I am on Project Fi also, but my opinion on the phone options has soured of late. I brought my own Nexus 6, and never felt compelled to update but now the only options are Pixels without headphone jacks or Lenovo Moto phone. I'm happy with the service, but I am not happy being limited in phone options.

Joke's on you! All of these are meat problems our new robot overlords don't give a damn about.

The human brain doesn't comprehend numbers that large consciously. Even 1/10 of a billion dollars will last 1,000 years spending $100,000/year. This is not even accounting for any interest on the principal, and considerably higher than median household income in the US. If they were able to recover even a fraction of the amount, they are set for life even if they spend exorbitantly.

Obama put the ability to sue the banks in place, rather than forced arbitration. It is the GOP rolling back consumer protection.

Don't worry too much. The failure results will be obfuscated by a paywall and/or HIPAA protection so you don't have to trouble yourself with them. The pharma company gets paid for your chemo round whether it works or not.

The credit bureau's function is to make sure that an individual has a good credit rating so a bank or business can predict who would be a good risk to give credit. Did these companies prevent the "liar loans" which led to the financial collapse of 2008? It doesn't seem to me as though they are serving the public good to a capacity which offsets the risk in leaking private information.

The reality of the situation is that the IRS has been chronically underfunded because it suits the owners of the US government to not have anyone competent reviewing their books too closely. The idea that a private company be outsourced such sensitive data is ludicrous, but the IRS will never have the funding to do it in-house properly.

People with the money get to decide what's evil and good.

iMessage will never exceed penetration beyond iPhone itself. More phones are Android, and can't install iMessage.

The app can report your GPS location, phone number, and other informatics back to the app developer and their advertising partners.

Right now, the taxpayer is subsidizing these low paying jobs with welfare. If raising the minimum wage encourages companies to automate, society will be better off because it makes the inefficient jobs obsolete.

I'm pretty sure the app developers are just renting out storage space on the user's phone.

It's actually a choice for the consumer to keep multiple subscriptions. I plan on only keeping a subscription active if I am currently watching a show.

Phones are pretty intimate devices, so I understand why the owners of these apps would want to use them as hooks to extract as much out of their users as possible because there is money in information. I think I'm pretty fair when it comes to granting permissions, but Facebook and LinkedIn are examples of apps that go way too far. I get that a social network would want to access my address book and calendar, but I can't think of a good reason to give them that privilege. I use the mobile website for Facebook and Twitter, and generally only use LinkedIn on my desktop browser.

It's not illegal, but it's also not in the public interests. If the road owners have a history of reneging on agreements to the public, and knowingly allow the free roads to degrade and fill with potholes to force everyone to the pay roads it's bad news for everyone. They can bribe the local politicians to keep the scheme legal, but it is putting most people at a disadvantage to profit a few rich investors.