That really is the key disconnect in conversation. The idea that every single morning, when you get into your car, it always - without question - has a full "tank" of fuel may be a foreign one, but it greatly obviates the need for any additional charging on a regular basis. Sure, 45 minutes at a charger on a road trip isn't as convenient as 5-10 minutes, but when it only happens twice a year and it also replaces all of the other unscheduled 5 minute stops, that's not a bad deal.

Yup, I had then back in the 90s when I tore up my knee. No paperwork, no fees, everything from X-rays to the surgery just covered.

But its true. The Democrats pushed for single payer and the ACA was originally the bipartisan compromise bill, modeled closely after the Gingrich/Heritage plan. Then the Republican Party flipped and came out against it because of Mitch McConnell's vow (on camera no less) to fight against every Obama initiative regardless of what it was.

This is why the Republicans have been having such a hard time coming up with any alternative - its literally 95% their plan.

If, however, you got those books for free in exchange for agreeing not to do exactly what you describe they could, in fact, come after you and exercise various legal remedies. Just because you can download something from the internet doesn't mean that it's in the public domain - otherwise you could also just reprint copyrighted books you downloaded from the Kindle site and sell them, which you absolutely cannot (legally) do, even if you add annotations to them.

Except that very few people who tout crypto are up-front about the power cost of maintaining (not mining) the network, which generally makes it completely unsustainable. With Bitcoin its running around 700kWh, and with the average commercial cost of electricity being 11c/kWh, that puts the transaction fee at $77. Right now that's being subsidized by users, like the uber driver who's making mad bank if you ignore the cost of gas, wear and tear, and depreciation. That won't - can't - last.

This seems fair. The proper punishment for the office in question should be exactly the same as if he'd looked up the information in a stack of paper files. The fact that he used a computer to do the research is irrelevant, and if the original violation doesn't carry stiff enough penalties then it should be adjusted for the future.

Yes. Its a very misleading headline - true, but those two actions are completely unrelated. Any other company could choose to increase or decrease the number of ads in their product too, at any time, regardless of how much personal information those ads are able to phone home with.

I guarantee that the author knows this as well, and is intentionally trying to mislead people.

You could have made exactly the same argument, in the same words, 100 or 150 years ago as well. It turns out that a completely free market never creates decent living conditions for the majority of people working under it.

Out of that $0.30 they are (according to Epic's expert) spending $0.066 (22% of $0.30) on operating the App Store and the rest is theirs to keep or spend on something else. The remaining $0.234 (78% of $0.30) is theirs to keep or spend on something else.

In this instance, the "something else" also includes all the other app infrastructure. Think about near-realtime push notifications from free apps (like Facebook, for example). The "App Store" isn't close to the entirety of the "App Ecosystem".

Coming up with an algorithm that's simple, small, and manages to avoid "similar sounding words" being close to one another without having actual human-assigned locations is a really, really hard problem to solve.

For emergency use, the current W3W implementation is a massive, massive improvement over "I don't know, somewhere on I-10 east of San Antonio, there's a tree with a bird in it? And maybe a sign off in the distance I can't read?"

The very first thing that the Axios link does is give credit to the NYT post, as indeed the OP did but in this case without actually linking to them.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2021%2F0...

There's a reason that people aren't building the next Facebook or Amazon on top of the public infrastructure that Somalia is providing...

Don't forget to include the amount of your purchase that goes towards storefront rent instead of being online only... businesses have many expenses that aren't enumerated to the customer. Why make this one special?

Except for the extra sales that stores get because people might not have pulled as much cash to carry with them. And not having to worry about employee cash theft, or security taking money to the bank, or lost sales because you didn't pull enough cash to handle making change... Credit card fees are obvious to merchants, but other methods of payment still have associated expenses.

Also keep in mind that handling checks and cash is not free. From security to processes to potential mistakes, they also have costs - they're just not always as obviously marked.