Microsoft - A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm

Microsoft will keep stifling competition “until the regulators have their foot on their neck,” argues Cal Berkeley professor

We’re making the same mistake with AI as we did with cars; not planning human future.

Cars were designed to atrophy muscles, and polluted urban planning and the air.
AI is being designed to atrophy brains, and pollutes the air, the internet, public discourse, and more to come.

We should change course towards AI that makes people smarter, not dumber: AI-aided collaborative thinking.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-better-to-work-on-intelligence-augmentation-rather-than-artificial-intelligence/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

The stricter it’s “controlled”, the more out of control the black market is.

San Francisco has spent so much money trying to solve the fentanyl crisis and yet it still persists.

Your robot vacuum cleaner will shred it and put it in the trash.

Assholes want relative gain, not absolute.

Psychotherapists treat mental health through comments.

Your casual lawbreaking will be used against you.

Maybe they are like that because we already ship them off to indoctrination camps between ages 7-13.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-public-schools-in-your-country-are-designed-to-make-kids-docile-obedient-workers-for-the-upper-class/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Collective human intelligence augmentation = Computer-aided collaboration = Crowd thinking.
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

I wish the display would be ergonomically high up on a vertical arm with a swivel joint for landscape/portrait orientation.

Leadership: What is important, what redundant projects should be joined or axed and their developers merged.

Stunt Car Racer can have two players on two Amigas with a serial cable connecting them.

I may have caused that by going to Computex Taipei 2018 and 2019 and asking all laptop makers for better ergonomics via increased distance between the keyboard and the display, gesturing sliding the display upwards on rails, saying that there could even be two screens on top of each other.

Carnauba wax is food-safe, but non-abrasive, so it won’t smooth the now-etched matte surface, and it’s fairly soft, so not very durable. Many car waxes are based on it.

You might prefer confabulation, or bullshitting.

I wouldn’t dare have everything invested in one house. What if there’s a bubble about to burst? What if the house is hit by a disaster that insurance won’t cover? If I owned a house, I’d probably take some debt and buy foreign shares not related to house prices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversification_(finance)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_(finance)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard

The backstory of Fallout:

You shouldn’t be paying any form of investor to pretend they can see into the future.

True, usually index funds outperform active investors, but there are special cases (third point below):
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/24/heres-when-active-mutual-funds-tend-to-outperform-index-funds.html

• Investors generally fare better in index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds versus their actively managed counterparts.
• The average investor pays about five times more to own an active fund relative to an index fund. This makes it tougher for active funds to outperform index funds, after fees.
• However, the lowest-cost active funds tend to beat the average index fund in categories like junk bonds, foreign stock and global real estate.

… A company isn’t affected by whether a fund invests or does not invest in them.

False. When you buy existing shares, they’ll see the increased demand and issue more shares, making more money from investors after you. Same as when you buy a stolen item, the thief reacts to increased demand by stealing another one.

… responsible funds are just for show …

Those “responsible” ESG-labeled funds (Environmental, Social And Governance) are too lax for modern investors’ thirst for good. We need tighter criteria. Commenter Squizzy here said tailored ethical funds exist: https://lemmy.world/comment/15070231

… donate the money to charities instead.

Good, but unsustainable. You can grow charity power by growing money in benefit corporations, such as Mozilla.