Does this mean that every mobile app (and presumably desktop apps in the near future) will be spying on me no matter what I do with it, and reporting to various entities about my activities?
No, not in the future. It's been as you describe for a minute now.
(which is, to most people, the problem of having to see homeless people).
This is such a pain. Fortunately, I see a solution to this once augmented reality becomes ubiquitous. Just overlay some other image over them, ads, or anything else you don't want to see.
The description, as given, is at best neutral and my takeaway was that it wasn't considered a positive thing by other information gatherers of that world.
Neutral? maybe. I don't recall things turning out well for the gargoyle. Something about having the arteries of his legs sliced so that all of his blood instantly drained out like punching the bottom out of a styrofoam cup. d-_-b
... I don't think I'd worry about interest with that kind of scratch.
Quite the opposite. With that kind of scratch small percentages of interest one way or another make a HUGE difference. . d-_-b
Diversifying investment portfolio is something that all good investors tend to do.
Agreed, but his Google assets were built by building up Google into one of the more diversified companies around.
While Google has its hands in alot of pies, that doesn't remotely count as diversified from an investment standpoint. Google is practically a tech sector pure play.
once you start paying more than half of what you earn in income taxes, you start to question why you're doing the job and whether it's still worth it.
Boy its tough being a billionaire and getting almost half your income taken. Almost makes one want to stop being a billionaire. Probably why we have such problems with an evaporating ultra wealthy class.
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