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Capitalism underlies the push for "unrealistic consistent growth in their investments." where "their" in this context primarily means "people who are ready filthy rich."

Capitalists want their investments to grow. Largely at the expense of others.

We'll put the pedal to the metal so the richest can earn more than is necessary. And poo-poo the notion that public workers should get even a smidgen of the same consideration.

Because it won't drive unreasonable growth if we're padding out health plans for the people that do the work.

There's nothing ethical about letting a minority claim the majority of a societies wealth.

You want to fund things? Get Trump to send a bill to Gates, Buffet, Koch's, etc.

Why blame the public system for the mess private capitalism is truly responsible for creating?

The answer that covers many cases is: they otherwise have no retirement.

When I worked for a state university, in IT as a senior DBA, I earned half what private sector friends and professional acquaintances earned.

The story was something like "well, we can't afford to pay you enough to save for yourself, but we'll make sure there's a decent retirement to draw from for you."

The problem is, after the housing bubble, and with low-interest rates, the investment methods they had relied on haven't kept up.

Not saying this covers the more extravagant pay outs. But public workers on the whole have largely been shorted up front in exchange for a decent retirement.

Not to be rude, but why do you care?

If it's illegal, it's up to Apple to deal with it. Why go out of the way doing free work for them?

Andreessen is quoted in the article as saying ..."Most of the good ideas are obvious," Andreessen says. "They just might not work right away."

If the good ideas are obvious, why bother listening to him?

He seems to ignore that an obvious good idea still requires exorbitant amounts of capital to enable it. No one can hack together a Netscape and win big anymore, been there done that.

Honestly, this "advice" comes off as a) obvious b) tone deaf.

No one is wanting to stop progress.

Personally, I just want a better voice in what that progress looks like. Rather than listening to venture capitalists whose sole claim to fame is making a lot of money off a social media platform. "Oh, well he got lucky in the financial lotto, so I guess I better listen to him."

SV capitalists are like yesterdays capitalists. "More capitalism" is the only solution that makes sense to them. Not necessarily because it makes sense in the big picture, but because their power and wealth rely on it.

I believe it's just due to the niche application space.

2012 era Nook eink reader playing a game with hacked refresh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fbD753xE-U

The tech can do better, but as I've heard it told, the market for it has been eink readers. Who needs to refresh their book at 120hz? is the thinking. Folks that want to game or have a "retina" resolution buy a tablet proper.

Upping refresh has steep power costs too. Ereader marketers like their "recharge once every 6-8 weeks!" message.

I've hit this before, but honestly do not think it's a big deal. Sure the installer could default to a larger boot, but it's manually configurable during install. And cleaning it up once in a while is just good sys admin practice.

sudo bash -c "apt auto-remove --purge; apt update; apt upgrade" is what I usually run.

Prefer they focus engineering cycles on actual engineering problems.

Cause it's a stretch for them to freely publish online using the same model?

Cause they're already doing that.

> That could mean a phone that is docked, but when you have 10x the screen real estate, a keyboard and a mouse the interface should be different when docked vs when not docked.

At least in the demos I saw, the mobile UI would turn into a traditional Ubuntu Unity look, with floating windows and keyboard+mouse interaction.

So it sounds like they were working in the direction you describe.

The dumbest move, IMO, was not using Wayland and working with that dev community to improve it's functionality on mobile (one of the reasons given for Mir). Shuttleworth seems to point this out in the post.

Turns out rolling yet another display server rankles noses and takes a lot of dev cycles.