Regardless of their B2B marketing strategy, it's hard to compete with "this Slack-like thing is included with the mega-expensive Microsoft license your company already pays for every year, around which you've built a Microsoft-specific IT group".
“We have no evidence” strongly implies some sort of extensive forensic dance was performed, and was fruitless. “We have no way of knowing” sounds much more like epistemological resignation. “Evidence” is a pretty loaded word to use.
It means silos and information hiding are baked in — as a matter of corporate culture — at least in part to preserve the option of plausible deniability for statements like Twitter’s.
Yet they decide other landmark cases with a newly invented test for "deeply rooted history and tradition", through which they can put on their highly subjective amateur historian hats to engineer a desired outcome.
Simplified: "The manner in which a vanishingly small group of megadonors and think tank funders make, keep, grow, and distribute their money should be nearly impossible to regulate."
Delorean sold about 7,000 cars, total, in its existence. Tesla sold about a million last year. Regardless of how you feel about Tesla, it's safe to say it's now a major, fast-growing auto maker that's not going away.
So they're trying to completely fill the price shadow underneath the $500 or so a very basic "entry-level" accountant relationship would cost — and fill it with a zero-marginal-cost roster of non-product products and non-service services. Terrible.
It would probably be some very large number backed by a theory like "this violation has deprived the plaintiff of their ability to fully control the disposition of their private information and activities, thereby creating permanent direct and indirect risks whose damages to the plaintiff's income, income potential, business, reputation, and family are limited only by the malevolent collective imagination of an unbounded pool of individual, institutional, or governmental adversaries."
Since it will be widely known among peer organizations that Apple has this policy, the presence or absence of the "Associate" title achieves this, in effect, does it not? I think it's unlikely someone seeking a 600K job will be mistaken for having been a retail employee.
As a fellow cyclist who must be vigilant in defending against frequently bad behavioral answers to these questions from human drivers, I’d love to know how any self-driving system approaches them.
Unless you’re going to continue supporting updated software on existing devices until the end of time, there will always be a place on the time and feasibility curve where you’ll have to draw the line. So while that is indeed a plan, or becomes a plan as a device ages and practical realities begin to assert themselves, attributing it to a sort of corporate greed or malice seems reductive.
They also changed to attributing deaths to the date they occurred, rather than the date they were recorded. Because this gap can be days or even weeks, it raises the death curve mostly in past periods, and therefore gives the impression the rate is always declining.