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This is textbook whataboutism, using Fox News no less. It's irrelevant to the discussion about Musk's hypocrisy on free speech, which you also ignored in your previous comment:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456
> "My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk"
Just look at some of the inflammatory replies to your comment that just mentions it. There's more going on with the semantics of the phrase being used to irrationally rile people up to outrage, rather than actually being about the definition of free speech.
Even when it's as bad as throwing you in the wrong lane of traffic.
There are rational people who knowingly invest in ponzi and other schemes because they think they can get out before the music stops playing.
Some ultimately do, and some ultimately get caught.
This isn't some smoking gun about CCP surveillance, but more about how the sausage is made for a global app.
They would still need to swap out headlights anyways.
I can't imagine having to do repeatedly do this while maneuvering a big rig around a stockyard. Or did you mean it was one of the most valid criticisms?
I used to think the same until we A/B tested it a few times (Maps/Waze) with different cars going to the same destination.
Waze really was faster very time.
People have this expectation because other companies have done this.
For example, Google employees revolted when dragonfly was leaked, and got the CCP search-spying project killed. It's weird to think that Google cared more about user privacy than profits than Apple does, but that's how weird the branding works here.
Chinese customers don't need to wait. Apple flipped sometime in 2017 and gave up all user emails, photos, messages, etc. to the CCP to stay in the market.
People complain about TikTok spying for China, but Apple is one of the biggest CCP spies around. That runs counter to the brand headspace they keep investing in though.
Manufacturing, sure. Consumers? no.
Apple traded it's privacy priority for profits back in 2017 when it gave backdoor access to all the iCloud backups - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...
Most health insured patients can "shop around" in their network, which is a list of pre-negotiated priced providers that the insurance company has approved. Providers that are already vetted to be the lower cost for insurance, created through purchase power. And that's assuming it isn't an HMO, for which there is no shopping around.
There are not enough options for real market competition in healthcare.
In a world where you're not the primary payer.
The complexity of healthcare prices is an artifact of decades of negotiations between providers and insurers, with the added headaches of linked diagnosis and procedural dimensions.
IME the pricing is so overtly complex that transparency into it isn't going to make much of a difference, it's just going to create more questions. If you want simplicity, switch to single payer.
Rimworld is complex, but it always leaves me wanting more. Especially z-levels.
The main character is from an alien hive race that runs a lot like ants, with workers (main char) and drones (motorcycle man). They are on Earth trying to harvest humans for their skin, but also their meat for research purposes or something, i dunno. Something about being in close proximity to and interacting with humans causes the workers to eventually catch feelings, and need to be replaced. The replacement workers don't care - they're just ants - right up until they catch feelings themselves and the drones have to fetch them for replacement. Hence you watch one worker with her lifecycle on Earth, where she experiences all the good and bad parts of being human.
There's a huge gap between that and the majority of crypto founders at the time.