samdoesnothing

You gotta hand it to the Democrats, they're a lot more subtle about their corruption and malevolence. The Replublicans are comedically bad in contrast and it gives plenty of fuel to Democrats to claim that they're Different.

A good example is how Trumps taxes are viewed versus the blatant insider trading that the Democrats engage in.

Consumers leave bad reviews and people stop buying the product.

So the problem with your fridge example is that if the product was as bad as you say, nobody would buy it and thus there is no risk of a monopoly. If the product is so good that everyone wants it, there goes the rest of your pro-consumer argument.

This whole argument is a neat trick, as you smuggle bad outcomes into a situation where there aren't any by pretending that everyone wants to buy the horrible product.

If you want to make a case that monopolies that arise from consumers overwhelmingly choosing a preferential product are bad, go ahead, but don't construct an impossible scenario where everyone loses their minds and buys a product that provides purely negative value to them just cuz.

You brought up the MS antitrust suite and I'm providing context as to why it's not relevant.

Whoever owns the device can do what they want with it, Apple cannot tell you what you're allowed to do with your phone. You're making up a scenario in your head.

This goes both ways - when Apple produces a phone, they own it and they're also free to load whatever software they want onto it. They then enter into voluntary transactions with others, in which the ownership of the phone is transferred along with the right to load whatever software is desired.

If you can't figure out how to load your desired software onto an iPhone, don't buy one. But it's certainly not Apples problem at that point since, as you said, they no longer have a right to any say in how that device is used, and thus also give up any responsibilities you seem to desire.

> the web proves that security / safety can be done in an open way

A) the web is full of phishing and other scams, as well as tons of low quality garbage

B) the web achieves this security model by limiting applications to a browser sandbox, which imposes restrictions on what the software can do. This is a non starter for many native apps.

Seems like there are a relatively large number of competitors to Apple and Google. Eg. Samsung, Motorola, Lenovo, OnePlus, LG, HTC etc. Not to mention Asian brands.

Duopoly might apply if those companies were using their combined dominance to collude and push other competitors out but that isn't really happening as evidenced by the amount of competitors that are in the market.

Black turtlenecks? In this economy?

Well they aren't a monopoly. They have what, ~50% market share?

MS had 97% market share and were abusing their market dominance to push others out. Apple isn't doing this, so there isn't a valid comparison here.

So am I?

There's Linux phones and phones that run versions of Android that are completely decoupled from Google.

There are many other computing devices that can run operating systems other than Android and iOS, including devices that can run completely unlocked versions of Android. You're just lying.

Oh yeah those pesky armed thugs that go around forcing you to buy Apple products sure are annoying...

Nobody is getting forced to use the Apple platform.

What gives you the right to tell someone who purchases Apple devices because of the walled garden that they should no longer have that option because YOU don't like it. What an incredibly entitled and selfish position. Have you even stopped to consider for even a second why Apple devices are so popular, especially with normal people who don't spend their time fantasizing about how they want to control other people's purchases with other sweaty nerds on the internet? Have you ever considered that other people may have different preferences and desires from yours? Jfc.

As long as you understood the limitations of the fridge you purchased, i.e. you weren't defrauded, what's the problem? Do you really need a nanny state to prevent you from making bad purchases??

Yeah that was a lot of words to say caching is needed sometimes.

As always it's an engineering decision full of tradeoffs. You should never duplicate your data, except when you need to...etc etc.

No they don't. I think Meta is just big enough that they don't really care what is happening with React anymore haha.

Also kind of funny that they're comparing it to Log2Shell. Maybe not the best sort of company to be keeping...

Satire?

Kafka is another.

Is that the case? I thought that it would be a copy instead of a heap allocation.

Of course the compiler could inline it or do something else but semantically its a copy.

Go is returning a copy of the slice, in the same way that C would return a copy of an int or struct if you returned it. The danger of C behaviour in this instance is that a stack allocated array decays into a pointer which points to the deallocated memory. Otherwise the behaviour is pretty similar between the languages.

> Capitalism mixed with strong safeguards ensuring that there is a return for productivity for everyone feels like the best attempt we've made at a system that works for everyone until all the safeguards began being dismantled in the 70s.

You mean when the US left the gold standard and began a 50 year period of inflationary money printing?

That same inflation is a direct transfer of wealth to the asset class, and a hidden tax on the working class.

> Can we return to that system

Not directly. There is zero chance that the US can return to the gold standard, but they could lose their position as the world currency and be replaced by something that is resistant to inflation.

New sources of income will inevitably be the money printer.

Is your redesign live for chipscompo? Because if so, and absolutely no offence meant here, the UI looks like it was built by an intern. And fair enough, you sound like a backend guy so you can't expect perfection for frontend work. My experience with AI is that it's great at producing intern-level artifacts very quickly and that has its uses, but that certainly doesn't replace 95% of software development.

And if it's producing an intern-level artifact for your frontend, what's to say it's not producing similar quality code for everything else? Especially considering frontend is often derided as being easier than other fields of software.

Thats the whole point of democracy, to prevent the ruling parties from doing wildly unpopular things. Unlike a dictatorship, where they can do anything (including good things, that otherwise wouldn't happen in a democracy).

I know that "X is destroying democracy, vote for Y" has been a prevalent narrative lately, but is there any evidence that it's true? I get that it's death by a thousand cuts, or "one step at a time" as they say.

Yeah, and?

OP is trying to make it seem like some sort of failing, where people aren't cut out for game dev or something so they just make game engines instead. But I can guarantee that anyone who can create a game engine can also create a game. They just choose to do something they enjoy more.

That's about $5 in USD if anyone is wondering

Or they leave the country, which would then be very unpopular for the governing parties involved.

Why would they do that? There are plenty of platforms that simply won't care, and there's stuff like Mastodon et al.

Why would game engine developers want to make a game though? Plenty of devs prefer building the underlying frameworks and tools over the products those tools create.