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> During the 2020 election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn out likely Democratic voters.
> The 2020 election wasn’t stolen — it was likely bought by one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men pouring his money through legal loopholes.
Encouraging people to vote is buying elections now? What in the world?
There are plenty of people who are difficult to convince to reduce their meat consumption using vegetarian food and meat substitutes alone. Providing choices like this will make it easier to get more folks to reduce meat consumption or go vegetarian.
Not necessarily. I'm sure there are plenty of people who have zero compunction about the practices of factory farms, so long as they get to enjoy their meat.
I recently had a director reach out to me about joining their team to work on rebuilding an ad system from scratch, so unfortunately your fear may very well be valid.
> And it alleges that he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on private plane trips, including for extended family when he was not present; traveled to Africa with his wife on a safari gifted by an NRA vendor; and spent more than $3.6 million on luxury black car services and travel consultants in the past two years.
>Head of NRA spends $3.6M on Uber Black
These are not the same thing. Not even remotely
I think it's probably more that people have lost trust in the political proces and are pushing on private companies as a last resort to effect change.
It's not really your data though, how can you control / monetize it?
I use Google Meet every day and it's a pretty terrible experience. Lots of lag and audio/video distortion.
Meanwhile, Zoom works pretty seamlessly for me, always.
Chrome dev what? I can't hear you over the sounds of waves crashing on the beach
Yeah I'm really confused by the whole "my life got so much better when I got off FB" trope. I don't spend a lot of time on Facebook, but my time spent there is generally pretty positive - I really enjoy getting updates from my friends and family and seeing their photos.
As long as I get to drive it, the distinction isn't very material to me. But I guess I'm not the type to work a lot on my car.
I think I'm fine with it, as long as they continue to sell best-in-class vehicles and provide quality service. Third-party repair and open documentation are nice, but not must-haves for me.
Can the mods add a "(2014)" in the headline for this one?
How does Carbn passively track carbon footprint? The website is scant on details
Well-deserved. Such a great game
Ah my bad, I think I misread this paragraph:
> Apple sued Williams in August, alleging that he breached an intellectual property agreement and a duty of loyalty to the company by planning his new startup while on company time at Apple, spending hours on the phone with colleagues who eventually joined the venture.
Wow, TIL. Does this even make sense financially for anyone?
Doesn't seem hostile or unreasonable. He was a senior director that potentially stole IP and also committed a breach of contract by poaching employees.
I'd say if he _did_ do those things, that seems like something that would merit serious legal action.
1) I think Apple could easily argue it was planning on leveraging it's chip design and manufacturing expertise into other areas. That's pretty reasonable. I could be seem them exploring licensing some of their IP to other manufacturers for example - ARM servers are gaining traction and Apple is a leader in the ARM space
2) Seems like the whole "rival" piece is not material to the lawsuit itself and is just a bit of editorializing on Reuters' part. The lawsuit probably centers on duty of loyalty and breach of contract
> Apple filed the lawsuit in Santa Clara County Superior Court against Gerard Williams III, who left the company last year after more than nine years as chief architect for the custom processors that power iPhones and iPads to start Nuvia Inc, which is designing chips for servers.
Nuvia makes _chips_ for servers, not the servers themselves. Given that Apple also makes chips, it seems like a pretty fair argument
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