> The time for the market to react for a product with the complexity of a mac is decades. This makes me think of the 2 slit experiment as applied to basketball

> The time for the market to react for a product with the complexity of a mac is decades. This makes me think of the 2 slit experiment as applied to basketballs. There is a period of time that decisions need to be properly considered, presumably simple decisions need little time, and complex decisions need more time. There is also a period of time that is required to make a decision, and a level at which the decision is made. There are lowly software engineers making decisions like this, some of which may not even percolate to daily stand-up, yet will require the Supreme Court to unpack 10 years from now. And no one really knows. It's like trying to pass a basketball through a slit. Yes, there's a theoretical interference pattern, and you can calculate it, but you can't do the experiment because you can't pass the basketball through a slit that small (in the case of basketballs, if I recall, the largest slit is angstroms if not smaller). So in software development, You've got huge uncertainty in the societal implications of some decisions about what information you're going to pass over the network, but you can't even get them all through daily stand-up, let alone to Congress or the Supreme Court. Somewhere along the way, some of them end up on Hacker News with people mis-quoting Eric Hoffer, “Every great security decision starts off as a movement, turns into a business, and ends up as a racket.”