Or the Newton.

Points 1,2, and 3: If Apple is concentrating on the software, the interface, and possibly the overall design then these points don't really apply as their partner that's building the cars will be concerned about these points. They won't care about part availability in 20 years though. They'll make sure that there's a very high probability that there's parts to see them through to the mandated number of years of required support in each country. From then on it's luck if they have the part or the parts market from when vehicles get scrapped. That's how it works today.

Not everyone loves Tesla or their cars. Nothing says that Apple and their partners would build the cars in California or any other part of the US. Apple won't need to find people that know how to build vehicles because their partner will have those people. That's the point in getting a partner. Besides, I wouldn't get anyone from Tesla unless they could prove Musk over-rode their decisions. Tesla doesn't make money on their cars. They make money selling credits for "fuel efficiency" to other companies that are building gas guzzlers that people want to buy.

There is plenty of room in the vehicle market to make a place. Everyone assumes it's going to be a luxury product and it's probably a fair guess. Don't forget that for a long, long time Apple stayed alive by being a supplier of computers to the education market. Maybe they will make a vehicle vital to corporations or the government. Face it, you don't go to Kia for a luxury builder. Apple really wants something to steady the ups and downs of revenue from iPhone releases and having a vehicle being sold to large organizations at a steady rate would do that nicely. It would also let them work out a lot of problems with the system before going to consumers.

Don't let the fact that Apple has included a way to turn off targeted advertising from their system on iOS (now iOS and iPadOS) for many years now. It's way past time that the other apps are treated equally.

Dishwashers used to have a dial to select the type of wash and the length of time. When it was done the dial would stop at "Clean" and remain there until someone moved it to "Dirty" or set the program to wash the dishes. Now dishwashers have lights that indicate the clean status but as soon as you open the door or if the power goes out for a microsecond the light goes out. It's brought in a bunch of different hacks for people to remind themselves whether the dishes in the dishwasher are clean or dirty without opening the door and checking. It's not a huge problem but there was nothing wrong with the dial indicator. It was a piece of UI that worked.

I bought a microwave a couple of years ago after having my last one for 20+ years. I couldn't find one that had a numeric keypad to enter times. They all had some knob to turn or some other way to input the time. They all have special buttons to do special things. But if I want to heat something up for 1:45 in my microwave I can't. When turning the knob to set the time it goes from 1:40 to 1:50. Under 30 seconds it skips in 5 seconds. When I need to set the time I have to scroll through the hours and then the minutes. If I want to use the timer I have to open the door because most of the buttons are hidden. At least it's not a touchscreen and a scroll wheel. :)

The gun was added so that the F-35 could do ground support. The A-10 is currently being flown by the Army and there is a big pissing contest over who flies the planes between the Army and Air Force. The Air Force doesn't want the Army to fly planes as it cuts into their responsibility but they don't want to take over the A-10. (I don't know why as it's perfect for ground support. Yes, it's old but an update would be better than a replacement.) Anyways, the A-10 is going away and the responsibility for ground attack is moving over to the Air Force leaving the Army pissed off. The Air Force had nothing really capable to do the job so they added the cannon to the F-35 and they still don't have anything really capable of providing ground support.

The wonderful part is that the cannon is able to shoot up to 3,300 shots per minute but the F-35A will carry 182 rounds while the gun pod for the F-35B and F-35C will carry 220 rounds. I hope that there's a burst mode and not a full auto mode for that cannon or else the pilot will find themselves out of ammo very quickly, as in under four seconds.

The whole point of the F-35, like all major military projects and some NASA contracts, is to distribute as much pork to as many political districts in order to get as many politicians re-elected as possible. The F-35 has nothing to do with fulfilling a required role. It's taken a plane that would have been a good replacement for the F16 and F-18 and then tried had the politicians and industry push as many jobs at it in the name of replacing more and more planes all in the publicly stated goal of "saving money" and "efficiencies". All it did was create a plane that isn't great at anything and has many problems with it. But to keep the pork rolling out to the ridings the people in charge said it was good enough to deploy. More and more planes are getting deployed and every flaw means more and more planes need to fixed.

