It would probably exist either way.
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I tried browsing https://data.sfgov.org/browse but there's nothing that immediately refers to "autonomous vehicles", "incidents" or the like...
(I'm trying to piece the data together for myself, and I'm a bit suspicious that their graph stops in April. I'd also want to cross reference to number of vehicles on the road, because if there's been a ramp up since e.g. January, you would expect more incidents to happen).
Seems wishful thinking that New York would owe something to anybody that grew up there. If anything, growing up there should give you the opportunity to have a network already, that would be a local's leg up... from kids you grew up with, to people you practiced music with etc.
This might also be a case of a naive perspective from Billy thinking that the work is all that matters. Nope. Having connections also matters. Do you know bar owners? Do you know venues? Have you done someone a favor that they can pay back? That should be the a "local kid's" advantage. Maybe Billy just didn't form those connections or capitalize on that.
Beyond not feeling bad for taking a side-job, maybe the advice should have been: Network. Get out there, meet people, do favors for people, help them and get help back eventually.
Unfortunately, anything that gets hush-hushed or moved to confidential may spark even more controversy than if it were out in the open.
So imo you can only be in 1 of 2 states: all-in or not at all.
I would find it useful for that exact purpose, however, I think 500 words might be too much. 150-200 is good enough. Would be cool to be able to change the amount of words required.
Everybody spending 8 more hours at home means so much more individual heating, whereas before, when you went into the office you'd turn the heating off.
Also as someone else pointed, working remote leads to leaving small apartments in the city to move into larger spaces (houses) in the suburbs. Then you would need to use a car more to meet people, get groceries etc. Cities are much more carbon efficient.
The best connection I could think of is something related to the company output, but in a market downturn I could be working 12 hour days, and the company would still be doing worse...
What does it mean that a software engineer is less productive? Or a stock trader? Or various other knowledge jobs?
Newspapers can say whatever, the reality on the ground is that energy prices have gone up 5-10x in the past year.
Some problems are not even worth mentioning before the big ones are solved. Sometimes you have to hone all your energy to solve the big problems and worry about the small ones later. Priorities and such.
As far as I see the EU govt is more interested in image than actual solutions. Taking on Apple and winning looks sexier than fixing the very unsexy problem of energy or inflation.
The playlist in case you want to use it for testing later: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5DcbwcCkBde68RgsxO2Sn2
Ideas for improvement:
* autocomplete
* autocomplete with song, artist and album image
* allow for search by track & artist name
* match up one of my playlists with a playlist you have in your DB
I haven't worked much with React, although every time I did, I felt like everything was overkill.
Then again, I've worked with k8s and while other people may think k8s is overkill, for a team our size – hundreds of devs working on separate microservices, I think it makes sense.
It doesn't make sense for a small startup, but once you get to a certain size, the pure human element forces you to look for alternatives. While complex, k8s is actually a great solution to a lot of the problems we were facing.
It's possible that React fits that same need, and while it may seem like overkill to me, maybe I don't know enough about it.
Mastery will come if you have a passion for the subject, and probably will not come otherwise. No amount of perseverance will make you interested in something you are not interested in.
The more I think about it, the more I realize cities don't need cars.
(ok, maybe if you have a city like LA or Houston that is so sprawled out that anything other than cars is impractical... but even with bikes, those cities would create pockets every 5-10 miles... anyway onto my larger point)
At 10mph, you can cover a lot of ground in a city, get your exercise, pay less for car insurance / upkeep / upfront cost and reduce pollution. It's a win-win-win.
Add electric bikes into the mix and you are set to cover maybe 20 miles without breaking a sweat.
Having lived in Holland before, it's such a treat to be able to bike anywhere. And keep in mind that Holland sucks for biking because it rains all the time (Paris might as well, still oceanic climate). Anything with 2,000+ hours of sunshine per year is in an ideal spot for bikes, but that is A LOT of cities in the world.
Anyway, very much hoping that this will lead to more cities following suit.