They just need market share until they bring self driving cars to market, at which point you can cut the fares in half because you don't need to pay a human to pilot it anymore. That's the end goal. Global transit system that funnels through a single app. You don't have to "get it" because everyone else does and thats why they're willing to wager 100 billion dollars to see it happen and profit from it.
MP3 is the audio layer (MPEG-2, third layer) of MPEG-2, isn't it? Maybe I'm wrong, it's been a very long time.
Pretty much every device on the planet has MP3 support. Also it would be great to have patent-free/patent unobstructed DVD player software; plus the idea that you can generate DVDs royalty free. A huge, huge chunk of the world still depends on street vendor pirate videos, although I think they've moved to MP4 and/or h.264 or whatever the latest standard is (I've lost track).
I wondered why my ex-coworker/friend (who is 8 years younger than me) never used facebook for anything even though we were facebook friends. Then we were hanging out and his story mentioned something about waking up the next morning and seeing his adventures on snapchat. It was at that point I realized he uses snapchat and I use facebook. They do the same thing but you only share with who's on your network. Most weeks, if not months I forget Snapchat exists, but then again I was just wrapping up college when facebook became available at my school. Myself and all my friends are already invested in that platform. The other day I got a notification that I'd been "Facebook friends" with someone for ten years. The kids these days have no sunk costs (years of data) in either platform, similar to how we (I) jumped around from AIM to ICQ to IRC to Google Chat and later settled on Facebook Chat and Whatsapp.
My coworker is about 25, I don't see him ever gaining a strong attachment with Facebook, beyond keeping in touch with parents and aunts and uncles for marriage/job announcements.
Generally solid wood is a good choice for many projects due to three key reasons:
1. Cost
2. Workability; can be worked with hand tools and power tools, glues easily and strong
3. Water safe for years with no significant prep work
Steel is a lot stronger per pound, but to join it you either need to use mechanical fasteners or weld it. This requires expensive ($300+) specialized equipment like a welder and/or drill press. Wooden boats are generally good from 15-20 years without major renovations, and are serviceable with major repairs every 10-15 years up to 60-75 years after initial construction. Steel needs to be galvanized, or painted, or sanded and resurfaced every 2-5 years, especially in a saltwater environment (most of the things in your house arrived from asia in a big steel boat).
Super dense wood that's lost most of it's lignin likely is hyper brittle and doesn't machine well. Also, I can only imagine what happens when it's immersed in water. There's a non-zero chance it swells up like a dry sponge when it comes in contact with water or even regular humidity.
I used to work for a finance company deploying and automating the deployment of finance software. There's a couple I know of. Talisys out in Denver is one, but the 800 lb gorilla is a piece of software called Beta. It's freaking ancient. Like, core parts still in use today are from the 1970s. I think they've written some API front ends for it, but you have to pay through the nose for every feature, and especially for the fancy features. Beta was written... back in the 1970s perhaps? It doesn't lend itself to modern development methods very well. But it works and has a solid, proven track record, which is exactly what risk adverse finance companies like, especially when they are signing four and five nine uptime SLAs. Talisys is a little newer, developed in the early (1992?) 1990s and came to market around 2002 as production ready, but it's still based on 1998 era technology and were crawling in to the modern age offering Windows Server 2012 R2 support in 2015. There was actually a two year gap between when WS 2003 microsoft windows extended service support ended and when they supported a newer version of windows (2012 R2) and yes you read that right some big (not huge) companies are running financial software on top of Windows.
Other financial technology companies like Robinhood are written cloud-first and cloud-native with APIs in languages like Python and Go and Ruby and what have you. They're just going to eat up these old companies as their overhead costs are much lower and their code better documented and aligned more closely with modern programming practices. Their most modern competitors are running windows software designed in the 1990s. It's ripe for disruption and companies like Robinhood are absolutely going to grind these old companies in to a fine paste in the next ten years.
I bought a bicycle computer and one of the features is to track pedal cadence (pedal rpm). I went from a cadence of 45-60 and after getting the computer changed to a cadence of 85-95 and it completely changed how I bicycled. Completely different way to ride a bike, engages muscles differently etc.
This is basically the same as a pedal cadence meter on a bike. Some (very expensive) cycle computers will also calculate torque applied to left and right pedals allowing you to figure out if you favor one leg.
