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Comment Re:Sold his stock (Score 5, Informative) 98

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

Comment another way around internet blockage (Score 1) 123

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

Comment Re:No Autonomy (Score 2) 125

You might have missed that Musk made the same claim about 2016, with the 1-camera sensor system. The 2017 claim was with the newer 8-camera system, and the claim was made before Tesla even had software for the new sensors, and the Tesla then lacked adaptive cruise control, adaptive high beam, self parking, summon, and other things that the prior model did have. I'm embarrassed that I actually believed these claims.

Comment Re:The left didn't implode (Score 1) 611

Immigrants, documented or not, tend to commit crimes at a smaller rate than native born Americans.

https://www.factcheck.org/2018...

As we said, there aren’t readily available nationwide crime statistics broken down by immigration status. But the available research that estimates the relationship between illegal immigration and crime generally shows an association with lower crime rates.

Comment Re: CarPlay may not be part of residual (Score 1) 223

As it is right now (pre-2019 BMWs and every other car that comes with CarPlay), CarPlay is a feature of the car, like a CD player. So, yes, the license for CarPlay transfers to subsequent owners (like the license to the software that controls the CD player).

In 2019+ BMWs, the subsequent owners would have to pay the yearly fee.

Comment Re: CarPlay may not be part of residual (Score 1) 223

Itâ(TM)s only not part of the residual when the switch to the pay-per-year model (in the 2019 model year). Because the $80 per year fee is paid on top of the lease payment.

Thatâ(TM)s what makes the new, pay-per-year method more expensive than the $300 one-time-few method. And yet BMW is claiming the opposite.

Comment Re:CarPlay may not be part of residual (Score 2) 223

They says that for leases, the 'pay per year' method is cheaper, but let's boil that down.

On a three year least, with the 'pay per year' method, you'll pay $0 for your first year and $80 for each of your next two years. So $160 total.

If you leased the car with the one-time $300 fee, you don't pay $300. You pay Sales Price minus Residual. And the residual on some of these cars is up to ~60% of sales price. So lets say that the residual on a BMW is 58%, that means Car Play would have cost you $300* 0.42 = $126! Still cheaper! You'd have to have a residual less than 47% for the new method to be worth it.

You are assuming that the CarPlay license is part of that residual. Is CarPlay transferable to the new owner? Are you sure the "remainder" of the CarPlay fee goes into the residual value? I expect CarPlay is outside that residual. The residual is supposed to be the wholesale value of the car. If CarPlay is not transferable it can not be part of that value.

Right now it absolute is part of the residual. Right now in BMWs, CarPlay is an optional feature (despite that on most other cars CarPlay is included as a standard feature). Think of it like an optional sunroof. The leasee pays part of that cost just like he pays for part of the car in general.

My current car has CarPlay. If I sell the car to someone else, she gets CarPlay, too. Just like she gets the sunroof I paid extra for. It's part of the car. CarPlay isn't a service (like satellite radio, for instance). No one is coming to lock the sunroof shut in my car when I sell it. BMW will lock CarPlay, though.

No one else charges a yearly fee for CarPlay. My wife's near-poverty-spec Honda came with CarPlay, and it'll work years down the road even though we don't pay Honda anything for it.

Comment It's not cheaper, either. (Score 4, Interesting) 223

They says that for leases, the 'pay per year' method is cheaper, but let's boil that down.

On a three year least, with the 'pay per year' method, you'll pay $0 for your first year and $80 for each of your next two years. So $160 total.

If you leased the car with the one-time $300 fee, you don't pay $300. You pay Sales Price minus Residual. And the residual on some of these cars is up to ~60% of sales price. So lets say that the residual on a BMW is 58%, that means Car Play would have cost you $300* 0.42 = $126! Still cheaper! You'd have to have a residual less than 47% for the new method to be worth it.

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