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Also, please don't try to insinuate that I'm against the feature. I'm not. I can stop using GMail if I ever want to. I just think everyone should consider their own security and decide how valuable it is to them based on reasonable possibilities.
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> Understanding what the customer needs
Seem to be intended to go together but are really disjoint. Marketing the product isn't the same as understanding the needs of the customer. You can do both but they aren't implicitly the same thing.
Also, I don't quite understand how this is news worthy. It's an interesting thought, but there's no real discussion about any of this and as others have noted, there's no mention of Operating Systems or Systems Programming.
So to me, that read more as, this is a curiosity that has a deep and interesting past and an even more interesting present.
> I wanted to present an alternative possibility which seems to be disregarded at the moment
That is entirely fair and valid. I just misread your comment as more along the lines of "Does no one else see how obvious it is that this guy is crazy?!" My fault.
> On the topic of Perelman
Yes I was already corrected. I couldn't remember with certainty whether he did or didn't. I thought he had, but then what I remembered about his personality made me reconsider that.
I agree it seems odd but even in my limited exploration into Pure Mathematics I have seen alternative proofs made with ideas not native to the field. Why must that necessarily make this proof invalid?
> Maybe the answer is to get rid of corporations?
Hyperbole aside, there is no silver bullet to the situation as it stands. And I'm not informed enough to make any claims as to what could fix it. I just find it horribly hilarious when unions are made out to be so evil and corporations are made out to be the good in any fight. Unions at least have the interest (to a degree) of their members to protect, corporations just care about profit.
But I guess if you willfully deal with the government as an employer, that's your own fault, right?