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devangs··on A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles
Results demonstrate that the Waymo ADS significantly outperformed both the overall driving population (88% reduction in property damage claims, 92% in bodily injury claims), and outperformed the more stringent latest-generation HDV benchmark (86% reduction in property damage claims and 90% in bodily injury claims).
devangs··on Building a vision of life without work (2015)
Ultimately, it depends on the type of risks you’re trying to mitigate and the type of skills you have to earn again.

If you’re a software developer (or a plumber or a CPA etc) you can always get back into the workforce after some amount of time. If it takes you 1 year to leetcode and find a new job, you just need to keep 1 year of expenses as cash on hand.

Tail risk is a different story, but you can spend your whole life working and not save enough to handle all tail end scenarios

devangs··on Show HN: Pixie, Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability Using EBPF
Having used an earlier version of this, I highly recommend it if you're carrying a pager in micro-service land, and don't have Brendan Gregg on your team.