GDC7

They disclose a bias: "Those dying from COVID-19 may be an at-risk population whose remaining life expectancy is shorter than the average person’s remaining life expectancy"

That you continue to repeat this, despite it being clearly disproven above, is telling.

Where are the airpods? Not even the last model, even 2017 Airpods.. you know just to provide some aftercare to the customer after screwing them so badly

And consumers were harmed by one company controlling 97% of the desktop market

When the 97% is potentially all free, then I don't where's the monopoly, unless you also include in the definition of monopoly having a special place in people's hearts after you gave them such gift.

People made a choice to pay for convenience, but if you looked around you'd find ways to get Microsoft products for free.

Evidence is Pocket PC

Evidence is also how the iPhone struggle to communicate with Windows PCs and everything which isn't Apple.

Evidence is also the fact that out of the box you cannot charge your 1700$ phone while listening to music at the same time.

Anti trust laws were made to protect consumers, not paper-millionaires shareholders of other compenies.

There wasn't an organic hatred against Microsoft, people were teaching courses on how to create a startup aimed at getting acquired by them and retire early.

It was a DC play from people who knew nothing about software but were jelous of what they were reading on Fortune and Forbes.

How can you be anticompetitive when your software is free?

Antitrust laws were made to protect the consumer, the same consumer which was robbing Microsoft blind because they allowed piracy.

What a strange complaint to make, and it’s even stranger to tie it to your even stranger take on the DOJ and Microsoft.

Had the DOJ not attacked Microsoft we'd have a better, more open phone which would also come out of the box with the ability to play music while charging.

iPhones made in 2012 were only barely better than Pocket PCs made in 2005

How can you be anti competitive when your software is free?

Microsoft got a slap on the wrist

Microsoft gave small users everywhere a free license to use the best GUI OS in the world. Not to mention the browser and the productivity tools

It has always been a free software , unless you are really dedicated and want to pay for it.

It was a really elegant solution, the degree to which you paid for Microsoft products ranged based on each individual user willingness to "look around" for free pirated copies.

And over at Redmond they'd take notice and push the bill onto paying customers such as the Fortune 500 (Exxon, BP, JPMorgan)

If there is one company that the public should love is Microsoft.

In any event it was state intervention. When that happens the victory/defeat of a company becomes political , not technical or due to financial or business acumen.

The worst thing is that the majority of the American population would have not found themselves competing against Bill Gates for anything, except those in DC who had him as their #1 enemy in order to win their size measuring contest.

Matter of fact the small individual consumer and small businesses were getting away robbing Microsoft blind as they didn't do anything to stop piracy.

Microsoft would just treat it as free marketing or just pass those losses onto big paying customers such as the Fortune 500 companies, thus compensating for piracy losses at the base of the pyramid.

After DOJ intervention nowadays we have Apple shipping a 1700$ phone which is completely closed off and out of the box is impossible to charge while listening to music at the same time. Irony if you think about how passionate Jobs was about music

It's very rare that you see acquisitions work out like this

The acquisition was a normal acquisition.

What made it special was the DOJ stepping in to destroy Microsoft because Bill Gates was essentially too rich and his riches were so talked about that people in DC wanted to show him who's the alpha.

Apple would have gone to zero without Microsoft essentially saving it from bankruptcy, and it would be irrelevant had the DOJ not attacked Microsoft with such vigor.

People test themselves because they feel unwell.

If you catch covid but don't feel it, then you'll go back to normal without ever testing and thus ever knowing you had it.

If this happens for many people in a country (because of whatever reason) then you could easily have 50-100x the recorded numbers but nobody would ever feel it.

people argued Microsoft would have taken over the US, had the DOJ not stopped them.

In reality we'd just have a much more open phone which you can both charge and listen to music on.

they don't have an abundance of people like the other 2 tho

Just like you have the dating app or the mail app on your phone.

The west is the money making and business app. Strictly business, don't even call or seek people for reasons which aren't business or money making.

Social relationships and genral life outside work app is Africa and South East Asia. Unlike the west they have loads and loads of people who are not spoiled by abundance vis-a-vis the west which has very few people and all with a telegraph pole up their as*hole.

Breathtaking nature accessible for days on end for the price of a burger in Manhattan

It's just a normal bank wire to his most loyal business partner: The US Federal Government.

Uncle Sam would wire him back in FY2022 in the form of subsidies, tax breaks and all sort of artificial economics so that he'd be able to design yet more ugly cars which suddenly accelerate or drive into lorries.

Honestly this seems like hell.

I'd rather work remotely for a US company and move my ass somwhere like Brazil or Nigeria or Philippines or Thailand.

You'd maybe feel the boredom and the lack of power in the decision making and the shame of having to report and reply "yessir" .

But once you clock out you can then be the boss of the hood and recoup all frustration accumulated during worktime, throw the weight of the mighty USD around, which is even more exacerbated by the tech salary as well as the possibility to invest every excess in the S&P500 so that you can keep on keeping on.

The west has essentially very few people (and diminishing by the day) and each and everyone of them have a telegraph pole up their you know what. It should only be used as the money making app

Mark said that one of the many input to start Facebook was to bring people to the internet.

