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>On the other hand, blacklisting Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for saying things about Covid that turned out to be far more correct than what the CDC was saying at the same time is indeed g…

Please elaborate on how a law banning a single company is the same as a law that allow companies to comply.

> Where's the hypocrisy? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456 > "My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even th…

What's even more fascinating is how hot-button an issue Free Speech has become. Just look at some of the inflammatory replies to your comment that just mentions it. There's more go…

Also consumer bias, or "post-purchase rationalization" - i.e. humans overly attribute positivity to goods/services from brands they buy from. Even when it's as bad as throwing you …

It's down across the board except for Facebook apps, meaning Meta probably increased their advertising budgets during this timeframe relative to the others.

Please elaborate on how a law banning a single company is the same as a law that allow companies to comply.

>I'm frankly amazed that people with the ability to understand this alphabet soup mumbo jumbo keep falling for the same scam over and over again. Underneath all of the slick market…

Ok as long as you don't use a halyard, since rope could be considered wire.

Did you read the article? ByteDance's headquarters is in Beijing and these leaked audio tapes are talking about engineers in the headquarters logging into U.S. servers. This isn't …

Facebook and Instagram were banned because they wouldn't obey China's censorship and surveillance laws, not because they were western tools of influence or whatever.

China doesn't ban US tech that obeys the CCP's surveillance laws, like Apple does. This targeting of tiktok is pretty specific by US government, because it singles out a company ra…

Apple tried but just gave in to the government surveillance.

LHD/RHD swamp doesn't really matter given that the truck is probably too long for UK. They would still need to swap out headlights anyways.

Not to mention skirts and tails on the trailer do more to improve aerodynamics than truck modifications. Still, every bit counts I guess.

I dunno. I get annoyed just having to unbuckle and get out of my seat for parking tickets that are out of reach. I can't imagine having to do repeatedly do this while maneuvering a…

>riskier, more stressful, and ultimately not much faster in reality I used to think the same until we A/B tested it a few times (Maps/Waze) with different cars going to the same de…

Elective plastic surgery is hardly inexpensive in the U.S., or representative of healthcare in general. I don't know why you're so hung up on price transparency, it simply isn't th…

>I'll never understand people who expect Apple to try and fight the CCP and inevitably get themselves barred from the Chinese market. People have this expectation because other com…

Except for metadata and file hashing - iCloud is still using those on files and photos.

>Let's assume they do eventually flip their brand on its head and turn on the users. Chinese customers don't need to wait. Apple flipped sometime in 2017 and gave up all user email…

>They seem to be abandoning China Manufacturing , sure. Consumers ? no. Apple traded it's privacy priority for profits back in 2017 when it gave backdoor access to all the iCloud b…

Your link doesn't support your claim about shopping around. Most health insured patients can "shop around" in their network, which is a list of pre-negotiated priced providers that…