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Do you have source?

It's bad for their brand and image. They promote their ads as least intrusive. If they are so user-friendly, why would anyone get them removed? It is simple brand management.

Like US is not doing it...

Google broke EU laws on purpose - their revenue is huge from European markets, thus they should pay a huge fine. As simple as that.

And it very well couldn't. Slapping medical name to everything is not a solution either. Sometimes sleep disorder is as little as the wrong diet.

Decades? We are talking here about 2-3 years lag due to conservatist approach. You seem to know nothing about what you write.

I think you should not put IT specialists from India and Poland in the one bag. Polish engineers are sometimes a bit late when it comes to the new technologies, but are very good compared to ones from, for example, Ireland.

IMO it will be the same as with weed fashion. There will be a large group of people seeing only benefits of it, lobbying it, swearing by it and not seeing a problem it might cause. And then there will be the rest.

The issue probably will be more social (sustaining people that are hooked in through social welfare) and rise in inequality.

Today is a bad day, so many startups going down.

They support it for publicity. Imagine if they wouldn't. They assume net neutrality will not pass, but they will make good face to a bad game.

Uber, with its history of fraud, will get huge bills in near future. While the company was acting as not caring about anyone, will get bitten by governments and unions soon for it. You cannot disturb the whole world like that. You need to obey laws and try to change/lobby them, rather than break them.

This news being offensive to him might mean he is a racist. No sane person would take this title as offensive.

The government should do that, but not in the current state. Governments around the globe became so broken and corrupt, they cannot do the tasks given to them.

But pro-society government (centrist), with regular people having direct tools to remove officials, with politicians being responsible for their election promises and with no lobbying allowed, with tight anti-corruption laws and yearly referendum in place.

They do have support. I was stuck once with a friendly fella, that spent 45+ minutes talking about weather and weekend adventures to me, rather than solving my issue. It took less than 5 minutes to solve the issue, almost an hour of talk time. I would even bet money that the guy was heavily stoned.

At the end he asked me to provide positive feedback to him in exchange for friendly service. He said he will redirect me somewhere and I should give him a proper feedback. This is even while I was telling me I have no time and this is an urgent matter. At the end of the call it turned out it took him 5 minutes to solve the issue and he just wanted to chat while I was stuck at talking to him, thinking he is waiting for a solution to propagate.

I can't say this is a good support.

Ugh, tried to found some, but Google is not helping. Those were paper based papers about science and gizmos. I think I have seen some in old Playboy magazine once as well. We are talking here about 10+ years ago, so web was not everywhere yet.

Nice clickbait though. I remember seeing those headlines about flying cars - "In 2020 most cars will be flying!" a decade or so ago. Such a writers are detached from reality, or their reality is based on their very closed and hermetical environment.

What about thousands of users that will not see this reply? The gymnastics that an average user needs to do in order to contact support are ridiculous, and according to many stories here, it mostly solves nothing. Your explanation is fair enough, but I assume you guys should make a solid plan for increasing support quality and make it more available.

As of wrongly billed resources - to be honest, you are half blamed for that. I often create apps and base on SAAS reporting to see if the script behaves as expected and uses as many resources as needed. You have misled developers to believe everything is alright and now you are punishing them. I would expect some credits for time being and "transition" period.

tbh, a database, for example, for most startups is not hard on the beginning:

-installing MySQL

-Installing Apache

-installing PHP MyAdmin

-running some commands from shell and SQL

-done.

If you create a startup it is wise to know the basics as such and in case that you grow to hire people to pimp it up.

I would like to see UBI tests performed in pathological areas, or areas close-to-pathology - in real world environment without hype enforced on them.

Facebook copycat? It was poor take on Facebook. Bad design, bad decisions, bad UI and bad UX. There was no vision for it, Google Plus would be much better as LinkedIn killer than Facebook killer.

Bingo.

Too bad, it cannot be viewed. Seems like the hug of death.

Wikipedia would become even more sided by going this route.

But Google or any other corp will not do that I think, as Wikipedia is website hated by many powerful people.

The domain, the pricing, the content - get it fixed. It screams red flags.

Either invent some non-intrusive advertising method or go after CPM. Paying for the social network in 90% will fail in the current environment. If you want some free counselling from marketing veteran, hit me up.

Depending on which country. He could have become a president of some poor, maybe African or Asian state and use his knowledge and funds to help it. If you are talking about US president, then no, definitely no.

I would suggest an idea review - limiting the number of connections for a free account - this won't fly. You are solving the problem, that is well known in the tech world, but you are not solving problems of average users.

It works like a warning to people, information that this stuff is happening.

Anything that goal is to look for the source of energy. This must be an actual goal and such a being must be oriented around this.

I think this would create a simple definition.

Maybe try to decrease the price and open up to wider public? Pricing is high for small developer.

I was asked this before. When I refused, they said it was mandatory. I put my number as 30% more. There is no way for them to confirm, I think this is an unfair practice, so if they are forcing you to play the game, why you would be fair? I have got the job, as a junior, I was making same money as senior minus the benefits.