Once you watch the computer for a few weeks you can judge in your head what your cadence is within ~7 rpm for me at least. I haven't used the torque meters (they're ~$800-3000 but the price is coming down) but I would imagine I could improve my torque to closer to 50:50 L:R. Right now I bet it's closer to like 35:65 as I favor the right leg.
I'm sure after a few seasons with a "trainer broom" you'll be able to calculate this within X percent of ideal. Once they figure out the ideal situation given ice temp, broom temp and broom surface, etc.
XP and WS2003 were remarkably similar; 2000 is probably pretty similar to 2003 but in terms of architecture and operational maturity the best example to compare to XP is WS2003.
The big difference for me is that photos with HDR+ on (i.e. 99.99% of all photos on my phone) are processed with less of a hit to the battery. If you take more than 2 photos a day (I use mine for everything form sunset photos to taking photos of grocery lists or part numbers for my car/laptop) HDR is pretty heavy on the battery, and I've had it kill my phone at low battery.
So if it decreases battery drain on devices, I'm all for it. Especially when we go on trips and take 100+ photos in a day. My girlfriend has a fancy SLR and an iPhone 6 but all our photos come out best on the Pixel and it's a big drain on my phone's battery.
At this point warehouse workers are going to become commoditized robot workers, controlled by a central system and mainly valued for their grasping capability. Show up to work, walk to the item(s), collect the items as you're told, put them in the box. Then you may rest for X minutes then back to waving items around.
From an engineering standpoint it's brilliant, you "control" the "last mile" of the warehouse equation, at least until the robotics department finally rolls out their replacement for the humans.
As a human working there though, I'm sure it's pretty degrading.
Anything is possible as a business, until law enforcement decides you're acting in a criminal manner, or someone sues you for infringing upon their freedoms. Discrimination by age is such an infringement. Most companies are too small for people to try and sue them though.
Uber's whole business model hinges on the idea that non-commercially licenced drivers can operate a taxi service in any city, irregardless of the city/jurisdiction's rules. Then the local taxi group sues Uber after a number of months and then they reach some sort of settlement typically.
Time not spent driving to the store, finding parking, walking in to the store, trying to find it, price-compare on your phone, walking to the register, dealing with the cashier, payment details, bag, reciept, walk back out to the car, drive home, unload the crap, finally you get to use it? Average trip to walmart down the street is about 1 hour for 5-10 items. You end up paying more for the convenience of it being so close.
Vs the time of "oh i need this" then you add it to your cart, and when you have $35 worth of stuff you click "buy" and 1-2 days later it shows up at your house. I spend a lot more time riding my bike around the lake rather than in a dumpy old store as a result. 100 years ago you would place an order with the guy with the truck/wagon, and a couple weeks later had all your goods delivered to your door. They would even extend you credit if you were a regular customer. This isn't a new concept it's just way more convenient. We go look at shops when on vacation, but other than perishables like eggs, dairy, vegetables everything just gets delivered to the house. Especially in dense urban areas where getting to the parking garage, driving across town and then spending 45 minutes looking for parking at the shops is absolute murder. No thanks. Saving $5 vs buying it on Amazon, walmart.com, target.com etc etc ad nauseam, is well worth it to my blood pressure and long term health.
I have a Pixel, she has a recent iPhone model. Very occasionally we still ask siri a question, to see if she's up to answering a question, but mostly to see if anything has improved. Basically we use Ok Google for everything.
We've always been really impressed with Ok Google's question answering capabilities, from odd ways to ask the weather to the color of a specific type of bird, cooking instructions etc etc. Siri just chokes on 99% of questions. Alexa will generally get the words right and tell you it can't search for XYZ but at least it gets that right.
At this point we would consider a google or possibly an Alexa device (my girlfriend likes it's integration with our Fire TV, amazon orders, etc) but we both agree that Siri is Completely Fucking Useless. If we're waiting for an uber to go home some times we'll amuse ourselves to see how badly Siri mangles our request. Siri's basically just a first generation toy, whereas Ok Google is almost to the point where you could go voice-only for performing 95% of your daily searches. Alexa fits somewhere in the middle but closer to google than apple's offerings.
Is he part of the under-twenty....seven(?) age group? In my thirties I am feeling old, I have never heard of this guy. Whose eyeballs were CNN trying to buy? Americans age 17-28? English speaking europeans 25-40?
