Are you talking about loaning out your car to other people, or using a robotaxi yourself?

- If you're talking about loaning your car out to other people, you could have a second car. Make money off of your robotaxi car. It's like having an Airbnb. Then have your main car as your "home" vehicle that you don't rent out.

- If you're referring to borrowing a car/using a robotaxi, there are situations where that may come up (flying to a different city for example).

If it doesn't try to sell you stuff, it'll try to sell your personal information to other companies.

Thanks for the link!

No Linux version? Blah.

If it's for the iPhone, then I believe the chips will be sent to China, India, (Brazil?), and perhaps other locations for assembly. If the chip is going to be used in other devices, it could be shipped to other countries as well.

The parts for the iPhone come from a ton of different countries, so the chips being made in one place and then shipped somewhere else for assembly into the phone is standard practice.

This site doesn't have a ton of detail about where parts are sourced, but gives some idea how many countries (and different environmental & labor laws) Apple needs to work with: https://www.apple.com/supply-c...

Crowdstrike is absolutely a downtime avoidance solution -- that comes by default with being an antivirus/intrusion detection system. If Crowdstrike detected an virus and solved it by shutting down the entire company's computers, that would be effective, but obviously would cause a major problem.

It's actually easy to say what Crowdstrike could have done better -- they reported the details themselves:
https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp...

This includes array checks, content validation, and staged deployment.

I think a lot of criticism is deserved in this case due to the severity of the mess-up. The company brought down a decent percentage of the world's business computers and caused billions (perhaps trillions) of dollars in lost revenue, productivity, lost data, etc. It deserves (I'd even say *requires*) a lot of scrutiny, openness (on behalf of Crowdstrike) and some consternation from everyone.

Privacy is exactly the issue here, and the ruling was forward-looking enough that we’re seeing this being played out in real life right now. For women who have had abortions for medical reasons recently, police and prosecutors are looking at specifics at the women’s medical histories, including some very personal details of what must be a traumatic experience. And sometimes women have to relive this in court. The government should not have any right to nose its way into these details. The right to privacy is one of the fundamental points of the US Constitution, and I’d argue that a threat to privacy (and the government accessing personal information that it should have no right to) is a threat to democracy.

You blamed Democrats on not passing legislation to protect women’s rights. I’m just pointing out that they at least tried. I’m not seeing much help from Republicans on this.

I'm guessing that they figured they didn't have to, due to the decades of standard case law.

Though in all fairness, once a Supreme Court reversal seemed possible Democrats tried to get a bill passed many times, but never succeeded. Take a guess if mostly Democrats or Republicans refused to vote for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The Supreme Court changing 49 years of standard case law, taking women's rights back decades has a tendency to do that.

The US is mentioned several times -- the US is part of the OECD which is mentioned in the summary, and the US is mentioned in the article.

The person you're criticizing makes two valid points:

1. There is a large cost to having children, and that is preventing people from having them. This is in part supported by the article: "The study found a positive association between female employment rates and higher fertility rates, but found that the cost of housing was an increasing barrier to having children."

2. There is the hypocrisy of Republicans in the US to both support partial or total bans on abortion to try to ensure babies are born, but they do little to support the costs of raising the children. And governmental help could go a long way to helping parents out -- which in turn might help increase the birth rate in the US.

You might not like what they had to say, but this person had some very valid, logical, and relevant points.

It's a good thing Microsoft isn't forcibly expanding their customers' use of their cloud products by auto-installing services like Copilot and OneDrive into Windows and Office. Oh wait...

No I hear you, Toyota is probably the best in for hybrids right now. But inventory is low, and dealers are marking them up. And while they're good for bland day-to-day driving, in my experience they're not that engaging. The Rav4 Prime has some horsepower, but the steering feel isn't great, and the regenerative brakes are terribly mushy.

> There's a push to change dealer laws, this is legal issue more than anything. ... Again, time and infrastructure solves this. More charging stations, longer range cars. ...

That's my point -- I think time will resolve a lot of these issues (vehicle cost, hybrids that are engaging to drive, recharging infrastructure, new electrics with longer range, reliability across most electrics, etc.).

> Hybrids are good and every single manufacturer today offers them. In 2024 if I am shopping for a car I have options across all 3 ranges, pure ICE, Hybrid and BEV, what's the problem?

In 2024, Subaru does not currently offer new hybrid vehicles for sale. And their electric vehicle has poor recharge speed and driving distance compared to rivals.

I think it's difficult to find a car that hits all of the major checkboxes these days. Specifically I'm referring to:

- Inexpensive and no dealer markups (rules out hybrids and electrics)
- Great gas mileage in both short and long distances (rules out plugin hybrids and ICE cars)
- Engaging/fun to drive (rules out most hybrids)
- No anxiety about refueling/recharging (rules out electrics)
- Practical (rules out electrics in certain situations, i.e., not possible to charge at home, etc.)
- Reliable (generally, electrics and plugin hybrids have not ranked as well in Consumer Reports)
- Safe (some electrics have had major recalls, like the Chevy Bolt for fires and Cybertruck for accelerator pedal/trim issues)

And those are for major categories -- it gets even worse when you get to finer degrees of personal taste (how the seat feels, driving position, dashboard layout, etc.). It's no wonder people are just hanging onto their old cars, waiting for the car manufacturers to come up with something better.

Hey, life can and will get better. Besides, we can't lose you on Slashdot -- there aren't that many people left here as it is. :)

I'm sure you are already aware of these resources but I think we'd be missing something if it weren't posted (US resources):

Alcoholics Anonymous
https://www.aa.org/

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
https://988lifeline.org/
(Call 988)

Don't be afraid to reach out to one of those, it can't hurt!

Perhaps Riot should beat them to the punch and release their source code as open source -- with the idea that others could help find bugs and make improvements. And they could provide official support and a platform for LoL clones to be created as well.

At least, I can dream, can't i?

I think I'm responding to a troll here, but have you seen the 2014 Galaxy phone that you're referring to (Samsung Galaxy K Zoom)? It's like they took a huge retracting zoom lens off of a digital camera and attached it onto the back of a phone. It's an interesting experiment, but overall a huge compromise to get even a small amount of optical zoom on there.

While I'll admit that Apple is sometimes late to the party with some features, there's no way they can compete with designs that are a huge compromise in design or performance -- at least not without releasing a huge confusing catalog of iPhones that compete directly with every possible experimental design out there.

I'll also say, I don't see how any of this relates to the article, particularly since the article is talking about a software bug.