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Agreed! Notable achievement, but not game-changing.

One thing I remind myself is that Elon really didn't start Tesla. He's been snow balling off initial success and continues to accelerate thanks to collaboration with brilliant people.

And the conclusion has been the same for a while. GPS-only NAV is very susceptible to degradation. Blended solutions are the only path forward with GPS.

Anutha wun

Ironically, increasing security like this is at the cost of privacy. Biometrics are nearly the last source of private data not fully tapped.

What made it not worth it? No real overall gain in value? Not worth your time?

Broken too :(

Except Google Clip is like the camera in the movie "The Circle" and is a rabbid privacy violation. The discontent with Google Glasses was likely because it was ahead of its time.

Qualitative *

How do you edit/delete comments in mobile?... Asking for a friend.

It's all quantitative. No actual comparison. No data. Weak article.

Yes, but...this is the case just for the first-order cost basis. The supply of raw battery materials (e.g. Cobalt) is limited in price and quantity. If we don't invent new battery technologies, we don't have sufficient accessible supply of raw resources.

I also wonder how mid term artificial manipulations to the market of these components (i.e. China subsidizing solar cells, America adding tariffs) will keep us on a general decline in solar power costs.

If you had bitcoin before the fork, you'd have some of the fork, right? How do you access something like that?

Yes... The market encourages it. How else do you get inexpensive, pretty, fresh, tasty food so easily in supermarkets?

Not endless, but there is a feed of snap stories always.

> If the US did what the EU has done with allowing people to avoid being tracked the big tech companies would be nudged toward developing smarter business models. Maybe it's not necessary but it's foolish to dismiss government out of hand.

Do you think that they would really get "better" for a consumer, or more covert as they become "smarter"? I'd assume the latter.

> I trust Amazon more than Google, though

I used to believe this, and I still do too some extent. Amazon won us over with a great online experience and best in class customer service. However, Amazon is on an explosive expansion phase of expanding their business and pushing vertical integration in all corners. They are rivaling any other company out there in terms of ability to mass manipulate as well.

I have an undisclosed relationship to the man running Amazon India's fashion vertical, and it's easy to see Amazon's position rivaling Google in terms of that feeling of "Google having too much information".

In the end, as I said I still agree with you with Google having to much information (I rely on Google apps and Android to this day), and that diversifying where that information is being gathered and classified is one of the few ways of both using these handy products and impeding companies knowing more about me than I know (a la Netflix video recommendations).

Amazon is now yet another giant to be weary of.

Thanks for the recommendation. I've been listening to Dan Carlin and his history podcasts and am almost done with all of them. I needed something to add to the queue.

We already are seeing what happens to the likes of surprised countries like Columbia and Zimbabwe and worried countries like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It's a big deal and diversification is not an option, it's the way they need to go.