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Something along the lines of:
"We urge all EU citizens with Apple devices to have an alternate means of accessing critical internet services like banking, to protect themselves in the event we are forced to block all Apple services EU-wide for legal non-compliance."
... then watch AAPL stock drop below NVDA ...
... and Apple come crawling back, suitably obedient.
This would be:
A) looking out for their citizens
B) making it clear who's boss
Something along the lines of:
"We urge all EU citizens with Apple devices to have an alternate means of accessing critical internet services like banking, to protect themselves in the event we are forced to block all Apple services EU-wide for legal non-compliance."
... then watch AAPL stock drop below NVDA ...
... and Apple come crawling back, suitably obedient.
It's actually more inflexible than Windows.
It only "gets out of the way" once you've been brainwashed into doing everything the way Apple thinks you should.
And surprise, surprise the "right way" involves not using anything where they don't get a cut.
Philosophy - is backed by reasoned arguments and open to debate
Mathematics - is our construction, how can we not believe in our own invention
Religion - requires that you buy into an archaic fairy tale, with no empirical proof or reasoned argument, to the extent that you will sanction wars and oppressive gender inequality on the basis of unsubstantiated belief
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One of these things is not like the others
Forget working for anyone, just make the machines do what you want.
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> ... he's opposing college now purely for ideological reasons.
But maybe his ideological criticisms are valid.
And maybe the college environment has changed since he was there.
And maybe the value proposition for a talented person has shifted.
And maybe the mere presence of offers like Thiel's also increases the acceptability and therefore the "signalling" value proposition of a first year drop-out strategy.
Burnout reduces your maximum productivity.
Working to the full extent of this reduced capacity, even if it is a reduced output compared to your ideal capacity, is not laziness.
You are in fact working at 100% capacity ... which is hardly lazy.
Calling this laziness is just playing into the bullshit corporate power games that drive people to health failure.
So true ... Jack Welch was an engineer.
And just imagine if you said it was protected from slavery ... would that mean all corporations are suddenly free of the dictates of their executives, their boards, their shareholders.
Exactly what would this emancipated entity be?
So from a game-theory standpoint they remain an asset, but not a threat.
America puts corporations before people.
There are endless articles about how American business is "more competitive" ... and it is, but this is the price.
Increasingly you have to pick a destination and blindly follow directions, your ability to use it as an informational tool, but exercise your own judgement seems to have been intentionally crippled.
You'd only be bound by other laws if the recording was done at the location governed by those laws.