You can imagine a rock paper scissors scenario where 3 players compete for the top spot but their differing styles make it difficult to objectively determine the best player. You need fields where the meta-game is tiny; hence why Golf, track & field etc. is the top response at the moment.
I did a trial with a T490s and settled on it. The keyboard is better on the ThinkPad and it doesn't suffer from the heat problems and screaming fans of the Dell XPS 13.
It'll be shy of apocalyptic. There'll be 3-5 years of chaos in loans, credit cards, insurance etc.
Mortgages and business loans will be less affected because real people actually go out and inspect those things. I think we'll have to get used to speaking face to face with real people again when we want any kind of long term financial product.
It's impossible to remotely validate who anyone is regardless of provided name, age, birth location, mothers maiden name, social security, previous address, contacts, fingerprints, retina scan, DNA profile ...
This will end the privacy debate because all personally identifiable data will be public knowledge. All private information (stored in the cloud) will be easily leaked due to _the_ data leak. Blackmail will be rampant.
It'll be common to have credit cards and loans taken out in your name. Companies will be inundated with bots and trolls creating accounts. Fintech and government will scramble to prop up the system of trust with government issued ID, which will then be leaked, collapsing the system completely.
The sheer amount of fraud causes a contraction in the availability of credit with impact on the scale of the credit crunch of 08.
I've implemented GitFlow with multiple support versions. We just added a "version" dimension to each of the main branches.
1.1/master
1.1/release
1.1/development
1.2/master
1.2/release
1.2/development
When we fix bugs in 1.x, we work off 1.1/development and merge into all later versions.
This doesn't fit for a "web" or "continuous delivery" model. It does fit very well for software houses with many customers on 6 monthly upgrade / development cycles.