Usually it’s strippers, models, and porno actors who need to get plastic surgery to keep their jobs. I think I’d rather be unemployed than take a scalpel to my face for six figures and Kombucha on tap
This is a solved problem. A solution is already available and has seen many successful deployments all over the world. It’s called progressive taxation. The US tax system is, regardless of its code, in its results regressive.
Gitlab has an excellent free plan, in fact it’s so good I honestly don’t understand how they can afford it and doubt it will last (but really hope it will for individual developers). They even give you Docker registries and thousands of CI hours.
47% of online retail. But they also own a grocery store chain, have their own brick and mortar stores, operate distribution centers, provide much of the world’s cloud computing, own and operate a Hollywood studio, etc. That’s just what I can think of off the top of my head.
This isn’t as insightful as you think. You’re tautologically describing the notion of sovereignty. Sovereignty is supreme power. Of course it abhors “competition.”
Switched to Firefox for work and home. It feels like Chrome did in the early days. No, it’s not faster than Chrome. Yes, there are a couple of dev features that I no longer find intuitive. I just mean in the sense that it is really focused on users. Chrome is focused on advertisers. The change has mostly been painless, and I’m a Web developer.
At this point I just don’t trust Google nor Chrome. All the incentives are there for Google to turn Chrome into adware. The evidence is pointing in that direction. And the trust is no longer there.
It’s funny to think about (and this is of course a gross caricature) but Chrome feels more and more like they took all the annoying adware/bloatware from the 2000s and disguised it in a browser—except they figured out how to do it without anybody noticing. Today, we are all Grandma.
Can’t disagree with you there. I don’t know how these people sleep at night. The taint should extend to any firm that consults for them. I don’t care how many adults really do use them as cessation devices, they are clearly intended to be used by children.
Serious question: why just the executives? I know everybody needs a job to get by, but there’s an expression for getting by by getting kids hooked on harmful drugs: being a shitbum drug dealer. There should be some consequences when it comes to earning your living by damaging the health of children.
Your first point isn’t a matter of opinion. Competition and innovation have been steadily declining, and monopsony (wage-setting power) concentrating. These aren’t just the musings of some random know-it-all on some tech board, they are reality. Look it up.
Your second point is just whataboutism. Investigating Google now doesn’t mean Equifax can’t be investigated later.
And on a larger note in terms of media distribution and delivery, I feel like we’ve regressed to something even worse and more frustrating than the 20th century model