I've iPhone user I've ever met outside tech circles avoids installing OS updates. They end up updating soon anyway for a variety of reasons (some updated apps stop working, update occurs "on its own" overnight, to get rid of of the notification icon, and so on).
It does help that the process is pretty painless. And at least for me, a good excuse to do a reboot - which I really do as seldom as possible on my laptop and iphone.
Alphabet's net income will drop dramatically in the next quarter.
Google's VC investments booked a ton of gains all-at-once in the quarter (due to an accounting change) which won't be recurring. About $2.4bn added to net income.
> Anyone downloading it knew that the goal of it was to help get Obama elected.
Was Obama 2012 restricted to collecting information of its downloaders? Or did it collect all of the downloaders' friends' information as well? Facebook certainly allowed for this (until 2014, that is).
They pulled the whole friend graph and used it to generate emails pushing supporters to reach out to specific named friends who live in specific states.
This represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the rationale for taxation.
There is a societal benefit to efficient means of transportation. You, along with most other people, are reaping the benefits of truckers using roads to deliver cargo.
Not including externalities--such as road maintenance--distorts the market. Better to capture them all so that different forms of transportation can compete "fairly". That is, without hidden subsidies.
The rationale for taxation has changed over time. We are no longer on the gold standard, so the reasons for taxation are different. But overall the reason for taxation hasn't changed, which is to maintain the demand for the central money supply. This of course is the rationale for sovereign entities with their own money supply like the United States. The rationale for taxes for towns, counties, etc is completely different.
BC Hydro, via Powerex, trades energy within this region [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Interconnection
[2] http://www.caiso.com/Documents/PowerexWillJoinWesternEnergyI...