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What the heck kind of take is that? We should be fighting tooth and nail today to not let that kind of future come into existence.

No, this doesn't solve the problem for anyone. They need to cancel it immediately, or make it opt-in, again immediately.

The vast majority of software companies are not producing things that matter beyond the scope of capital accumulation.

Is this a form of mechanomorphism, where we try to reason about how human cognition might work by drawing an analogy from how computers work (specifically, overfitting in ANNs) and try to apply it back to humans?

That's sad friend. Your community failed you when growing up. This makes me want to weep.

"Well they'll just hire someone else to do it if I quit. Might as well keep doing it myself."

Spot on. To quote Marshall Rosenberg quoting Hannah Arendt:

In her book Eichmann in Jerusalem, which documents the war crimes trial of Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt quotes Eichmann saying that he and his fellow officers had their own name for the responsibility-denying language they used. They called it Amtssprache, loosely translated into English as “office talk” or “bureaucratese.” For example, if asked why they took a certain action, the response would be, “I had to.” If asked why they “had to,” the answer would be, “Superiors’ orders.” “Company policy.” “It was the law.”

From Nonviolent Communication, page 19 on “Denial of Responsibility”.

Sad to see there's a lot of office talk being used in this thread.

But it is most definitely not the shareholders. Definitely just the users and employees. Yup. ;)

You seem to be confusing small businesses with corporations, as if they have the same economic and power imperatives.

Or, why are so many of our current politicians ex-executives or ex-lobbyists?

According to the founder of Co-Star's linkedin profile, they raised "$6 million of investment from the venture firms behind companies like Glossier, Allbirds, and Everlane".

On Co-Star's website they have positive press reviews from The New Yorker, The Verge, Cosmo, Vanity Fair, Gizmodo, New York Times, HuffPo, Drudge Report, Newsweek, Financial Times, Vogue, and more.

It's obvious that Co-Star app is being pumped as a VC darling and someone wants to eventually get their money back.

Apple is playing their part in the $$ ecosystem by gatekeeping competition.

Power companies do charge different rates depending on what electronics are used.

Energy utility rate structures are both complex and unique to the individual company, but at a high level different classes of consumer pay different rate plans, such as residential vs. commercial/industrial vs. agricultural, and which is ultimately determined by the type of and quantity of certain electronic devices installed on premise as is normal for that class.

With that said, as a residential consumer there is little chance that you could ever legally or physically install one of the devices at your home that would necessitate being charged a CI or agricultural rate.

And interestingly enough those rates are all regulated by very heavy weight local/state and federal regulatory commissions.

Because it's easier to garner clicks for ad impressions by making bold claims about the amazing (unproven) future benefits of a minor scientific discovery than by presenting readers with the actual science.

"Now if Spotify were to be banned from the AppStore, how else would you receive its service?"

The Spotify Web Player works perfectly fine on iPhone's mobile Safari. No, it's not a native app, but it exists as an alternative delivery method for the service.

That's disingenuous. How well would it scale for a musician to personally handle depositing checks from millions of fans? There is a very good reason that many musicians become involved with labels, promoters, distributors, etc., which is to free up the time of the artist to focus on what they are actually interested in doing: writing and playing music.