Hopefully the antitrust scrutiny on Apple wedges open the consoles as well.

Enough with the walled gardens.

It should be illegal to disallow sideloading on any computer that has an app development platform.

I understand the distinction you're making. What I'm saying is people don't care about the distinction, because it burdens readers unnecessarily, which is why people circumvent it. If the only way you can make money is to limit a reader's ability to access the book, it's not the reader who's wrong for circumventing your limits, it's you that's wrong for trying to impose them to begin with.

Your business model needs to adapt. You need to learn to attract more flies with honey than vinegar. Use carrots, not sticks. Your strict whack-em-with-the-stick enforcement attitude just leads people to ignore your distribution channels entirely and pirate things. You can't stop it, but you can adapt to it and stop screaming into the void about a reality that won't change.

We should legalize noncommercial infringement fully.

We created copyright law to stop people from selling the work of others as their own, not to force people to pay a toll every time they read a book, listen to music, or watch a movie.

We created free public libraries so that people could consume as much culture as they want for free.

What the Internet Archive did and the very idea of the internet itself basically is a global free public library.

We need to accept that as the reality we live in and business models need to adapt to that reality. Legal prohibitions to deny reality don't work. File sharing is widespread and inevitable. Adapt.

Are you referring to things like .NET applications, or are you saying this works with compiled binaries written in C targeting x86 as well? Because my main concern is with the latter, not the former.

At dramatically reduced performance.

Which won't run apps compiled for x86 / x64 architectures which is the whole point of using them for most people who use it.

Not to mention WINE. I use WINE on macOS too, again for running apps compiled for x86 / x64 architectures.

If this kills VMWare and Boot Camp, I'm never buying another Mac.

And we also have Zombo.com back now via html5zombo.com!

Oh yes there are.

Imagine if on Gmail you couldn't email anybody outside of Gmail.

That's how Facebook and Twitter are today, it's a monopoly.

Public debate about banning on political ads on Twitter vs. not on Facebook has gone fully off the rails. Both Dorsey and Zuckerberg are wrong about it, but--counter intuitively--Zuckerberg has it less wrong than Dorsey.

Where Zuckerberg's instincts are kinda right is I think he recognizes on some level that when one company has control over like 90% of a media market and can make decisions about what speech is or isn't allowed, we might want to consider applying 1st amendment protections.

Yes, there is a "bUt pRiVaTe pLaTfOrMs aRe eXeMpT fRoM tHe FiRsT aMeNdMeNt oBLiGaToRy xKcD https://xkcd.com/1357" trope. Spare me.

Companies with monopolies are effectively the same thing as governments because they replace government as the de facto public square.

As such, speech on such platforms should either be subject to 1st amendment protections, or the company should be broken up into federated platforms that set their own speech rules. Zuckerberg seems to prefer the former. We should prefer the latter.

The root of the problem is Facebook's/Twitter's monopoly, not political advertising. Break up Facebook/Twitter into a bunch of independently-owned, federated services (e.g. Diaspora / Mastodon) that each set their own speech rules.

TL;DR:

Dorsey: Preserve my monopoly and I want to censor things on it with impunity.

Zuck: Preserve my monopoly but I'm skeptical of censorship.

What we should actually want: No monopolies, so the question of regulating speech on these platforms is fully moot.

I have achieved my goal. Now I can rest.

What are you on about? The vast majority of that federal budget you're talking about is already paid for. Federal revenue in 2018 was around ~$3t. That's not a one time asset seizure, that's more or less what we collect every year. Deficits lately have been in the ~$700b range on roughly $4t of federal spending.

If we want to close the deficit and/or find money for new spending on top of that, all we have to do is drum up another one or two trillion in additional recurring revenue, which isn't even remotely as hard to do as you're making it sound. U.S. GDP is ~$20t. Federal spending is currently around 20% of GDP.

If we upped the tax revenue to GDP ratio to 30%, there's your extra two trillion in tax revenue. Up it to 40% and you can double the federal budget. Even at 40%, we'd still be spending less on the federal budget as a percentage of GDP as Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway.

The money is out there if we're willing to tax it.

Yang managed to compress an actual answer to that question in what little time he was given to speak. His team has calculated that they need to raise some of it from taxes (they like a VAT) and some of it will come indirectly from existing taxes generating higher revenue than before due to additional GDP growth that is downstream from the UBI scheme.

I found the question from the moderator asking if the proposed VAT would eat up the gains from the UBI to be remarkably idiotic. As did Yang, judging by the look on his face.

This stuff isn't hard.

If I raise your taxes by $100 but give you back $1k in refunds, you come out ahead. Under Yang's scheme, well more than half of people would come out ahead. Only high income people would not.