

My problem with this particular argument is that M$ attained this dominance not because of the quality of its products, or because its C-suites are geniuses, but by decades of lobbying and monopolistic market practice.


My problem with this particular argument is that M$ attained this dominance not because of the quality of its products, or because its C-suites are geniuses, but by decades of lobbying and monopolistic market practice.


Downvote and insult me as long and as much as you like, but I refuse to call anyone who works with Window$ an ‘IT admin’.


Didn’t you mean complex carbs?


I lost every ounce of respect and admiration I had for this man after he sold the franchise to Disney.


Kinda his fault for using Window$ tbh


It’s != its.
Again: stock is property. Arguing that the only reason to invest in stocks is getting money out of it by selling later at a higher price would be like saying that people buy apartments/land/metals solely for future financial gain.
…and even if one doesn’t buy that argument, there’s the concept of hedging, which is far enough from the concept of speculation to consider it its opposite.


Not quite. A (common) stock is nothing more than a certificate of ownership of part of a company. In theory, the value of that capital should increase over time, plus you hopefully get dividends regularly. Again - it’s ownership, so that means that you could, in principle, hold that instrument ‘forever’ (just like you would, say, a piece of land), never planning to sell it back, and therefore not giving a single f*ck about its current or future price.


These are not ‘investors’, but speculators.


Fair enough, but do they need/want an ad blocker ?


Who the fucking fuck still uses stock Chrome in 2026, chrissakes.


This Sacklpicker is the largest private donor of the IOF, so nothing he says or does surprises/outrages me.


Can’t wait to short-sell the stuff!


Proof # 4.962,77 that the school system does not prepare children for the actual, grim realities they will be facing in the future, but rather raising them to be competitive beings who obey orders, instead of accompanying them through the process of learning to think by themselves.


Um. What? Are those ‘billions’ with a ‘b’? As in…a fifth of a trillion ?


Capitalism is the art of making compliant sheeps out of middle-classniks who are afraid to lose their jobs. More specifically, they are not afraid of speaking out, or refusing orders, because that would threaten their livelihood, but because the could not afford their current lifestyle anymore.
What I don’t get is: why exactly is such software so popular ? Does one really need it instead of just swiping twice or thrice to find the app one is looking for?
My horny brain dic(k)tatorially decided to contract ‘cli git graph’ into ‘clit graph’