6 million viewers is a lot but at the same time is a tiny tiny fraction of total users and there's a better chance you've never heard of the guy...
Vaping is cheaper, and doesn't make your clothes reek like homeless people. I don't see why a teenager would switch to burning leaves for more money if they're trying to look cool and keep it from their parents.
Vaping is weird and probably worse for you than breathing air, but it doesn't impact me or my freedoms, I super don't care if teens do it. Smoking leaves is a public health hazard and the smell of the smoke lingers for years, I definitely have an incentive to protect my right to life and liberty in that case.
Did they just roll out a patch in the last 30 days, or what's going on over there? This is the kind of instability one would expect from a hastily produced patch developed over a month by a small team. According to reports, Intel has known about the vuln for 7+ months. Were they not working on a patch this whole time? I would assume they were on iteration 5 or 6 of the patch by the time they broke the embargo a week early.
To be fair, Brooklyn is a formal mailing location, like a city, and has a population 3x that of the entire city of San Fancisco (~880,000 vs ~2,600,000). The mission, on a warm summer saturday night full of tourists is maybe 100,000 on it's busiest day ever.
French Quarter is a bona fide tourist attraction like the statue of liberty. By contrast, the Mission is a good place to go get tacos and arguably the birthplace of whatever you call the Chipolte style burrito.
It's a historically hispanic neighborhood about 2 miles from the skyscrapery financial district/downtown.
It's also one of the sunniest, least windy and warmest (5-10F warmer when most of the city is 55-62F year-round) neighborhoods with an abundance of good ethnic (mexican, indian, etc) restaurants. As a result everyone wants to live there, and have successfully pushed out something like 50% of this hispanic population in favor of predominantly white "tech bros". Property owners are allegedly torching their own properties so that they can rebuild old commercial buildings with way more profitable modern, high density residential housing.
The current (neighborhoods in SF change hands every 25-30 years) old guard is pretty anti-modernism of their neighborhood and have vandalized or stopped bike share, car share, removing existing parking (parking here is a nightmare but so is traffic, SF has the lowest car ownership per capita in competition with manhattan, something like 35% and dropping) and opposing new bus lanes. Hispanic owned businesses are not doing amazing. There's a lot of pushback against anything percieved as a threat to the "traditional" Mission neighborhood. Prices went from under $2000 a month for a two bedroom 10 years ago to, I haven't checked recently but probably $3800 to $5000 depending on location; i.e. if you grew up in this neighborhood to parents without a college education (not unlikely) you very likely may not be able to afford to live here when you turn 18 (or whatever age you decide to no longer live with your parents).
So If it wasn't a crazy homeless guy (very likely) I can see this being some tangential offshoot of local opposition in some form.
Yeah the UI is garbage but that doesn't excuse operator error.
Welp, I don't think I will be able to change your mind, but there are at least two schools of thought here, yours:
1. If something bad happens, whip everyone involved until they cannot stand any longer, then fire them, ensuring this never happens again,
Or,
2. Ask why this happened, don't assign blame, then work through the problem to find the root cause, then fix that problem so that it never happens again.
NASA determined that humans fail at pretty much everything about 3% of the time on the ISS and have built in all sorts of checks and balances to account for this. If the ISS blows up, everyone shares the blame, and responsibility for keeping that from happen again. If you assume from the get-go that humans are capable of being 100% infallable 24/7/365, even when they're sleep deprived from a) having a baby b) insomnia from a divorce c) hung over from a bachelors party etc etc then yes your system sounds great as there's no chance anything can ever go wrong and it's just their fault for being a bad person and they should feel bad.
Option 1 is both overly optimistic going in, and highly negative on the resolution side - nobody worth anything will stick around for long; option 2 assumes the worst going in and looks for a positive solution coming out. People tend not to quit out of frustration quite so often in scenario 2.
I think it's important to have strategic plans in place on the off chance Saudi Arabia, Iraq etc decide to pull up roots and side with the Russians and our external (we produce ~98%+ of our own needs) oil supplies dry up. I don't think we need a whole lot of ethanol fuel, biodiesel plants around to do this, but 0.5-1% capacity ensures that we at least have a backup plan in case we lose access to some or all of our oil fields. Never rely on a single source for anything. We have strategic oil reserves but just like running your replicated aws database in multiple availability zones gives greater reliability at the expense of additional cost, it's a good idea to diversify something as critical as fuel. Pray you never need it, but plan for the worst (within reason).
