant Internet as a whole.

Hm OK, followup question:

Is there a way I can make money on this without doing, like, actual work.

24GB or 32GB will be just great for the 7-8 lifetime of the Mac.

This Lisa User sure wasn't! ;-)

The Lisa User I know buys nothing less than a Mac Studio. :-)

What does it matter. The CIA will just step up their cloud seeding efforts to offset anything the Iranians try to do instead.

I have no knowledge of any such plan by the CIA to use any kind of weather manipulation techniques to cause droughts in Iran, but you all have to admit that it sounds like exactly like the kind of thing they would do and based on what they've done to other countries historically is not outside the realm of possibility for them. I'd be more surprised if they weren't doing this as it's a great way to destabilize an enemy country.

You may want to source numbers for your claim. I looked at unemployment rates for the U.S., the UK, and Germany in the lead up to WWI and none of them had unemployment rates near 25% or any higher than usual. The Unemployment rates prior to WWII were much higher, but as a result of the Great Depression as opposed to any kind of mass unemployment resulting from advances in technology.

As another poster already pointed out, no one can perfectly foresee the future of the economy. If they could, communism would actually have worked as the central planners could predict where the economy will move. It doesn't matter that no one individual can predict this every time. All that's required is for someone to have an idea and a need for human labor and it will create jobs that previously never existed.

The genie is already out of the bottle. Nothing is stopping developers where from using AI and they will do so if it gives them an edge. Unless countries are going to start banning content (good luck with that in the U.S.) this won't matter. Nothing can force people to play games they don't want to anyway so if these human developers can't make something compelling they'll be out of the job regardless. Right now the AAA industry seems over saturated with people who shouldn't be there. They only drag down more qualified developers and waste everyone else's time and money.

There's a difference between being able to run a AAA game and having 120 FPS 4k with ray tracing and other bells and whistles. The integrated graphics on mainstream Intel and AMD CPUs can run most titles at low settings. The 30 FPS that you may get isn't considered acceptable these days, but back in the day that was something that often required a high-end setup. The integrated graphics are good enough that the low end of the GPU market no longer exists as it did two or even one decade ago. The built-in CPU graphics became good enough to eliminate those cards.

How many of those games need to be connected to anything? Unless it's an MMO or a strictly multiplayer FPS, I can do without the online component. It usually only exists to make the experience worse in my opinion. It's also often less functional than online capabilities of prior generation titles which allowed for LAN play or custom servers. Some games still use that model, but they seem like a dying breed.

Sure, but there's an additional problem which is that AI is very good at generating convincing looking PRs that turn out to be junk. The result is it can be quite a lot of work to figure out how junky the PR is. It kind of falls into the category of "and this is why we can't have nice things". There's nothing wrong in principle with submitting a PR with AI assistance, if the PR is sound. But unfortunately people looking to get their name on the kernel, for props or just frist psot will flood the mailing list with a tidal wave of slop.

It might be better as a result to implement something approximating an automatic blanket ban.