I would argue an even worse situation are apps like Wyze camera that really need notifications enabled to alert you to camera movement, doorbell usage or other pressing events.

They have an option to opt out of marketing notifications but they ignore it if you check that and still send sometimes daily notifications of sales through of their crap.

I’ve used Wyze for a few years and get notifications of all my video events, but no marketing pushes. I think I had to set a setting but I am pretty happy with their pushes and are one of the few apps I leave on.

I can't think of a business I've worked for where PayPal hasn't done something like this in some way. Best thing I can recommend is complain to your state regulatory agencies. Even a one week suspension can be a major headache and revenue hit. It's incredible to me that they haven't been hit with more scrutiny given US banking regulations.

It's absurd - the flexibility to even match Expedia's rates is a slog and they act like you're asking for the world when they readily accept Expedia giving even less. Really don't understand why hotels don't bake in the flexibility to actually compete with the OTAs.

Contract from OTA (at least did when I worked) does not allow the chain/brand to undercut the OTA, in exchange for traffic. Given its mostly a duopoly (Expedia/Priceline), I guess they feel they have to give in or get cut out of business.

This isn't limited to Google. I had a paid for Hotmail account back in the day, someone attacked a domain I held, and as part of that sent multiple abuse reports to every tech provider I used. My Hotmail was listed on the whois - Microsoft removed the email account, didn't refund and provided no human support that I could get a hold of to get the wrongful termination looked at.

It was a nightmare and a good reminder that an attacker with sufficient resources can create more issues than you can possibly dig yourself out of.

That's a generous way of putting it. Just the first chapter nearly had me putting the book down as it read like a press release written on behalf of the scientist. It gets less painful and I understand that authors choose to write books about subjects that interest them but it feels like there's a definite difference in objectivity from his previous works.

this is the first book by isaacson that i read and i doubt i'd like to read any other. the bias in the narration, while duly acknowledged, forces him to paint other people (aka other side) so monstrously—at times—that it's impossible to take his criticisms seriously. that said i liked quite a few people aside from doudna (for example i think emmanuelle charpentier is badass and quite rightly the sort of hero we need—working with elegance and loads of fun).

It’s very unfortunate to read such a statement - Isaacson’s “The Innovators” is an amazing book that never lost its objectivity throughout my readings.

The chapters on Watson are super interesting. If Isaacson had written the book primarily about Watson, it likely would've been at the same level of Steve Jobs.

Agreed - this leads to many of these subset areas being displayed as much larger than they should be, while others should be larger. Either eliminate class D, or don't - to be inconsistent seems pretty pointless.