Exactly my thoughts market forces working against us.

so some C-suite can earn a billions extra than another company? If people were smart they'd strike together. People aren't that smart.

a photographer flew a drone into a building at my cousins wedding, just on a smaller scale.

China imports 80% of their oil, when that gets blocked when they start a geopolitical conflict they will need to rely on what they have. Coal is easy to store, you can pile it on the ground, and have years with it backup energy in a few acres. That's the real value of coal, oil is much harder to store. Nuclear is also easy to store, but much more expensive

One of my teachers in grade school gave unlimited extra credit if we read books and took a test, so me and a classmate figured out that if we only read books we would not have to do any assignments. When it came to grading the teacher was surprised that it grades went from a D to an A. The teacher should have capped the extra credit if their intent was for us to do their assignments.

We also need a cap for tax breaks. But the bigger problem is the lobbying, the tax structures don't get setup by accident.

and nobody want's to pump it at the moment. If you were smart enough to stay out of bitcoin then pat yourself on the back. If you weren't then you need to realize that BTC is only valued to what 1) the number of people who invest in it 2) their belief of what they think the price will be.
BTC has proven to not be 1) A safe haven for inflation 2) an alternative to gold (it has proven to be a way to move money)

So if you are comfortable with an investment product that the value cannot be predicted, then go for it, lose your money. Meanwhile I'll stick to prediction markets and sports-betting over BTC which are much better ways to 'make money'

Because there isn't a single source of eggs. I'm not forced to buy from one buyer, if I want to I could probably throw chickens in my backyard and raise eggs. With media, you can't even buy it from the fella in the district those guys get thrown in jail and the media barons get to charge what they want because they have a monopoly, and they will charge whatever price maximizes their profit. So let's say that point was at 50%, the would exclude 50% of people and price them out because they can and there is no alternative there is no market.

it suggests that the subscription costs are too high. If the pricing structure cuts out most people and they have to find another way to access the content, then lower your price.

One problem with the content market is they are hell bent on extracting the most money out of the market, they keep increasing costs and also moving content so a consumer has to access multiple subscriptions. All this puts pressure on consumers and they either have to dropout or get content another way.

After a while the revenue stream gets optimized and you get deminisihing returns the more you optimize. The are a limited amount of business willing to spend money in advertising eventually you run into limits

that 50ish years later, the software purchasing model would be the norm to generate revenue.

But these companies are coming up with figures that they don't have. Is anyone evaluating risk? These business plans are not infalable.

This is not the hottest place on the internet, in fact it looks more like slashdot advertising. For the hottest place on the internet you should be able to at least click on links and have it not go into a page loading cycle that never stops. This suggest it's not well polished, and yeah it's beta, but even if it is better if it was real it would be able to handle a lot of traffic. I'm worrying about that most of the claims are overstated, I'm in serious doubt of any claims made on the slastdotvertisiment.

I don't need new UI features, I need the OS to work and stop moving my tools where I can't find them. At some point UI is going to mature and doesn't need to be changed, so leave it alone if the features are the same. Also, make it better and faster to use not worse.

you get upgrades, did people really need to do this? No. And the worst part of it is Microsoft is in bed with the hardware manufacturers on forced upgrades, so instead of improving windows 10 and optimizing it we get a forced upgrade of something that is worse in many degrees.

Don't give Hollywood full control. Orson scott card wouldn't give in to any of the studios until he got creative control and waited years for it. Thats why Enders Game wasn't ruined. I'm in full support of translations as long as the movie industry doesn't have complete control, usually what happens is they come in and completely shred stories and characters until the original story is lost.