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Where are you getting your data? AT&T market cap is over 200B, _before_ Time Warner merger. Plus this data fails to take into account the infrastructure holdings and government contracts they have, which are enormous.

LOL. Get your head out of the tech world ass. You have no idea how big telecoms are. AT&T is right up there with the FAAMG stocks you fangirl over.

Nope. You (and most libertarian/capitalist cheerleaders, to be fair) whooshed on a classic scenario: Microsoft has no reason to innovate when they're a monopoly. It gets worse. Startup X (you like startups, right?) has a brilliant idea that they bring to market, only for Microsoft to buy them out and kill the idea. Startup Y has a brilliant idea, but they get smarter, they don't sell, and then Microsoft copies their tech and outcompetes them with their war chest. Then they kill the technology. Startup Z has a brilliant idea, but they get even smarter and never bother bringing it to market because Microsoft will just kill it.

Go capitalism.

No, it's not, because we live in a literal information age, where a large portion of the population dedicates their waking hours to maintaining the world's amassed information, and you guys act like in the future people will just find random hard drives lying around and not have a clue.

as if consumer HDD was the only means of storing information. look around you, man.

Machines if not properly cleaned have the potential to become way more septic than a healthy animal. Shows how much you know.

Your comment shows that you've never worked in fast food.

I know you guys all like to feel so clever by saying that, but it's not as if their burger business is some big money-loser that they are propping up out of sheer altruism.

The really ironic thing is trying to decide (before the internet was ever a thing, say 50 years ago) which of the 2 scenarios is more dystopian.

The problem is that the dancing and singing monkeys enabled advertising to be increasingly lucrative to the point where the monkeys are running the show.

That's a complete non-starter as long as advertising pays for the web pages. Or even longer, if the replacement compensation methods require JS as well.

Uh, do you mean a11y?

You seriously can't taste the difference between pasture-raised beef and the grade D swill that junk food pushers like In-n-out peddle?

Why would they use "prepackaged" patties, when they come in by the literal pallet? In-n-out is disgusting, by the way.

If you've never experienced the difference between a burger that melts in your mouth vs a burger that uses tough, grade C or D frozen patties... you've never experienced a burger.

If I ever had the chance to go see a robot doing Benihana tricks it would definitely be worth going at least once. Perhaps I have more appreciation for the degree of engineering that would go into something like that though.

Anecdotal, but I know quite a few chefs and none of them would ever use a meat thermometer, it would be an insult to their well-honed ability to feel the cook.

There are concerns that silver ingestion would upset the balance of intestinal bacteria that we depend on for digestion.

Anyone who's ever been to a Brooklyn deli can tell you none of those are that difficult: just run them through the deli slicer.

The world follows the US in all kinds of arenas, often because the US strongarms them into it.

Could be worse. One of Reddit's favorite pet theories is that one's skull shape reliably indicates their "race".

Yes, the poster boy for the "choose a random chemical and see if it does anything useful" school of "engineering".

What's really sad is that this method isn't too far off from the way the pharma industry works today.

Interesting, as the duty of proof is the other way around in the US, but usually it seems to be the EU that favors the little guy.

It's not general. It's purely a midwestern phenomenon.

Seriously? Just use the blockchain to find out who uploaded it.

Could never be erased or censored, never go down, never be taken over by telecoms, yeah it has some desirable properties. If you have high speed internet you are most likely already taking part in an internet sharing scheme already.

I would really like to see a source for your claim that "most people" think of the "EU" as something other than the European Union.

Seriously, what's with all the weasel words? Switzerland is not an EU member. End of.

I don't think it's accurate to consider the internet decentralized. Consider the entire domain name system is under ICANN control with a couple dozen root servers. Or the backbone which is almost entirely owned by Level3, Cogent, and a few other regional carriers.

Redundant is nice, but it's not decentralized.

Not really. It is true that many mustards utilize vinegar to slow the decomposition of the mustard, but it's not really the primary ingredient (perhaps by weight in some cases, but not culinarily). And being bottled has nothing to do with whether vinegar is used or not. But most importantly (and this should be obvious), it's not anything like a replacement for vinegar.

Absolutely I agree that paid sick leave is discriminating against healthy people. If you're going to pay people to not work, everyone should be equally eligible.