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And Donald Trump will never be elected preside... oh wait.

In all seriousness, Trump becoming president shakes my belief in reality. It certainly has made me see that anything truly is possible.

The explaination that the universe is an elaborate simulation seems not just plausible, but really like the most likely explaination.

What seems impossible today is just another run of the mill fact of life tomorrow.


I wish I could upvote this (and your other comments) 100 times. Amazing high quality machines will keep the design and dev community on Mac for years to come, churning out the apps that help to make the iPhone ecosystem work.

Bleeding power users to alternative systems creates vulnerability.

These arguments would be the same for Microsoft circa 2007. Why should Microsoft care if the designers, developers, and tastemakers hate their products? They've got so much lock-in that people will be forced to use their stuff forever. Wheee, we're invincible. We all know how this turned out.

I'm running up against low memory issues on my 16gb MBP lately. I absolutely cannot responsibly update my Apple product right now because of the 16gb limitation on the MBP. It does matter!

I'm getting ready to bite the bullet and go back to Linux desktop.


Buy and hold indexes. That's the smart approach.

The only alternative that makes sense to me is to follow Peter Lynch's advice and buy what you know. Do this with money you can afford to lose.

When Apple released the original iPod I begged my Dad to buy me one and raved about it. Based on my excitement, he bought several thousand shares of aapl and still holds them. The gain on that single investment is greater than all the income he earned in his lifetime. You cannot expect to make these kinds of investments. Take a sliver of what you have and put it behind something you believe in. Put the rest in index funds.

Edit: I meant to tie this comment back to the original title about wealth disparity. Point being, my Dad has created generational wealth from a single lucky investment. It's just luck and a system that let's you keep your winnings.


I know a couple that invested the bulk of their net worth into Apple when Jobs returned. They advised me to, too. I didn't <sob>.


If it makes you feel any better, I heard about Bitcoin when it was under $1, thought it was a cool idea, didn't have any disposable money to buy any, and promptly forgot about it.


If it makes you feel any better, I heard about Bitcoin before you could even buy it, and I had a fairly powerful (for the time) quad-core machine I could have done a bunch of mining with.


If it makes you feel any better, there's a good chance you'd have mined thousands of bitcoins, gotten bored and forgotten about them, and lost the wallet file eventually :)


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