A startup that is firing engineers on the spot who dare to disagree probably won't last much longer anyway. Best of luck with their "critical" deadline then...?
I'd go a step further: deliverability with these gateways is poor even for small-scale personal use, and they will stop working entirely if you try to use them for bulk SMS. They are not a replacement for an SMS provider.
During the heyday of feature phones, I always enjoyed that these existed. I could text people from my blackberry without worrying about exceeding my sms plan allowance.
It’s just life. But I mean I definitely understand the other side of the coin. To me when things get really really bad it’s time for a really really big change.
It makes sense from an evolutionary perspective that my ancestors who voluntarily got on a boat for weeks and came to the USA sight unseen had a similar wild hare. Maybe things were really bad in Denmark at the time or maybe they just really had wanderlust. No idea.
I think things we call “disorders” like manic depressive episodes partially serve this function and there’s potentially huge rewards for venturing off into the great unknown. Manic episodes are the rocket fuel to take big risks and potentially get big rewards. Obviously enough people hit the big rewards (by having more land, having lots of kids, getting rich) that it has an impact on our genetics and our personalities. But at the same time, the dead men at the bottom of the Mediterranean who were looking for adventure don’t tell us their tales of failure.
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An index fund is an investment you can pick that is a basket of individual stocks.
They are an easy way to get diversification in your portfolio and historically have beat out portfolios where people actively picked out their own mix of individual stocks.
A lot of the investors in the world are just investing in index funds which has artificially inflated the value of the stocks in each index fund.
When an investment has an inflated valuation that does not match the fundamentals of the underlying business behind the stock, there is a bubble.
I’ve experienced the same with comcast and have contacted their support. They claim there was no data breach or they aren’t selling emails, but that obviously isn’t the case.
Well, it could also be the case that everything is working as designed, and that they gave your address to someone else who did have a data breach or is themselves sending the phishing emails.
Additionally, they spend a ton of money lobbying and otherwise unfairly impeding competition, so in many places in the US, they are the only option, so it's give up your civil rights to lawsuits, or stay offline (or pay a wireless carrier who does the same anticompetitive scumbag shit a heinous price per gigabyte).
The state of both wireless and wireline broadband in the US is totally broken, and it's not getting fixed because it's broken by design, as part of the general attitude by large corporate interests and cooperative legislatures and regulatory bodies to treat the US population as a sort of natural resource like a flock of sheep to be fleeced rather than as legitimate customers to be serviced (or a legitimate market to be participated in on merits).
They do this by ensuring that there is no meaningful competition, and ensuring that if you do "willingly" engage in service with them, you have no meaningful legal recourse if they abuse you.
"We're the phone company. We don't have to care."
You have no real power against them because the people who control the system have decided that you should not have any real power against them.
I’m no lawyer, but I wonder if this is more of a “go away” clause and if it would survive a real courtroom. Your lawyer would undoubtedly say “don’t waste your time and money”, but I question how many of our rights we can really, actually give up in a contract.
> but I question how many of our rights we can really, actually give up in a contract.
Theoretically, probably none. Otherwise, you'd be able to hire a hitman on yourself, have slaves, or restrict a person's free speech because they're an employee.
Arbitration costs companies far more than lawsuits do. There was a guy that used to make tons of money off Arbitration clauses. Basically, the company is on the hook for hotel stays, transportation, food, etc. for the arbiter as well as anyone else that may not be local to the venue in question.
The reason companies went with this approach was to stop class action lawsuits from happening, which is where the real damage happens. One enterprising law firm started doing pooled Arbitrations (filing for hundreds or thousands at a time), which costs the company more than a class action would. Some companies have removed such clauses because of this.
Knowing how they're hijacking my bandwidth for their Xfinity hotspot service, the dark patterns to enable it, and the hiddenness of disabling it - it doesn't seem implausible.
