Your example counts milliseconds. It is 292 billion, from units:

    You have: (2^64 / 2) seconds
    You want: years
	(2^64 / 2) seconds = 292277265670.798 years

A more accurate conclusion would be that London's bad hotels are a popular option.

During my tour around Europe, I quickly realized that all the hotels in the City of London (other than extremely expensive ones) are very cheap but also awful.

Promotion websites and server-side engines are nice (even though we know Reddit Inc runs a slightly modified version), but malicious client-side apps can be significantly more harmful by abusing permissions.

That's why I'm very careful what I install on my phone: unlike Reddit posts, I have virtually no control over what the software does.

No offense, but did you even read the parent post? The person above clearly points out that a sudden shock may cause more genetic changes through selection than slow deaths.

Such a case has never happened in the past, unless I didn't learn about an antibiotics crisis in ancient Egypt.

I can relate, I just dropped from medschool to pursue an MSc in CS without thesis. The reason? Everyone convinced me that I'll have a better life as an engineer. I gave up my dreams for personal comfort and I'm probably not the only one.

Or you could use free software, and stop hoping for people around you to be honest.

Guess what. I used to be a Linux zealot for over ten years, my hobby was to custom-build my kernel and rewrite device drivers for some of my devices. But Linux had some minor issues that I couldn't quite put up with, while Apple so far just works for me. Apple is far from perfect, but it covers most of my needs and I am happy to use it.

I know strong advocate of freedom and transparency will say Apple is closed-source, for-profit company yadi yada. The truth is most of things in our lives are: the cars we drive, the fridge, the TV, the watch we wear, and hardware we use (Intel or ARM chips aren't open source, right?) So years ago i decide this free software thingie isn't for me.

Free != open source

They meant free as in freedom not free as in gratis.

Secret courts.

Ok... So, why would Apple receive the benefit of only exposing iMessage data in secret courts when Google, Facebook, and Microsoft all have to do it in open court documents?

That was an inclusive "and". I think that by "slow and methodical", the author was going for the tank approach rather than just slow like a slug, which doesn't do much good.

That's the thing. the public actually believes that the hood welded shut is a good thing because they don't get these things, and immediately forgets that their "mechanic" won't be able to repair their stuff anymore.

Their mechanic wouldn't be able to repair an apple car with all the unlocked hoods in the world anyways. Take teslas as an example. Short of routine maintenance on suspension parts and brakes, regular mechanics aren't able to do much.

It's more of an offer-and-demand thing. If you don't treat veterans well (and, I mean, get your expectations a lot lower, not look at their actions too hard, and so on), no one will do that job. I know I wouldn't.

And what if we instead (as the article argues) change policy to avoid some mistakes ahead of time?