Sounds like we need most favored nation on App Stores too... You shouldn't be able to charge a higher commission on your American app store than anywhere else in the world.

It's convenience and being advertising free.... I don't want to have to find and store music for it to be ad free. If I'm on a road trip, or during my commute, or whatever - and I decide I want to hear something specific or new - "Hey Google - Play " Bam - there it is. No hassle, No wait, No searching, No ads...That's what I'm paying for. And with YT premium, you're also ad free on Youtube itself, which is it's own killer feature when you're watching on a smart tv, or you're at a hotel where many now have the ability for you to log in to the services you have on their TV with no hassle.

If they don't play ball, they'll all be forced to via DPA

You can't have ethics if you buy a yacht? wtf kind of logic is that...

It's even more than that... Lab grown meat is significantly more expensive... The general population *might* entertain the idea when it's at price parity with normal meat. And if it becomes cheaper than normal meat, I think you'll see it take off - although most people that are financially secure will continue eating normal meat as a status symbol.

The question is - without the overhyping, would the things that Musks companies *have* done ever happened at all. I don't think without Tesla's success that other car companies would even be contemplating mass manufacturing EV's - they would still be just a super low volume stunt like the EV1 was. SpaceX also brought huge advances that I don't think any other space company would even have attempted. Reusable rockets - we finally have *ONE* company that might start competing (Bezo's Blue Origin) and if SpaceX hadn't proved reusability I don't think any other company would even have attempted it. We wouldn't have *good* internet from space (Starlink). Etc Etc. You can bash Musks lofty and missed predictions all you want - but without them, I don't think we'd be where we are today - so on balance, he has pushed Humanity forward immensely even if you don't like his politics.

If it's autonomous shouldn't it be able to close its own doors? Actuators are not that expensive... My trunk is already automated, and has sensors to detect if there's something in the way.

We need sponsorblock built in to youtube premium... Need it to work on my TV, not just in my browser.

I mean yes and no... It makes you more productive... While it can't replace a human in most cases, it does make the humans that are using it significantly more productive when using it.

The killer app would be to have cameras / lidar / whatever all around the court creating a live 3d broadcast of the whole game. Sit in any virtual seat you want -include group viewing with your friends so you can all sit in the same section and look over and see them(their avatar anyway...) - be able to pause it walk out and look and look at a play up close - with instant replay / whatever - but you get to control it all.

Apples problem is that their VR goggles are $3500... If you want to hit critical mass you have to hit a mass market price point which the Apple VR offering was not.

Consumer credit will be curtailed, people that are higher risks for default will lose credit because that group is not profitable at 10% interest. People with high credit scores will be unaffected (and are mostly unaffected anyway because they pay off their balance monthly and pay zero interest as a result)

Sounds like a good idea - that'll give them all the power they need too.

Seems like the water things should be easy... They use water for cooling... Drill 2 wells, one for drawing, and one for injection - it effectively becomes a closed loop that doesn't lower the water table - it's one of the more inexpensive ways to do geothermal heating/cooling without requiring a large ground loop installation.

Markdown wins because of critical mass. Formats don't matter unless they are adopted - and markdown, somehow, won that battle and is supported practically everywhere at this point... Except slashdot because rsilvergun doesn't like change.