I guess you could use the same argument to say you're buying less when you buy your laptop. It's just arbitrary data I/O through USB with the software level interpreting it. They don't have to ship a DAC or wifi radio (if they actually omitted that) or... whatever you call the component that's part of a GPU that converts to HDMI - instead they offload that to the dongle or peripheral. In effect your device is just slowly being whittled down to a processor to USB bridge.
The headphone and USB ones are the ones I hate the most. My "flagship" phone doesn't work with any of my ~15 pairs of headphones (mostly earbuds but a few actually nice ones) without an adapter. Booting up a laptop into a nix OS that doesn't have wpa_supplicant etc. installed, no ethernet dongle or ethernet port, that's about to be annoying.
This is more about laptops/phones than desktops btw. Normal sized desktops usually still ship with every port, plus one or two USB-C's these days.
If you write smart contracts with vulnerabilities, they'll be hacked, that is not the same thing as a blockchain being hacked though. Also, smart contracts can be fully audited and provably correct, a lot of companies just half ass it. ERC721 spec (NFT) has drop-in contract code which no doubt has been audited and not hacked on its own.
The use case for NFTs is to provide a bulletproof cryptographically secured registry for arbitrary content. Such as deeds or titles. Legally recognized, that would represent a marked improvement on the current system. You can have it represent digital goods also, that's just more of a toy than a useful tool.
It's a poor architectural choice, but making cross-platform apps is even more problematic with the current UI tooling out there. Too much fragmentation in the base OS's. If Mac moved to support Wayland or something like that, maybe we'd start getting somewhere.
Many of the weak and vulnerable are responsible for putting the rich and powerful into power though. Power is entirely a social construct. Bit of a paradox but that's the way it is.
Yes, the classic "lesser of two evils" stance to justify an arbitrary formation of social support behind "literally anything better than the worst possible thing". And in this context right now, actually being used to shut down all criticism of anything besides the "worst possible thing". No awareness at all about all the other better alternatives. You could actually prove that this mentality drives the status quo further towards "fascism" or any other negative totalitarian outcome, because you're specifically forbidding criticism of what's going wrong with who you support.
Reflexively downvoting anyone conflating "both sides", "enlightened centrists" etc. Whole system is a disaster and sick of people acting like the "oppression lite" party is off limits for criticism. Anyone who doesn't just compromise their principles to go with the flow politically knows better.
Israel is the ancestral land of the Jews, its government is Jewish, its people are Jewish. If you don’t support Israel, you are an anti-Semite. Stop equivocating.
Where do the atrocities against the population who lived there first factor into your analysis? Not at all?
Is it anti-Christian to say “conservative Christians who don’t support welfare are destroying this country”? Answer: no.
And yet you don't see the double standard you're applying here. You're literally an "anti-Semite" if you don't support an apartheid government, but it's fine to criticize theocratic Christians? Why can one group abuse power but not the other?
all the Jews Trump are talking about are actually fake Jews
and that's not "anti-Semitic"?
His daughter is married to a Jew.
Are you talking about Jared Kushner?
You want the simple explanation here? He wants to ride the fence. He wants to court Nazis, racists, theocrats, fanatics, and he wants to pull in minority votes and get as much support as possible. That's what it's about. That's how you explain the contradiction, between him constantly spouting thinly veiled racist rhetoric and him saying he's the best friend in world history to every minority who's ever dealt with oppression. He will say literally anything, because he wants power, and after what happened last time he wants to stay out of prison too. He will do whatever it takes to do that, including inventing an entirely fake version of reality based upon a myth of himself as a savior figure.
Not looking for an argument whatsoever, not trying to put you down, get your head out of the echo chamber it's in, go find dissenting viewpoints, point by point, from all the stuff you believe now, because you are sooooooo far down the rabbit hole, you sound completely insane to anyone who knows better. I'm not kidding here, back up, take some time away from this and get your grip on reality back.
Archival is extremely important and one of the side effects of copyright schemes is that they limit its viability. The less access people have, the more likely some work becomes lost forever. I've seen it a few times already, with recent work, but in one or two hundred years we're talking about libraries of art that could have been preserved but are just gone.
Closed source software, that's actually distributed to people, has all kinds of problems beyond that too. Tons has been written about that, but from an artistic perspective, I think the biggest loss is that people can't legally expand the original work. Giant franchises with a central cultural presence get walled off and usually just go through a huge creative decline, which is crazy because there's millions of people preoccupied with the concepts from the franchise who are barred from using them to express themselves. With software in specific, if it's open source you can modify it, fix it, expand it, maintain it, whatever - there's all these great resources they could use, but we won't let them.
Try thinking for a minute about the actual fundamentals. Same number of people, same amount of money, same amount of time put in, more goods produced, goods cost less.
People treat economics like a frigging religion, IDK how people end up believing the opposite of something so basic as that. And then to actually get that arrogant over it, saying I sound like a bad LLM bot. That's just rude.
A strong advancing economy means goods/services are easier to come by/afford (more advanced tech/infra), which for a currency with the same supply would mean decreasing prices, i.e. "deflation".
Do you want us to run aground woman?