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ToS can't negate HIPAA or any other laws that could potentially be violated though.

My experience has been similar. After many years of only having one viable choice of ISP, once another upgraded their lines and could compete suddenly things changed very quickly.

I recall a tragically comic phone call to cancel service with Cox (of course you were required to do all cancellations over the phone). I told them the speed and price I was getting from their competitor, which was already installed and confirmed, and they tried to convince me those numbers were not possible! Hahahaha! Bonus, the new provider's downtime also proved to be far less over the next few years.

The comedian Geoffrey Asmus does a great bit about the Wells Fargo corruption:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/B3PCkW-LDXY

This is something I've also wanted, but not understanding the technical challenges to implement it I really don't know if it's feasible for Spotify to take on. Similar solutions I've seen to this have been fully contained within one hardware product line. Like some bluetooth speakers of the same manufacturer can interconnect and play the same audio together, or things like amazon alexa.

> the argument is that it’s completely false

But is it completely false? Or does that 4% statistic also suffer from an over generalization based on very broad averages that can have extreme fluctuations when individual, specific cases are considered?

So then clickbait title should be modified to say "low-price wrench"?

Makes sense that fairly paid labor is going to result in more expensive products that the end consumer will likely pass over if it's lacking in quality. And many consumers don't shop with these issues in mind. If they're on a tight budget and just need to fix something, lowest price may be their only priority. Tough problem to address from all angles.

Oh if the world could just be so simple. Can't protect yourself from getting mugged, stop going outside. Problem solved.

The reality of any non-trivial issue is that we have to consider potential improvements from all angles. I want to improve tech for grandma and for the bank, doesn't that seem like a goal worth working towards? And let's please not pretend that banks are infallible in all of this, they also have opportunities to improve.

Now go and explain to anyone's grandmother how this list of items is her fault. Hard disagree on victim blaming being the answer.

Sure all of us can learn to be more careful with tech, but the way banks frame fraud against them as identity theft against you is slimy doublespeak.

> Humans just aren't very good at ranking things on a normal distribution

Anecdotally this feels correct, the more common user rating distributions I see are an inverted bell curve - lots of 5's and 1's, not too many 3's.

But as far as the same problem that plagues every other review system goes, I would say the paid/fake reviews are the far bigger problem.

Even without knowing any real hints from the pictures myself, it was still a lot of fun for me refining each guessed location based solely on distances reported on previous guesses. Nice work.

Seems like a very fair nitpick to me considering the semantic nature of the game in the first place!

I was a bit of a late bloomer when it comes to career, and the beginning was very challenging to land my first junior developer position. I'll never forget the guy who hired me commenting something along the lines of "it's unfortunate you didn't start earlier, you could've gone so much further", or something similar. He ended up being a great mentor, but that comment always bothered me and is the thing I remember most about him.

Now several years later and I'm very happy where I'm at. And I've come to the realization, if I had gone directly into CS in college, there is a fairly good chance I may have gotten burned out by now and moved on to something completely different. So the "right on time" idea resonates with me, but YMMV.

Good question, I don't know why the United States does it this way or how/when it started. I realize other countries have different practices, some arguably much better, this is just what I grew up being familiar with.

I was sympathetic and open to tipping in more situations during the height of the pandemic, but now it has become such an annoyance. Lately I've drawn a hard line in the sand and only tip full service wait staff and bartenders, with only a few other exceptions.

The whole idea in the first place was that those jobs are allowed to pay less than minimum wage because providing good service could earn the employee potentially far more money through tips. That's the social contract we agreed to, which is now being contorted to absurd extremes.

Or said another way, they can't say "we take your privacy seriously" without first saying "we take your privacy"!

"We value your privacy" is usually a true statement about the monetary value a company places on exploiting your privacy, masquerading as a moral value statement.

And it seems they're making every effort to drive you crazy if you don't subscribe to premium.

Hulu is doing something similar using crazy loud ads on their non-premium subscription. Searching their support forums for "ads too loud" brings up threads going back multiple years. I thought this practice was illegal, but perhaps there is a loophole when it comes to streaming content?

In this case I don't think the OP was attempting to use whataboutism for the purposes of distracting away from Apple, or explaining away Apple's behavior. It was more of a "and-also-whataboutism" to bring Renault under the same scrutiny.

Naive question: isn't the genie kinda already out of the bottle? How is any type of regulation expected to stop bad actors from developing AI for nefarious purposes? Or would it just codify their punishment if they were caught?

> Of course it predict the next token. Every single person on earth knows that so it's not worth repeating at all

What's a token?

More than anything this seems to highlight how naive this approach is for polling public opinion - using an easily gamed internet connected form. Really the whole thing was just a dog and pony show to begin with. The FCC leadership at the time showed absolutely zero intention of being persuaded by the public comments as their minds were already made up beforehand. It was just some kind of hand wavy bs attempt to pretend to perform their due diligence before doing what they were already going to do anyways.

Very fun, just a bit slow right now. My solution was far from optimal, but I eventually connected them with:

investor > banker > robber > accomplice > patsy > mark

> artist who can't afford to iterate his cover art ideas multiple times with a professional finds a creative solution

> affected 836 customers

This number seems oddly low. My first instinct is not to trust that this was reported honestly. But if it is accurate, why was it so low? Perhaps there's something else very interesting about this breach they're not disclosing (not that they would provide more than the bare minimum amount of information required anyways).

"Google Flights product manager James Byers recently told The Washington Post that browsing history and private searches do not impact fares.

He said prices just naturally change 'second by second' and any changes customers see when booking as normal before changing to incognito is merely a coincidence."

I never trust anyone whose primary persuasive argument boils down to "trust me".

This sounds like it came straight out of a "What If?" book from Randall Munroe :)

The Physics of Climate Change by Lawrence M. Krauss

https://www.lawrencemkrauss.com/single-post/the-physics-of-c...

Perhaps not exactly what you're looking for in terms of potential solutions, but it's an honest and sobering account of where we're at without any undue sensationalization.

Another factor is safety. I don't share this point of view, but I have seen others purposely choose large, heavy vehicles for family members so they stand a better chance surviving a bad collision.

If you've ever sat in traffic driving a small car surrounded by large vehicles it definitely starts to sink in that you are at a distinct disadvantage if anything goes wrong. So this trend is also at least partially about this weird arms race of wanting to feel safer in the presence of ever larger vehicles.

> I seriously want to know why people hijack threads

I see what you did there.

My previous Internet provider Cox tried this tactic on me when I canceled. My reply to them was ok, so you're admitting to overcharging me all along. I'll agree to stay with you if you also provide a refund for all previous months I was overcharged. They finally agreed to close my account at that point :)