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As creepy as the increased invasion of privacy on the Google phones, the most disturbing is the Google Clips camera. That's literally how the movie "The Circle" started (although it's a pretty bad movie).

Initially I thought that dropping the jack was a "meh" idea, myself using only bluetooth headphones for more than 2 years now.

But then every single time I commute or go to a park I see a bunch of people with their cable headphones and how inconvenient it is: the cables are just messy, they cling to stuff.

Wireless headphones make more sense in terms of how easy it is to use them. Although, agreed - the PR on dropping the headphone jack was pretty bad.

agreed, I think that's the point of the article - the grey area is very large here. Judge Alsup slapped both Uber and Waymo/Google over the wrist and "With that, Alsup got up and retired to his chambers." seems like a good character to have on "Sillicon Valley" for a bit of contrast

completely agreed.

I'm not sure if it's a well-known fact or fake news, but I remember talking to someone from the US and learning that quite a few states will pay a one-way ticket to California for their homeless.

It's actually pretty amazing how much of Uber's policies seems to be around "plausible deniability"

let's get [this] done! but, it is legal? no, it's mostly borderline towards full blown illegal. ok, make sure you empty the trash on your Mac before we get started.

"While Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies rely on proof of work, where miners solve a cryptographic puzzle to reach consensus on the state of the ledger, proof-of-stake systems reach consensus by coin-holder vote. As a result, proof of stake is vastly more energy efficient than proof of work."

I'm not an expert on cryptography - can anyone back up this claim? because it seems to have solved a major issue with the miners

Think of how excited accountants will be to be able to have a numpad!