Exactly, your DNA doesn’t need to be in the DB at all, you just your relatives DNA in the DB.

Privacy minded people don’t like the idea of easily accessible geology databases. This was a good use of that technology, but people worry about that technology be used for evil. Health insurance companies reflagging you, or much worse.

There are genealogy databases that are public and or cooperate with authorities. Perhaps I’m a privacy nihilist, but IMHO, the cat’s kind of out of the bag for a lot of this. If you didn’t submit your DNA to a genealogy DB, you probably have family members that did so could see if they were 30% Italian or something.

Something worth noting for the Europeans. Party registration really only exists in the US so people can vote in closed primaries. So if you wanted to pick the democratic candidate that would appear on the general election ballot, you needed to register democratic, and vice versa.

Someone who registers for a party is usually someone who aligns with that party, but not always. Sometimes people register strategically and vote in the opposing party’s primary if the candidate in their own party’s primary is a shoe in.

That YouTube channel is totally going to regret selling stuff that an active shooter can accessorize with during a shooting spree.

The probably should sold mugs and koozies.

I’m so over politics in America. This shit is terrifying. People trying to overthrow elections, seniors that are too old to lead, voter suppression, people stuck in disinformation bubbles, and now assassins. Meanwhile, the rich just get richer, and “middle class” life just gets harder and harder.

I have dual citizenship with an EU nation from birth, and this week had made me start to dust off those childhood documents and look into the details of relocating.

Yeah, but learning from your competitors products is never quite like learning from having your own in the wild. I say this as someone in product development.

You have a direct feedback channel from lots of customers as opposed to small users tests and focus groups of people looking at your competitors offerings. You also get feedback on your specific silicon, operating system, interaction models, industrial design, manufacturing, and any unique features that are exclusive to your product.

Yeah, same here. I’m holding off on this thing, even if it’s a platform that might be interesting to develope for in the next couple years.

Although, the large and midsize businesses of the world will have no problem throwing down for this toy. I already know a bunch of folks in the valley that have had their teams throw a little budget to this. People spend that monthly for flying a single remote person into town. This is chump change if you have 500 or more people.

Meh, it seems like the same old playbook Apple has used before. V1 of a new product line is expensive AF, it’s not really intended to sell like gangbusters, it’s intended to be splashy and to learn from the product being in the wild.

The real money to be made is on the lower cost iterations that are built after they learn what did and didn’t work from the pricy version.

To be fair, anyone actually developing for this is assuming that a non-pro will follow. They’re spending $3k to develop for a platform that they’re assuming will become more accessible.

And so far, all signs seem to point to something more affordable in the works. This was that v1 iPod, iPhone, HomePod-like product. Glitzy, expensive, low sales, but an opportunity to learn.