Keep in mind that at the time they didn't believe in irrational numbers, negative numbers, nor non-Euclidean geometry.

We already replaced Pythagorean's Theorem, for use in non-Euclidean geometry.

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"Ad-based service without ads" is different from "Customer-based service". Will not the premium customers still get the ad-focused "maximize engagement" algorithm?

Nope, my argument is that both companies acted in their best interest.

The business case for Google vs Apple leaving China are vastly different:
1) Apple sells hardware which people pay big money for, abandoning their users is a bad look. Google's thing is internet search, which is useless when censored, and available anyways via proxy.
2) Removing a few apps is different than the highly detailed censorship and snooping that would be asked of Google.
3) There's tons of alternate search engines just a click away, Google could vanish near instantly if they are perceived as inferior.
4) Can almost guarantee that Google would have had to do infinite snooping, censorship, and propaganda promotion before being replaced anyways.

There you go, as you say the majority of the posts aren't spam. I imagine well over 1% of your google search results for dating will be ripoffs or even worse.

However shitty reddit may be, at least it's real humans talking about things humans care about. Way better than the spammers that have bamboozled google with SEO, which is about to be worsened by AI.

The 5th Amendment isn't about public vs private stuff. It's because at the time it was common to torture people until they confess. Passwords are an interesting case because they can't be a false confession; but confessing that you know the password is confessing that you have access to the account, but the stuff protected by the password is physical evidence and not a confession. There's been cases of people being compelled to share their password after admitting they know it. And biometrics are physical evidence, not a confession.

All the most rapidly developing economies are in developing countries (weird huh?). In terms of population Europe+North America is smaller than Africa and 4x smaller than Asia. So predictions about global population stuff means it's not about you.

Forcing a change doesn't mean making the change at gunpoint, offering choices is the usual method to force a change (eg a competitor "forces" a monopoly to drop their prices).

Yes, people are discovering that you can be under surveillance in public, or not under surveillance in public. For some reason, there's idiots who want a world of being universally under surveillance in public, with all their actions logged and recorded and archived forever.

Smashing open your walls to check if anything is hidden inside the drywall is a reasonable search too, as long as they got a proper warrant for it first. Otherwise the search is unwarranted.

Compensating him is probably cheaper than having their source of funding pissed off at them, or having to do safe deorbit of all their trash.

Trump made history by being the oldest president the US has elected, if he wins a second term he'll update that record. He could very well declare himself dictator for life, without violating the two term limit.

You have to say you live in Florida. What are they going to do, actually check?