i imagine MS just hard coded a random license key into the build image and it expired. the issue doesn’t say exactly tho

i am thinking this issue description is implying that EVERYONE using the windows build image was broken. MS probably had a hard coded license in the build image which expired. idk, could be reading it wrong

don’t give me hope like that

typical Azure. duct tape and bubble gum holding everything together

Larry Ellison just gave a big talk on this tech coming to America soon. fuckin billionaires

a monopoly patent was literally a government invention. an actual monopoly does require the government. what you are talking about is called a “natural monopoly” in the literature. that would be a situation where there’s only one seller for something like say water in a desert town. in that case you can have price gouging and such.

now, the important bit is the LEGAL ability to prevent competition. if there is a natural monopoly on water, and the seller decided to start charging obscene amounts for water, those extreme profits would normally induce other sellers to enter the market. except when they are legally prohibited, we can expect that a natural monopoly will not last if what we call “monopoly rents” are extracted.

so you see, a true monopoly requires legal force, eg the state.

but almost no two libertarians will agree about those things. if you think there is only one “blessed” or accepted viewpoint on those topics, you’ve been duped.

for example on the rights of kids. there will be somebody who will argue they fully own themselves and parents are never allowed to hit children or otherwise harm them. then there will be some idiot who argues that because babies are helpless and the parents made it, that the parents “own” the child until some point and can do what they want with it. other libertarians will have even more differing viewpoints.

POV: your family is rich enough for hotels and you’re 12

AoM was ok but kinda boring. I really just want Rise of Nations tho!

thank you! now was that so hard?

i really enjoy the lack of dark mode and the way it doesn’t work on a tablet

because they aren’t a smelly nerd ig

yeah they’ve done great with inflation so far! lol

the shadowy cabal of a few rich people is called the Fed, it’s privately owned by all the banks. there is no democracy in the existing system

Y’all prefer to have the government and banks in charge of money instead? seriously?

that’s… not how that works. all you can do with 51% is possibly double-spend whatever coins you already have. or undo some transactions.

so you submit a transaction, then use your extra 1% of hash power to mine a new block that says you didn’t actually spend it. at the same time you need to trick somebody else into believing you actually did send the coins, and take their stuff you “paid for.” then after you have the stuff, you can submit the block that doesn’t have your transaction in it. Voila, free stuff and you didn’t spend your coins.

it does not enable you to mess with other’s balances. other than possibly reversing some transactions. you would need the private keys to their wallets to take their money. and if you have those, you don’t need 51% of the hash power, you can just take the coins with 0% hash power.

Very Florida