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That's true.

Given that iMessage has 1.3 billion active monthly users, WhatsApp has 2 billion and Facebook Messenger with 3, I don’t believe they are the one living in a bubble.

It has a free tier.

It's just Bing reskinned. With some other sources for the instant answers.

Europe is huge, so it would help to be more specific.

In the UK, credit card use is widespread even for in person purchases. By legislation it provides extra protection, for example by Section 75 (https://www.experian.co.uk/consumer/credit-cards/guides/sect...)

MS is buying Activision Blizzard to compete against Sony.

Have you tried again in recent years?

Today it is much more of a binary experience. A game either runs smoothly out of the box or does not run at all. And the latter is the exception, not the rule.

Employment contracts are actually very prevalent. Are you conflating the United States with the entire world?

This is so out touch that it is laughable

It's always been the case.

But now it happened in FAANG so it burst the bubble of the proportionally few who used to feel special.

Well, it's not only big tech that pays high salaries.

Unless you're Chinese, right? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...

It boggles my mind that some people don't see the relevance.

Apple provides a backdoor into Chinese citizens' iCloud to the Chinese government, while praising itself as the bastion of privacy.

Doing so because of money is all the more hypocritical.

Already a thing in the UK, where the cheapest insurance options require the installation of a telemetry black box in the car.

X13

Airspaces are already a thing in aviation, and pilots need to seek permission to transit between them. This is done by making the request to air controllers via radio.

https://skybrary.aero/articles/classification-airspace

With regards to postal workers: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036

Mozilla dug their own grave, to be fair.

I have an X13 with Ubuntu 20.04 and it works flawlessly.

The trackpad is terrible though.

Is your source a random person on the Internet?

I work daily with LLVM and haven't noticed any slowdown in contributions by employees from Google or Apple.

It is very FAANG oriented (and US oriented at the same time).

While you have no children, maybe

You didn’t address anything I said.

The receipt only contains the number of votes for each candidate. It does not validate if X people actually have voted in candidate A. So if the machine transfer a certain number of votes between candidates, it does not raise any flags.

Such scenario can be detected by printed vote receipts in addition to the electronic ballot.

Watch the video I posted.

The testing is not open. Selected groups are invited, and it runs for a given length of time. To the point that obviously only so many flaws can be found, as the test environment is not realistic.

There are plenty of examples of flaws in the voting system. Most of them have been corrected, but not all.

Yes, fraud is widespread with paper voting. But it does not scale. One single flaw in an electronic voting system could scale to every single voting machine, thus impacting even presidential elections.

Security through obscurity.

As a matter of public interest, the source code should be open for all.

In the Brazilian electronic voting system, there is no mechanism to check that the counting on each machine was performed correctly. Validation only occurs after that point.

So if the machine somehow subtracts 256 votes from one candidate and transfers them to another, the total remains the same and this discrepancy isn't caught.

It sounds ludicrous, but actually has happened before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8

This is just one example of how the Brazilian system isn't ideal. The criticism against it is very well supported by sound arguments, and it's a shame that it got politicised. It's a pure technical matter.