I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic, in which case +1 for your sarcasm, or if you are just being immensely optimist, in which case you deserve a +1 for optimism. Either way i'm afraid it will take more than this to take the whole system down and start fresh with good choices that benefit the whole and not the few.

Actually it is worst than free.

The service you get is as if it was a "free" products, but you are actually paying by giving all your data to google.

I have no insight on how google search works in the backend, but if "near me" is a keyword to tell the search engine to check the location of the user and then provide results within a certain distance range, it is likely that the text "near me" is removed from the actual "text" search. Any google search engineer here (are there any left in the department, anyway?) care to share some knowledge?

I don't want to get into the pro mark vs against mask debate. but i want to enter in the defense of properly executed scientific tests.

Remember that correlation is not causation. That is one reason why it is important to have a randomly selected set of cases in a trial. Without randomly selected sets other factors might be at play, like in your Kansas example.

if you are looking for scientific proof that masks help, you need to abide by high standards. With that said, often a proof is not necessary, the basic sense that it helps can be sufficient. and in a situation of danger, like a pandemic, just the fact that it probably helps should be alredy enough.

Many scientific facts that we hold for truth are not proven, they are just not been proven wrong.

Also, it would be good to remember that exchange of ideas and debate is the foundation to science, what is held as truth today might be proven wrong tomorrow. I'm not saying to listen to crazy people making crazy suggestions about chloroquine or whatever that was, i'm just saying that those who profess to follow science should not forget that science evolves constantly. Science and dogma are opposite, let's not try to make them one.

Yet the "anti-PRC sentiment" is fostered because it is good for business from an American point of view. If you fell for it, you fell for the Apple vs Dell or Apple vs Windows commercials. They both said bad things about each others and you might prefer one or the other, but ultimately they are just trying to get your money. From an American prospective to stop China from becoming a serious technological competition is important. If the issue with China was really Human Rights there would be many other countries, with a far worse track record, that would be targeted first. But again, for example, it is good business to be friends with countries with oil. So we don't stress their human rights issue, we stress those of the countries that we compete with. So what America is doing with China is to try to weaken their technology dependence, because it is good business. Hollywood studios and other companies that profit from their business in China follow the directive of the Chinese Communist Party, because it is good business. Everyone is doing whatever is good for their business. Nothing new here.

How the USA foot the bill of others? If you are referring to India and Brazil (and possibly other nations) producing generic drugs, then some US companies might be loosing some money, but that is not specific of the US (India and Brazil do it with drugs developed in many other countries as well). I'm doubtful that generic drugs really effects the cost of healthcare in the US that much. Anything i'm missing?

Wow, yours is the only comment actually on topic with the original article. Well Done!

I agree with you, I don't believe the US is actually going to prosecute Assange, that would be a loose/loose situation (if he gets acquitted it legitimize anyone that feels some secret should be known by public, if he is sentenced it shows that there is no freedom of press). Better letting him rot in jail in the UK waiting for a decision that will never come. Given that, for what i gather, he has already being destroyed physically and psychologically by the detention, he should call the bluff and turn himself in, they can't hurt him more.

Oh, i thought the Windows 98 things was part of the punishment.

You are right, but, to your point, the environment doesn't care about per Country either. However per capita allows environmentalists and policy makers to see how well (or badly) the regulations that the different Countries enact are working in comparison to others. BTW, I don't want to get into a back and forth, but i'm probably failing at it :)

Citation Needed. BTW, India, which has roughly the same population as China, produces about 1/4 of China's pollution, kudos to India.

If you adjust the pollution into "per capita", I believe you'll find the US is the most polluting country. China has about 5 times the population of the US and "only" pollutes a bit more than double. Also a (large?) portion of China's pollution is generated by factories building cheep goods for the US. With that said, I'm afraid Japan has no other option but to dump the water, and, given that they are big on fishing, i hope they did their calculation correctly and will cause as little harm as possible.

No problem, i'll give you another for free.

IMHO Apple is guilty of many products lockdown, but not on this one. This seems to me an issue of calibration (or re-calibration in this case). I very much doubt that, if you took the iPad to have the screen replaced directly to Apple, they would desolder the old chip and solder it back to the new screen. There is likely a re-calibration process that needs to be performed, perhaps the problem here is that this recalibration process is only possible with proper software and that this software in not available to everyone, hence a right to repair issue.

If human had made up their facts and their cost analysis as much as the GPT engine did, they would have had just as much success, investors are well known to be gullible.