Amusingly enough, what the GP stated was true in 1910, but now the US is far more like pre-WW1 Europe in terms of distribution of wealth (c.f. Piketty's capital in the 21st century).
Social mobility index doesn’t really look at how easy it is to become very rich (I.e. get into the 1%). This is also explained in the methodology section of the article you linked.
America being a former colony illegalized this possibility 230 years ago. The British being the the former global superpower lack such laws and they will thus eventually be ruled by a foreigner with an Oxbridge education.
But France is Western Europe, not central. Is it the prevalent brand there too?
>Usually the countries considered to be Central European are Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland; in the broader sense Romania and Serbia too, occasionally also Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
Anybody have some details on this? I always wondered how this is handled for Chinese going abroad or Foreigners traveling in China without sending the keys back and forth.
Or do Chinese iCloud accounts still use the Chinese servers even when abroad while the western ones get to go through the great firewall for western iCloud?
This is effectively documented in the link provided:
> If you are not a Chinese citizen residing in China mainland, you can edit the country or region setting of your Apple ID to reflect your current country or region and continue using iCloud under Apple's current terms and conditions.
that is an extremely interesting question, both from a technical and juridical point of view. Hope someone will ask apple about this in a more official channel.
That is and for many, always an issue. Adverts help pay for content, be that a game or website - people literally make a living that way that it has become a bit of a defacto approach.
But when you are tied to including some code that goes off to a site that you have no or very little control over, you are outsourcing part of your company (web or app) into the hands of another in which, if they mess up. You are the the one that takes all the PR flack.
After all, if somebody slips an exploit into an AD hosted on a 3rd party site and offered up by a reputable AD serving company. Whilst the blame and fault may clearly be with the AD serving company for not screening what they offer. You are the ones that from a consumer and as it also transpires - the media as the one to blame. As we all know, corrections and retractions are always less viewed and eyeballed than the initial drama article based upon a small picture view of the issue/drama, instead of the root cause. Even with the best most respected media sites in the World, such retractions/corrections never get the same attention as the initial article of drama and doom.
That is one problem that even today, still prevails - media does an article with the finger pointing at one direction and the truth, even when it comes out and updated, never tracks as well as the initial finger pointing and is very much the old saying of "if enough mud is slung, some will stick".
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With that all said, ad-blocking by the likes of https://pi-hole.net/ is more than just avoiding AD's, it's about privacy and more and more so - security.
(sorry to be picky about an irrelevance but this one grates on me. "Ad" is an abbreviation not an acronym or initialisation - so no need to capitalize it as "AD". Same for "app" over "APP". Makes things hard to read for me as it sounds like someone shouting occasional words in an otherwise normal sentence!)
Yes and I can't think of one single developer who has had to include AD's, ever scrutinising the code they are offered (though I'd bet one that they are out there and hopefully comment back), let alone been able to change it due to the terms such AD requirements impose.
Maybe, Google et all need to make sure APP's have an even more granular control of permissions in that you can seperate the APP from the 3rd party AD's. that would only help more, but alas I suspect that may never happen as that would enable AD control much more accessible at a level that goes against their revenue stream.