Every other year there's some news article about kids throwing cinder blocks off an interstate overpass and killing someone. It's sad, and it happens, but thankfully given that there's ~80 million minors in the US, it's almost a rounding error in the general population.
Castro street is mostly one lane in each direction, with bike lane on either side for most of it. What is funny is that the cars, even though they know they have right of way in the car lane, and I am cycling in the bike lane, will creep along behind me riding my bike along at 10mph, because it's a no-pass, and there's not enough margin for error between me in my lane, and the car passing me safely in their lane.
That's amazing, I can no longer count the number of times drivers have gotten angry for me taking my lane when it's two lanes in each direction. But it's super easy to slow these things down, they're nowhere near as aggressive as even the most timid human driver, at least when it comes to cyclists. The last thing Google/Waymo wants is a road pizza pedestrian/cyclist in the news, destroying their credibility with the public. But until that day happens, I trust a self-driving car over humans any day.
When I think hyper paranoid, I'm thinking of a very specific incident.
I'm on castro street, which is the main resturaunt drag in Mountain View, about 6pm, peak hour. Getting ready to cross the street at the crosswalk to go to the train station. I'm standing on the sidewalk, about 2' from the curb, facing away from the street talking to them. We decide it's time to go, so I spin around on my heel so that I am facing towards the crosswalk/street. At this exact moment there's a break in traffic and the next car is one of the "cute" white waymo electric cars. I hear the tires chirp, and there's a surprised expression on the attendant's face. At this point the car has come to a complete stop, about 15-20' (one car length) ahead of the crosswalk. I hadn't started to walk in to the street/crosswalk yet, just spun in place.
Now, this tells me a few things 1. The car knew I was there. I've almost been run over IN that same crosswalk by inattentive drivers in the span of 18 months. 2. The car was tracking my motion and making assumptions about my intent 3. The car decided my motion passed a certain threshold and decided to take evasive action.
Keep in mind this is a very busy intersection, it's a 3-way T car intersection, plus a crosswalk, and no less than four outdoor seating areas for resturaunts, plus rush hour sidewalk traffic. Easily 100+ people in a 50' radius around the car. I was partially obscured by no less than two other tall people on the sidewalk.
But the car saw me moving what it thought was erratically, made the call and stopped, rather than risk slowly bumping in to me.
That might seem unremarkable, but I've had two human-driven cars back in to me while walking through a parking lot, I've been turning left at a stop sign, and a (Very exhausted) hospital nurse came to a stop, then drove in to me in the intersection, I've had cars not see me in the crosswalk and drive in to me when their light turns green. I was a good 15' away in this instance and the car chose to stop rather than risk any contact with me. Yes, that's hyper-paranoid, but didn't delay anyone getting to their resturaunt, nobody was late getting home and more importantly nobody died that day (even if this would have been minor at worst).
So yeah, I'm pretty happy with how they've designed these things, sure they're a bit more careful than the average human, but what I've seen at that intersection previously, humans are awful at piloting cars, especially when tired/hungry/distracted.
I think most people haven't shared a street with them. I spent two years in the same city with these things, as a pedestrian, driver, and cyclist. They're infinitely patient with cyclists, hyper-paranoid about pedestrians wandering in to the street, like a parent is with their toddler.
Two weeks around self driving cars and you pretty much immediately realize that humans are just sacks of meat piloting cars, is about the dumbest idea, and the pedestrian fatality statistics back that up.
If I were to describe the "personality" of a self driving car, imagine a super chilled-out Mr. Rodgers paitent type, but he's also double-dosed on adderall and hyper alert for pedestrians, got 9 hours of sleep last night, good blood sugar, and his cell phone is on silent, locked in the trunk. And he has an IQ of 175 and can see in all directions and does not blink, and has a third eye that can see through shrubs and around cars.
Compare to the sleep-deprived, over caffinated, underfed mother who is juggling three kid's schedules and probably running late to pick up johnny from swim class while answering a phone call and trying to remember if she needs to pick up groceries on the way home.
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They just need market share until they bring self driving cars to market, at which point you can cut the fares in half because you don't need to pay a human to pilot it anymore. That's the end goal. Global transit system that funnels through a single app. You don't have to "get it" because everyone else does and thats why they're willing to wager 100 billion dollars to see it happen and profit from it.
