Why isn't the company paying for it? Anyways, you could just export it to a different format and then back to Excel depending on which features you're using. But also, I think this is being paranoid. Microsoft isn't the NSA
What search api do you think those services use under the hood? Funnily enough though, only Bing actually lets you use their API directly, services that build on top of Google are paying proxy scrapers because Google doesn't sell direct access to their search results. I'm guessing they'll open it up to capture that market eventually.
It's as if workers can only improve their condition in a capitalist society when the pie grows exponentially, but continual exponential growth is an impossibility in a physical world.
I rotate delivery apps so they constantly send me coupons. The coupon doesn't actually save any money over the restaurant cost but basically cancels out the delivery fee.
Sorry I misworded it. I meant to say any industry that must be a monopoly/trust, so things that are based on scarce or shared resources. Housing, telecom, energy, etc. Monopolies that don't need to be monopolies should be broken up into smaller companies.
I am a developer and that's exactly how I see it too. I think AI will be able to write PRs for simple stories but it will need a human to review those stories to give approval or feedback for it to fix it, or manually intervene to tweak the output.
What do you mean? You can just call their dispatch line and talk to an incredibly rude person over the shittiest phone connection imaginable then try to describe your location and hope that they heard what you said correctly from their mumbled response and hope they might show up and then charge you an unknown amount that you didn't know until you reach your destination while having no idea if they accept card or will demand a tip.
The taxi industry let themselves get decimated because they fucking sucked and refused to improve their services. Not defending uber or Lyft, but taxis really fucking sucked and they got decimated because people were more than happy to ditch them for something better.
It's unfair, but by definition that's not what gerrymandering is. There are different ways to create an unfair system, that doesn't mean all those ways are gerrymandering.
It's tricky because anabolic steroids are banned as performance enhancing drugs, but natural testosterone from being born male also has an anabolic effect, so you can argue it's the equivalent of being given steroids during puberty and then waiting years for the current hormone levels to return to normal as an adult.
I think the high profit margin on digital goods is almost entirely due to the more efficient distribution of the Internet vs a supply chain, not because steam enabled it. If anyone deserves that cut because of the lower cost of distribution it's the people that created the Internet, and thank God they were publicly funded scientists and not corporations.
Also keep in mind that the infrastructure of the Internet charges a usage fee, not a percentage of profit. If I change $5 for a game on steam vs $60, is steam really doing more work to justify a percentage fee?
I agree that the us is still on that spectrum between a union and a standard country, but I think it's closer to a standard country than a union, but it's a spectrum, and as you say, where it falls on that spectrum is an opinion.
But I kinda love how absurd it is when heathcliff is there. I didn't know what the joke is, other than it being self aware of how stupid it is.