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Sorry, I wasn't aware there's triple secret NDA on the fact that Google's main business is advertising...

They can't be louder and prouder about it, because they know at one point they'll have to compromise it so that Google own apps can track the user.

A couple solutions: one man offices, working from home.

I do have two houses. They are in cheap places and the total mortgage payments are what I make in 3 - 4 days.

Simply not true. As en extreme example the human body is assembled by bio machinery, how do you disassemble it without breaking it?

Yeah, those are good.

Many cheaper laptops still have replaceable RAM, WiFi, cell modem, SSD, optical drive, battery.

A few models still come with socketed, upgradable CPUs. These days the 14nm desktop CPUs are efficient enough for laptop use.

Close the libraries down, same as public baths. I don't want my taxes being wasted on those people.

They can make you (or your customers) solve a captcha before each API call.

Don't think so, it's too small.

The schedule thing sounds like a fair deal, if you allow human input the people with "people skills" will benefit at the expense of those that are socially awkward.