MP3 is the audio layer (MPEG-2, third layer) of MPEG-2, isn't it? Maybe I'm wrong, it's been a very long time.
Pretty much every device on the planet has MP3 support. Also it would be great to have patent-free/patent unobstructed DVD player software; plus the idea that you can generate DVDs royalty free. A huge, huge chunk of the world still depends on street vendor pirate videos, although I think they've moved to MP4 and/or h.264 or whatever the latest standard is (I've lost track).
But billions of DVDs still exist today.
I wondered why my ex-coworker/friend (who is 8 years younger than me) never used facebook for anything even though we were facebook friends. Then we were hanging out and his story mentioned something about waking up the next morning and seeing his adventures on snapchat. It was at that point I realized he uses snapchat and I use facebook. They do the same thing but you only share with who's on your network. Most weeks, if not months I forget Snapchat exists, but then again I was just wrapping up college when facebook became available at my school. Myself and all my friends are already invested in that platform. The other day I got a notification that I'd been "Facebook friends" with someone for ten years. The kids these days have no sunk costs (years of data) in either platform, similar to how we (I) jumped around from AIM to ICQ to IRC to Google Chat and later settled on Facebook Chat and Whatsapp.
My coworker is about 25, I don't see him ever gaining a strong attachment with Facebook, beyond keeping in touch with parents and aunts and uncles for marriage/job announcements.
Generally solid wood is a good choice for many projects due to three key reasons:
1. Cost
2. Workability; can be worked with hand tools and power tools, glues easily and strong
3. Water safe for years with no significant prep work
Steel is a lot stronger per pound, but to join it you either need to use mechanical fasteners or weld it. This requires expensive ($300+) specialized equipment like a welder and/or drill press. Wooden boats are generally good from 15-20 years without major renovations, and are serviceable with major repairs every 10-15 years up to 60-75 years after initial construction. Steel needs to be galvanized, or painted, or sanded and resurfaced every 2-5 years, especially in a saltwater environment (most of the things in your house arrived from asia in a big steel boat).
Super dense wood that's lost most of it's lignin likely is hyper brittle and doesn't machine well. Also, I can only imagine what happens when it's immersed in water. There's a non-zero chance it swells up like a dry sponge when it comes in contact with water or even regular humidity.
I used to work for a finance company deploying and automating the deployment of finance software. There's a couple I know of. Talisys out in Denver is one, but the 800 lb gorilla is a piece of software called Beta. It's freaking ancient. Like, core parts still in use today are from the 1970s. I think they've written some API front ends for it, but you have to pay through the nose for every feature, and especially for the fancy features. Beta was written... back in the 1970s perhaps? It doesn't lend itself to modern development methods very well. But it works and has a solid, proven track record, which is exactly what risk adverse finance companies like, especially when they are signing four and five nine uptime SLAs. Talisys is a little newer, developed in the early (1992?) 1990s and came to market around 2002 as production ready, but it's still based on 1998 era technology and were crawling in to the modern age offering Windows Server 2012 R2 support in 2015. There was actually a two year gap between when WS 2003 microsoft windows extended service support ended and when they supported a newer version of windows (2012 R2) and yes you read that right some big (not huge) companies are running financial software on top of Windows.
Other financial technology companies like Robinhood are written cloud-first and cloud-native with APIs in languages like Python and Go and Ruby and what have you. They're just going to eat up these old companies as their overhead costs are much lower and their code better documented and aligned more closely with modern programming practices. Their most modern competitors are running windows software designed in the 1990s. It's ripe for disruption and companies like Robinhood are absolutely going to grind these old companies in to a fine paste in the next ten years.
Pretty sure this is the open worm project, they had a github project at one point
I bought a bicycle computer and one of the features is to track pedal cadence (pedal rpm). I went from a cadence of 45-60 and after getting the computer changed to a cadence of 85-95 and it completely changed how I bicycled. Completely different way to ride a bike, engages muscles differently etc.
This is basically the same as a pedal cadence meter on a bike. Some (very expensive) cycle computers will also calculate torque applied to left and right pedals allowing you to figure out if you favor one leg.
