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You can prepurchase a domain for 10 years. Set a calendar reminder 9 years from now to renew for another 10..

If you're going to lowkey troll, you should at least back up your points.

So if you want to see this theory in action go to developing countries with an elite ruling class where they don't disperse funds to social works and see how nice it is, behold their lame GDP, etc.

The country I live in SE Asia is a good example. It's quite libertarian out here and yeah being able to pay for private hospitals is nice, but generally speaking your quality of life is lower, quality of goods is lower, average person is less educated, traffic is a crippling problem due to poor planning, it goes on and on. And despite labor being super cheap, roads are a mess, sidewalks are few and far between and if you do get one it's crowded with junk.. Only 10% of the country pays taxes, the inequality with the rich is massive, and if you're not in the top 1% you're basically a poor.

I recommend everyone in a rich english speaking country spending at least a year or two living in a developing country to get some perspective

Imho it will all depend on China and India coming to the party, and considering cheap oil and coal funds their expansion i can't really see that happening any time soon

One can dream

Will certainly have some effect, and at 5 million tourists a year thats $250M yearly into the governments coffers.. could come in handy

Pretty sure they'll designate The Atlantic as a "Hate Group" after this ..

Indeed. I imagine it would be pretty hard for people to enjoy swimming in these places without taking a commercial flight

Well, every person with a cell phone can open it right now during the article and see how many steps they've taken on average in the last week, month, etc.

So it's not like it's absolutely meaningless

Being able to get into a car and get whisked off to your destination without having to talk to someone about directions is pretty nice

My take was that it was a racist comment, its as if OP was implying that non-whites are less likely to do something about it. Either way, I also hated it. Why do people always, always have to bring race into everything lately?

I don't think the $100k Foreign-earned income exclusion matters to Bezos too much.

Surprised nobody is mentioning that they are making it look more like the MacOS taskbar so it looks more friendly and approachable for new users who have grown up using smartphones and tablets

In some places the e-sim plans are inflated and poorer value compared to the deals on physical sim cards sold. For example the unlimited data plans might be only available by sim rather than purchasing data packs

Not everywhere, as others in this thread have mentioned. As a frequent traveler I'll be probably holding onto the last physical sim iPhone for many years until everywhere I travel to has it all ironed out.

Well said. Even blind freddy can see this about-face is about trying to keep themselves and their political apparatus in power and not because they ever cared about the residents quality of life. The sad part is that their constituents will believe the new lies and keep voting for them.

This may be true, however after living in the tropics for many years I can attest that if you're unable to afford Air conditioning, someone taking your fan away would be enough to send even the happiest person over the edge.

The economist has been pushing a certain political agenda for a while now, I cancelled my subscription a while ago because of this reason

Or 2 trillion, but who's counting

The problem with web3.0 is decentralizing all the things is super hard and really user unfriendly. At this point i'd be happy with something more like web 2.5 where the important bits are decentralized from a central authority (identity management for eg) and able to integrate nicely with centralized platforms.

It would show the app store url, which most would assume to be the developer themselves pushing the app store link and not Apple itself

Yes, it's almost a bit like people parroting TikTok memes.

How about Billionaires set up 'Ministry of Truth'

It's as if these people haven't heard of the government and how much money they have to throw around to fix their wish list of problems. Why is it a private individuals responsibility?

As an Australian I respectfully disagree with you and agree with the article - most Australians just don't care. I've consistently mentioned this to my Australian friends, colleagues, family members for about 10 years now and it's always met with complacency. Most people don't care, some people care but won't do anything about it, and some people think that "If i'm not doing anything wrong I have nothing to worry about". Most Australians trust the government will do the right thing.

We should also tell Google to limit the search results to just 5. That would prevent you from having to see tons of search results on google.

> Apple provides them access to, literally, nearly a billion potential customers

On the flip side, if Apple were to no longer provide access to Netflix to those customers, they would be downright hostile about it and would be a watershed moment for Android. What % would change their next phone to one that "Has Netflix"? 10%? 20%? What would it cost Apples reputation to no longer support the juggernaut media consumption app? billions, probably.

Apple knows how much time people spend watching Netflix on their devices, they are not in a position to be negotiating.

I know anecdotally my mother would be on the phone almost immediately asking what android tablet to buy if this was to ever happen.

How about some logos that don't look like they are from a fiverr competition?

I mean, you can buy Mein Kampf on Amazon so it's probably not the best example

I don't know why people have such a hard time believing this. A 50 cent army to steer social media opinions is certainly a lot cheaper than aircraft carriers