People like to say self driving cars are safer than human drivers - but the human drivers that tend to do the most unsafe antics seem to be the humans that are least likely to make use of self driving cars.
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Suburbs tend to be sterile and devoid of character, but I do agree that they promote living in a bubble away from other humans.
Why that is desired or a widespread model for living needs more explanation. Sure some people like to be hermits, but as a social species it seems odd and also a highly inefficient way to accommodate a larger population. Also peculiar if one likes true "wilderness", because more suburban sprawl means less of that.
And suburbs have got to be one of the key factors in the reported loneliness epidemic. With the reports of increasing prevalence of loneliness, seems odd to want the default way of life to be one that we both agree means living spread out and not close to one another.
And yeah some people do like suburbs. On the other hand, Irvine ca despite being such an upscale and model suburb, is like living in the set of the truman show: artificial feeling and boring. People often describe it as sterile or like living in an office park. The landscaping of suburbs, such as irvine, also tend to be environmental disasters on top of being utterly bland. It's lose lose.
Not to mention, car transport being the paramount design concern makes for truly miserable pedestrian life and running trails. Running next to 6 lanes roads with 55 mph speed limits is just a terrible experience - irvine is crisscrossed with them.
Not sure how one can have a better road system than irvine - but it doesn't end up saving the residents time - things are just more spread out and they have to driver further between them and then fight for parking.
We've tried a car oriented transportation plan for decades - it gets one LA traffic. Parts of the 405 have 12 lanes. If you build it, congestion comes. We've tried it for decades, it's horrible. What is it they say about trying the same thing over and over and expecting another outcome? Oops actually the i5 - 405 merge near irvine has 26!!! lanes amongst all the ramps and truck bypasses. Needs more, right?
That might be the first time I've seen privacy as a main objection. Not sure how serious that should be taken considering how much privacy has willingly been given up in the last couple decades in the name of convenience. And also how few cases where it would matter. Like does it matter if a rando can see one sit on a bus? It's not going to make a difference with companies and governments since they have so much electronic location data available, not to mention license plate scanners for private cars which also have electronic location data.
Depending on the deal with apple, the 4.15% through apple could be worse for GS, but it would also be worse for you. (Not to mention, treasuries are over 5% and don't incur state income tax)
I've never seen 'finally' used to mean over early and uneventfully.
I don't know if this is what you're referring to by the phrase 'going on and on' but the phrase makes me think of my coworker who talks in circles about any topic, providing many words but little info. And the circles usually incorporate personal anecdotes. He hasn't realized people tune out immediately.
One important correction because they definitely aren't getting the highest return by those antics
Fixed: "the vast majority of investors are not willing to accept anything but the highest expected return when only considering easily quantified first order short term effects"
That's an important distinction that should not be left out.
So many fields that require high skills and a lot of education pay far too little compared to software/analytics. One works just as hard but the pay is not comparable - it doesn't make economic sense to do a lot of the non-software jobs.
It's crazy that's replaced physical controls. Poking a large physical button and then turning a large knob can be done blind folded in half a second.
Coffee keeps well and could be dirt cheap and it could be bad instant coffee that people don't really like. It may feasibly not be worth a single extra person standing in line for the bad coffee worth 0.75 zimbabwean dollars or 0.75 weimar marks.
This is pedantic and stuffy answer, but that is also what the "correct" answer is.
Other whole foods in SF have a guard at the door. Are they armed? I don't know but they have a guard. No one is bothered. Most big stores in SF seem to have security. Target has multiple that stand by the doors.
But the locals are pissed.
The police may be understaffed but it's not budget issues or anything - it's because they've made their job unattractive by letting the bad apples spoil their reputation. The entire staff of 59 (about that number) traffic enforcement officers was found to give out on average only 10 tickets a day. That's not each, that as an entire department in a city with rampant traffic violations at all hours. The SF pd has been caught on camera watching places get robbed and not moving in until the thieves already leave. Two of their officers are currently being prosecuted over destroying evidence that they supposedly destroyed because cataloging it would take too much work.
You get the picture, the SF PD bad apples have really made the police force dysfunctional and unable to hire.
The police were wildly successful at shifting the blame to the prior DA, but the DA wasn't the problem. That DA is gone and nothing changed.
So chatgpt decided to get wolfram alpha to tell it the energy content of U-238 if it were to be completely nuclear fissioned. It then states that was the food equivalent. There's so many logical failures.
Sure, the prompter was probably hoping for that response, but it's insane.
Wolfram alpha said converting U-238 to food calories was nonsensical, but chat gpt decided it would ignore wolfram alpha's response and do it's best.
Yeah, it accompanies the response with it's boilerplate caveat which is meaningless fluff. It's also not pointing out any of the actual issues with why its response is utter nonsesense.
Although since most businesses have long ago slashed their R&D for short term stock gains, it makes sense from a corporate american perspective despite being naive.
Is it conceptually different than saying "I lost 10K this year; I put 10k in a 2-year treasury note."
Yeah having a whole big team create the internal baseline is not cost effective, but having at least one or two people work on something to actually know the vendor is worth their cost is important.
He's the governor of CA and the FDIC just stopped major portions of california's economy from exploding. Of course he'd going to cheer that. It would be extremely odd and out of place for him not to cheer an action that likely prevented millions of californians from being out of work in a week or two.
Big surprise that he is also touched by something that has a direct or immediate but indirect effect on ALL californians.