The moral of the story of a single employee keeping the whole division afloat is not what you think it is. The leadership failed when it allowed its success to depend on one person.

> just walk away.

Please continue: "just walk away and use ... instead". What, you can't think of any other option because Google and Apple are a duopoly?

Google cornered 70% or more of the market and illegally used its dominant market position to squash competition in another market - payment processing. US DoJ should use Sherman Act to go after Apple & Google for their abuse of their monopoly positions.

There is only ONE real use case for crypto: circumvention of regulations. There are absolutely no other use cases.
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> do have actual assets backing their currency

No no no. There are some "stablecoins" which CLAIM to have actual assets. None of them are audited.

I think it was mid-March this year when allegedly Iran fired missiles at a US compound in Iraq near Erbil. I saw it online and decided to get the full story the old fashioned way by turning on CNN. And surprise: they did not cover it at all. Nada. Like it never happened.

Apparently, Iran's action was not in line with Biden's new Iran deal. If it's not in line with Dem's narrative then it's not newsworthy.

Let me guess: you voted for Biden.

why can't it offer lightning as a standard EU connector? License it to everyone for the same price as USB C. Problem solved!

I always thought that time-energy is a complimentary pair for HUP, just like position-momentum. Is the novelty of the article in confirming it experimentally?

No. If they were conspiring that would have been a "cartel". Do learn before preaching.
As for not conspiring, they did conspire in the past.

There is a thing called "monopoly". In case of a mobile market it's a "duopoly". Get off your high horse and look it up in Wikipedia.

Yes there was a very good reason to change the app: one cannot get promoted at Google without launching something big and audacious. Just maintaining an existing app is a career suicide.

My former boss made $3B a couple of years ago. He has a UK passport. The way his holdings are structured he paid maybe a couple of %% on the principal of his windfall. Then he pays taxes in the UK on what he consumes in the UK, which is less than $20M/year except for one-off purchase of some real estate. It's completely legal. But it's still tax avoidance.

I have my own open source project, not too big, not too small. From the start we used paid gmail as our email provider, used google docs, paying something like $12/month per person. This is important: we were paying customers albeit small.

At some point we decided to try to monetize our project and created a web site. The site needed a way to contact us, so we used google's Forms for feedback: the customer fills out the form, we get an email and the request is saved to a spreadsheet. The form was simple and straightforward: your email, your name, your company, free-form text for a message. And all was fine for a while.

Each form has a little button in the left bottom corner which anyone can use to "report" the form, essentially to complain to Google that the form is somehow bad. So, someone used that button on our form. I don't know if maliciously or just for fun. Do you think google reviewed the complaint and found it completely frivolous? Do you think google informed us that someone complained? Of course not. They are google. They just closed the form without telling anyone. We found out about it from a customer why found a way to contact us through github. OK, after a quick investigation we found the form was suspended. Google graciously offers a link to appeal the suspension. We pressed it. Then again. And again. I filed that stupid appeal form 5 or 6 times. They never replied even with an automated reply. The form was never restored. So, we ripped out the crap that google Forms are from everywhere and replaced with a home-brew solution.

Google's customer service is an absolute horrible trash. They are good at automation and they treat customers as automata too. Everything is done by statistics. And they don't seem to learn.

The performance of targeted vs non-targeted ads could easily be 10 to 100x. A 20% difference in tax rate is irrelevant.

... BLM, Antifa and Marxism. I suppose they spread love.