As an aside the F-35 is also a great plane for the US to spy on their "partners" as the planes send all their data back to the US for analysis (to see if something might break soon based on existing known patterns).

Another example of the pork was back in 2012 when lawmakers wanted the US Army to continue making and refurbishing their tanks when the Army already had over 2,000 M-1 Abrams sitting around doing nothing. A quote from the article:

Jet fighters are incredibly noisy. They are much, much louder than civilian passenger jets. However, in the quote the pilot states that the voice control works fine in the ground simulators so the technology isn't all that bad. It fails when performing high-G maneuvers. During those times people would have a greater difficulty of talking due to the pressure being put on their bodies. For example, lay down on the floor, then have someone approximately your size sit (gently) down on your chest and see how well your phone understands your voice commands.

Back around 1999 I had a small website up and running more as an example of my programming skills than trying to tell the world anything, as if I really have anything that important to tell the world. :) I threw up a banner ad at the bottom of each page thinking that I might make enough to pay for the bandwidth or domain name I was using for the demonstration site. Instead of trying to figure out what the users were interested in and then serving ads based on that I had went out and found a number of programs and things for sale that I could earn commissions on. I made some custom banners, or used the ones provided, and on the pages appropriate ads showed up. It took a bit of time to set up as I had to give each ad a category and each page had at least one category from which ads would be selected.

It worked well and the best part of all is that it didn't invade anybody's privacy. If I had a site today I'd like to do it the same way. It would be great if there were a company out there that offered a service for website owners to sign up to so that they could just put a bit of code in their page, change the tag names for what the ad refers to, and have a related advertisement show up. I always thought that if a person is reading an article about X on your site then the best thing one could do is have an advertisement for X, not show them ads for what they bought last week. It may not always be easy to select the categories for a page but an advanced set-up could handle those cases in the setup so it wouldn't have to be done on every page.

From 2:00 to 2:06 in the video it shows the layout of the station tracks when the car is coming in from the main line. The lines to and from the main lain are presumably built under the body of water and the station is under a park. There are a bunch of stops for the car all in a row which removes the problem of getting stuck behind another car. (I've also seen this type of system used for buses parking.)

The video you linked to shows how it they plan it work. A car comes in off the main line while decelerating and would be directed to one of the spots that are parallel with one another. The incoming line connects to all of the spots and they are all connected to the outgoing line. It's like the spots at a train station, except those are usually straight or the end of a line.

Never trust an article that doesn't know what a mouse does.

The mouse doesn't know anything about the pointer on the screen, or if there's a pointer on the screen at all. It could be controlling the paddle in a game of Breakout or doing something else. All the mouse is doing is transferring data about motion and the clicking of buttons to the computer so that it may interpret them.

Just because a computer can write a summary of a sporting match doesn't make them capable of writing great works of literary art.

And thus, just because you have seen a few examples of cars making a trip by itself doesn't mean that the technology is completely ready to take over everyday driving in all situations

Having a local currency isn't going to fix a local economy in the current environment. The issue is that we're in a pandemic and people can't get out to spend and earn money. It doesn't matter what currency they use. And it also doesn't matter what currency they are paid in if the hourly wage isn't enough to live on.

We are able to barter our talents and skills but I wouldn't want to live in a society in which I needed to barter for everything. Societies used to be like that before money and one spent much of their time trying to find people whom wanted their stuff to trade with others for the stuff that you actually want.

Or does Yang actually think bartering involves the use of a currency?

Signal, Telegram, and Viber are all good choices. My favourite is Viber as I find that it's easiest to use but that can be a personal thing. I've found that Viber tends to be popular in Europe but not many other places. I would recommend checking it out at least to compare it with the others.