For photo/video editors, the Pro screen alone is worth more than the entire laptop. To be clear, the Pro screen is equal to a professional HDR reference monitor, and the entire laptop costs less than a professional HDR reference monitor.

That's literally communism.

State-run services are not communism. Don't be obtuse.

Yes.

It works in much of the world. Plenty of places have have government run the power companies.... like, for example, the capital city of California, or the largest city in California (LA). And SF, another major city, is looking into having a municipal power company as well.

I grew up in a small town on the east coast, and we had a municipal electricity company. Service was better and cheaper. And we got discounts on next month's electricity if the company accidentally ran a profit the prior month.

Americans have such a visceral reaction to their own perception of communism they forget that it can work, even in America.

We have state owned electricity company and it's not communism ( very loaded term )

Do you believe that a fair and free market can exist without any governmental intervention?

I contend that a minimal amount of regulation is required to maintain the dynamic tension between buyer, seller, and marketplace.

No, I think it's a myth, propaganda.

Understood, I believe we have views on the same direction then :)

Don't understand the aggression, I do share a similar view, no need to take jabs at it. You are fighting ghosts.

This can't be repeated enough. We can't even take care of ourselves.

so it's possible but not under capitalism

It’s not possible under any system where the median American house is over 2,000 square feet. In a system like say colonial India, you can build things out of old growth hard woods (but the majority of the population lives in a hut).

Hell, why build with wood at all when other materials like bamboo are around? Because nobody is trying to sell you bamboo. Our use of wood has everything to do with market effects run amok.

Because bamboo is really bad at many things we do with wood.

Wood is different. Each type of wood has its advantage and disadvantage. A pine tree is more different to a Maple tree than you are to a great white shark in the evolution chart.

If bamboo could be easily used to make SPF studs we'd be all over it - it's a $100B industry and bamboo grows extremely easily.

> Because bamboo is really bad at many things we do with wood.

This is simply not true for use as a material for buildings, which is why it's used as a replacement for wood all across east asia.

I feel it would be difficult to make guitars with bamboo. Love to see one if they do thought.

This: https://rizomebamboo.com/

Up to 1/2 inch thickness... Great. Just need to 4x that to replace 2x4s, the construction material that the entire US home building process is built around.

But looks like it's ready to go for some applications (plywood). Hopefully they can get it thicker and replace more dimensional lumber. Or maybe I'm reading their site wrong?

Why is something full of glue and binders better than quickly grown softwood?

Well it doesn't use softwood

Capitalism is defined as a system of relations which prioritizes the right for one to exercise their existing capital to accumulate more of it, above everything else and indefinitely.

It's not "shady". It's just capitalism.

I don't begrudge any company investing and expanding their business, but when there are so many LLCs and layers of complexity to get problems resolved (as stated in the article) seems rather like an intentional obfuscation.

I recently set up a personal LLC and remember reading something about real estate investors making an individual LLC for each property as a way of limiting their liability. If you can't pay one mortgage then you still keep all your other homes. Those LLCs are then managed by another LLC.

It's also a way to shield yourself from tenant lawsuits. The extent of damages you can seek are the value of the house.

Huh - that makes sense then. I didn't consider the "limited liability" part of it :).

But what if.. one's existing capital isn't a right to exercise to begin with?

"Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit." - from Wikipedia, but that's more or less the classic definition. I think there are many potent critiques of a poorly regulated capitalist environment one can make without twisting the definition.

Housing is something that has been spectacularly fucked in the US for historical reasons - white flight, zoning, redlining, Reagan-era policies to enrich the white burbs in perpetuity. Most of the policies that are aiding property speculators and mass landlords were intended to help "grandma keep her house," and keep "those kinds of folks" away. Naturally business noticed that this was an insanely good deal for the American homeowner and decided to get in on it, and in a large-business friendly regulatory environment we have a hard time making the case that these companies are doing something wrong.

Does anyone have knowledge of whether we can expect Firefox to get HDR support in the near or distant future?

This is the latest info I could find.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/hdr-support-for-windows...

And on another comment, kkim continues to say

> Please keep your fingers crossed - we'd love to send improvements your way as soon as we can.

>or some personal bias of your own.

class bias most likely

I agree with precisely all of the other answers so far. Any measurement would be as good or better than none. I'm curious what point you were trying to make though.

I'm of the same agreement, although somewhat partial to the IXP option, as it would force ILEC types to get better about routing to them. My point is that it's reductive to boil it down to a single number when it's going to vary significantly based on the endpoints the user chooses to communicate with - the 100ms target is great for a destination on the other side of the globe, but horrid for a destination in the same city.

I feel like it's obvious that it would be measuring local-ish latency. That's not reductive, it's separation of issues. If someone wants to communicate across the world, their total latency should be a consistent number added to the local-ish number.