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(From the Toyota Connected Services Disclaimer)

Your Responsibilities

    Your responsibilities include: (1) informing passengers and drivers of your vehicle that data is collected and used by us, and (2) notifying us of a sale or transfer of your vehicle. If you do not notify us of a sale or transfer, we may continue to send data about the vehicle to the subscriber's Account Information currently on file, and we are not responsible for any privacy related damages you suffer.


This needs to be illegal.


Senator Wyden has been a champion of data privacy. If you are an Oregon resident, please reach out to his office.

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/


This is why I like paper contracts. I would simply cross out a stupid clause like this before signing.

99% of the time the rep doesn't care, and if the company can't be bothered to put someone on the other side of the table who is actually paying attention or has bargaining power then they deserve it.


I remember driving a nissan leaf. You had an opt-out prompt every time you drove the car.


For data or was it the standard “use responsibly” message?


It was the telematics data screen


I sold my biz for 16B then went back and deleted the funding rounds and founders. I made 16B. I like this.


I somehow broke it, I got a $5 investment against a $998B valuation and then sold it for $199B to gain $1.9T of profit???

Edit: "You get $InfinityB" I think I won.

https://www.fundingsimulator.com/?data=EL%2BVcsg%3B%3BYou%2C...


Why don't we use this hack IRL?


Probably the annoying taxman who takes 20% of your $infinity, which just so happens to also be $infinity.


Reminds me of Hilbert’s paradox of the Grand Hotel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Gra...


Your infinity is larger though so it's all good.


Not quite, anything subtracted from itself is zero. However, if you send me Infinity bitcoin, I will send you 10 Infinity bitcoin back (I am Expert Hacker).


No, not all infinites are the same. For example uncountable infinites are all larger than countable ones.


Bah, you could never convince me aleph numbers are real!



I think if someone takes 20% of your infinity you are still left with infinity?


To be accurate, you're left with undefined. But not really, the taxer actually controls infinite, person paying the tax has to figure out how to divide their infinite up.


pre-tax though


if you pay taxes you're winning

if you have to pay taxes but don't have cash to do it, you're losing. fix something


Or hire better accountants. No, I’m not talking about the creative kind, but the kind that tell you “hey, your cash reserves are projected to be too low” kind.

If your accountants are telling you when it’s too late; you are losing. Hard.


Cashflow management, but that is mostly up to you. They can’t stop you living beyond your means just tell you what those means are. Another example (in countries that have it) is GST/VAT that you collect and pay the government later assuming you didn’t spend it!


Found it.

"Yao estimated that roughly 1 billion Air-gens, stacked to be roughly the size of a refrigerator, could produce a kilowatt and partly power a home in ideal conditions. The team hopes to lower both the number of devices needed and the space they take up by making the tool more efficient. Doing that could be a challenge."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/05/26/harvest-en...


A device the size of a "consumer" refrigerator? Having a device like that in the garage or exterior wall of the house doesn't seem that bad to me. Tesla Powerwalls aren't too much smaller.


Having an appliance that generated even half that, 12kwh per day, would be fantastic. The issue, of course, would be cost. It would need to pay itself off within a feasible period of time.


sure, but it has to start somewhere. as a society dealing with scams and what not, i'm still not convinced that solar will pay itself off in a human life time. so it's not like this new thing is unique. even the Tesla Powerwalls + Solar is not convincing that it's paying back, but there's just something that screams "worth it anyways" about these systems. part of the issue is that in many areas, you are not allowed to cut the cord to public utilities even if you are self-sufficient, so you're never truly free of expenses.


> i'm still not convinced that solar will pay itself off in a human life time

What do you mean by that? The payoff, even factoring opportunity cost, is around 10-12 years or less in my country.


maybe I'm jaded and put off by all of the scammy/predatory lending that's prevalent in the US around solar. there's also the seemingly back and forth between ability to earn money from unused powered produced and shared with the grid. are there rebates or not, but depends on the particular time you're purchasing. things like being transferable or not also come into play. lots of things make it a complicated equation compared to buying a house/car/similar.


A report done in New Zealand in 2018 by arranging quotes for houses around the country found many quoted systems had 20+ yr paybacks.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/107335911/solar-power-systems...

But on the other hand if a house is ideally suited for solar, the payback will easily be 10 years.


There was a different article reporting on this that mentioned they would have to stack many layers into a block "about the size of a refrigerator" to make kilowatt. I will try to find it.


Yeah, notes are the polish, not the foundation.


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