This is really no different from health insrance companies just automatically denying first attempts at prior authorization: because it increases profits. Increasing waiting times means a certain percentage of peopel will give up or get disconnected and not bother re-trying. That's fewer calls your representatives will have to take so you need fewer of tehm, saving money.

Everywhere you look, from egg prices to electricity prices to broadband prices to medicare care costs, you see price gouging. Some event might be used to justify those prices increases. Profits always need to increase.

Some people will look at all this and say it's fine. These people are modern serfs who think their billionaire lord and masters deserve to be their lord and masters.

Some will see this as a few bad apples and it's a lack of government regulation or a lack of competition, which is the same thing because companies will seek to increase profits by decreasing competition by buying up or merging with competitors.

Eventually you realize all of this is by design. It's a fundamental and systemic problem. It's the internal contridctions in capitalism.

Does this apply only to U.S. Citizens?

Or does it apply to everybody?

And if it does, is it reason to refuse someone? I.e. can they refuse an L1B visa holder entry because he/she doesn't allow them to search the phone?

Reddit opened up a world of computer programming to me back in 2007. I read blogs and books I'd never of heard of otherwise. It expanded my world view. I wish I'd been reading it when I was 14 instead of 25 after I finished university (I scrapped by in a shitty IT degree). I would have focused on maths and programming. It expanded my world view and opened me up to a lot of good influences.

Yeah it has an addictive dark side. Also most of the user comments went to shit years ago. But overall a net win for me.

Do you use Takeout or what method do you use every few weeks to grab all your data from cloud services including Google?

So apparently travelers have no legal obligation to provide their passcodes to the officers. Yet,

"If a traveller exercises their right to refuse to provide a passcode, their device can be taken from the border and given to the ABF's digital forensic team for examination."

So the alternative is not having access to your phone for at least 14 days. Losing access to your phone today is huge.. no 2FA codes means you're probably locked out of many services even on a PC. Not to mention this forensics team has access to software that can break smartphone security.

So there is effectively 0 choice. If they want to search your phone, they WILL search it.

I guess the only safe way to store private info is online, encrypted and ideally on your own servers.

Submitted title was "Office 365 implementing AI to detect employees colluding, leaving and more". That broke the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The proper place to include that sort of interpretation is by adding it in a comment in the thread. Then your interpretation is on a level playing field with everyone else's (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). Also, a comment gives you room to actually substantiate your interpretation.

On the other hand, a thread like this probably wouldn't have gotten attention without the sensational title in the first place, so this kind of submission is a borderline case and at worst a venial sin. (We still change the title once it does make the frontpage though.)