So Google is telling the EU that abiding by a legislation that increases competition is not good for... the competition?

How is Google concluding that increasing competition leads to "worse online products and experiences for EU citizens? As a gatekeeper as per the DMA, where's the data?

Looks to me that Google is afraid of having to innovate again to compete.

So OpenAI paid a third-party to conclude what they paid them for to conclude?

What did I miss?

You can always tell when someone opens the mouth too much and talks about people they don't know about...

Pro-tip: Don't judge the book by its cover...

Why does Figma need to be acquired? Isn't Figma doing well (revenue-wise) on its own?

Who benefits from such an acquisition beyond the investors of Figma looking for an (hefty) exit...?

Stockholm has a very good protocol when it comes to snow removal during the winter season both within the inner city and also the outskirts: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftrafik.stockholm%2Fgator...

It doesn't make sense to have such sharing programs and spend millions on redesigning streets for pedestrians, bicycles and public transportation and not care about weather conditions.

I don't get what are trying to do here to be honest.

If you don't want to be tracked, the best way for you is to have no phone. There is no other way today.
And together with the rest of your activity (purchases, messages like this one here on Slashdot, etc), anyone with sufficient power to collect everything can make the story of your life much better than yourself.

But if you want a phone, like someone has said above... you have to accept such sort of tracking, and this is where the middle ground is. Look for a phone and particularly the terms and conditions that are most suited for your privacy needs.
You are always going to be tracked one way or another (this is not an assumption and rather a fact) so your focus should be on what the actual law is also focused on: data control. You should feel in control of the data that you are giving away and therefore, know what data is being extracted and utilised from you as well as how it is utilised or how you can gear such usage (or even deletion).

We are moving more and more to privacy-preserving enhancing tools/methods (note the meaning of enhancing) that are to give more power to the user to exercise certain rights (the ones described in the law).
And our focus should be on legislation that gives us (citizens) power over how our data is collected and utilised.

So what is your solution?

Do you think that your influence is more powerful when you go solo or when you join others?

Divide and conquer technique works very well when it comes to the one... dividing. Companies benefit from dealing with individual workers rather than associated groups of workers because they can basically attend the needs of each individual based on the leverage that each individual has, and the detriment of that is your co-worker among many others.

If we would think a bit more as a group, that is, as what we are, society; we would have less inequality and notably more social welfare and benefits overall but we choose to be selfish.

Unions try to convey what is best for everyone, they negotiate that, and the management of a company (and so the company) should also negotiate what is best for the company and not what they typically end up doing, which is negotiate what is best for each individual member of that management.

Many countries offer interpreters for many public services, that includes healthcare... when it is obviously public.

Everyone with a brain would never hire these half-brains because bullshitters and mediocre people make the mistake of selling too much what they don't know about or what others have done while they were under the umbrella of the same employer.

Minimally intelligent people can ask simple questions to these great egos and the answers will speak for themselves.
So what's the problem? That these leechers of society are interviewed by other leechers and the whole thing becomes exponential becomes most jobs aren't advertised and simply sourced with referrals.

You can't verify past jobs titles because it is illegal in many jurisdictions (try that in EU... and bring me popcorn for the show) and even if you could in those legislations it would still do nothing. That's what probation periods are for and that's what accountability is for, if a company doesn't investigate why a shitty manager is contiously hiring people (because they leave soon after they join as they see the show) then it is the problem of the manager of this manager, and ultimately the CEO and/or the board but because in pretty much most cases the whole chain is corrupt and full of wasted wages... the problem remains.

Did anyone took any responsibility for hiring all those extra people at Peloton that have been laid off recently? Well... the CEO certainly didn't :)

Ok, thank you for that. And your point is...?

Can you explain to me how valuable gold's country is at some safe deep in the ground in some other country (or even its own)?
Can you tell me who, today (not 100 years ago), is interested in exchanging goods for gold?

Cryptocurrencies are as useful as gold is because they actually meet the same exact requirements of gold to store value in something of limited quantity that is not controlled by some politician and it doesn't change over time, that is, perpetual.

The value of gold is pure speculation as well, particularly today.
I'd love to see some western country's economy run with gold instead, that would be fun in the shops (assuming they even get access to it).

There is nothing that guarantees the value of a FIAT or anything else. The value of things is guaranteed by the willingness of someone to give something in exchange for it. A FIAT is not better than anything because it is subject to the politicians that control them and cryptocurrencies' notable value increase during this pandemic is an example of how investors run away from the money printing machines...

Cryptocurrencies will remain as long as they fulfill the same requirements as gold because there is a need for investors to store value in something, whether it is a physical item or a digital one doesn't matter nowadays because what matters is that there is an agreement to exchange commodity X for anything.
And digital commodities are notably easier to maintain compared to physical ones than gold (no need for major physical space, simpler security, access 24/7 and worldwide, real-time proof of ownership, etc).

No offense but a 100% tax is absurd after a certain threshold of wealth is absurd and inefficient. Those who would risk reaching such limit they would just put such wealth under others names or companies, etc (and no, you cant legislate to consider someone's company as their wealth as you would be probably entering an area that affects employment, wealth, innovation, etc...).

There are already taxes on wealth which are progressive and motivated to make those own such wealth circulate it (that is, put to some use). There is no need for more, the problem is that such tax on wealth has been abolished in many legislations (or the limits have been increased to make it useless in the end).

We have the tools already in place. The problem is the lobbies and politicians that have created exceptions to perpetuate their power and increase their own wealth.

Maybe then you shouldn't know that you live in an economy that assumes infinite growth in a world with finite resources.

Or do you think that your favourite tech/food/pharma/manufacture/etc company will always be able to report a positive growth YoY?

Diversification.

Besides, the business of Coinbase is not in holding cryptocurrencies but rather enabling the trading. They mostly make their profit from the transactions users/investors do in their platform and not from holding such assets.
The best part of their idea is that they won't need to convert any fiat to cryptocurrencies since they can take the fees of transactions directly in the cryptocurrency in which they want to invest.