Does it have the ability to do ad/tracker blocking properly, or is it cripple in some way that still makes the data ads/trackers are able to collect valuable?
I like the effort, but honestly there's tons of apps that are cross-platform, free, and can do everything imessages can, but better. Telegram is just one example.
I see adoption as a biggest problem. I personally tried to migrate to Telegram and failed to convince even my own wife to give it a try, since imessages work for her and all her friends are there and why bother.
My friends/coworkers aren't just going to jump onto another app just for a cooler feature. We use Messenger and everything is just fine. If we need to we can use Venmo/Calendar invite and that's it.
Cars are a really weird choice of consumer products to paint in vantablack. All the aesthetics of rigid car body shapes are obscured and you can't really appreciate it. Not to mention how impractical such a car would be.
I totally understand that this is an artistic concept and nobody is planning to mass-produce or sell those, but still.
What I really wanna see in vantablack is clothing. I think it'd look really interesting and eye-catching.
I remember, being 6.4”, having to have my head tilted in the back seat as the roof slopes severely to the trunk.
Just thought it was so silly, and felt that this, this has to be one of the most pointless vehicles made in the most recent times. It’s just a SUV for the people in front.
Such a weird life-style mobile, but as you say - to each their own.
Neither do I but I can see where that is coming from. X6 looks like a low SUV or a bulky car, rather non traditional design, a BMW version of Subaru Forrester.
The convenience of a car is determined by how likely you choose a car over other means when you need to get somewhere. If there's less roads, you're less likely to choose car, thus the lowering the convenience factor. If there's no roads at all, owning a car is meaningless since you can't drive anywhere, and its convenience is pretty much zero.
So you've still made the whole experience less convenient in absolute terms but made another option more convenient relatively. That is not a success. It's like dumping a pile of venomous snakes in the upstairs bathtub so now I have to go downstairs, thus now the downstairs bathtub is more convenient.
Roads make driving more convenient at the expense of other transportation methods; being able to walk to the store is more convenient that driving there. You can't do it though if there's this huge highway in the way and your city is so low density that the store is miles away.
If this argument doesn't convince you, think also that driving may be convenient, but I find more convenient if we lived in a planet that's not a literal oven
I wouldn't find walking to a store more convenient than driving unless the walk to the store was less than the walk from the parking lot at a store I'd drive to.
Driving for 10 minutes is generally more appealing to me than 5 minutes of walking carrying bags, but it depends on the situation. I bike a few minutes to a nearby McDondalds sometimes but then often drive that same distance.
But if SF makes a street pedestrian only, it just means that area is more inconvenient. And it might not even mean that, since the inconvenience will reduce demand so those who still drive there may have about the same level of convenience.
I don't understand why the police has to react to an anonymous calls the way they do in the first place.
Is there a legitimate case where you'd need to call in a SWAT team and remain anonymous at the same time? Seems like if you're legit concerned about the situation, you should have no problem proving your details that could be traced back to you. If you wish to remain anonymous, then your call should be deprioritized and so maybe they send a nearby patrolling officer to investigate the situation before sending SWAT team.
I'd imagine gun control/culture plays a big part in it. Police have a right to look after their own safety and in a country with so many guns floating around that means swat teams become necessary.
In countries with no guns and/or better gun control the police don't even need to be armed with deadly weapons.
No, I get the necessity of deployed armed SWAT units every time there's a risk of gun violence and stuff, I don't understand why an anonymous call warrants such a response.
I wonder if there's some kind of metrics available breaking down how often an anonymous calls amount to something real vs abuse of system.
I think this is already very much prosecutable. The problem is that these calls are always anonymous and it's hard (often impossible) to track the perpetrator.
I own a pair of Bose QCII and it cuts off when I'm walking down a busy street. Also, it maintains a connection to both my phone and laptop at the same time, but I can't hear the phone before I explicitly tell headphones to disconnect from the laptop via an app.
This article is showcasing how far even the most bleeding edge technology from recreating the functionality of basic human organs. Heart doesn't seem exactly the most complex organ structurally wise, especially compared to things like lungs, liver, or kidneys. But we can't even make a sustainable replacement for it that wouldn't require 4 kilograms of external batteries that you'd need to recharge multiple times a day.
I can't wait for the future where artificial organs and limbs not only match the usability and functionality of the normal ones, but actually exceed it.
> But we can't even make a sustainable replacement for it that wouldn't require 4 kilograms of external batteries that you'd need to recharge multiple times a day.
There's no magical solution.
The heart develops several watts of mechanical power 24/7 [1], i.e. that's what is required even if the pump was perfectly efficient, and I doubt pumps are that efficient.
Right. The heart performs a bunch of chemical reactions to sustain its energy needs and the fact that in 2019 we don't have anything even remotely capable of doing the same at a scale required is kinda depressing.
> I can't wait for the future where artificial organs and limbs not only match the usability and functionality of the normal ones, but actually exceed it.
Why? What exactly would you do with those capabilities? Sit at a desk job and work 50 hours a week to make payments on your super organs and limbs?
You can already achieve great levels of performance with regular limbs and organs, and most people don’t take advantage of that, so I don’t see what artificial ones will add.
