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patents that are part of the 3G/4G standard have to be licensed on a FRAND basis (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory).

Ummm, stopping terror attacks is pretty good.

Europe like them, kind of, many other gulf states, China, many african countries, I can go on and on

That is not true at all. The US is just as critical of Israel as many other countries.

The NSA does not illegally spy. Congress has given them large authorizations to collect data and they need FISA approval before tapping Americans. 99.9% of the good work that NSA does will never be seen by the public.

Remember the Israelis also need allies.

The indications are on github if you want to check your phone.

It would be interesting if everybody just pulled an Elon and when Wapo asked for comment they would just say something like "Tell Jeff we say hi". It completely takes the moral high ground from the journalists.

NSO Group is dead at this point. They fucked with the wrong people. Hacking human rights advocates is fine but when Presidents and PMs start getting their phones hacked I am sure they will implement legislation to outlaw this type of software.

^This person is wrong. FISA and FBI counter-intel have a low bar to get warrants because that's what congress intended.

Their biggest customers are middle eastern governments according to the WaPo article. US certainly has bought the software but it's mostly Saudi, UAE, Qatar, etc. US has NSA so they don't really need some software. Middle eastern powers dont have the same type of technical expertise to develop their own in-house.

The CIA doesn't monitor cyber, that would be the NSA and US Cyber Command

Garden leave vs non-competes are very different.

But they have 'insurance' through their taxes.

In addition you are comparing somebody who has insurance (slovenia) to somebody who theoretically doesn't 'US'. Most people in the US get their health insurance through their employer and would pay nothing out of pocket, and if you are uninsuranced the drug companies will often times just give the drug away to you for free.

Politics and governance in the UK: freeloading on the American pharma system.

Because the US has a rule of law and patent system that encourages R&D. Africa freeloads on the US innovation.

LIST PRICE DOESN'T MATTER IN THE US

You would have paid less in taxes and it would have been free besides maybe a small ish deductible although you typically hit that through doctors appointments, drugs etc. The people who are screwed by the american system are the poor people make too much for medicaid. Everybody else generally likes their insurance.

Nobody pays list price in the US.

The middle class in europe pays 40-50% income tax rates.

Taxes outside the US are far higher.

Wikipedia is terrible currently.

Wyoming for cheap LLC and anonymity and South Dakota for trusts.

pretty sure you can easily use shopify for that

abraham. What about search log data? Based on the search log data you could easily map back my searches to my account (IP address and search query). Is the log data also deleted?

Bezos buys a superyacht as his employees live on food stamps. Nice!

Jeff Bezos worked at D.E. Shaw not Renaissance Technologies. Different funds.

Patent trolls are terrible.