Once you watch the computer for a few weeks you can judge in your head what your cadence is within ~7 rpm for me at least. I haven't used the torque meters (they're ~$800-3000 but the price is coming down) but I would imagine I could improve my torque to closer to 50:50 L:R. Right now I bet it's closer to like 35:65 as I favor the right leg.
I'm sure after a few seasons with a "trainer broom" you'll be able to calculate this within X percent of ideal. Once they figure out the ideal situation given ice temp, broom temp and broom surface, etc.
I will out-obtuse your obtuse by saying,
Wow, I didn't know that state laws could preempt federal fuel taxes!
XP and WS2003 were remarkably similar; 2000 is probably pretty similar to 2003 but in terms of architecture and operational maturity the best example to compare to XP is WS2003.
The big difference for me is that photos with HDR+ on (i.e. 99.99% of all photos on my phone) are processed with less of a hit to the battery. If you take more than 2 photos a day (I use mine for everything form sunset photos to taking photos of grocery lists or part numbers for my car/laptop) HDR is pretty heavy on the battery, and I've had it kill my phone at low battery.
So if it decreases battery drain on devices, I'm all for it. Especially when we go on trips and take 100+ photos in a day. My girlfriend has a fancy SLR and an iPhone 6 but all our photos come out best on the Pixel and it's a big drain on my phone's battery.
At this point warehouse workers are going to become commoditized robot workers, controlled by a central system and mainly valued for their grasping capability. Show up to work, walk to the item(s), collect the items as you're told, put them in the box. Then you may rest for X minutes then back to waving items around.
From an engineering standpoint it's brilliant, you "control" the "last mile" of the warehouse equation, at least until the robotics department finally rolls out their replacement for the humans.
As a human working there though, I'm sure it's pretty degrading.
Anything is possible as a business, until law enforcement decides you're acting in a criminal manner, or someone sues you for infringing upon their freedoms. Discrimination by age is such an infringement. Most companies are too small for people to try and sue them though.
Uber's whole business model hinges on the idea that non-commercially licenced drivers can operate a taxi service in any city, irregardless of the city/jurisdiction's rules. Then the local taxi group sues Uber after a number of months and then they reach some sort of settlement typically.
Time not spent driving to the store, finding parking, walking in to the store, trying to find it, price-compare on your phone, walking to the register, dealing with the cashier, payment details, bag, reciept, walk back out to the car, drive home, unload the crap, finally you get to use it? Average trip to walmart down the street is about 1 hour for 5-10 items. You end up paying more for the convenience of it being so close.
Vs the time of "oh i need this" then you add it to your cart, and when you have $35 worth of stuff you click "buy" and 1-2 days later it shows up at your house. I spend a lot more time riding my bike around the lake rather than in a dumpy old store as a result. 100 years ago you would place an order with the guy with the truck/wagon, and a couple weeks later had all your goods delivered to your door. They would even extend you credit if you were a regular customer. This isn't a new concept it's just way more convenient. We go look at shops when on vacation, but other than perishables like eggs, dairy, vegetables everything just gets delivered to the house. Especially in dense urban areas where getting to the parking garage, driving across town and then spending 45 minutes looking for parking at the shops is absolute murder. No thanks. Saving $5 vs buying it on Amazon, walmart.com, target.com etc etc ad nauseam, is well worth it to my blood pressure and long term health.
I have a Pixel, she has a recent iPhone model. Very occasionally we still ask siri a question, to see if she's up to answering a question, but mostly to see if anything has improved. Basically we use Ok Google for everything.
We've always been really impressed with Ok Google's question answering capabilities, from odd ways to ask the weather to the color of a specific type of bird, cooking instructions etc etc. Siri just chokes on 99% of questions. Alexa will generally get the words right and tell you it can't search for XYZ but at least it gets that right.
At this point we would consider a google or possibly an Alexa device (my girlfriend likes it's integration with our Fire TV, amazon orders, etc) but we both agree that Siri is Completely Fucking Useless. If we're waiting for an uber to go home some times we'll amuse ourselves to see how badly Siri mangles our request. Siri's basically just a first generation toy, whereas Ok Google is almost to the point where you could go voice-only for performing 95% of your daily searches. Alexa fits somewhere in the middle but closer to google than apple's offerings.
Is he part of the under-twenty....seven(?) age group? In my thirties I am feeling old, I have never heard of this guy. Whose eyeballs were CNN trying to buy? Americans age 17-28? English speaking europeans 25-40?
