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I’ve been using my TCL Roku disconnected from the internet for 6 years

I'm just gonna go ahead and say that I'm not sure what happened there but either you or your mom signed in with your account on the other device.

I have a lot of technical understanding with how CloudKit works and there's not a pathway for what you're describing to come out of a family group.


Maybe Something to do with Family Purchase Sharing. I didn’t realize when I bought an audio book it would appear in my dad’s library. Kind of embarrassing. Apple’s help pages make it sound very opt in but I think there are bugs where libraries are merged by default. Some say on a quiet night you can still hear Bono singing “sexy boots”…

Libraries are not merged, only purchase history. It does not download to their device in any scenario automatically.

A lot of people have their iTunes accounts signed in on other devices which would do what you describe, but not family sharing.


Hence, "buggy".

I've never seen what you describe but I have seen other data issues. It usually depends on the airline, the same types of problems occur with the same airlines.

I've asked and they say there's little they can do, the airlines systems are broadcasting this data and some airlines are better at it than others.


To be fair, it was the first majour hiccup with the app. Usually it is quite correct.

It's hard to believe airline broadcasted incorrect data in my case. Even if that was the case, they could have cross checked it with airport data, which is way easier to obtain compared to airline stream.

And also they could have additional checks for cases when aicraft "changes" departure time to 1 hr before scheduled at around 2 hours before scheduled time. It should be highly unusual case.


To take advantage of the ability to send money that way without the volatility

Let’s be honest, it’s principally for illicit use, a tiny fraction of privacy folks and then a lot of people caught in between who don’t understand yield but want to bet on a volatile asset and have to use a stablecoin to go between. (Because the backers of the volatile thing are doing something illicit.)

You are a decade late, nowadays stablecoins are commonly used in international trade. Most Alibaba sellers accept USDT nowadays, same for Indian ones.

> stablecoins are commonly used in international trade

For a rounding error value of "commonly," sure. (Catering to a financially-constrained market is good business. But it, by definition, will never be an important one in the grand scheme of things.)


Something can be common, while not representing a large volume. And given the current aggressive policy of the US administration, you may soon have to find new payment rails for your international trading, depending on where you live.

As always, things are certain until they aren't. Technological innovation always starts with fringe use cases, before becoming more widespread.


They’re taking credit for their own success? I don’t know how you can construe that to be the industry overall.

You mean Toyota and Tesla’s success? Let’s be real - the Prius and then Model S kickstarted the EV revolution.

If you read the history you’ll see the appropriate word is “restarted” the EV revolution. It was on and off again in a slow march to the point that allowed Tesla to exist. I’m not diminishing the role Tesla played, but it has to be taken in context. They stood on shoulders.

An over 125 year, often abandoned, stuttering march filled with stories of invisible battles by the entrenched to keep the status quo.

I think looking at every carmaker’s lineup should make it obvious that they don’t give a crap what powers a car, they are just trying to sell what’s popular. EVs were trendy for a couple years and a margin-subsidizing $7000 was available so everybody enthusiastically brought out EVs. Now they’re less popular so they’re all pulling back. Arguably even Tesla is doing so, given that Musk has intimidated that he didn’t really think Tesla was going to keep selling cars forever.

When the demand is sufficient, the cars will be sold in numbers to match it. Demand will increase as it becomes practical to own an EV for more people. This mainly has to do with charging infrastructure at every level, which is capital intensive for both individuals and governments.


Those were important too, but the ev1 started that modern ev.

Do you suggest we ignore or include in this history the original contributions of the first electric cars from all the way back in the single digits of the 1900s?

There was a long time between those cars and the modern electric car where the only thing electric was "golf carts" (not general purpose cars), or homemade conversions. The EV1 was the first commercial car in the memory of most people alive today. The 1900s ones were fun/interesting historical things, but not practical.

It's not a success if you quit the race at the finish line, even if you were in the lead.

Right before that in the paragraph:

> The EV1 introduced technologies that remain foundational to modern EVs


That's why it's called Machine Payments Protocol, instead of Agent Payments Protocol

It has nothing to do with Agents/LLMs which is why it's not called "Agentic Payment Protocol."

It's an API for making purchases instead of interacting with a website of unknown flow.


The text literally starts with:

  > We believe agents will become an integral part of the internet economy, and they need the ability to transact with businesses and one another. 
  > MPP provides a specification for agents and services to coordinate payments programmatically, enabling microtransactions, recurring payments, and more.

Obviously agents are the big thing right now, but that doesn't change the fact that MPP is an automation solution

Okay or maybe they won the contract for `.gov` in 2023: https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2023/cloudfl...

What does any of this have to do with EVs?

There's a lot of programming that has nothing to do with SpringBoot - and I say this as someone who works in a backend team that uses SpringBoot for all our apps.

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