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So the only competitor to Google’s monopoly on web browsers is... funded almost entirely by Google? Yikes

The parent comment figure was for the first half of the year. In other words, Aramco had a net income of $34B in just six months of business.

That’s insane. That’s more than Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet’s 2017 net income combined.

How does a commodity business (oil and gas) generate so much profit?

Saudi Arabia invested 45% of the 100B. It’s rare for a state to make such risky investments.

Either they have a lot of available capital, and the 45B is nothing but a line item, or they’re trying to dig themselves out of a hole and they need to take on big, risky investments to do that.

Makes sense. But I’m not sure inverting is really what you’re doing. It seems to me that the people most effected by this will be people who actually want to reach you - Friends, family, work associates. They’ll have to jump through an extra hoop until they’re on your whitelist. On the other hand the spammers don’t really care if their message hits your particular inbox or not, as you’re just one of very many people they’re sending to. Still a cool solution though, and kudos to you for devising a system that works for you.

If you unsubscribe every time you see a new e-mail that you’re not interested in it’ll help keep it in check.

For spammers who don’t respect unsubscribes and you’re using Gmail, you can create a filter which immediately trashes the message based on the “from” address

You’re not the only one! I unsubscribed from mostly everything and now my inbox gets anywhere from 1 to 2 new spam messages per week. Still annoying when it does happen, but a big improvement from before when I was getting 40+ emails per day, in which most were newsletters I never opened or just spam

Perhaps worthless is extreme. But its not nearly as interesting as insta/snap

Exactly this. My facebook newsfeed is full of worthless content, which, though once fun and interesting is now a commodity (cat videos, for example)

As someone in my mid twenties, I spend far more time on instagram and snapchat than on facebook. If facebook was to disappear tomorrow, it'd probably be okay with me. Imagine for a second if Facebook hadn't acquired Instagram. Attention shifts very quickly in the digital world, quicker than a lot of people think.