6 million viewers is a lot but at the same time is a tiny tiny fraction of total users and there's a better chance you've never heard of the guy...
Vaping is cheaper, and doesn't make your clothes reek like homeless people. I don't see why a teenager would switch to burning leaves for more money if they're trying to look cool and keep it from their parents.
Vaping is weird and probably worse for you than breathing air, but it doesn't impact me or my freedoms, I super don't care if teens do it. Smoking leaves is a public health hazard and the smell of the smoke lingers for years, I definitely have an incentive to protect my right to life and liberty in that case.
Did they just roll out a patch in the last 30 days, or what's going on over there? This is the kind of instability one would expect from a hastily produced patch developed over a month by a small team. According to reports, Intel has known about the vuln for 7+ months. Were they not working on a patch this whole time? I would assume they were on iteration 5 or 6 of the patch by the time they broke the embargo a week early.
I came here to post the same thing. My $1500 bike is just as important for my day to day activities as my cell phone, and cost even more.
To be fair, Brooklyn is a formal mailing location, like a city, and has a population 3x that of the entire city of San Fancisco (~880,000 vs ~2,600,000). The mission, on a warm summer saturday night full of tourists is maybe 100,000 on it's busiest day ever.
French Quarter is a bona fide tourist attraction like the statue of liberty. By contrast, the Mission is a good place to go get tacos and arguably the birthplace of whatever you call the Chipolte style burrito.
It's a historically hispanic neighborhood about 2 miles from the skyscrapery financial district/downtown.
It's also one of the sunniest, least windy and warmest (5-10F warmer when most of the city is 55-62F year-round) neighborhoods with an abundance of good ethnic (mexican, indian, etc) restaurants. As a result everyone wants to live there, and have successfully pushed out something like 50% of this hispanic population in favor of predominantly white "tech bros". Property owners are allegedly torching their own properties so that they can rebuild old commercial buildings with way more profitable modern, high density residential housing.
The current (neighborhoods in SF change hands every 25-30 years) old guard is pretty anti-modernism of their neighborhood and have vandalized or stopped bike share, car share, removing existing parking (parking here is a nightmare but so is traffic, SF has the lowest car ownership per capita in competition with manhattan, something like 35% and dropping) and opposing new bus lanes. Hispanic owned businesses are not doing amazing. There's a lot of pushback against anything percieved as a threat to the "traditional" Mission neighborhood. Prices went from under $2000 a month for a two bedroom 10 years ago to, I haven't checked recently but probably $3800 to $5000 depending on location; i.e. if you grew up in this neighborhood to parents without a college education (not unlikely) you very likely may not be able to afford to live here when you turn 18 (or whatever age you decide to no longer live with your parents).
So If it wasn't a crazy homeless guy (very likely) I can see this being some tangential offshoot of local opposition in some form.
Yeah the UI is garbage but that doesn't excuse operator error.
Welp, I don't think I will be able to change your mind, but there are at least two schools of thought here, yours:
1. If something bad happens, whip everyone involved until they cannot stand any longer, then fire them, ensuring this never happens again,
Or,
2. Ask why this happened, don't assign blame, then work through the problem to find the root cause, then fix that problem so that it never happens again.
NASA determined that humans fail at pretty much everything about 3% of the time on the ISS and have built in all sorts of checks and balances to account for this. If the ISS blows up, everyone shares the blame, and responsibility for keeping that from happen again. If you assume from the get-go that humans are capable of being 100% infallable 24/7/365, even when they're sleep deprived from a) having a baby b) insomnia from a divorce c) hung over from a bachelors party etc etc then yes your system sounds great as there's no chance anything can ever go wrong and it's just their fault for being a bad person and they should feel bad.
Option 1 is both overly optimistic going in, and highly negative on the resolution side - nobody worth anything will stick around for long; option 2 assumes the worst going in and looks for a positive solution coming out. People tend not to quit out of frustration quite so often in scenario 2.
