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That depends if you believe Spotify users will switch to Apple just for that feature... if they won't, Spotify can likely still charge extra for it. Folks are pretty tied in to eco…

Spotify hi-fi was announced a few months ago and is launching soon.

The EU (and Japan and Australia) has a range of rules now for increasing pedestrian safety, including softer materials on the front bumper, hoods that give so that they cushion the…

Yes, I completly disagree with your sweeping characterizations of entire genders, on both sides of that discussion. A key part of the problem is that society often propogates such …

" It is a very feminine point of view to believe that one has intrinsic, objective value." I think you need to take a while and consider why you believe that statement is true, and…

Medical bills are (according to some studies [0]) the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US. So not only do you have to recover from a serious accident or illness, and maybe the lo…

You don't need to fork it, or mine it. You just use a smaller amount. My point was that other traditional "store of values" have inherent value based on their utility per amount, w…

Yes, but people argue that the finite supply of Bitcoin is a fundamental advantage vs. currencies. The supply of a currency isn't really infinite, but it's quite flexible when you …

What he said above: unless you have a long or short position, you don't care whether you get a full unit or some fraction thereof. There are some elements of behavior economics tha…

There's an infinite supply, but there's non-zero cost associated with accessing incremental units in that supply. (And some would say diamonds are an artificially constrained marke…

Obviously, nobody can predict the future, but the whole point of talking about what's likely to happen is to make reasoned guesses based on the best available data and economic mod…

The problem isn't that it's unpopular, it doesn't seem (from the post) like you have some kind of underlying economic or financial principle supporting your argument. * why would i…

It's an interesting question, but rationally it seems like BTC should decline during a market crash / recession. It's arguably a way to store value as other assets decline, but giv…

Is the supply really "limited"? Sure, there's finite number of "coins" that can be generated. But unlike physical objects, there's not really any special property of that unit. Als…

Interchange rates on Visa are >2%, and there's definitely cards that offer 2% cash back on everything, with the exception they generally bar "cash-like" items like cash withdrawals…

I suspect this is less about the credit risk of the cardholders than the risk of unrecoverable fraud, although there's also the theoretical risk of some kind of fraudulent conveyan…

Fair enough, but honestly this seems like far less of a problem than the large fraction of drivers who don't know how to turn properly in the first place, and just make that right …

I ride both ebikes and scooters, and while the ebikes are a better way to get somewhere fast (and I think, overall, safer) the scooters are generally a much more pleasant ride - yo…

At least in SF, they protect the bike lanes sometimes - no right on red, at least, when there's a protected bike lane. Re filtering, is that technically against the rules? It's a s…

This is a bit of a stretch. There was a lot of work done on improving tablet support in K, L and M, including work to specifically support the Nexus 9 and Pixel C. There was also t…

"Looking out the window" and "steering the car" is pretty much exactly what current year cruise control systems do. Just go look at the Subaru Eyesight systems, which depend on cam…

Both adaptive cruise controls and human drivers do this by default. If you're doing 60 MPH on a highway and something pops into the periphery of your vision that you don't recogniz…

Not as many since they banned them here, but it used to be quite common given the combination between the fact it's pretty windy here in SF every afternoon, and there's lots of tra…

Sure, but if you were on a highway, would you slam on the brakes? I hope not. There's a calculation here of balancing the perceived risk of an obstruction with the consequences of …

Is this necessarily different from a car placed in normal cruise control (automatic throttle, no braking), where the driver is under the obligation to managing braking in an emerge…