I do not have to use the Google app store and can bypass it, however, I agree that the 30% fees are too high. The one benefit I'll give Google is that they tend to be much better at supporting standards, i.e. USB-C vs Lightning. Some years ago my father designed a very well-known product and had to figure out why all headphones worked except Apple's. He found out that Apple required a 30V pulse to be sent to activate the headphones (and then there's the fact that Apple decided to have their own TRRS standard). Hell, Apple even had their own USB charging standard, which was quite irritating when trying to find chargers that followed the USB standard. Pre-USB-C the device would connect the two data lines together with a 100 ohm or smaller resistor in order to draw more than 500ma. I remember having to open up several chargers and short the pins together to follow the standard rather than do the Apple thing.

This is ridiculous. Apple has been throwing their weight around for years and crap like this just proves it. The Apple 30% tax is criminal IMHO. Every transaction through IOS includes this 30% tax. Of course, they're going to fight tooth and nail to keep their monopoly and they don't give a damn about who gets hurt or caught in the crossfire.

I beg to differ. I know several highly intelligent people who drive for Lyft. A friend of mine drives part-time in his Bolt for extra income when he has time.

And KHTML predates Safari by years as well. Safari basically took KDE's KHTML and forked it to remove the dependency on QT. KHTML was fairly standards compliant and the code was quite clean. I used to use Konqueror quite a bit back in the day since it didn't suffer many of the issues that Firefox did (i.e. single threaded Javascript and horrendous memory leaks).

What about Jared Kushner using private email accounts after being told not to for official business? Or how about dear Trump frequently using a non-secure phone for his communications? Then there's Ivanka Trump's private email usage. Of course, nobody says anything about Colin Powell using AOL for official email, which was deleted.

Anything the liberals have done pales in comparison to Trump. Hell, even Nixon was a lightweight compared to Trump. How about bribing Putin with a $50M penthouse in order to build a tower, something he even admitted to, to be financed by a Russian bank currently under sanctions? That's not to mention the number of witches who have currently plead guilty and been indicted, all by a Republican prosecutor (who was approved 98-0 as director of the FBI under a Republican president).

Let me see, my deep blue state produces far more food than it uses and exports it to the rest of the country. We export 1/3 of the entire country's vegetables and 2/3's of the nation's fruit and nuts are grown here. California leads the nation in farm receipts by far.

https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statis...

California's agricultural value is around double that of Texas.

http://beef2live.com/story-sta...

Oh, and we legalized pot.

Which is insane. The replacement cost for a key fob for a Tesla model S is $200. This includes the programming of the new fob to the car at the service center. Mine recently had one of the buttons stop working, though with no questions asked they replaced it under the extended warranty free of charge.

This reminds me of how expensive it was to deal with Toyota when I had my Prius. After I sold it to my parents the touch screen stopped accepting touch input. Toyota wanted $5000 to replace the MFD (touchscreen) plus over $1000 in labor. It was a known problem and we found a place online that would fix it with a lifetime warranty for $400. It took 5 minutes of labor to remove it and another 5 minutes to reinstall it requiring nothing more than a 10mm socket wrench. Every time something went wrong, Toyota would want a fortune for the part and an arm and a leg for labor. HID headlights burning out? $200 per bulb and $140 labor. (The ame new Sylvania bulb was on Ebay for $50). This was another known defect and wasn't covered under the extended warranty. I had both go bad shortly after the initial 3 year/36,000 mile warranty. Another dealership did replace it free of charge under a "good will warranty" but my local one wanted $340 per bulb. The bulb was not easily accessible, unlike the MFD.

I know several people that work or have worked at Amazon in tech and it's almost as bad with management and incompetence. A Friend of mine who's working as a contractor describes what he's running into with the Echo team and the incompetence he's running into there. I also have a close relative who spent quite a long time there. Managers are basically at each other's throats and the politics are insane from what everyone tells me. My friend who's a contractor there working on the Echo keeps telling me horror stories about the incompetence he runs into daily from lead developers. Another friend of mine who left told me that most of the competent people leave.

Upon watching the video closely and looking at the exact spot the accident happened with Google Street view, there is no way this accident should have happened. While the video doesn't show the woman in the distance, I believe she should have been clearly visible since there are two street lights close to where she was crossing. The dynamic range of the dashcam video is poor so the darker areas which would clearly be visible to a human driver just show up as black. If the driver had bothered to look up rather than focus on his lap the accident would not have happened. Additionally, the LIDAR should have detected the pedestrian who was crossing the street. Uber has a bad reputation with their autonomous driving and is well behind everyone else when it comes to safety. They were the only ones who balked when California required them to register, in part because California requires them to document every time a human driver has to take over and every incident.

Uber had also decided to cut costs by reducing the number of people monitoring the self-driving cars from two to one.

A human driver would NOT have hit her. Notice the two nearby streetlights? All it proves is that it was a shitty dashcam.

I also noticed two nearby streetlights. I'm almost certain I wouldn't have hit her either.

It's easy to blame technology. Notice in the video that there are TWO nearby streetlights. All the video shows is that it's a crappy dashcam with very poor dynamic range.

I totally agree. I noticed that there were TWO nearby street lights and the pedestrian was certainly within the range of those. Additionally, I can still see past the cut-off line of my headlights designed to not blind the drivers in front of me. The light is dimmer, but I can still see what's ahead. The dashcam footage is pretty crappy without a lot of dynamic range, further reduced by the video codec that throws away dark information (video codecs typically only use 16-235 instead of 0-255).

I think this most likely is due to the shitty video from the dashcam which has a much more limited dynamic range than a human eyeball, not to mention the compression algorithms throwing away all of the dark information. Video is often encoded using less than 8-bits, using the range 16-235 instead of 0-255. Codecs usually use the 16-235 range.

The dashcam footage is pretty shitty. The pedestrian SHOULD have been visible. I noticed that the pedestrian was not that far from TWO streetlights. I also can see above the cut-off line of my headlights whereas the dashcam clearly can't. I can make out the pedestrian even in the video if I turn up the brightness, though the compression algorithms turn her into just a blob. Remember, the car also has RADAR and LIDAR. It should have detected the pedestrian even if the driver didn't, because from the video it's quite clear that the driver was not paying attention.