But like, how else could we have maps features to predict how long a drive will take, which route to take, or how busy a place is? There’s pros and cons obviously, we need better policies for sure, but there are legitimate reasons for anonymous location data, even real time.
Imagine a fire truck taking the logical route based on maps only, then finding out it’s impossible to get to the fire in time.
Because that would have eaten into their price gouging. In the age of the iPhone, Texas Instruments was able to charge upwards of $100 for a Zilog Z80 powered nothing machine because they’re quasi mandatory for high school and college students.
I figured out you could emulated the TI-84 plus on a smartphone for free, around 2012. I just used that for my college math class, but it probably would’ve been harder to get away with in a high school class.
Safari and Firefox also have this, and since Edge is a Chrome fork Chrome also has this. I'm pretty sure every major browser except for Amazon's shitty TV fork that's great at everything except web rendering has this.
Sure, when you hand the cashier some US dollar coins, nobody bats an eye, but when I hand the cashier a stack of Australian $1 notes, everybody loses their minds!
They used to use the Sucre. When it crashed a lot of people lost a lot of money. I wish I knew more about that, and why they decided to bend over and use the world’s biggest terrorist organization’s currency.
Argentina is toying with the idea of doing the same thing. tl;dr - Decades of out of control inflation. Currently the worst inflation in the world. The belief is that pinning their economy to the USD would stop that
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