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And the statue of Liberty, Holocaust memorial and hundreds of other monuments signifying Nazism, racism, wars etc etc which are visible everyday and are here on earth for people to see, visit, didn't change a single damn thing in the minds of people. We don't need heavy metal junk orbiting which cannot be seen by anyone unless they have specialized equipment for us to remember we can achieve peace.

Do we really need a 450 ton, huge piece of uncontrolled metal orbiting around us? I know asteroids and "moons" are uncontrolled too. But those are unavoidable while this is man made. I think we have more things to preserve on earth than a metal object in space. It's done its work, we learnt a lot from it, now it's time to say good bye.

No intension to be snarky at all but Did the US govt give one shit about wallstreet, after FINANCIAL CRISIS? I mean it's a far bigger rep loss causing a cascading across the world. But everything is back where it was before FC. Still US is not perceived as a country that allows wall street to control it, at least the rest of the world doesn't think of it as so.

As a genuine question, why are govts so protective of homegrown companies? Like unless they have a stake in them or have actually invested time and resources to build them. I'm no anti-govt guy. But if I want to sell my company I built without any govt benefits(TAX breaks go to all companies?) Then why am I not allowed to sell it to anyone I wish to. I know that companies run to govts for bailouts and other related reasons, but consider an ideal economy for +/- 20 years. I want to know the answer.

Jump start? Pfft. The stupid car, got stuck with AC stuck on full heat, with a blacked out screen. Unresponsive to resets. I couldn't even open the damm frunk to remove the fuses, yeah okay I don't carry a 12v battery around with me to jump the frunk.(how difficult is it to give damm manual overrides for critical stuff) It was a rental so no access to Tesla app. Tesla Customer service refused to help, since it's a rental

Tesla is a smart phone with wheels that can't make calls. It's great while it works but it is as dangerous as it can be once things go wrong. This car must be banned. It scarred me enough to keep me away from other EVs too which put all the controls in a screen. There is no excuse for EVs to have everything electrically controlled.

This is such a bad faith argument whenever I see it, when an end-user is commenting on a project, at least that is funded and has a dedicated team working on it. Asking for something to be fixed, doesn't have to warrant such a reply. I can see if it was some obscure project or some solo dev project, but it's run by Google for gods sake. People don't like it, but even if you are a solo dev open sourcing your stuff a product that expects non tech people/even Js developers, expecting them to open a PR for your coded in some low level language instead of letting you know how much priority it might take is wrong IMHO.

Google having a competitor for Zoom, FB once being so into meta, Apple promoting Vision pro as game changer yet none of them dogfood their own products, to integrate work from home. I guess building something is not the same as doing what works for them. Yeah, ironic, but that how businesses work, I think.

Assuming you are using Zelle or Cash app or PayPal Those are run by 3rd party companies, that can absolutely keep/loose your money, and are a privacy liability, why I used some one else's car analogy. Or if you are using direct bank transfers, I've never once had a transaction that went thru from chase to any other in seconds, it literally took atleast 3 days.(steam engine analogy) Also if I input the data into any service, there is no authorization forever. Just my A/C number which could be leaked, and routing number which is easily obtainable info are enough, which is security liability. Fun part is even direct bank transfers take mere seconds to complete and are also authenticated and authorized via OTP. And UPI is not some random company, it's a common public interface between banks built by the govt. Every bank integrates into the system. Its well documented, and any app or infact anyone implement clients for it. It's authenticated for every transaction. And they do, we have 10s if not 100s of apps. And everything is real time(bullet train analogy) UPI has become so common in India that even in villages, shops, tuks tuks (autos as we call em), even beggars accept it. But in NYC, I barely could use Zelle. PayPal is never even accepted at an most shops. Cash app has better adoption as Zelle but then again not preferred form of payment, UPI is default form of transfer that is an actual cash replacement.

Good for you, but it's like saying, I rather travel by steam engine/someone else's car, while other countries are able to provide bullet trains. That how different payment methods in US vs few countries( I've only lived in the US and India, so I gave India as an example).

If you ever use UPI, your opinion will definitely change, the scale of payment transactions UPI handles in a day, and how much penetration it has. And how easy it is to setup or use. Like I mentioned in another comment, I am from India but have been living in US for last 2 years, so my comments are not from ignorance of US payment methods.