I certainly liked that approach a lot more than what Ford did with their reveal of the Mach-E. No endless blabbering about the vehicles history and how the brand "feels" to people. Just a quick intro, drive the vehicle out and then show off what it can do. No muss, no fuss.

I bought a "physical" copy of Anthem from Amazon, because it was on sale, and cheaper than buying the digital copy directly. I received a DVD-style plastic container that didn't even have a disc in it, only a card with the game code printed on it.... talk about a waste of materials...

This is exactly what I came here to say... sounds pretty easy to me.

Since the new Edge is based on webkit, as long as you make it work in Chrome, it'll most likely work in Edge. The browsers have been coming a lot more in-line with each other (and the standards) over the last few years that it's no longer necessary to write separate code or exceptions to support different browsers. I can't even remember the last time I fired up my windows VM to test something.

Those picture (in the article, and in many other articles I've seen) are just an artist's rendering of what it might look like. No one (outside of the Tesla engineers) know what it's actually going to look like until it's revealed later this year.

Instant torque is also useful for intensive off-road driving. But I'm not holding my breath that this thing is going to be equipped for that purpose (i.e. high clearance, mud tires, decent approach and departure angles, etc) since everything mentioned so far about it is that it's supposed to be a "work" truck about the size of an F-150

You forgot the model Y which they recently revealed and will be their next production model (and I don't see any compelling reason for that over a model 3, other than maybe the optional 3rd row seat if you need to haul around a bunch of people.

The Rivian R1T looks like it's going to be major competition for whatever pickup truck Tesla ends up coming out with, especially since Tesla is planning to build something the size of an F-150, whereas the R1T appears to be a mid-size truck similar to a Tacoma, Colorado, or the new Ranger. It's also being marketed as an "adventure" vehicle (for offroading, overlanding, camping, etc) with optional accessories like a Pull-out kitchen. I might seriously consider getting one of these to replace my Jeep Wranger whenever it comes out.

I think you just said the same thing as the post you were replying to. The implication is that not everyone can be retrained, meaning that some of the people displaced won't be able to be retrained, not that everyone displaced would be untrainable.

That's the impression I got while reading the articles.

From the TechCrunch article:

So, it seems that they created their own implementation that is better and more efficient at scale (since that's what they're customers needed), and made it compatible with the existing APIs (so their customers wouldn't need to modify their code). So yeah, looks like they improved upon it rather than "imitated" it. (though, the AWS implementation appears to not include some of the latest features)

Being patrolled by drones seems like it would be more effective than a wall anyway ($120,000 wireless charging notwithstanding). Unless you have people monitoring every part of the wall, it's pretty easy to overcome with a ladder (people have been doing this since castle walls were invented, which is why they also had people manning the walls), a shovel, or a saw (apparently the prototype "walls" they're testing can be pretty easily cut through).

Of course, just having fixed towers / poles with cameras mounted on them spaced out across the border might work even better and cheaper than drones. I'm not sure about the specific economics of either.

A local gas station chain has an app that lets me save $0.10/gallon by charging my checking account directly (since they don't have to pay the credit card fee). But that required me putting in my bank's routing number and the account number, so they essentially just send an electronic check.

I would never type in my bank account credentials to anything other than my bank's website, that's just all kinds of dumb. But, I've seen some "financial services" companies / web-apps that require you to do that (because apparently banking institutions haven't figured out or are allergic to Oauth), and then they analyze your spending for you and try to offer you advice / services... and apparently people do this.

That's not a bad idea, and could be something you could build yourself for your existing flat screen TV (though it likely would lack the fancy features they have for when it's in it's "almost fully rolled down" state, i.e. displaying the time, weather etc on just the top of the screen).

Looks like the biggest difference is that the "new" one has a sounbdbar built into the base that it rolls up into.

Season 3 was in 2018

The show is even toned down a bit in that respect from the books, but that's largely due to logistical constraints and a different medium. The most notable difference is the lack of the "crash couches" which help them survive the extreme g-forces; they're replaced with your standard sci-fi chairs that they strap into.

There's also enough differences between the books and and the show that you're not going to be bored experiencing one after the other, but the overall plot-lines remain the same.