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Robots here or bio-robots in China, take your choice. Personally, I’d rather have the robots here, since they’ll require jobs to maintain, control quality, and design them.

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I think Janet Yellen is more of an academic like Bernanke. She’d make a good choice and a politically astute choice.

The last thing we need running the shadow gov’t of the US is a Berzerkely libcrazy. At least not when economic policy is involved.

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The problem is also that uninsured people (or people who are denied coverage on a procedure) are charged vastly inflated out-of-pocket fees. In all other industries (car repair, home repair), you can often get a discount if you don’t go through insurance. Not so with the healthcare system in 2013.

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Summers is closest to Volcker in the sense of being more hawkish than Yellen or Kohn. Personally, I don’t mind that he was one of the cabal who caused the 2008 “crisis” — it represented (and represents) a lot of opportunity to me.

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Life insurance, car insurance, sure.

Health insurance can only be rated on age, location, and smoking status after the ACA comes into force.

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I’d much rather see those dollars going to American investors vs. foreign

If the dollars are going to ME, then I care. Otherwise, I really don’t care who gets them, American or foreign. In fact my city is least 40% foreign-born, and I find the non-Americans and 1st-generationers generally more pleasant than people from long-term American families.

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Sure. Public option, but nooooooo, we’d have death panels if this were ever implemented. Right.

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At the same time, American made films are making billions of dollars in many foreign
countries–blasting domestic box office receipts out of the water.

That’s sad in a way — I’d rather not have the rest of the world become more poisoned with Dumberican unculture than is has already been.

Electric cars: great.
Spreading American poison: no fucking thanks.

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The good thing is that if battery tech gets sufficiently advanced, I could take any fairly light, aerodynamic classic car, load it up with batteries, add an electric motor and regenerative controller, and have a fun, beautiful car without any spyware.

This being said, there’s probably a way around the nannytracking. I read Nissan Leaf has a removable SIM card. No cardee, no trackee….

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Why is it cool to have your every move uploaded to TSLA’s servers? That sounds like my personal idea of Hell.

I love the idea of a usable electric car, but without the spyware, please.

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Am I the only one who doesn’t care about the location and speed of my car (at least not enough to have it be uploaded to the “cloud” all the time) nor the indoor and outdoor temps? Setting the climate control 15 minutes before I drove off, being able to close the windows and roof if I forgot, and seeing how far charged the car is would be nice, but that’s about it.

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And a bunch of overweight Americans breaking the seats of those cars, since they can now commute 150+ miles every day without guilt and while surfing their favorite pr0n sites. 🙂

I like cities and small towns and hope that self-driving cars won’t be the death of density in development.

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Currently, with ipv4. With ipv6 and everything having its own public address, the server is only needed to mediate the connection, and everything else would be transparent to the end-users. The company can still charge for the connection mediation service (think Hamachi VPN’s or even dyndns.com’s model).

If I ever got a cloud-connected car, I’d take a fucking axe to the antenna before I drove it.

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I think that within 10 years, every car will be connected.

But given the rollout of IPv6 being complete in 10 years, there’s no reason why the car can’t connect directly to the owner’s devices without going through the manufacturer’s servers (other than to mediate the initial connection).

A peer-to-peer paradigm gives me a lot more of a warm, fuzzy, feeling than all data passing through TSLA’s cloud servers. Not because I’m doing anything wrong, but as a matter of principle.

Hands off my data. Hands off my life.

earlyretirement — awesome story about the seat latch. This seems like something Rolls Royce would have done in 1905 — glad that some companies still care about personal service to that extent!

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The 3G antenna is always on though….. You can’t turn that off but you can disable the ability for the Iphone/Android App to track you.

I wonder if TSLA still receives GPS location info (just doesn’t broadcast it to their apps) if it’s disabled. Having the manufacturer be able to track an object that I may have paid for outright is just a wee bit creepy. It should be: my vehicle, my privacy.

Not because we’re applying for jobs as hired hit men, but because of the principle of the thing.

Update:
Looks like Tesla may have a decent policy in place after all…

http://www.gps4us.com/news/post/New-whisper-quiet-Tesla-Model-S-electric-car-with-superior-GPS-navigation-20111007.aspx

“Tesla has no plans to store the electric car GPS location data to keep away from privacy concerns”

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