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That deal had more to do with national security concerns being addressed and Broadcom's shitty business strategy rather than market share concerns.

I'd think it would be because SpaceX probably argued that the trajectory with Startship launching 10s of thousands of satellites that it would meet the program requirements.

It's because Ford hates the dealer markup they've started charging in last couple of years.

Cheaper than developing their own solution and Germany has very good relations with Israel.

Don't worry their listings on Taobao will be accurate because they actually enforce standards.

>Amazon use off-the-shelf vehicles though. Not for long, they even invested in Rivian, an EV manufacturer, who is going to build vehicles to their spec.

It was also keeping the manufacturing process and technologies, specifically stealth secret.

And also that the US Fed Gov's role in funding Signal. Hopefully, the best outcome will probably be seeing how stupid the backdoor and encryption debate is.

What will be the Code of Ethics? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-monitoring-insight/...

No way they could get that by regulators. There would be too many anti-trust concerns.

Or that Bush realized the folly of his foreign policy and dramatically changed it in the later part of his term after the shitshow in Iraq.

I believe that at some point in the future they will launch a joint-venture for a fully automated Uber competitor with Tesla handling designing and building the vehicles and Google…

It means that Russians are threatening retaliation for the public discussions the US is having for their responses to the DNC and other leaks. https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/stat…

The Kochs are the 21st century Kochs. Peter Thiel hasn't had any major success as a political donor, while the Kochs have been wildly successful as political donors and furthering …

You would think though if he was living in the US or Canada, he would at least make a more up-to-date pop reference than Rambo or Terminator. If he was living in the west, he would…

It would appear that different people wrote different parts of this. The English goes from fluent to almost Google translatese ("inside the network to stay stealth.") in talking ab…

To go back to the mobile analogy, I don't think Google chose to not compete on iOS vs the App Store. It's a large possibility that Facebook would be willing to lock down Oculus for…

Until Facebook decides that it wants a cut of all the sales on Oculus and locks down the platform, hence Valve's concern. There's only one App store on iOS vs Android. Valve's main…

True right now they are compatible, however it seems like that Facebook and Valve are on a collision course over what they think the ecosystem should be (and who is going to be the…

The by far most interesting comment from the thread is this one (It's by Alan Yates who works on Vive/SteamVR) https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4osav8/lighthouse_tra... . >Of…

It's laughable how outclassed Oculus is by Valve. If Valve were to release Half-Life 3 as an exclusive on Vive, Oculus as a gaming headset would be toast. Valve has some of the mos…