Multiple credit card companies are already doing this. Our merchant services company offered us this same data. Of course Google is tracking everything you do. But they can only do it with the willing help of Visa/Mastercard.

It's too late for everybody who isn't named "Tesla". Tesla's got over 100,000 charging stations installed already. Tesla's chargers are going to be the de facto standard at this point.

Unless you buy brand new hardware, hardware is absurdly cheap. Our hardware costs are somewhere around 1/20 of our software costs. It might even be less. I don't see any costs savings on hardware.

What I do see with "microservices" is crossing your fingers that whoever you're buying from knows what they're doing (ie: backups, non-faulty hardware, non-faulty sysadmins, etc.)

The other thing is that you have to rely on Internet access, which, in most of the US, is spotty at best. We're in a major metropolitan, high-tech area, and neither of the ISP's can provide us with reliable service. Hence, all of our software is built to run off-line during our very regular Internet outages. With "microservices", we'd just be stopped from doing any business at all every time the Internet dropped out.

If these companies even tried to end "hate speech" or whatever nebulous crime where a specific group of pigs are more equal than another group of pigs, we will see the end of these platforms and companies full sail.

Banning trolls will hurt their business, how? As an employer, I'm MORE likely to advertise on a platform that wasn't full of screaming, stupid Trump people. Those are not people that I want to advertise to, anyway.

How can Uber have trouble turning a profit? What expenses do they have? Are they literally wiping their asses with money, or something? I can't imagine how maintaining a few little apps would cost billions of dollars a year.

Wow. That's neat. In return for those cute little gimmicks, Amazon has a complete recording of everything that happens in your house. And, then they sell that to other companies. You're OK with that? Really?

I feel bad for kids these days. The world is going to be a nastier place to live in than it is today in many ways, environmentally, notwithstanding. Go, Trump!

Come on man. UBER isn't even a stock. The so-called 'valuation' is somebody's pipe dream that hasn't been exposed to the marketplace.

ALSO there will ALWAYS be stocks that are over hyped and overvalued. Cherry picking individual issues and using them to characterize the market is a fools game.

March 10 2000 the NASDAQ hit 5132.

Now the NASDAQ is still well below the 2000 high on an inflation corrected basis. Even more so considering the burgeoning size of the tech economy over 15 years.

Maybe there is an argument that things are overwrought, especially in Vulture Capitalist Fantasy Land. But bubble? Nah.

Ended their red light program test this week. I guess having these run at the state level means less conflict of interest.

The problem with this is not the way he did it - existing immigration laws have considerable latitude for the executive branch written in. The idea that this is illegal or unconstitutional is going to have a tough time getting through the courts.

The problem with this action is that it's only a temporary patch on the real immigration issues. Maybe it's the best possible for the next couple of years but the real problem is the politics that is preventing real reform. In particular a system that financial rewards the people taking the most extreme and intransigent positions more than moderates.

Ted Cruz is actually quite intelligent, however he's adopted demagoguery as his primary M.O.

He's really a miserable person who intentionally appeals to hate as a way to boost his political career.

Uh the government has always been in control of the internet, from day 1 when some dude at DARPA decided to fund it.

What is happening now is because companies are trying to rip it out of public hands and run it like they do many other dystopian services like say airlines and wireless telephony - pay through the nose for miserable service in an environment where there is a choice between a small number of service providers all of which are doing their best to rip you a new one.

It's true that government is incompetent - however you don't realize that this incompetence takes the guise of regulatory capture, oligopolies and corrupt politics.

Many geologists claim that the amount of oil recoverable from shale deposits is vastly overestimated by shale oil entrepreneurs. Early this year the EIA decreased their estimate of the oil recoverable from the Monterey shale formation by 96 percent. Certainly there is a large discrepancy between reserves claimed in SEC filings vs. that claimed in public statements.

I wonder if there is a self-interest in operation here?

If the SEC filings are correct we only have a few years of oil from shale in our future. Production will be well into decline by the end of the decade.

If you have a long term market outlook it's something to think about....

I'm a big 4th Amendment guy but I find it hard to see where anything the police did here can be criticized.

Surely any judge would issue a warrant in a millisecond after seeing that horrific video.

Disclosure takes it out of the shade IMHO.