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How to force this option for the whole organization/workspace?

Calling Gawker "rude" is at the same level as calling Baghdadi an "Austere Religious Scholar"

If only we would have spent $6 billion on nuclear energy research rather than on the Large Hadron Collider.

Lower volume than expected.

"They aren't good for consumers either."

Can't speak for the Google store, but as a consumer, I definitely trust Apple's apps more than random developers' apps. So in Apple's case, I always appreciate when they provide another service/app that I can use, because their values on privacy aligns with mine and they have built up a trust relationship with me.

Welcome to Europe.

That includes disruption of their mental capacity ("Taycan Turbo"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharger

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1169695493594574848

“Compare Yourself To Who You Were Yesterday, Not To Who Someone Else Is Today.” - JBP

They studied character not intelligence.

Cheating is not associated with low intelligence but with a corrupt character.

True, they protest working for the US armed forces. But working for Communist Party of China‘s own army is apparently ok.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-google-idUSKCN1...

Google's decision to be the arbiter of acceptable speech will be its undoing.

"weaponized it" This is foolish language to use. A retweets is actually super helpful and provides value. However, like with all tools, it matters what you use it for.

These days it seems like most people forget that there is a Twitter that exist outside politics. There are lots of communities on Twitter that provides tremendous value to those who are part of them.

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” ― Aeschylus

I love Apple Maps' Dark Mode.

That was my impression as well. Strava willfully ignored their buggy integration with HealthKit, blaming Apple etc. I received countless duplicate workouts in my HealthKit. I emailed them dozens of times...

Ended up cancelling my Pro subscription with Strava and just started using the Apple Watch workout app. It's awesome.

This is why I don’t trust apps outside the App Store as much.

If we can’t trust an app that is the cornerstone of a 25 billion dollar business (Zoom’s market cap) not to install malware, then I don’t know.

I want the trust through the App Store.

PS. I love Zoom, and find it to be the best conference solution out there.

I'm all for the freedom to choose the length of your work week. But don't come back later complaining about widening income gap among people.

There will be differences in outcome between people who work 30 vs 60 hours in any given industry. Not in all individual cases, but generally.

Why would anyone buy Soulver outside the Mac App Store? Any compelling new features that warrants the higher price and risk?

How to protect yourself:

"Disable the ability for Zoom to turn on your webcam when joining a meeting."

It's under Settings->Video in Zoom, check "Turn off my video when joining a meeting".

Run Chrome.

(ignoring the extra battery back that I really should have attached to my MacBook Pro compared to just running Safari)

Being the last mover is preferable.

To illustrate the point: Google search, the last search engine. Facebook, the last social network.

> justification for not helping someone out

We should help this person out. But giving him money clearly is not the best way, in fact it may seem like giving him money is only enabling his bad lifestyle choices.

Money is not the solution here.

> If you recall, Apple's stance on privacy is quite recent.

You should read some of the history of Steve Jobs, and you will learn that he was very serious about privacy and it seems like his values have been imbued into Apple and now Tim Cook.

Here's perhaps the latest clip of Steve on privacy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39iKLwlUqBo

Unfortunately there is not a clear segmentation here between what NIH funds and what ultimately becomes the product available on the market. NIH often fund basic research, while others pick that up and attempt to make a drug out of it. This is super simplifying it, but it's a complex process with lots of organizations and many funding sources.

In addition to public funding of NIH research, it takes a commercial company (pharma) well beyond $1 billion to get one successful drug on the market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_drug_development

US tax payers is fronting $28 billion a year for NIH research. There is a lot of IP coming out of that that belongs to them, and not the Chinese Communist Party. There is such a thing as licensing agreements. Again, there are many successful scientific collaborations between US and China so don't be surprised that among some of these scientists there are some with bad characters tempted to share confidential information.

There are lots of successful collaborations happening between US and Chinese scientists. However, like in all scientific disciplines, there some bad apples, and for some, the temptations to improperly share confidential information is too great. Theft of IP is not a good thing, even in oncology.

That is impossible. I've never seen the movie.

I've never read Wolf of Wall Street.

"The original lender is only required to retain around 10% of the consolidated loans."

That part may be the only redeemable part of this process.

Because, hey...let's package these into collateral debt obligations, and then hey...let's engineer these CDOs with tranches of various credit quality as rated by rating organizations not understanding what they are rating and afraid of asking for more information because their profit is based on volume of these ratings and not quality, and hey...let's create a second CDO based on the lowest rated tranche of the first CDO, and boom, that low credit score is magically now a AAA, and why not create tranches of this second CDO too. Then, let's create a market out of this with a way to short the CDOs, and let's call this new instrument something ridiculous as Credit Default Swap. No one is ever going to need those, because everybody in the financial industry believes the underlying assumptions that 1) the real-estate prices will forever go up, 2) and there is no chance that more than 4% of sub-prime mortgages are going to default. Seeing that this makes a lot of sense, let's make a trillion dollars worth of these and we don't have to put them on the balance sheet because they are AAA rated, safe as the US Treasury bonds, and so why not get leveraged 40 to 1 on these. Oh wait, that's already been tried.

True, local Chinese Android phones are increasing their market share in China, while foreign phones like Samsung and Apple etc. are shrinking.

However, the overall smartphone market is shrinking in China. The economy there is not doing well.