>True but generally speaking American companies usually have much better customer service and better refund policies than European ones. The issues usually stem when a company corners the market or has no viable alternatives.
I'm trying to be charitable but I really don't understand your line of reasoning. To me it seems like their hand is being forced by the UK Government. They don't want to introduce a backdoor for global users by complying so they are simply disabling the feature for users in the UK. If the feature does not exist then there is no need to comply. That seems... reasonable?
The blame squarely lies with the government in the UK and that is correctly where it seems like most of the anger is being directed.
paying up front when offered an interest free loan, especially in a high interest rate environment is not really rational though. i have excellent credit but klarna doesn't offer its services to me, i suspect because they expect i will make the payments on time and become unprofitable.
i think to expect a multi-billion dollar organisation to make consequential decisions like this based on anything other than cold calculation is naive at best and enormously stupid at the very worst.
The sea change in chicken production demonstrated it was possible to quickly scale down antibiotics in farming, but it didn’t do much to reduce overall use, as the chicken industry only used 6 percent of antibiotics in agriculture in 2016. And the momentum didn’t spread to other parts of the meat business, like beef and pork, which together account for over 80 percent of medically important antibiotics fed to farmed animals.
consider that the goal of facebook is not to build a 'good product for the world'. facebook exists to 1) keep your attention 2) extract as much data as it can 3) make inferences where necessary/possible 4) sell targeted ads.
facebook is an ad business. to that end, they do try to improve the user experience wherever necessary to advance the goals stated above, but that's it.
one piece of advice for anyone about to read war and peace: the number of chracters are vast and you'll find that the names used to refer to each can often change with no warning. different names can be used interchangeably, even in the same piece of dialogue. it can get very confusing. best to have a map of character names before you start.
> As a market, it's not worth the risk until it's worth the legal advice.
i think that is a calculation only op can make. the european union covers over 400 million people. making some early design decisions in what data you collect, how you store it, for a lot of people is an acceptable cost to open up to such a large quantity of people.
in fact, it think advising a founder that is bootstrapping their business that the only "reasonable" course of action is to exclude large swathes of the developed world is frankly, misguided.
I will repost a comment I made about Apple and China in another post like 1.5 years ago:
"Apple are beholden to China. Sure, China is a huge market for them but I think the bigger issue is manufacturing: if they piss China off they won’t have anything to sell, anywhere! I’m sure Apple execs know this and I hope they’re quickly planning to reduce, if not remove this dependency."
Over the past few weeks, I've seen police officers indiscriminately spray pepper spray at peaceful protestors. I've seen them spray pepper spray at journalists. I've seen them point guns at unarmed children. I've seen them shoot cannisters at the face of a helpless man in a wheelchair. I've seen them ram cars into crowds. I've seen too many of them put their knees on the back of the neck of far too many black men. I've seen them do all of this while their colleagues stood by and watched. I've seen them do all of this while their colleagues vocally defended these 'bad apples'.
It's time to reform policing in the US. It is clearly not fit for purpose. If more of this seemingly endless supply of money was spent on improving community initiatives to address problems before they become problems, we would need fewer white men in riot gear with assault rifles breaking into the homes of innocent black men and women to shoot them in their sleep. This madness has gone on for far too long.