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The courts, eventually-probably. What this does to the business environment and future endeavours regarding clean energy, however, is an exercise left to the reader

In this context? Being able to put your foot down and say fuck Google, I will no longer put up with the anti-user direction of their platform, and switch to something outside the d…

This actually depends on who has better SEO. Some scam numbers place higher than the help pages for actual businesses. Receiving physical bills and calling the number on the back o…

I agree, but I'd also challenge you to find a cellphone that a normal person carries that doesn't just concatonate multiple messages and turn them into MMS. My Pinephone and Librem…

> API has absolutely no switching costs. Were that true, many embedded maps would have switched to OSM instead of Google Maps after Google massively increased costs. Adding your bu…

Minor note, you forgot battery life. Pinging your location every other minute for traffic and crowd denisty for Google Maps, even using AGPS, isn't cheap. When you find battery lif…

The phone app misses lots of data the car can collent and send. When, how frequently, and how long turn indicators are used. How aggressively the throttle and brake are applied, ho…

But then you're right back where you started: When you need a clean number for a hospital or similarly important service to call (Wife's work, daycare, school office), it goes to t…

> My only solution that I could think of is to have a dedicated phone line just for friends/family/work, and a second line for banking/shopping/utilities/everything else. This fail…

I think the most surprising thing about this is trusting Google.

> security and legal restrictions The security of American hedgemony, and legal restrictions that are due to laws enacted by the American government You're using different words to…

In 2008 Sergey Brin and Larry Page saw the limo waiting, and instead chose to rollerblade to the Android unveiling. Sergey Brin, during the presentation, threw his G1 in the air to…

Sounds like you're unironically describing a Tangara [0]. They most certainly hit their goal, though I can't verify if they get restocked or how often. Mine's lasted, and it works …

I mostly agree, but it's the lack of enforcement that's the Get out of Jail Free card, not the T&C

> the right to own firearms is very explicitly stated in our constitution The right to bear arms does not necessarily mean firearms. Arms doesn't necessarily even have to include f…

You're gonna love finding out who was behind the founding of Comma.AI, which adds self-driving to cars that shipped without it

> and I’ve done all the searching in the world for the lyrics I remember and have never found the band Shoulda posted what you remember (and ideally male / female vocalist) as a po…

Regardless of whether we classify it as humanities or political science (as neither seems to be looked at as terribly useful in the states), a population without some grasp of civi…

Sure, that's why Smokey the Bear is such a bad idea. Ignore the fact that pushing propaganda starts young, (the population in general, but especially) children are impressionable, …

I'm struggling not to be sarcastic here, as I'm not quite stoked about Canadian Tire owning most of what's left of Hudson's Bay Company. It's pretty undeniable proof that age and r…

> Its [sic] bad when a hostile foreign government has [...] information about [...] your citizens How many domestic automotive manufacturers does America have, and how many times h…

Ironic coming from the country with three domestic OEMs, and routinely threatens economic annexation of my country

> Commissioning reactors that won't come online for 10-15 years makes no sense at all, economically and practically. Because we won't need base load in 15 years? Or because you're …

The fact that every 737 MAX was the samew design also means that, upon rcognizing the flaw, every one could be grounded and fixed properly. We did not have to verify 15 different d…

This is entirely unrelated to your point, but as you brought up the sanctity some Americans hold their founding fathers to: How do some assume the American founding fathers thought…