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  • Scammer pilfers $75,000 in bitcoin from Steve Wozniak

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    This aspect of the story is inaccurate:

    ”Transactions that involve buying or selling crypto in exchange for another currency or for goods and services occur directly between users...”

    That CAN happen. One can sell directly to another person face-to-face with cash, for example. More commonly, an online exchange is used for transactions. For goods and services, there are crypto debit cards, there are intermediaries that act as escrow accounts during the exchange process, and so on. The point being, there are many ways to redeem a “cryptocoin”.
    randominternetpersonjony0

  • Apple granted patent using hinged OLED screen as a dynamic iPad or Mac keyboard

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    rinosaur said:
    Already in the Microsoft pipeline, we’ll see who gets it out to market first.
    Apple and Microft have a broad patent sharing arrangement to avoid lawsuits, so things like this may already be covered. The only difference would be in the way each company chooses to implement the patented elements in a product.

    https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/13/3239977/apple-and-microsoft-cross-license-agreement-includes-anti-cloning
    rinosaurcornchip

  • Self-driving test cars with remote control backup could hit California roads in April

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    StrangeDays said:
    SpamSandwich said:
    California... “leading from behind” again. Uber’s self-driving vehicle testing left for a more business friendly state and these clumsy and poorly thought out regulations will continue to affect the competitiveness of the state.
    More business friendly? You do realize some of the entire world’s best entertainment and technology comes out of California-based companies... 

    No, CA is simply leading. 
    The California business climate has become very hostile to employers. I’ve observed more large employers flee for better pastures over the past 8-10 years than ever.
    designr

  • Chinese discount phone makers were supposed to rival Apple's iPhone globally. Instead, the...

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    Whenever companies compete on price alone, their competition is practically limitless. Apple has wisely chosen not to compete on price.
    tmayanonconformistksec

  • Apple has long-term plan, is working on products 'way out in the 2020s'

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    zoetmb said:
    Don't try to turn everything into politics.   Socialism is where the Government owns everything.  Do you think Apple (or so-called "socialists") wants the Government to own it? Just because many people believe that capitalism doesn't work well for receiving medical care doesn't mean they want socialism for everything.    Even socialist countries have lots of capitalism.   
    I agree with your rebuttal, but even so want to dot some i's..

    Government owns everything = communism..
    Socialism  = capitalism + safeguards

    That's safeguards for the weak, obviously, because we all know who's gonna win in a battle between a rich guy and a poor if money is the only yardstick... But apparently that makes socialism something dirty.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

    That's not a standard definition of socialism.  Here's the definition from the source of all truth: 

    Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production, as well as the political theories and movements associated with them. Social ownership may refer to forms of public, collective or cooperative ownership, or to citizen ownership of equity. There are many varieties of socialism and there is no single definition encapsulating all of them, though social ownership is the common element shared by its various forms.


    Socialism, like all forms of collectivism, is a fantasy that doesn’t work in reality because it’s a philosophy based on a hugely flawed theory that people are not self-interested. All people naturally are self-interested, so when the system says “everyone is in charge”, then no one is in charge. Unchecked corruption, inevitable centralization of power, destruction of market responsiveness and misallocations of resources are common results.
    muthuk_vanalingam