If this thing really comes out in a couple years by the time it's ready for mass production to hit consumer hands there will probably be 2 or 3 self driving kits designed for it. The mods for this thing would be amazing.
A buddy of mine who creates shaped interactive art panels with oleds for disney and other groups interactive events texted me about this, installing video panels on this is going to be a breeze.
I'm more excited about this as a platform than even as a car, this is going to be like browser JS, the Lisa and VW Bug for creating an EV tech skill pipeline.
>“We don’t have a manufacturing culture,” Mr. Gassée said of the nation’s high-technology heartland, “meaning the substrate, the schooling, the apprentices, the subcontractors.”
On the one hand: tax all companies and people to pay for it. I’m all for that.
On the other: news is largely produced by private companies. Their ability to reach customers and their financial viability is their problem and their responsibility. I don’t see any proposals to extort Craigslist, and they’re equally if not more responsible for the situations news companies find themselves in.
He’s 100 percent correct and if you disagree you underestimate the effects of the Fax Machine on the economy and over-estimate the effects of the internet of 2005.
if you believe the conspircy theory that Satoshi was created by an intelligence agency, then having it discovered would make a some people wary of using it.
As far as we know. It could be similar to Dual_EC_DRBG encryption. Some technique unknown to the public could potentially exist in it, and if the NSA is Satoshi, the likelihood goes way up.
I would expect the weaknesses to be in the exchanges. Load 'em up with pretend money from many mule accounts, convert to fiat, drain 'em down. 1920's bucket shops all over again but digital, easier and safer to launder from afar. Exchange vanishes with no audit trail, ledgers remain.
The thing about sputnik is that everyone knew that the soviets would launch a satellite before America did but people freaked out when they actually saw or heard that bleeping ball hovering over there head.
