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Re:In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most ... by ItsMe000001 on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:08AM (#17998744)
> The idea that because things are some way now they will be forever thusly hasn't panned out historically.

I'm not refuting (because I don't really know) but questioning this statement.

Technological progress is a confounder, apart from that I think people and organizations behave as they always have. Okay, enslaving and murdering people has become harder - in the "modern" parts of the world at least. The "system" still favors not paying too much attention to the human side, and to do whatever you can get away with regardless of cost to society, I think.

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Re:In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most ... by coldtea on Sunday September 16, 2018 @10:20AM (#17999054)
>Technological progress is a confounder, apart from that I think people and organizations behave as they always have

This discussion (and thus the quip about "things being the same forever") is not about human nature, though. It's about consumer choices, and whether Google is really secure long term.

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