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$4 GPS Tracker https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Mini-Car-GSM-GPRS-GPS...

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$5 Pre-Paid SIM https://www.amazon.com/SpeedTalk-Mobile-Tracking-Locators-Wi...

App Store has been a >$1B business for at least a decade.

Tesla doesn't claim that the car is responsible for setting the correct speed limit -- they actually claim the opposite. From the Owner's Manual:

> Warning

> Do not rely on Traffic-Aware Cruise Control or Speed Assist to determine an accurate or appropriate cruising speed. It is the driver's responsibility to cruise at a safe speed based on road conditions and applicable speed limits.

What else are people going to do with their $3,000 Apple Goggles?

One reason could be that T-Mobile limits video streaming resolution based on the subscriber's plan. Only the most expensive plan can stream 4K video, otherwise it will "typically" be limited to 480p. https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans?lines=2

It might come from the pervasive use of metaprogramming / DSLs in Rails and many other Ruby libraries.

There are people who buy a $10,000 jacket or handbag, wear it (maybe) once, then throw it in their closet.

It’s possible that it was exploited before the issue was widely discovered, right? I thought it had been in there for a while.

Which actually just serves to make spam, bot, and abuse problems even worse.

I just ran through the tutorial. As someone who also still uses Rails and from reading the comments in this thread, it seems like Remix could be a good improvement over React, but not so much over Rails. (if Rails is your cup of tea)

Innovative design doesn't work without an internal champion who can rally the company around unconventional ideas. Jobs played that role, but now Apple is led by the operations team. The word "design" does not appear anywhere on their executive leadership page.

Unconventional ideas are inherently risky. They're just not worth pursuing if buy-in can't be secured and leadership is more focused on compromising to increase profit margins, etc. For that reason, it's great (in the short term!) that Apple is rehashing known-good designs from a decade ago. However, I don't see that strategy working in the long term.

SFPD was facing a shortage of new recruits this summer: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/06/24/san-francisco-g...

The political and social climate in SF has led to a situation where the number of officers on the street can shrink even if the budget stays flat or grows.

It means big brother in Korean.

Apple doesn't block third-party NFC / Apple Wallet use. They have opened it for certain use cases, including transit passes in many cities: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207958

It's incredible convenient. No need to use the fare machines -- just top up using the Apple Wallet app. Sounds like it's coming to Paris soon: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/06/apple-to-support-paris-...

Maybe that's why he left Apple. I would find it hard to look at an earlier product like the iMac G3 and call it devoid of emotion. But there are likely fewer opportunities to put a new spin on "rectangular sheet of glass", which is what iMac, iPhone, and iPad are now.

It would be very difficult to model a financial benefit of offering dedicated support for free products. If you pay for Google One (extra storage), you get access to phone support. I wonder if they would've been able to help in this situation of a locked account.

The article has a quote from Nancy's team that says she does not personally own any stocks and that the transactions are made by her husband.

Barring congress from owning or trading stock would do nothing in this case. Barring congress and their direct family members from owning or trading stock would just mean that Nancy's cousin or good friend suddenly becomes a genius investor.

Insider trading is already illegal. It's just not being enforced here, or it's too difficult to prove. (Or maybe her husband really is just psychic!)

It certainly seems to be raising awareness of the problem. In terms of making insider trading fair, I think that is inherently impossible.

New York is culturally known as a city that never sleeps, an expensive city, a crowded city, a city with muggy summers and bone-chilling winters, etc. There have been countless songs, books, and tweets written about how it takes a certain level of resolve to thrive there. That doesn't mean that people don't enjoy living there.

It doesn't make any sense for a company to ship "dog food" publicly to developer partners. In fact, the decision to make an API public is critical to get right and should not be taken lightly.

Making a mistake in private APIs creates some burden within Apple as revisions are made, but this is to be expected from pre-release software.

Making a mistake in public APIs erodes the trust of partners that invested time and money in the platform, and it leads to subpar user experiences.

AFAIK it's not a free OS update with the feature. It's a feature of the new Apple Watch Series 7 that will be available for purchase later this fall.

I believe that this is not a problem with UniFi. It should save your credentials locally. And you always have the option to log in via a local IP address rather than ui.com

Everyone uses fonts, of course, and they're an important factor in how people perceive a brand. A lot of work goes into the subtleties that people don't necessarily notice but will definitely "feel."

Companies might start out paying these "off the shelf" prices, but everything in life is negotiable and they'll eventually work out a better deal. However, now the company has tied their brand identity to a typeface that is being licensed to them with a variable cost. So eventually, they may commission a custom typeface which could offer the potential of full ownership without perpetual fees.

Beats still operates as a brand of audio equipment: https://www.beatsbydre.com/

It will also seriously harm their TV/AirPlay competitor Chromecast, right? I have to imagine that every app with a Chromecast integration is using multicast to discover devices, but I could be wrong.

Apple doesn't stand up to authoritarian governments. They give direct access of their systems to the US and Chinese governments already.

Trust takes years to build and seconds to break. I could be grossly overestimating the impact that this has had to their brand. But in my eyes, I can't see a way that they revert the damage, even if they revert the decision.

Tesla has spent about $8.5B on R&D in the past decade. Of course, not all of that was spent on FSD, but let's assume it was.

Let's also assume our hypothetical public transport is built in San Francisco. San Francisco recently spent $1.5B on a 1.7 mile subway line. It will also take a decade from when work begun to its opening next year.

That works out to be a 9.7 mile subway that opens in 2032.

Do you have any examples of these takes? The concept of "true trustlessness" is obviously lacking in nuance and probably impossible. Nothing in the world can exist without some form of trust. However, we can certainly use smart contracts to decentralize trust and limit risk exposure.

Why would anyone do that? The stolen coins would become worthless as the other 49% of the network flee to a platform that doesn't come with the risk of arbitrary theft.