Sometimes the downside to robust consumer protections is that you don’t get all the stuff. Norway has a guaranteed five year warranty that likely impacts profitability of compliance for some products.

The problem is that the bigger and heavier the craft the higher it’s minimum drop height is going to be because it’s more dangerous and needs more clearance.

Obviously it also becomes much more costly to run.

That’s true to all extent, but the more present online folks do end up driving behaviors about regular users as well. There was a tube when even having an ad blocker at all was a “power user” thing, now everyone does it. If they fail to accommodate the people that will put energy into circumventing ads then they will just find and normalize a new work around.

It’s similar to content piracy. You will never get rid of piracy altogether, but if you make content accessible and affordable you can mitigate how common it is.

For YouTube, they need to balance how intrusive the ads are against how easy it is to get around them.

Honestly, the association with Yahoo just makes the platform look like a joke. Like, the first time you do a search and it pops up as Yahoo your first instinct is thinking you’re using the wrong thing.

Turns out there’s a reason that getting anything and everything delivered on demand hasn’t ever worked. It’s not a function that is worth the cost to very many people.

So much of the future just looks like fancy new ways to make machines legitimize and carry out our racism for us.

We do have legislation to protect genetic information, what we need is to prevent the gathering and distribution of this information in the first place because those laws go away the second someone is positioned to make a shit ton of money from it.

Must be nice living in countries where the government works for humans instead of corporations.

This implies that your food won’t arrive cold if you do tip, and that hasn’t been my experience at all.

Proton is so good now that there are games that have native Linux versions that run better if you play the Windows version with proton.

His point is that the browser is integral to the functioning of the phones OS and is a decision that the consumer makes when they purchase a phone.

Your suggestion is akin to demanding the right to buy a Honda with a Toyota engine installed by the dealer.

Seriously, the number of times I type something into the desktop search and want web search results is exactly zero.

Because divesting means selling, which means.that you get money in exchange for property. How do you not understand this?

Which would still leave him insanely rich, so the answer you are looking for is “no, elon musk is not taking any actual personal risk here at all.”

Again, none of that impacts him in any way apart from losing the ability to literally just do it again.

Someone in a boardroom probably had a neat bar graph and PowerPoint describing how getting Grandma into IG is going to make them a fortune.

It’s impossible to say what anything is worth to a person who can lose 44 billion dollars and still have so much money left that the next 10 generations of their lineage won’t ever have to work again.

It’s insane to think of that as a trivial amount of money, but musk could literally lose 99% of his money and it wouldn’t impact his life at all, except for his hobby of bankrupting corporations.

And is so bad at it that they can’t work around this issue.