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Accepted, I wouldn't want to be solely dependant on a supercharger. I'm not even sure I need a supercharger. Has to be home-charging for me.

It's possible, at this point in time, that maybe you aren't the demographic. I wouldn't blame Musk for that, really. More of an city infrastructure issue. I mean, I don't see a huge push towards generic charging points all over the city despite things moving in that direction.

There was some green deal thing a year or two ago where they were subsidising charging points at home ... of course, they scrapped that ... I guess that wouldn't help you anyway.

Maybe you're better off with a hybrid and get a Tesla when either the city charging situation improves or your home situation changes.

Hmm, in my case, not at all. Depends on your location and use case.

In my London situation, 95% of my journeys will be within 50 miles easily.

I imagine it's more of an issue in the US and similar.

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Still waiting.

"in all likelihood" ... the key bit.

The US, for example, is one presidency away from complete democratic failure. By which I mean all that data, which now is effectively, "in all likelihood", private via volume, can and will be abused.

Giving up and allowing privacy to fail now only makes disastrous consequences more likely later at the whim of that centralised power you mention.

What about the submarine Lotus Espirit?

Hello? Was hoping you could action this. Cheers.

You're welcome to delete this account. Cheers.

The funny thing is that your "disturbing trend" has been the status quo for a long time and not far from a more efficient version of the Communist despotism you fear.

Also, your statement that the "democratized political environment is far from perfect" was the understatement of the century.

It's ok ... we'll all just build walls. No, not just walls. Higher walls. And more of them. More, more. more.

Olympic level eye roll

Sorry, Monday morning is not the best time for this topic.

Archaeologically, in the centuries to come, this will either explain a lot, or condemn us.

Excuse my colourful language, the DM is a shit newspaper ... understandably excluded from fact based discussions.

I didn't say it was unrelated.

But given the light and dark elements to data operations within many countries, I'd imagine you might be the one possibly being naive.

Thanks for the link, I don't doubt that. But I meant specifically on the point of data-handling. Some Russian hackers or spooks vs American hackers and the NSA, etc

The UK sucks just as bad. The current PM has just announced plans to regulate the web if they win the next election.

Honest comment. As a neutral (UK), it's a tough call as to which country I'd prefer in this scenario.

In terms of data, I imagine the US to be just as bad if not much worse (my prejudice) than Russia.

Someone can school me on this if I'm wrong but I prefer Telegram as a platform and I'm ambivalent as to which country my data ends up in (given this choice).

(Editing this comment based on above: "Small correction. With Telegram your data ends up in Germany. They are Berlin based and against the current Russian government")

Yes.

My heart agrees with you ... it is.

But I watched a couple of episodes a few weeks ago (yikes!)

The irony, of course, is that it was branded a social-utility.

Anything but.

Ditto to the ditto to the dit-tt-o.

Down vote me all anyone likes for this inane I have to totally agree with this absolute truth.

>>I have heard the same old tired tale that facebook is dying etc

For those who no longer use FB, it is dead.

I feel good about that. I didn't even have to attend the funeral.

YMMV

>>"we’re committed to making VR a positive place for all".

Please ... they can't even do that for simple 2d enviroments. VR isn't some magic that'll fix that.

I won't have anything to do with FB in it's current incarnation.

No, we need

1) transferable data and history. 2) user accounts/networks/friends which can interface

Then social networks become actual utilities instead of the branded "utility" walled-garden bullshit Facebook is currently branded as.

Sure, that's their strength. But unless they give that up, we'll continue down this stagnant, monopolist path.

Time to break Facebook up or open it to the web ... remember that? The open web?

Everything's just fine.

Yes, he should sue the bejeezus out of them.

Not knowing enough about this, my first impression is:

How does Federated Learning cope with ... FAKE NEWS! (for example).

You're right, of course. It's possible I'm still pining for my perfectly set-up Google Reader account which I cannot quite replicate. That still hurts! RSS felt ubiquitous (to me) back then.

Anyway, to the point, try using RSS with facebook in the above context.

I hate being locked in - hence I gave up on FB. It's trash to me until it solves this issue.

History should be decentralized too, then.

Who remembers RSS feeds? I miss those days. We should have some superior spin on that but for social networks.

Imagine Facebook, but your history/data were your own property. A friend would find you on Facebook, or Ello, or AnythingAnyWhereBook ... add your feed, and done. Then it is up to the Social Networks to make a superior product for you to enjoy your friends data and interaction.

Right now it's about the monopolisation of our data.

Zuckerberg. If you're reading. Your current model is bullshit.

It's not the platform, it's the content.

I feel maybe you haven't been lucky enough to find your content-suppliers.

There's some gold there in the nooks and crannies.

Who would sell their home in a foreign currency? You're stating weirdly (imo, wrongly)

You would sell your home in sterling. Sterling has been devalued. If you then wanted to act internationally, you would be curtailed to the tune of 20%

Might not matter to you, but matters to me. I'm partially hedged but the vast asset base of the UK, and the salaries of all its workers, has been devalued by this move.

And don't get me wrong, economics is the least of my concerns.

Hedged sterling.

Looking to move medium term. Bored of this place.

My wages, the value of my home, are now worth 20% less. If you're ok with that, good for you. I'm not.

My access to the EU faces being curtailed (not just travel inconvenience, but the permanent movement of my family). If you're ok with that, good for you. I'm not.

I could go on. You say: "maybe I'm just chilled". How about, maybe you're forgetting to put yourself in other peoples shoes, or grasping why it matters to them. If you're ok with that, good for you. I'm not.