I'm still shocked they have any sales at all. You couldn't pay me to drive around in one of Musk's Hitler-mobiles. There is no way I would pay money for one of his cars or support him in any way.
Could this be solved with an EULA and some language that non-human readers will be billed at $1 per page? Make all users agree to it. They either pay up or they are breaching contract.
Say you have identified a non-human reader, you have a (probably fake) user agent and an IP address. How do you imagine you'll extract a dollar from that?
WARNING: This is a Kickstarter device still, and needed funding to even create a proof of concept device last time it was discussed (extensively). It's a Flagship phone device and price, but with only the oldest of pans on how it's actually going to deliver some on of the promises.
All they have to do is put out a high end phone, vanilla android, unlocked bootloader, hardware switches, and sell it as a developer phone. they would sell a ton.
I don't think they care about the hardware anymore. They want people in the Samsung ecosystem logging in with a Samsung account being served Samsung ads in every Samsung app.
Yep, you and your employer pay $3500/month for the premium. Then you as an individual have a $12k to $15k per year deductible before the insurance even kicks in.
That’s grossly exaggerated. Individual deductibles are limited by law to ~$6500 even on the worst plans. And no one is paying $3500 per month for individual coverage on one of those plans. The actual rates depend on age and zip code, but I’d be very surprised if they’re that high anywhere.
To see the actual costs for yourself, go to healthcare.gov. The “bronze” plans are the ones with high deductibles. If you’re young and healthy, a high-deductible plan combined with an HSA is a very good idea.
> Individual deductibles are limited by law to ~$6500 even on the worst plans
This was not the case for 2025, so I just did a search to determine whether you are referencing a new law. No, you are just flat wrong on this claim.
In Georgia (georgiaaccess.gov), the first bronze plan I looked at has an individual deductible of $10,600 (family deductible is $21,200). The plan's SBC is available to the public[1].
> no one is paying $3500 per month for individual coverage on one of those plans
You are correct, but also many people are not single and live in family units where the family unit is on the hook for $3,500 per month.
> Individual deductibles are limited by law to ~$6500 even on the worst plans.
Deductibles can be higher, but more importantly it's very important to undertand that "out of pocket maximum" does not mean the same thing to normal people vs the insurance companies.
One would think that a 10K/yr "out of pocket maximum" means in the worst case scenario you may have to pay 10K/yr and then insurance covers the rest. Which wouldn't be that bad.
If that were true the US wouldn't have the epidemic of people going bankrupt over medical costs.
What really happens is you get hit with a 200K bill from a hospital visit and the insurance company decides unilaterally they don't really feel like paying based on some obscure technicality, so then that amount does not count towards your "out of pocket maximum". So now you're on the hook for the 200K, good luck.
The democratic system is fine, but that's not what we have. Citizens United essentially nullified voting. The rich can now purchase the representative they want, the one that best suits their needs. That representative, once "elected" has zero incentive to work for the people.
I don't know what this system is called, but its definitely not democracy.
The solution, imo, is to increase the number of representatives to something like 1 per 50,000 or 100,000 citizens. When your representative comes from your own town, the same highschool, the more likely they are known by many in their district, and do not need to rely on advertising, as when they could literally knock on most doors in their district, they do not need to beg for money to run a campaign from huge national interests.
I think the only solution is to produce knowledgeable citizens who can stand up without hesitation. Unfortunately that requires a lot of people to work together -- exactly the things the elites are not comfortable with.
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