Do you have evidence that the general public is, on average, intelligent enough to be critical thinkers? Or does critical thinking require an innate higher-than-average intelligence?
I'd guess the OP was referring to people who just talk about random stuff in their lives and -- for some bizarre reason -- become crazy popular, so much so that they become "influencers" that companies pay to promote their products.
I can't speak to T-Mobile, but perhaps the reason Sprint is an underdog in the market is because their service is terrible. I've tried them twice in my life separated by at least a decade. Both times I dropped them within a week.
The last time I tried them, I was getting an order of magnitude less bandwidth while using an iPad with cellular while standing on Market Street in downtown San Francisco compared to my Verizon iPhone at the exact same spot.
Ma Bell, pre-divestiture, despite being a monopoly, was in the business of providing the best land-line service in the world -- and they did. They also invented heavily into fundamental research (Bell Labs) not connected to how much money they could make from it. In return for this arrangement, despite being granted patents, they never enforced their exclusive rights on them effectively giving away their discoveries and inventions to humanity.
Did they stifle competition? Absolutely. But there was a silver lining that was lost post-divestiture.
Well, no, not anyone can learn to program. It requires the right aptitude. (There are people who, for example, simply can not understand pointers.) Many of those who aren't aware they don't have the requisite aptitude are the ones spending the money on boot camps and such.
And if some garment manufacturer chooses to allow Macy's to sell and display their garments in their window, but not Bloomingdales, why shouldn't they be allowed to do that?
What if the pointer points beyond the end of some chunk of malloc'd memory? Merely checking array bounds is insufficient for any non-trivial C program.
Advertising helps drug and device companies make a profit
So? I never said anything about such companies. I'm talking only about private insurance companies. If the government provided all health care, there would be no need for private health insurance companies.
Apparently ignored in that article is the cost of funding private, for-profit health insurance companies. And it's not only profit, but money such companies must spend on peripheral things like advertising, lobbyists, etc. All of that money, from the perspective of actually providing health care, is wasted money.
By the way, the point isn't necessarily to reduce costs, though that would be a nice bonus. The point is to make sure everyone has health care, including routine preventative care, something many poorer people don't do because they can't afford it. The upshot is that problems that otherwise either would have been preventable or caught early and treated for a lot less expense turn into serious conditions are are a lot more expensive to treat --- or the people either live in misery or outright die.
One thing that doesn't make sense to me is having 2FA enabled for an iPhone. If one tries to log in to one's iCloud account via one's iPhone, the 2FA code gets sent to the iPhone. What good is that?
They are paying their fare share. You don't actually think that any company or individual would voluntarily pay more taxes than they are legally required to, do you?
If you'd like Google to pay more taxes, then you have to get politicians to enact tax laws that require additional taxes. Of course the downside is that Google is free to leave the jurisdiction in question. In that case, not only aren't they paying any taxes at all, they're also not providing local jobs for thousands of people, plus the ripple effect of all those employees being in the area (buying food, drinks, i.e., pumping money into the local economy).
Since it's a low probability, the mean time between occurrences would be large. Whichever happened first would have time to spread and out-compete any other that might have arisen.
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Do you have evidence that the general public is, on average, intelligent enough to be critical thinkers? Or does critical thinking require an innate higher-than-average intelligence?
Hmm, not sure how that happened. Correct link: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Why do we insist that if you are poor, you should also be miserable?
I'd guess the OP was referring to people who just talk about random stuff in their lives and -- for some bizarre reason -- become crazy popular, so much so that they become "influencers" that companies pay to promote their products.
I believe states must comply with minimum emissions standards, but are free to impose stricter standards.
The last time I tried them, I was getting an order of magnitude less bandwidth while using an iPad with cellular while standing on Market Street in downtown San Francisco compared to my Verizon iPhone at the exact same spot.
Because really good programmers are hard to find.
Copy & paste has been in iOS since 3.0 which was back in 2009. But don't let reality ruin your out-of-date rant.
Did they stifle competition? Absolutely. But there was a silver lining that was lost post-divestiture.
Well, no, not anyone can learn to program. It requires the right aptitude. (There are people who, for example, simply can not understand pointers.) Many of those who aren't aware they don't have the requisite aptitude are the ones spending the money on boot camps and such.
Given that Essential has only about 100 employees, I don't see anything wrong with describing it as tiny. How much it's valued at is orthogonal.
And if some garment manufacturer chooses to allow Macy's to sell and display their garments in their window, but not Bloomingdales, why shouldn't they be allowed to do that?
Bell Labs also had Distinguished Member of Technical Staff.
How do you know Muslim3 isn't lying?
So if credible news costs money and news of lesser credibility is free, which do you think most Joe Sixpacks will read?
What if the pointer points beyond the end of some chunk of malloc'd memory? Merely checking array bounds is insufficient for any non-trivial C program.
So? I never said anything about such companies. I'm talking only about private insurance companies. If the government provided all health care, there would be no need for private health insurance companies.
By the way, the point isn't necessarily to reduce costs, though that would be a nice bonus. The point is to make sure everyone has health care, including routine preventative care, something many poorer people don't do because they can't afford it. The upshot is that problems that otherwise either would have been preventable or caught early and treated for a lot less expense turn into serious conditions are are a lot more expensive to treat --- or the people either live in misery or outright die.
If I'm standing out on the street, I do NOT have my Mac with me.
Yes, you can; but that does nobody any good if you're nowhere near your computer. The 2FA code is sent to all your iOS and logged-in macOS devices.
One thing that doesn't make sense to me is having 2FA enabled for an iPhone. If one tries to log in to one's iCloud account via one's iPhone, the 2FA code gets sent to the iPhone. What good is that?
If you'd like Google to pay more taxes, then you have to get politicians to enact tax laws that require additional taxes. Of course the downside is that Google is free to leave the jurisdiction in question. In that case, not only aren't they paying any taxes at all, they're also not providing local jobs for thousands of people, plus the ripple effect of all those employees being in the area (buying food, drinks, i.e., pumping money into the local economy).
Since it's a low probability, the mean time between occurrences would be large. Whichever happened first would have time to spread and out-compete any other that might have arisen.
Or, if you have friends that post such horrific content, simply unfollow them. Same with pages you follow. Why do you need Facebook to do anything?
Why do you reported it? If someone posts something you don't like, especially often, just unfollow that person or page. Easy.