cobookman

My iphone se2 was 400$. I got it at 50% off, so $200.

That's not luxury by any means, and is price competitive even with the cheapest of android phones.

Apple's lower price-point offerings might have old hardware, but its more than made up for it by just working & offering long-term support. Something no android phone can match.

Good example is Google vs Amazon/Apple. Google's culture is very much a democracy of sort inside. Apple/Amazon more top down direction.

Thread on the free line promo.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/hi8a98/reminder_ge...

I just picked up a SE with the T-Mobile free additional line & 50% off promotion. Cost was only $200 + Taxes. Amazing deal when you consider the support & hardware quality.

Title should be leave San Francisco County/City. The article mentions that many are moving to SF suburbs in the bay area (East Bay / South Bay / Peninsula /..etc).

Given how crowded Tesla Superchargers are, its not that crazy of a concept

You just made buying a home that much more expensive. You think California's elected officials will keep property tax to 1% of assessed home value?

It'd be a double whammy, re-assesment to higher home values coupled with a larger % of home value being taxed.

I'd rather say starting today homes are re-assesed every 25 years to market value, or something of the sort.

Fuchsia is not a current revenue generator for Google. If they needed to cut headcount, fuchsia could see reduced headcount.

to be fair, there's a large graveyard of OSs which failed to gain traction, especially on mobile.

I'd be surprised if any vendor adopts Fuchsia thinking it has anything better than a 10-20% chance of being mainstream.

Today we have Android and iOS as the dominant Mobile phone OSs. Don't forget about all the attempts to dethrone those two by: Symbian, WebOS, Windows phone, Blackberry, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch, kaios, firefox os, PureOS, LiteOS,...etc.

Wireless Sensors in Lightbulbs to empower smart building applications.

Timezones matter. There's large benefits in having an entire team in the same timezone.

If you've ever tried scheduling a call between India, East Coast US, Europe, and West Coast US...you've dealt with the fact that there's only a few hours a day such a call can occur, greatly limiting the ability to schedule last minute meetings.

Depends on how frugally you live. If you are young and ok with room-mates. You'll save more money with the higher cost of living in SF than other areas.

US Tax code.

For example: https://www.palmspringstaxandtrustlawyers.com/nonresidents-w...

I get the feeling this was already planned. Freemont doesn't have much spare land to increase manufacturing capacity. California has to be more expensive (Labor, Regulations) than manufacturing in Texas.

Even if you'd need to fly your R&D team between Texas and California, you'd still be saving money

Wouldn't Huawei not be able to sell devices made with those chips in western markets due to the restriction?

Just to back it up with a source: https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinas-pursuit-semiconductor-i...

Almost 50% of residential energy usage is HVAC and Hot Water heaters.

I see no reason we couldn't use excess solar during the daytime to heat our hot water heaters, or cool/heat the house.

Modern Construction and Water Heaters have great insulation, and its possible to use the `cheap` electricity during peak solar to store as heating/cooling.

Apple has a lot of staff doing hardware. That work is hard to do at home.

The testing & rapid prototyping equipment alone would take up more than most people's home office space.

Little known fact, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft are all huge hardware companies, Google alone spends ~10 Billion/year on datacenter CAPEX, with a lot of custom in-house hardware.

Wow, didn't realize android got that bad recently. Makes me not want to leave the iPhone ecosystem.

The only benefit Android had was the control. You take that away and make it a walled garden, its just an iPhone...but worse

Fed balance sheet increasing by 6T is huge! Fed is in-directly purchasing stocks, causing a price inflation.

Funnily enough, gsuite let’s you share a document to a non google email address. You’d think meet would add that functionality.

Google & Facebook both build their own Datacenter facilities.

But they operate at a scale that is very unique.

So when do you lift the stay in place? When there's 0 cases? If so, what if that never happens?

It’s events like these that make me believe a large government will always become corrupt.

with smaller governments, ppl will focus their corruption on more lucrative organizations.

And hopefully free market capitalism in such a system would be a check on the corruption.

And what the Euro will be used? Same issue. How about RNB? Welp its even more manipulated.

Nobody knows what the future will hold when everyone is in the same position.

To be fair, Alex's public profile includes a link to his email: https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/alex-stamos-0

The article claims China is a role model.

However chinas reported numbers is not their actual numbers. We have no clue if China’s approach was effective.

Even today ppl in China are still getting sick. With weekend traffic in Beijing not recovered.

They could issue a software update that changes this.

*not per capita or per geographic area. Europe is still leading https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019...

US (327mil) has 5.4x the population of Italy (60mil).

Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and UK combined have about the same population as the US. Across those countries there's 193k COVID-19 cases.

You could probably sue that person for many thousands of damages.