Jochim

This is how you end up with extremists.

The Uber example is also an outright lie.

They acquired those customers by burning billions of dollars to deliver rides below the cost of providing them.

Then they raised prices beyond their competition to account for their ridiculous overheads.

I agree! Your system is already heavily compromised if this is a problem for you.

I think the real problem lies in a lack of visibility into the state of the device. A compromised dongle could easily be transferred between machines. What we need is to make obvious what the machine/device is doing.

I literally described my experience of booking a taxi before Uber. Many of the local services also had apps that showed the location of the car and a fixed price before Uber was available here.

I don't agree that Uber was a better solution than taxis.

They drove their competition out by offering rides far below the cost to provide them.

Now they're more expensive than what they replaced, and with far worse service.

Take pre-booking a car for an early flight for example. Taxi companies would ensure they had someone on shift ahead of time and refuse the booking if they couldn't accommodate you. Uber will accept your booking but leave you to hope that, around the time of your booking, someone decides to open the app and accept it.

It doesnt sound like it's obvious to the driver that it's a pre-booking either. So you'll often see drivers show up 15-20 minutes early, irate that you're not ready to leave.

The worst thing about Uber is that their price distortion seriously damaged their competition, who could not afford to burn tens billions of dollars on the service the business is meant to be making money from.

Foreign bank account that isn't part of the scheme.

Virtually all of the built in commandlets have one or more aliases set by default.

e.g. Get-ChildItem is aliased to "gci", "ls", and probably "dir" as well.

The main issue with ARC seems to be driver support in specific games, DX11 being particularly problematic.

Intel basically have to catch up on the ~10-20 years of kludges that AMD, Nvidia, and game devs had already implemented when the games were released.

They've been making strong improvements to their drivers though.

Their iGPU is great for home media servers. Low power draw, QuickSync can handle multiple 4k transcodes, and one less part to buy.

iGPUs still aren't a great choice for gaming on desktops, even the latest AMD APUs perform poorly in comparison to the cheaper dGPUs.

Everyone involved does a pretty poor job imo.

The processors/chipsets seem to do what they're they're supposed to. However, it's far too easy for other parties to create a scenario that prevents the system from reaching deeper c-states.

Motherboards manufacturers produce boards that can't go below C3, despite showing up to C10 in the bios. The actual level of support won't ever be mentioned.

PCI devices, e.g. wifi cards, can prevent the system from reaching deeper C states entirely.

Putting devices into a PCI slot connected to the CPU lanes rather than the PCH can also prevent the system reaching the desired states. The CPU slot will frequently be the only choice.

Operating system defaults often prevent the system from reaching deeper c-states. Linux has been worse for this than Microsoft in my experience.

4/5 might mean they're being more adventurous with their food. This won't necessarily suit everybody.

What do you think happens to the wealthy when the government does not ensure the majority of people are well fed and secure?

Does the mob respect property rights?

> Honestly, I don't. First, perhaps it's small minded but I don't really feel responsible for every human on the planet, or even a significant percentage.

Do you expect them to respect your right to have those things? IMO, your line of thought leads to violent revolution.