He thought to himself : "there's news, there's sport, there's search, where are people and personalities?"

It turns out people really dislike being informed or nonetheless being aware of the presence of other people and their personalities on the internet.

It shouldn't come as a surprise, nobody likes really packed stadium stands or a packed mall or a shop or anything really.

The internet did free us up from acknowladging other people, then FB emerged and back to square one we went

Hopefully we can then compare COVID to the season flu on any large media outlet

It will never happen, humans take more and more to recover from traumatic events and people who claim that it's time to put the traumatic event behind our back and go on with our lives are singled out as irresponsible .

See the 2008 financial crisis, we are still doing QE, Fed balance sheet would never go back to normal , we have scam companies worth hundreds of billions and perhaps the most scammy one just went above a trillion in financial value with no real tangible product presence in a market in which commands a 1% presence.

bingo

Signalling is how mating works

If you buy a jpg for 300k while you could have bought a nice house with that amount of money, you are honestly unfuckable and being unfuckable and gullible is all that you are signalling.

Besides, it's women who do the signaling, that's because they can't approach to save their lives.

NFT crowd should grow some balls, approach, get rejected and repeat until success...like real men do, instead of buying monkey jpg to "signal mating"

That's right! Innovation is what propels human civilization, it can't ever be a bubble.

As it's demonstrated by Cisco Systems stock performance from 1995 to 2010 you can clearly see that the power of innova...never mind....as I was saying if you take into consideration the same period and watch the Nasdaq.....again never mind, but if you.....

Is a Brad Pitt autograph from 1999 worth more than his autograph in 2020?

We are really latching onto the pipe smoke here.

A safe 3% withdrawal rate would put you at around $250k a year of extremely tax favored passive income that you get without having to do anything. What the heck.

It's the movies and Forbes list constantly in your face.

Di Caprio/Scorssese plus Steve Forbes screwed (and skewed) a lot of people perceptions.

So an earlier minted NFT may be more valuable to some than those that were minted later

Are dollars printed during the 2008 recession more valuable than those printed during the 2020 recession?

In the same way, conceivably, a first batch of NFTs that supposedly should lose value after the artist starts minting a bunch more, could turn out to instead increase in value, because of their history of having been minted and sold before the event of the artist minting a bunch more.

But why? It's the same JPG.

Ok let's say that we cheat and operate as you say. That is not by not solving OP's problems but by eliminating his "worry"

Do you think exercise is potent enough? To me you'd need psychedelics such as LSD, Salvia and DMT given the scope of the problems we have to distract him from

When an artist mints an NFT and sells it, the NFT provenance is part of the value.

Except when I buy a painting I can lend it to a museum and get a steady income, with NFTs you are only hoping that some bigger fool will buy your jpg, because everybody sees what you see, and a jpg is not a painting, you don't have to stand in front of it to appreciate it.

An example was the recent sale of the original picture from National Geographic 1983 issue. The "Afghan girl" is one of the most famous pics of 20th century if not the most famous.

The "original" sold for a mere 63k, that's because it doesn't give you anything more than the pic which was on the cover of NG or you have seen countless times on the internet since. Compare it to famous paintings or even a Banksy and it's a very small sum of money.

Most famous jpg sells for less than 1/10 of a mediocre painting

Also most importantly once you have taken the painting from the artist hands you are in power. With NFTs the artist needing money can and will mint the exact same JPG undercutting all the fools who bought the previous NFT.

He will get the money and the praise (ohh distributing his work to everybody instead of select few how cool is him!!!) and you'd get a huge financial loss.

Owning scarce items gives them status.

NFTs are not scarce. A painting is scarce because you can never replicate the original painter physically impressing whatever they see in their mind on a blank virgin canvas. If the original painter happens to be on the right side of the Power law and becomes famous, then the painting value also skyrockets because said canvas was touched by them (e.g. Leonardo da Vinci)

Stuff on the internet cannot be scarce, you'd need the metaverse with its own rules to create scarcity. E.g. "Ferraris" and "Lamborghini" cars in GTA V. Their rarity is enforced but as soon as the internet gets hold of it then the scarcity is immediately eliminated on the PC version with mods

Au contraire, once you have beaten the long odds of going from 0 to 7.5M on what amounts to a lottery ticket, then beating the 50:50 odds of divorce seems a piece of cake.

More generally OP should feel like a god right now, what's the point of having 7.5M if succulent brain juices aren't flowing like the Mississipi river to signal that the world is yours?

He should be feeling confident about doing stuff way riskier than 50:50

In early November I sold everything and after taxes I now own 7.5 million euro

You are not out of the woods yet, I understand that for an individual this sum is massive, but for a bank it might not be (Deutche Bank, UBS, perhaps Credit Suisse?). Just naming some names which are popular in CH/DE.

Anyways they might still ask you about it, upon review of your position at the end of the year.

Not sure if this is a welcome news because it would give you something to do or unwelcome because it's a process to deal with. Still be on the lookout for them to ask questions.