I think it's important to have strategic plans in place on the off chance Saudi Arabia, Iraq etc decide to pull up roots and side with the Russians and our external (we produce ~98%+ of our own needs) oil supplies dry up. I don't think we need a whole lot of ethanol fuel, biodiesel plants around to do this, but 0.5-1% capacity ensures that we at least have a backup plan in case we lose access to some or all of our oil fields. Never rely on a single source for anything. We have strategic oil reserves but just like running your replicated aws database in multiple availability zones gives greater reliability at the expense of additional cost, it's a good idea to diversify something as critical as fuel. Pray you never need it, but plan for the worst (within reason).
Every other year there's some news article about kids throwing cinder blocks off an interstate overpass and killing someone. It's sad, and it happens, but thankfully given that there's ~80 million minors in the US, it's almost a rounding error in the general population.
Castro street is mostly one lane in each direction, with bike lane on either side for most of it. What is funny is that the cars, even though they know they have right of way in the car lane, and I am cycling in the bike lane, will creep along behind me riding my bike along at 10mph, because it's a no-pass, and there's not enough margin for error between me in my lane, and the car passing me safely in their lane.
That's amazing, I can no longer count the number of times drivers have gotten angry for me taking my lane when it's two lanes in each direction. But it's super easy to slow these things down, they're nowhere near as aggressive as even the most timid human driver, at least when it comes to cyclists. The last thing Google/Waymo wants is a road pizza pedestrian/cyclist in the news, destroying their credibility with the public. But until that day happens, I trust a self-driving car over humans any day.
When I think hyper paranoid, I'm thinking of a very specific incident.
I'm on castro street, which is the main resturaunt drag in Mountain View, about 6pm, peak hour. Getting ready to cross the street at the crosswalk to go to the train station. I'm standing on the sidewalk, about 2' from the curb, facing away from the street talking to them. We decide it's time to go, so I spin around on my heel so that I am facing towards the crosswalk/street. At this exact moment there's a break in traffic and the next car is one of the "cute" white waymo electric cars. I hear the tires chirp, and there's a surprised expression on the attendant's face. At this point the car has come to a complete stop, about 15-20' (one car length) ahead of the crosswalk. I hadn't started to walk in to the street/crosswalk yet, just spun in place.
Now, this tells me a few things
1. The car knew I was there. I've almost been run over IN that same crosswalk by inattentive drivers in the span of 18 months.
2. The car was tracking my motion and making assumptions about my intent
3. The car decided my motion passed a certain threshold and decided to take evasive action.
Keep in mind this is a very busy intersection, it's a 3-way T car intersection, plus a crosswalk, and no less than four outdoor seating areas for resturaunts, plus rush hour sidewalk traffic. Easily 100+ people in a 50' radius around the car. I was partially obscured by no less than two other tall people on the sidewalk.
But the car saw me moving what it thought was erratically, made the call and stopped, rather than risk slowly bumping in to me.
That might seem unremarkable, but I've had two human-driven cars back in to me while walking through a parking lot, I've been turning left at a stop sign, and a (Very exhausted) hospital nurse came to a stop, then drove in to me in the intersection, I've had cars not see me in the crosswalk and drive in to me when their light turns green. I was a good 15' away in this instance and the car chose to stop rather than risk any contact with me. Yes, that's hyper-paranoid, but didn't delay anyone getting to their resturaunt, nobody was late getting home and more importantly nobody died that day (even if this would have been minor at worst).
So yeah, I'm pretty happy with how they've designed these things, sure they're a bit more careful than the average human, but what I've seen at that intersection previously, humans are awful at piloting cars, especially when tired/hungry/distracted.
I think most people haven't shared a street with them. I spent two years in the same city with these things, as a pedestrian, driver, and cyclist. They're infinitely patient with cyclists, hyper-paranoid about pedestrians wandering in to the street, like a parent is with their toddler.
Two weeks around self driving cars and you pretty much immediately realize that humans are just sacks of meat piloting cars, is about the dumbest idea, and the pedestrian fatality statistics back that up.
If I were to describe the "personality" of a self driving car, imagine a super chilled-out Mr. Rodgers paitent type, but he's also double-dosed on adderall and hyper alert for pedestrians, got 9 hours of sleep last night, good blood sugar, and his cell phone is on silent, locked in the trunk. And he has an IQ of 175 and can see in all directions and does not blink, and has a third eye that can see through shrubs and around cars.
Compare to the sleep-deprived, over caffinated, underfed mother who is juggling three kid's schedules and probably running late to pick up johnny from swim class while answering a phone call and trying to remember if she needs to pick up groceries on the way home.